Many African countries are unable to meet the food demands of their growing population and the situation is worsened by climate change and disease outbreaks.This issue of food insecurity may lead to a crisis of epic proportion if effective measures are not in place to make more food available.Thus, deploying biotechnology towards the improvement of
Abstract Infectious diseases can propagate between nursing homes through asymptomatic staff members click here who are employed at multiple facilities.However, the transmission dynamics of infections, both within individual nursing homes and across facilities, has been less investigated.To fill this gap, we developed an agent-based model of two nur
Cultivated barley, Hordeum vulgare L., is considered to be a nonhost or intermediate host species for the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina.Here, we have investigated, at the microscopic and molecular levels, the reaction of barley cultivars to wheat leaf rust infection.In the houston texans shorts nonhost resistant cultivar Cebada Capa, ab
Zu-yun Liu,1,* Yin-zhi Wei,2,* Li-qing Wei,3,* Xiao-yan Jiang,4 Xiao-feng Wang,5 Yan Shi,6 Hua Hai7 1Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; 2Department of Geriatrics, Huangshi Central Hospital, Edong Healthcare Group, Huangshi, China; 3Department of Medical Laboratory, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Med
The integration of bioventing (BV) and soil vapor extraction (SVE) appears to be an effective combination method for soil decontamination.This paper serves two main purposes: it evaluates the effects of soil water content (SWC) and air flow rate on SVE and it investigates the transition regime between BV and SVE for toluene removal from sandy ngeti