SISAL: BRINGING ADDED VALUE TO SPELEOTHEM RESEARCH

SISAL: Bringing Added Value to Speleothem Research

Isotopic records from speleothems are an important source of information about past climates and, given the increase in the number of isotope-enabled climate models, are likely to become an important tool for climate model evaluation.SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and Analysis) have created a global database of isotopic records from speleothe

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Comparing functional similarity between a native and an alien slug in temperate rain forests of British Columbia

The impacts of invasive alien species are greatest when they become dominant members of a community, introduce novel traits, and displace native species.Invasions by alien mollusks represent a novel context by which to compare trait differences between generalist native and introduced herbivores in terrestrial ecosystems.Here, we determined the abu

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Truth Commissions in Latin America. The hope of a new future

This article presents the implementation of the right to the truth of the victims, through the creation of eleven click here Commissions of Truth, established in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and Brasil, which emerged as the product of peace agreements or transitional processes.The Co

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Acquired resistance of lung adenocarcinomas to gefitinib or erlotinib is associated with a second mutation in the EGFR kinase domain.

Lung adenocarcinomas from patients who respond to the tyrosine kinase inhibitors gefitinib (Iressa) or erlotinib (Tarceva) usually ultrastar dc hc550 harbor somatic gain-of-function mutations in exons encoding the kinase domain of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).Despite initial responses, patients eventually progress by unknown mechanis

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