EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY IN PASSIVE MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM


Assessment of gridded datasets of various near surface temperature variables over Heihe River Basin: Uncertainties, spatial heterogeneity and clear-sky bias

Near-surface temperatures, such as air, land surface, and soil temperatures, play significant roles in surface radiation and energy balance.This study assessed nine gridded near-surface temperature products and analyzed the spatial heterogeneity and clear-sky bias of these temperature variables, using extensive measurements collected at Heihe River

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HupB, a nucleoid-associated protein, is critical for survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis under host-mediated stresses and for enhanced tolerance to key first-line antibiotics

To survive and establish its niche, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) engages in a steady battle against an array of host defenses and a barrage of antibiotics.Here, we demonstrate that Mtb employs HupB, a nucleoid-associated protein (NAP) as its key player to simultaneously battle and survive in these two stress-inducing fronts.Typically, NAPs are

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A histological survey of avian post-natal skeletal ontogeny

Bone histology of crown-group birds is a research topic of great interest, permitting insight into the evolution of remarkably high growth rates in this clade and variation across the altricial-precocial spectrum.In this study, we describe microanatomical characteristics of the humerus and femur in partial growth series from 14 crown group birds re

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