Heavy metal accumulation in soil has been rapidly increased due to various natural processes
and anthropogenic (industrial) activities. As heavy metals are non-biodegradable, they …

We have produced the first 30 m resolution global land-cover maps using Landsat Thematic
Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data. We have classified over …

Nanotechnology was well developed during past decades and implemented in a broad
range of industrial applications, which led to an inevitable release of nanomaterials into the …

Multidrug resistance (MDR) refers to the capability of bacterial pathogens to withstand lethal
doses of structurally diverse drugs which are capable of eradicating non-resistant strains. …

Plant stem cells in the shoot apical meristem (SAM) and root apical meristem are necessary
for postembryonic development of aboveground tissues and roots, respectively, while …

This paper studies the effect of advertising on stock returns both in the short and in the long
run. We find that a greater amount of advertising is associated with a larger stock return in the …

We analyze the interaction between a firm's product market advertising and its corporate
financing decisions. We consider a firm that faces asymmetric information in both the product …

Using the tip-growing pollen tube of Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana tabacum as a model
to investigate endocytosis mechanisms, we show that phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-…

Traditional finance theories typically treat leases and debt as substitutes. However, the
empirical findings on the relation between leases and debt are mixed. This paper reinvestigates …

The field of antibiotic drug discovery and the monitoring of new antibiotic resistance elements
have yet to fully exploit the power of the genome revolution. Despite the fact that the first …