Microbial community diversities and taxa abundances in soils along a seven-year gradient of potato monoculture using high throughput pyrosequencing approach.

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have focused on linking soil community structure, diversity, or specific taxa to disturbances.Relatively little attention has been directed to crop monoculture soils, particularly potato monoculture.Information about microbial community changes over time between monoculture and non-monoculture treatments is lacking.Furt

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Psychological Research on Conspiracy Beliefs: Field Characteristics, Measurement Instruments, and Associations With Personality Traits

In the last decade, the number of investigations of the beliefs in conspiracy theories has begun to increase in the fields of social, differential, and experimental psychology.A considerable number of variables have been suggested as predictors of conspiracy beliefs, amongst them personality factors such as low agreeableness (as disagreeableness is

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PSYCHOSOMATIC "ARC" IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PRACTICE

The psychoneuroimmunology, the new brain science and the endocrinology today show a lot of results, with which symptoms are better to understand.The psychotherapeutic practice shows the ways to influence them by encoding the levels of bounding between the physical symptom and the psychological condition.The aim of the study was to show the encoding

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Isotope Fingerprinting as a Backup for Modern Safety and Traceability Systems in the Animal-Derived Food Chain

In recent years, due to the globalization of food trade and certified agro-food products, the authenticity and traceability of food have received increasing attention.As a result, opportunities for fraudulent practices arise, highlighting the need to protect consumers from economic and health damages.In this regard, specific analytical techniques h

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