The contribution presents the results of a 5-year (2008-2012) Hat Bands dendroecological research in a Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) clone forest (Northern Slovakia).Due to different climatic and soil moisture conditions in the monitored years, different seasonal courses of stem increment formation were observed using band dendrometers wi

An unprecedented breakthrough has been made over the past decades in natural gas industry, which helps improve energy mix and promote the low-carbon economy in China.With such abundant hydrocarbon resources, China owns two intensive oil and gas producing blocks in the Ordos Basin and Xinjiang province and two other concentrated gas producing blocks

Abstract Background Lifelong production of the many types of mature blood cells from less differentiated progenitors is a hierarchically ordered process that spans multiple cell divisions.The nature and timing of the molecular events required to integrate the environmental signals, transcription factor activity, epigenetic modifications, and change