Forest demographic changes across Texas associated with hot drought by Shakirudeen Lawal, Frank H. Koch, Robert M. Scheller, Jennifer Costanza

“…We used Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data to evaluate changes in tree count for the nine most abundant tree genera in Texas. …”
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IncF Plasmids Are Commonly Carried by Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia coli Isolated from Drinking Water Sources in Northern Tanzania by Beatus Lyimo, Joram Buza, Murugan Subbiah, Sylivester Temba, Honest Kipasika, Woutrina Smith, Douglas R. Call

“…Over 80% of the donor cells successfully passed their resistance traits and eleven different replicon types were detected (IncI1, FIC, P, FIIA, A/C, FIB, FIA, H12, K/B B/O, and N). IncF plasmids were most commonly detected (49% of isolates), followed by types IncI1 and IncA/C. …”
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Prevalence and genomic insights of carbapenem resistant and ESBL producing Multidrug resistant Escherichia coli in urinary tract infections by Vidhyalakshmi Sivarajan, Amirtha Varshini Ganesh, Pavithra Subramani, Priyanka Ganesapandi, R. N. Sivanandan, Sneha Prakash, Nithyasri Manikandan, Arunasalam Dharmarajan, Frank Arfuso, Sudha Warrier, Marquess Raj, Kumar Perumal

“…Virulence factors of CREC 3 (fliC, shuA), CREC 4 (spaS), CREC 5 (iucA, papH, papG, iucB, yigF), and plasmids (IncFIA, IncFIB) were identified to be significant. …”
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Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli harboring the mcr-1 gene in Pakistan by Sabahat Abdullah, Sabahat Abdullah, Muhammad Ahmad Mushtaq, Kalim Ullah, Brekhna Hassan, Mariya Azam, Mariya Azam, Muhammad Asif Zahoor, Juan Wang, Jianzhen Xu, Mark A. Toleman, Mashkoor Mohsin

“…Plasmid replicon typing indicated that IncI2-type plasmids (n = 10) were the most prevalent plasmids in these strains, followed by IncFIB (n = 8), IncFIC (n = 7), IncFIA (n = 6), IncFII (4), IncQ1 (n = 3), IncI1 (n = 1), IncY (n = 1), and IncN (n = 1). …”
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Predictive Validity and Reliability of Frenchay Activities Index by Li TONG, Shanjia CHEN, Guanli XIE, Cai JIANG, Jing TAO, Lidian CHEN

“…A total of 403 hospitalized patients from 40 to 80 years old with recovery in five affiliated rehabilitation hospitals, from Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Chinese Medicine Hospital and Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, they were assessed by FIA and modified Barthel index(MBI)by face-to-face interviews with the same assessor. …”
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Synthesizing field plot and airborne remote sensing data to enhance national forest inventory mapping in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska by Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, Hans-Erik Andersen, Bruce Cook, Sean M. Hendryx, Liz van Wagtendonk, Van R. Kane

“…The remote sensing data were collected under variable sky conditions (clear to overcast) throughout a 1-month growing-season period, and field data collected by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program (FIA). In this framework, we also studied the importance of topographic and remote sensing variables for the classification of forest types. …”
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The structure of the $$f_0(980)$$ f 0 ( 980 ) from system size dependent hadronic resonance ratios in p + p, p + Pb, and Pb + Pb collisions at the LHC by Tom Reichert, Jan Steinheimer, Volodymyr Vovchenko, Christoph Herold, Ayut Limphirat, Marcus Bleicher

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Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in War-Affected Urban Settings of Tigray, Ethiopia by Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet, Yibrah Hagos Gebresilassie, Mekonen Aregai Gebreselassie

“…The Food Insecurity Access Scale (FIAS), Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), and Food Consumption Score (FCS) were employed to assess the levels of food security, while the Livelihood Coping Strategy Index (LCSI) was used to identify coping strategies. …”
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Experimental Tests of Quantum Gravity and Exotic Quantum Field Theory Effects by Emil T. Akhmedov, Stephen Minter, Piero Nicolini, Douglas Singleton

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Eye movements follow the dynamic shifts of attention through serial order in verbal working memory by Lara Stella Marie Schroth, Wim Fias, Muhammet Ikbal Sahan

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One and only SNARC? Spatial-Numerical Associations are not fully flexible and depend on both relative and absolute number magnitude by Lilly Roth, John Caffier, Ulf-Dietrich Reips, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Annika Tave Overlander, Krzysztof Cipora

“…Evidence for relative-magnitude dependency came from studies observing that numbers 4 and 5 were associated with the right in a 0–5 range but with the left in a 4–9 range (Dehaene et al. 1993; Fias et al. 1996 Math. Cogn. 2, 95–110 (doi:10.1080/135467996387552). …”
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Can Effects of a Generalized Uncertainty Principle Appear in Compact Stars? by João Gabriel Galli Gimenez, Dimiter Hadjimichef, Peter Otto Hess, Marcelo Netz-Marzola, César A. Zen Vasconcellos

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