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An overview of worldwide and regional time trends in total mercury levels in human blood and breast milk from 1966 to 2015 and their associations with health effects
(2019)Environment InternationalBackground Mercury is a pollutant of global concern. To protect human health and environment from mercury pollution, the Minamata Convention on mercury entered into force in 2017. Objectives To support a future effectiveness evaluation of the convention, this study assesses worldwide and regional time trends of total mercury levels in human blood and breast milk across different population sub-groups in the last half-century prior ...Review Article -
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Detection of H alpha emission from PZ Telescopii B using SPHERE/ZIMPOL
(2019)Astronomy & AstrophysicsHα is a powerful tracer of accretion and chromospheric activity, which has been detected in the case of young brown dwarfs and even recently in planetary mass companions (e.g. PDS70 b and c). Hα detections and characterisation of brown dwarf and planet companions can further our knowledge of their formation and evolution, and expanding such a sample is therefore our primary goal. We used the Zurich Imaging POLarimeter (ZIMPOL) of the ...Journal Article -
"Viel Geschrei und wenig Wolle" – Auf der Suche nach den "natürlichen" Farben
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Rapid and sustained homeostatic control of presynaptic exocytosis at a central synapse
(2019)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaAnimal behavior is remarkably robust despite constant changes in neural activity. Homeostatic plasticity stabilizes central nervous system (CNS) function on time scales of hours to days. If and how CNS function is stabilized on more rapid time scales remains unknown. Here, we discovered that mossy fiber synapses in the mouse cerebellum homeostatically control synaptic efficacy within minutes after pharmacological glutamate receptor ...Journal Article -
Open data for the crowd: an account of citizen science at ETH Library
(2019)LIBER QuarterlyThis paper gives an account of ETH Library’s combined strategy of implementing an open data policy and using crowdsourcing to improve metadata. Both activities go hand in hand and promote each other. ETH Library’s Image Archive was the first unit to provide content for free download in high resolution. This paved the way for a very successful crowdsourcing campaign during which citizen scientists located places, dated photographs, and ...Conference Paper -
Microbial succession on decomposing root litter in a drought-prone Scots pine forest
(2019)The ISME JournalDecomposition is a major flux of the carbon cycle in forest soils and understanding the involved processes is a key for budgeting carbon turnover. Decomposition is constrained by the presence of biological agents such as microorganisms and the underlying environmental conditions such as water availability. A metabarcoding approach of ribosomal markers was chosen to study the succession of bacterial and fungal decomposers on root litter. ...Journal Article -
The Dilemma of Maintaining Intact Forest Through Certification
(2019)Frontiers in Forests and Global ChangeIntact forests are natural and often extensive forests free from apparent anthropogenic degradation. Intact forests have important intrinsic and societal values, making their protection a high conservation priority. They are, however, vulnerable to being lost and degraded due to high opportunity costs and a lack of positive incentives to their preservation. Market-based mechanisms, such as voluntary certification, might provide a means ...Journal Article -
Estimating epidemic incidence and prevalence from genomic data
(2019)Molecular Biology and EvolutionModern phylodynamic methods interpret an inferred phylogenetic tree as a partial transmission chain providing information about the dynamic process of transmission and removal (where removal may be due to recovery, death, or behavior change). Birth–death and coalescent processes have been introduced to model the stochastic dynamics of epidemic spread under common epidemiological models such as the SIS and SIR models and are successfully ...Journal Article