OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy of intensive smoking cessation interventions (ISCIs) directly compared with shorter interventions (SIs), measured as successful quitting.METHOD: Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Library and CINAHL were searched on 15 October 2021. Peer-reviewed randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of adult, daily smokers undergoing an ISCI were included. No setting, time or languag

Rabi oscillations are periodic modulations of populations in two-level systems interacting with a time-varying field 1. They are ubiquitous in physics with applications in different areas such as photonics 2, nano-electronics 3, electron microscopy 4 and quantum information 5. While the theory developed by Rabi was intended for fermions in gyrating magnetic fields, Autler and Townes realized that

Dynamic resource management is a difficult problem in modern microservice applications. Many proposed methods rely on the availability of an analytical performance model, often based on queueing theory. Such models can always be hand-crafted, but this takes time and requires expert knowledge. Various methods have been proposed that can automatically extract models from logs or tracing data. Howeve

The design and evaluation of national HIV programs often rely on aggregated national data, which may obscure localized HIV epidemics. In Ethiopia, even though the national adult HIV prevalence has decreased, little information is available about local areas and subpopulations. To inform HIV prevention efforts for specific populations, we identified geographic locations and drivers of HIV transmiss

The haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) is a somatic stem cell essential for life long haematopoiesis; HSCs have the capability to differentiate into all mature types of blood cells and can also undergo self-renewal to maintain their own numbers. They also have the potential to reconstitute a complete haematopoietic system following HSC transplantation, also known as bone marrow transplantation, which

BACKGROUND: Increasing number of individuals will have first-degree relatives (FDRs) diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC), as a second primary malignancy (CRCa-2) after a non-CRC cancer. We aimed to estimate whether and to what extent a family history of CRCa-2 is associated with an increased CRC risk.METHODS: In this Swedish nationwide cohort study, rate ratio (RR) and cumulative incidence of C

Nitrogen (N) availability is a powerful controller of soil carbon (C) cycling in temperate forests, affecting plant productivity and microbial activities. Enhanced rhizosphere input from increased plant productivity can stimulate the decomposition of native soil organic matter (SOM), termed the “priming effect”, with an effect size that is affected by N availability. Using soils from N-fertilizati

Soil pH is probably the most important variable explaining bacterial richness and community composition locally as well as globally. In contrast, pH effects on fungi appear to be less pronounced, but also less studied. Here we analyze the community responses of bacteria and fungi in parallel over a local extreme pH gradient ranging from 4 to 8. We established the pH gradient by applying strongly a

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are important in plant nutrient uptake, but their function is prone to environmental constraints including soil factors that may suppress AMF transfer of phosphorus (P) from the soil to the plant. The objective of this study was to disentangle the biotic and abiotic components of AMF-suppressive soils. Suppression was measured in terms of AMF-mediated plant uptak

Wood ash is a by-product from energy production that can be recycled to forests to regain nutrients and prevent acidification. However, low concentrations of nitrogen (N) in wood ash may reduce its potential positive effect on plant growth. In addition, wood ash can have a high content of toxic heavy metals such as Cd, thus there are concerns that it may increase Cd accumulation in plants. We grew

Suppression of the activity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in unsterile soils, as determined by transfer of 33P from soils to plants, has been recently demonstrated, and soils differ in their degree of suppressiveness. The previous experiments included only one R. irregularis isolate, BEG87. The aim of this study was to analyze the sensitivity to suppression of different cultivated AMF isol

Isotope labeling enables the detection and quantification of nutrient fluxes between soil and plants through arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Here we describe the use of radioactive isotopes, 33P and 32P, to study the uptake of P from soil by AM fungal mycelium and its transfer to the host plant through the mycorrhizal pathway.