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drug abuse; minorities (people); disease prevention; medical treatment; disease control programs; cocaine; rural health care; multicultural diversity; Blacks; qualitative analysis; Erythroxylum coca var. coca; focus groups; Florida
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... Context: Cocaine is a major problem in the rural South, but knowledge is limited regarding the impact on African American populations. Purpose: This study of 18-39-year-old black drug users assessed perceptions of contributing factors to drug use and possible interventions. Methods: The study design was qualitative-descriptive, utilizing 4 focus groups with 5 rural women and 14 small-city resident ...
... Experiential learning is a time-honored approach that can help to "...seal the bond between the learner and the learned." Such learning encourages the making of meaning from individual and shared experiences and helps abstract concepts to become relevant to the learner. The 20th century educational theorist, John Dewey, articulated a need for a unified "theory of experience" that could guide educa ...
... Premise of the study: Research on the subject of heterostyly is often traced back to 1877 when Charles Darwin published the landmark book The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. This book synthesized heterostyly research at the time, much of which Darwin conducted, and it continues to be a major contribution to the study of the breeding system. In this book, Darwin discussed ...
... Both missionaries and government policymakers in colonial Zimbabwe consciously identified agriculture as an important avenue in establishing broader paradigms of explanation. Missionary promotion of new farming practices inevitably challenged the existing spiritual landscape by insisting that rationalized individual labor could overcome powerful natural forces. This article examines various facets ...
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994; Food and Drug Administration; androstenedione; business enterprises; dietary supplements; ingredients; marketing; sports nutrition
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... On March 11, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pronounced that dietary supplement products containing androstenedione were adulterated new dietary ingredients under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). The FDA issued a press release, held a news conference, and sent warning letters to 23 companies that had manufactured, marketed or distributed the products co ...
... Floral organs of yellow passion fruit were chosen as experimental materials; flower shape, corolla colour, nectar ingredients and nectar content of yellow passion fruit were investigated. The research results indicated that passion fruit is creative in flower design. Appropriate arrangement of various representative elements – flower morphology, flower colour, nectar-create an excellent self-endor ...
... We describe here a new approach for the identification of affinity-bound proteins by proteolytic generation and mass spectrometric analysis of their antibody bound epitope peptides (epitope excision). The cardiac muscle protein troponin T was chosen as a protein antigen because of its diagnostic importance in myocardial infarct, and its previously characterised epitope structure. Two monoclonal an ...
laws and regulations; politics; exports; imports; case studies; agricultural history; economic policy; agricultural policy; international cooperation; Germany; United Kingdom; United States; Poland
European Union; agricultural land; brownfields; buildings; case studies; cities; climate; climate change; ecosystems; floods; food production; food safety; heat; hydroponics; infrastructure; land use; models; quality of life; soil; urbanization
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... The tissue of cities is getting increasingly dense and compact, however, according to the current development models, the demand for living space per person, for industrial and commercial activities, for the transport infrastructure, requires more and more land, often to the detriment of agricultural fields, that surround cities. The occupation of agricultural lands has significant impact on the r ...
sexual reproduction; mating behavior; animals; insects; hormones; pheromones; sexual selection
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... During close bodily contact, many species transfer substances that influence the behaviour or physiology of conspecifics. Such transfer is especially common during courtship and copulation. When this is the case the involved bioactive substances are favoured by sexual selection because their effects include increased egg production, inhibited remating, and changed sperm transport or storage in the ...
Escherichia coli; active sites; carbon nitride; cooling; crystal structure; disinfection; electron transfer; freezing; graphene; heat; humic acids; irradiation; light; microwave treatment; nanosheets; photocatalysis; photolysis; physicochemical properties; surface area; water purification
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... Highly-crystalline 2-dimensional (2D) graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) nanosheets with low structural imperfection usually possess high photocatalytic activity that benefits from the suppressed electron–hole recombination. However, the conventional exfoliation strategy is incapable for fast and clean preparation of such highly-quality g-C₃N₄ nanosheets from their bulk-type counterparts. Herein, h ...
mentoring; college students; agricultural education; Indiana
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... The concept of mentoring is central to many educational programs in agriculture and natural resources. A mentor has been defined as one who fosters personal, educational, and professional growth in another person (the "mentee"). Within this definition, the mentee is often assumed to be younger than, or junior to, her or his mentor. This article presents a memoir of the author's experiences with hi ...
geographical distribution; soil water storage; plant available water; water conservation; terracing; soil water content; subsoil; drought; water stress; infiltration (hydrology); crop yield; rain; rain intensity; food security; soil fertility; field experimentation; terraces; water erosion; Mali
mathematical models; quantitative analysis; General Circulation Models; isotopes; evaporation; rain; temperature; water vapor; Japan
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... A numerical model is proposed that describes the interaction between raindrops and water vapour near the planetary boundary layer to explain the "amount effect". This model relates the intensity to the isotopic composition of precipitation. The model resolves raindrop sizes, and explicitly includes: (1) the isotopic equilibration time of raindrops that is drop-size dependent; (2) raindrop transit ...
... Reflecting on past experiences is an important problem-solving technique when teachers face new situations. In fact, teachers' attitudes and practices are highly influenced by their prior experiences as both learners and teachers. This paper is based on the premise that growth as an effective teacher is enhanced when one reflects more deeply about what one believes about teaching and learning-and ...
... Thermal modification of wood by immersion in high temperature vegetable oils and other additives impart significant decay and mould fungi resistance, water repellency and dimensional stability. ...
... 'Angelys' is a new pear variety resulting from the cross 'Doyenné d’Hiver' x 'Doyenné du Comice'. This cross is part of a large breeding programme initiated by B. Thibault and L. Hermann at the INRA Fruit Breeding Station; this programme is a half-diallel involving 12 parents, 68 progenies and 10,626 seedlings with the aim to select late maturing cultivars with long storage ability. The female par ...
natural resource management; agricultural education; alternative crops; alternative farming; marketing strategies; decision support systems; decision making; buckwheat; Fagopyrum esculentum; Minnesota
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... Decision cases have been used in the USA for both classroom and extension education within agriculture and natural resources. Use of cases has sometimes been limited by the extensive amount of time that may be required to assign and analyze conventional, text-based cases. Availability of video decision cases, which are visual and do not necessarily require reading, could foster the use of cases on ...
Amaranthaceae; Turkey (country); botany; diploidy; flora; new species; Northern Africa; Persian Gulf; Sardinia; Sicily
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... A new species of Arthrocaulon Piirainen & G. Kadereit, A. meridionalis is described. This diploid taxon is known from the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and from circum-Mediterranean territories (from North Africa to the Anatolian Peninsula in Turkey and as far as the Persian Gulf on the Asian continent). The distinctive macro-, micromorphological and chorological features of this taxon are given. ...
Bucephala; Lontra canadensis; birds of prey; forage; lakes; rivers; spring; waterfowl; Newfoundland and Labrador
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... This is the first documented incident of River Otter (Lutra canadensis) feeding on Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) in a little studied region, southern Labrador. Our observations were made during spring staging when waterfowl aggregate at open water sites in frozen lakes and rivers, locally known as ashkui. We suggest that otters and raptors opportunistically forage on staging waterfowl at a ...
... To determine the role that a secondary school garden backyard (productive patio), played in the integration and development of one scholar community, we conducted this study to promote and introduce ecological and urban horticulture at the “Liceo Bolivariano Don Vicente Amengual Villonga” in the Palavecino municipality, Cabudare City of Lara state, Venezuela. This research was done in three steps; ...
... Despite recent reports indicating that tropical countries will suffer most from the negative impacts of climate change, including numerous educational and research campaigns, current surveys examining trends in good horticultural practices show that the majority of tropical vegetable growers are still using conventional production methods. In this experiment bell pepper seedlings were grown in tra ...
... As limited-control dog parks become more popular, concerns arise about whether these parks encourage interdog aggression. Systematic observations made at 1 park over 72 hr across 8 months found that 28 conflicts or potential conflicts occurred (< 0.5%). Of these, 14 were clear aggressive episodes. Each lasted less than 1 min (< 0.33% of total observation time). There were 14 other incidents of pos ...
... Lofland's earlier work, widely assumed to have been done on the beginnings in this country of the Unification Church of Reverend Moon, resulted in development of the most widely cited conversion model in the literature of sociology. Here he updates and extends this previous work, based on a follow-up study of the same group studied earlier. ...
African Americans; agricultural land; ancestry; case studies; extension agents; farmers; sharecropping; teachers; United States
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... The oppressive histories of slavery, sharecropping, and discriminatory lending practices contribute to a modern American agricultural landscape where black farmers are underrepresented. While African Americans once made up 14% of the United States’ farmer population, today they only make up 1.4%. Moreover, the American farmer population overall is aging, and currently only 6% of farmers are under ...
fluorescence in situ hybridization; messenger RNA; alternative splicing; humans; complementary DNA; sequence alignment; dogs; single nucleotide polymorphism; amino acid sequences; gene expression; genes; nucleotide sequences; chromatin; sequence homology; physical chromosome mapping; dog breeds
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... HMGA1 nonhistone proteins are reported to participate in various cellular processes including regulation of inducible gene transcription, integration of retroviruses into chromosomes, and the induction of neoplastic transformation and promotion of metastatic progression of cancer cells. Overexpression of HMGA1 was shown to be characteristic for various malignant tumors, suggesting a relation betwe ...
... A recent variation of expiration dating is freshness dating (i.e., "best if used by"). This research investigates how freshness dating influences the taste acceptance of a refrigerated product. Sensory tests of 36 panelists show two key findings. First, freshness dating influences the acceptability of products in a discontinuous or nonlinear manner. Second, it does so because it influences percept ...
... Stimulating plant defenses or resistant plant varieties is promising as an alternative method for limiting pesticide use in agriculture. To assess the defense status of the grapevine we have developed a triple approach called “BioMolChem”. The biological tests measure the efficacy of grapevine defenses against two major biotrophic pathogens (Erysiphe necator, Plasmopara viticola). Molecular assays ...
Cucumis melo; branching; breeding lines; cucumbers; fruit set; fruits; germplasm; harvesting; hermaphroditism; hybrids; introgression; labor; muskmelons; parents; phenotype; pickling; space and time; vegetable crops; Iran
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... Melons (Cucumis melo) are an important vegetable crop. Melons are grown mostly for their sweet mature fruits, which are eaten fresh, but elongate-fruited forms are grown for their rather bland, juicy, immature fruits, which are eaten fresh, cooked, or pickled like cucumbers. Fruit set of melons is diffuse over time and space, resulting in the need for multiple harvesting of the crop. The "b ...
... Bonus-npK is a new fully soluble, crystalline formulation of potassium nitrate that has been specifically developed for foliar feeding of a large variety of crops. It is sprayed at concentrations of up to 10% for intensive foliar nutrition and for a prolonged effect, without any phytotoxic effects. Bonus-npK is potassium nitrate enriched with soluble phosphates and a special adjuvant. The moderate ...
... Rickettsia-like organisms (RLO) are obligate, often highly fastidious, intracellular bacterial parasites associated with a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. Despite their importance as causative agents of severe mortality outbreaks in farmed aquatic species, little is known about their life cycle and their host range. The present work reports the characterization of "Candidatus Cryptop ...
Karina M. Borges; W. Rodney Cooper; Stephen F. Garczynski; Jenita Thinakaran; Andy S. Jensen; David R. Horton; Joseph E. Munyaneza; Isabel Cueva; Nina M. Barcenas
... The psyllid Bactericera maculipennis (Crawford) (Hemiptera: Triozidae) often cohabits field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis, Solanales: Convolvulaceae) and other plants with the congeneric psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc), in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Bactericera cockerelli is a vector of “Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum,” the pathogen associated with zebra chip disease of ...
... A large scale survey for marginal chlorosis in French strawberry production fields and nurseries by PCR amplification of "Candidatus Phlomobacter fragariae" and stolbur phytoplasma 16S rDNA was undertaken in 1996. Compilation of survey results from 1996 to 2001, clearly shows that "Ca P. fragariae" is predominant in strawberry production fields, while the stolbur phytoplasma predominantly is detec ...
... Click Cu(I)-catalyzed polymerizations of diynes that contained ester linkages and diazides were performed to produce polyesters (click polyesters) of large molecular weights [(~1.0-7.0) x 10⁴], that contained main-chain 1,4-disubstitued triazoles in excellent yields. Incorporation of triazole improved the thermal properties and magnified the even-odd effect of the methylene chain length. We also f ...
alkynes; catalysts; copper; crosslinking; gelation; hydrocolloids; polymers; temperature
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... The strategy for in situ chemical gelation of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-hydroxylethyl methacrylate) [P(NIPAAm-co-HEMA)]-based polymers was demonstrated. Two types of new P(NIPAAm-co-HEMA) derivatives with alkyne and azide pendant groups, respectively, were prepared. When the solutions of the two derivatives were mixed together, a crosslinking reaction, a type of Huisgen's 1,3-dipolar azide-alk ...
... "Click" chemistry-based surface modification strategy was developed for PDMS microchips to enhance separation performance for both amino acids and proteins. Alkyne-PEG was synthesized by a conventional procedure and then "click" grafted to azido-PDMS. FTIR absorption by attenuated total reflection and contact angle measurements proved efficient grafting of alkyne-PEG onto PDMS surface. Manifest EO ...
... The "Coagulation Test, " to determine the temperature to which meat had been cooked, was studied relative to the effect of variations in sample preparation methods on the coagulation temperature, biuret protein content and spectrophotometric absorbance value of 0.9% saline or water filtrates obtained from extracts of samples of rare, medium and well done portions of roast beef. Sample preparation ...
cities; climate change; elderly; governance; health services; heat; heat stress; issues and policy; mortality; organizations; outreach; temperate zones; urbanization; Europe; North America
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... In cities in temperate climate zones, the elderly, disabled and socially deprived are most vulnerable to extreme heat, as witnessed by increased mortality rates during heat waves in Europe and North America. Many cities, however, lag behind in the protection of vulnerable citizens against heat stress, an issue gaining importance in the face of climate change, ongoing urbanization and an ageing pop ...
... Despite the central role that female mate choice plays in the production of biological diversity, controversy remains concerning its evolution and maintenance. This is particularly true in systems where females are choosy but do not receive obvious direct benefits such as nuptial gifts that increase a female's survival and fecundity. In the absence of such direct benefits, indirect benefits (i.e., ...
Dianthus caryophyllus; flowers; pelargonidin; glucosides; chemical structure; color; anthocyanins; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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... The "cyclamen" red (or pink) colors in carnation flowers--cultivars Red Rox and eight others--are based on the presence of a new macrocyclic anthocyanin, pelargonidin 3,5-di-O-beta-glucoside (6",6"-malyl diester) identified by spectroscopic methods. The instability of the bridging malyl group with sugars in acidic medium readily causes the formation of the opened ring form, 3-O-(6"-O-malylglucosid ...
... Originating from a 1989 cross between "Black Gold" and "Burmosa" and selected under the original seedling number "DOFI-89.030.058", this plum is very attractive in appearance for its large size and shiny, bright red pigmentation. Blooming is very abundant and occurs very early, but fruit set and productivity are medium. It ripens in the fourth week of June in Central Italy, twenty-five days before ...
... The aim of this experiment was to examine the effect of spraying with different calcium (Ca) materials on prune (Prunus domestica L.) fruit quality. The experiment was conducted in 1996-1998 in Central Poland on 'Dabrowicka Prune' trees, grafted on Myrobalan seedlings (Prunus divaricata). Trees were planted in spring 1987 at a distance of 4 x 4 m on a sandy loam soil with low organic matter and hi ...
... OBJECTIVE:--To identify the organizational, physician, and patient factors associated with the quality of care of patients with diabetes in a low-/middle-income country. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS--Data from 2,160 randomly selected patients with diabetes were extracted from the manual medical records of a nationwide sample of 48 randomly selected health centers. Physician and organizational chara ...
... Acquisition of accurate statistics regarding pest outbreak factors on cultivated crops leads to invaluable experimental data. Abundant information is generally recorded in a warehouse database, left to be analyzed at a later date or to be quickly communicated to the users in a structured way. The OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) concept mines the warehouse database to report answers to specific ...
... An imino N-heterocyclic carbene underwent three sequential benzyl migrations upon reaction with tetrabenzylhafnium, resulting in complete removal of the carbene carbon from the ligand. The resulting eneamido-amidinato hafnium complex showed alkene polymerization activity comparable to that of a precatalyst containing the intact iminocarbene ligand. ...
mothers; Mexican Americans; cultural heritage; food choices; foodways; traditional foods; family relations; meals (menu)
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... This paper offers a discussion of A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food, and Culture , the memoir by Chicana writer Denise Chávez. I argue that Chávez experiences the act of eating and preparing Mexican food as a critique of racism and as a way for her to assert her Mexicanidad or "Mexicanness." More importantly, it is her mother's food that instills Chávez with pride in her ethnic heritag ...
apples; cultivars; equations; equipment; fruits; prediction; storage temperature; storage time
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... Since many years, the mass density of many agricultural products has been used as a quality-sorting criterion, and automatic machines have been developed for that purpose. According to the literature, apple flesh density seems to be related to flesh stiffness, but this behavior is not common among all cultivars. However, there is a lack of information on the evolution of apple density during stora ...
... Magnolia bark extract administered as a dietary supplement to poultry confers a performance and health benefit, but the mechanisms are unknown. Here, a metabolomics approach was used to identify changes in intestinal metabolite levels in chickens fed an unsupplemented diet or a diet supplemented with magnolia bark extract. Body weight gains of chickens fed magnolia bark-supplemented diets were inc ...
cultivars; pollination; fruits; honey bees; fruit set; flowers; Bombus; passion fruits; pollen; Israel
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... Honeybees are the only pollinator of the Israeli passionfruit cultivar ‘Passion Dream’. The big flower opens in the morning with its three stigmas standing erect, far from the five stamens. Honeybees visit a flower at this stage, usually collect all the pollen, and perform poor pollination. At noon, when the stigmas have bent over and lie closer to the anthers, the bees ignore these flowers. Hand ...
... “DOFI-SANDRA”, a new early black Japanese plum cultivar, was obtained by E. Bellini at Florence in 1989 from the cross “Black Gold x Burmosa”. It ripens at the beginning of July in Central Italy, about two weeks before “Shiro”. Besides early bearing, the main traits of this new cultivar are: heavy and regular production, homogeneous black colour, very good firmness of flesh and good flavour. ...
agriculture; chemical elements; community development; community gardens; computer software; focus groups; health promotion; leadership; managers; models; research; volunteers
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... Community gardening initiatives are popular interventions for health promotion and the development of socially inclusive local agricultural models. The leadership of such gardens is critical for their long-term success and sustainability. This study describes the leadership styles of garden managers, as well as how managers recruited and interacted with volunteers. Thirteen community garden man ...
... We report a new fabrication method referred to as ‘drill and fill’ lithography that provides control structuring and excellent reproducibility in the production of patterned platinum electrodes in a chip format, and demonstrate their sensing abilities for the label-free immunodetection of the HER-2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor-2) antigen. ...
... Resident populations of the Coppery—rumped Hummingbird, Amazilia tobaci, occupy the West Indian Islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad has 15 other hummingbird species, Tobago only 4 others. We predicted that A. tobaci on Tobago would have a broader feeding niche and a denser population than would A. tobaci on Trinidad. We monitored populations of Amazilia tobaci for 13 mo at study sites in the ...
... A rapid and highly sensitive CE immunoassay method integrating mixing, reaction, separation, and detection on-chip is described for the measurement of α-fetoprotein (AFP), a liver cancer marker in blood. Antibody-binding reagents, consisting of 245-bp DNA coupled anti-AFP WA1 antibody (DNA-WA1) and HiLyte dye-labeled anti-AFP WA2 antibody (HiLyte-WA2), and AFP-containing sample were filled into ad ...
air conditioning; aquifers; energy; energy costs; fuels; greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouses; growers; humidity; labor; prices; solar energy; viability
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... In the current context of predicted shortage of fossil energies, fuel prices are rising drastically. Energy costs are the second largest item in the budget (from 25 to 40% of total costs) for French heated greenhouse growers, after labour. Their economic viability is threatened. Moreover, the increasing awareness of environmental preoccupations (greenhouse gas emissions for example) has to be cons ...
... “Epicuticular waxes” from pine pollen and from pollen wings have been investigated. Various hydrocarbons, aldehydes, wax esters, free fatty acids and primary alcohols in the form of homologous series were identified. A noteworthy observation was the presence of a large number of unsaturated fatty acids.Although there were quantitative differences between the waxes from whole pollen and pollen wing ...
... Fatty acids (FA) are inextricably linked with key physiological and biochemical processes and are thus integral to proper ecosystem functioning. FA not biosynthesized effectively by animals are termed essential fatty acids (EFA). These EFA are important "drivers" of ecosystem health/stability and are therefore highly conserved in aquatic food chains. Aquatic organisms have been and continue to be ...
... Local microcosmic natural laboratories, dubbed "Evolution Canyon" (EC) models, reinforce studies of regional and global macrocosmic ecological theaters across life and unravel evolution in action. The EC model laboratories permit genomic, proteomic, and phenomic studies highlighting speciation and adaptation at a microscale. Critical transplant experiment tests can evaluate interslope diffe ...
... Charting how researchers have conceptualized the conodont animal, Knell offers a fresh perspective on the challenges of understanding unusual extinct taxa. ...
... “Flavanone Synthase” (FS) isolated from oat primary leaves shows maximal activity in the differentiating zone of five day old leaves. Activity of FS is distributed in both the upper and lower epidermis, but dominant in the mesophyll. After fractionation of mesophyll protoplasts of Avena by differential centrifugation, FS activity could only be detected in the “cytosol” and not in intact chloroplas ...
Alexey P. Seregin; Dmitriy A. Bochkov; Julia V. Shner; Eduard V. Garin; Igor N. Pospelov; Vadim E. Prokhorov; Pavel V. Golyakov; Sergey R. Mayorov; Sergey A. Svirin; Alexander N. Khimin; Marina S. Gorbunova; Ekaterina S. Kashirina; Olga P. Kuryakova; Boris V. Bolshakov; Aleksandr L. Ebel; Anatoliy A. Khapugin; Maxim M. Mallaliev; Sergey V. Mirvoda; Sergey A. Lednev; Dina V. Nesterkova; Nadezhda P. Zelenova; Svetlana A. Nesterova; Viktoriya N. Zelenkova; Georgy M. Vinogradov; Olga V. Biryukova; Alla V. Verkhozina; Alexey P. Zyrianov; Sergey V. Gerasimov; Ramazan A. Murtazaliev; Yurii M. Basov; Kira Yu. Marchenkova; Dmitry R. Vladimirov; Dina B. Safina; Sergey V. Dudov; Nikolai I. Degtyarev; Diana V. Tretyakova; Daba G. Chimitov; Evgenij A. Sklyar; Alesya N. Kandaurova; Svetlana A. Bogdanovich; Alexander V. Dubynin; Olga A. Chernyagina; Aleksandr V. Lebedev; Mikhail S. Knyazev; Irina Yu. Mitjushina; Nina V. Filippova; Kseniia V. Dudova; Igor V. Kuzmin; Tatyana Yu. Svetasheva; Vladimir P. Zakharov; Vladimir P. Travkin; Yaroslav O. Magazov; Vladimir Yu. Teploukhov; Andrey N. Efremov; Olesya V. Deineko; Viktor V. Stepanov; Eugene S. Popov; Dmitry V. Kuzmenckin; Tatiana L. Strus; Tatyana V. Zarubo; Konstantin V. Romanov; Alexei L. Ebel; Denis V. Tishin; Vladimir Yu. Arkhipov; Vladimir N. Korotkov; Svetlana B. Kutueva; Vladimir V. Gostev; Mikhail M. Krivosheev; Natalia S. Gamova; Veronica A. Belova; Oleg E. Kosterin; Sergey V. Prokopenko; Rinat R. Sultanov; Irina A. Kobuzeva; Nikolay V. Dorofeev; Alexander A. Yakovlev; Yuriy V. Danilevsky; Irina B. Zolotukhina; Damir A. Yumagulov; Valerii A. Glazunov; Vladimir A. Bakutov; Andrey V. Danilin; Igor V. Pavlov; Elena S. Pushay; Elena V. Tikhonova; Konstantin V. Samodurov; Dmitrii V. Epikhin; Tatyana B. Silaeva; Andrei I. Pyak; Yulia A. Fedorova; Evgeniy S. Samarin; Denis S. Shilov; Valentina P. Borodulina; Ekaterina V. Kropocheva; Gennadiy L. Kosenkov; Uladzimir V. Bury; Anna E. Mitroshenkova; Tatiana A. Karpenko; Ruslan M. Osmanov; Maria V. Kozlova; Tatiana M. Gavrilova; Stepan A. Senator; Maxim I. Khomutovskiy; Eugene A. Borovichev; Ilya V. Filippov; Serguei V. Ponomarenko; Elena A. Shumikhina; Dmitry F. Lyskov; Evgeny A. Belyakov; Mikhail N. Kozhin; Leonid S. Poryadin; Artem V. Leostrin
Russia; biodiversity; data collection; flora; people; spatial data
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... The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people were involved in the data collection. Within 20 months, the participants accumulated 750,143 photo observations of 6,857 species of the Russian flora. This constitutes the largest dataset of open spatial data on the country’s biodiversity and a ...
moths; Noctuidae; Lycium; cacti and succulents; habitats; new geographic records; Chile
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... Noctuid moths flutter in the high Andes nights at 4,000 m. s. n. m. Their larvae feed on aerial or underground parts of succulent plants. Many of these species are new to science. Strategies and adaptations of the moths for survival in the high Andes mountains are: a circulatory system that includes an abdominal thoracic countercurrent heat exchanger, and they are insulated from the environment by ...
... The article describes the new informative and health-improving route, "A garden walk - on the road to health", of the Petrozavodsk State University Botanical Garden. The route has been developed for the older generation; however, in the future, citizens and guests of the city of different age groups will be able to take this route. The path goes through the most beautiful and interesting exhibitio ...
... Geranium biuncinatum Kokwaro was collected during a fieldwork around (Khuzestan province, Shoshtar to Masjed Soleyman) in South West of Iran. It is added as a new record for the flora of Iran. Micromorphological features of mericarps and seeds are investigated by Scanning Electron Microscopy. Differences between Geranium biuncinatum and its relatives are discussed. Its diagnostic characters, geogr ...
... The purpose of the work was to demonstrate the evolution of agricultural technologies, which leads to the orientation of agriculture towards the use of nature-like farming, using the example of the human civilization development. It was shown that in the XX century, the stage of development of soil cultivation technologies, associated with the transition from "gray" extensive technologies for mana ...
... Since 2007, most people of the world live in cities. Urban agriculture, and more specifically urban horticulture may allow improvements in food supply and reduce the city ecological footprint. Furthermore, gardening practices are associated with social and therapeutic effects. In the last decades, as a consequence of the increased awareness on its related benefits, urban horticulture has assumed a ...
diet; health promotion; food choices; retail marketing; United Kingdom
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... Presents a case history of a specialist health food retailer to illustrate the effect of the growth in interest during the 1980s in consuming "healthier" products. Health food shops had earlier benefited from the trend, but found it more difficult to survive once the concept was exploited by mainstream grocery and chemist retailers. The study is based upon two earlier analyses of the sector by the ...
dietary fat; school food service; food service training; fat intake; early childhood education; preschool children; child nutrition
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... Objective: We evaluated the effects of a preschool nutrition education and food service intervention "Healthy Start," on two-to-five-year-old children in nine Head Start Centers in upstate NY. The primary objective was to reduce the saturated fat (sat-fat) content of preschool meals to <10% daily energy (E) and to reduce consumption of sat-fat by preschoolers to <10% E. Methods: Six centers were a ...
... Chicken hot-drumettes containing 2% cayenne pepper were prepared using three different cooking methods and stored under two different temperatures for "hotness" evaluation. Results demonstrated that the hotness of the samples were highest when products were cooked in a microwave oven, followed by convection oven, and least hot by deep-fat frying. Regardless of the cooking method, the degree of hot ...
adaptive management; climate; collaborative management; decision making; ecosystem management; human behavior; interviews; ranchers; ranching; range management; self-perception; weather; Colorado; Great Plains region
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... Ranchers in the Great Plains make decisions in complex social and ecological environments. While a great deal of research has studied rancher adaptation, an insider's or "emic" view rancher's mental models is less well understood. In this study a rancher and a researcher collaborate to document ten years of management on a Colorado ranch. Using data from repeated interviews, participatory mapping ...
... We examine the importance of the maintenance and reinvention of tradition to the food choices described by Mexican-American focus group participants recruited from nutritional health settings in central Texas. The pressures experienced while coping with changes in their food environment, such as shift-work and working outside the home, and transformations experienced in the food production system, ...