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diseasecontrol, etc ; data collection; disease diagnosis; disease severity; farmers; humans; image analysis; precision agriculture; surveys; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Several factors associated with disease diagnosis in plants using deep learning techniques must be considered to develop a robust system for accurate disease management. A considerable number of studies have investigated the potential of deep learning techniques for precision agriculture in the last decade. However, despite the range of applications, several gaps within plant disease research are ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; corn; data collection; leaf area; leaf blight; leaf spot; management systems; models; technology; Show all 9 Subjects
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... It is important to develop accurate disease management systems to identify and segment corn disease lesions and estimate their severity under complex field conditions. Although deep learning techniques are becoming increasingly popular to identify singular diseases, access to robust models for identifying multiple diseases and segmenting lesion areas for severity estimation under field conditions ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; autoimmune diseases; biomarkers; biosensors; central nervous system; cost effectiveness; disease diagnosis; electrophoresis; human resources; patients; sclerosis; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Multiple sclerosis is a recurrent and progressive inflammatory autoimmune disease causing demyelination in the central nervous system. Nowadays, the number of MS patients is increasing, but the diagnostic process and disease management are still quite difficult and costly and time consuming. The combination of methods used for clinical MS diagnosis mainly relies on MRI, that cannot be used as rout ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; biological control; biopesticides; fungi; pathogens; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Biological control is an effective and sustainable alternative or complement to conventional pesticides for fungal and bacterial plant disease management. Some of the most intensively studied biological control agents are bacteria that can use multiple mechanisms implicated in the limitation of plant disease development, and several bacterial-based products have been already registered and markete ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; RNA; biotechnology; infectious diseases; vaccination; Show all 5 Subjects
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... RNA-based products have emerged as one of the most promising and strategic technologies for global vaccination, infectious disease control, and future therapy development. The assessment of critical quality attributes (CQAs), product–process interactions, relevant process analytical technologies, and process modeling capabilities can feed into a robust Quality by Design (QbD) framework for future ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; agroecosystems; food chemistry; microbiome; reproduction; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Disease management is critical to ensuring healthy crop yields and is often targeted at flowers because of their susceptibility to pathogens and direct link to reproduction. Many disease management strategies are unsustainable however because of the potential for pathogens to evolve resistance, or nontarget effects on beneficial insects. Manipulating the floral microbiome holds some promise as a s ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; mechanism of action; ricin; toxins; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Ricin toxin (RT) belongs to the ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) family of toxins and is considered to be a moderate threat by the US Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). RT poses a great potential threat to the public, but there has been a lack of effective treatment options so far. Over the past few decades, researches on the prevention and treatment of RT poisoning have been inves ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; climate change; disease transmission; humans; insects; pathogens; Show all 6 Subjects
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... An integrated approach to innovatively counter the transmission of various arthropod-borne diseases to humans would benefit from strategies that sustainably limit onward passage of infective life cycle stages of pathogens and parasites to the insect vectors and vice versa. Aiming to accelerate the impetus towards a disease-free world amid the challenges posed by climate change, discovery, mindful ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; Narcissus tazetta; Potyvirus; bulbs; oils; ornamental plants; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Daffodil (Narcissus tazetta L.) is a bulbous ornamental plant which belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae. It is popular for sweet-smelling beautiful flowers and is used for the fragrant oil and perfumes. It is also a source of alkaloids used in traditional medicines. Daffodil is commercially important ornamental plant, therefore, it is important to maintain its quality and production. Various type ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; carotenoids; dithianon; dodine; horticulture; lettuce; plant biochemistry; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Fungicides applied singly are frequently used to ensure disease control in the cultivation of leafy vegetables. The behavior of fungicide mixtures and their impact on plant biochemical and antioxidant status was poorly investigated. The main goal of this study was to compare the impact of fluazinam, a separately applied fungicide, and its mixtures (dithianon+fluazinam, dodine+fluazinam) during dis ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; COVID-19 infection; airborne transmission; droplets; influenza; people; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Debate and scientific inquiries regarding airborne transmission of respiratory infections such as COVID-19 and influenza continue. Health authorities including the WHO and the US CDC have recognized the airborne transmission of COVID-19 in specific settings, although the ventilation requirements remain to be determined. In this work we consider the long-range airborne transmission as an extended s ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; amphotericin B; benzimidazoles; echinococcosis; humans; mortality; patients; therapeutics; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Benzimidazoles are the only approved drugs for the treatment of inoperable human alveolar echinococcosis but may be limited due to intolerance or, rarely, ineffectiveness. A medical second-line or salvage therapy is not available, though it is urgently needed. We report long-term follow-up data from 14 patients who underwent salvage therapy with repurposed drugs with cumulatively 53.25 patient-yea ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; agrochemicals; crystallization; infectious diseases; longevity; markets; pesticides; plant protection; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Pesticides might be the only group of poisonous chemicals that are widely sprayed into the environment, but the use of pesticides is inevitable for crop protection and infectious disease control. When an ideal new pesticide compound is selected, its properties must be optimized to realize the full potential of the compound and extend its lifespan in the market. Crystal engineering has proven to be ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; Citrus; cost effectiveness; economic feasibility; economic performance; pathogens; Texas; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Citrus greening (HLB) is an incurable bacterial disease severely affecting most citrus production regions. Evaluating the economic feasibility of control practices is challenging due to the complex intertemporal interactions among the pathogen, the vector, and the host. We propose a stochastic evaluation framework to systematically analyze the long-term economic performance of a broad range of man ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; economics; hemochromatosis; humans; major genes; natural history; research institutions; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a rather frequent, preventable disease because the progressive iron overload affecting many organs can be effectively reduced by phlebotomy. Even before the discovery of the major gene, HFE, in 1996, hemochromatosis was seen as a candidate for population-wide screening programmes. A US Centers of Disease Control and the National Human Genome Research Institute ex ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; Athelia rolfsii; chickpeas; genotype; host range; pathogens; plant pathology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The pervasive soil-borne pathogen Sclerotium rolfsii (Sacc.) is responsible for collar rot (CR) of chickpea identified as one of the major production constraints for its cultivation worldwide. Presence of wider host range and absence of stable resistance sources against the pathogen makes it more difficult to manage, and seeks urgency towards identification of new sources of resistance. Environmen ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; biodiversity conservation; birds; birdwatching; cluster analysis; environment; people; tourism; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Scavengers provide significant nature's contributions to people (NCP), including disease control through carcass removal, but their non-material NCP are rarely considered. For the first time, we assess the extent and value of the NCP provided by European avian scavengers through a scavenger-based tourism at Pyrenean supplementary feeding sites (SFS). Using a two-step cluster analysis, two differen ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; Verticillium dahliae; cotton; cultivars; exons; fungi; pathogens; research; virulence; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in diverse biological processes. However, these functions have not been assessed in Verticillium dahliae, a soil-borne fungal pathogen that causes devastating wilt diseases in many crops. The discovery and identity of novel lncRNAs and their association with virulence may contribute to an increased understanding of the regulation of virulence in ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; Xanthomonas; bananas; cognition; information exchange; questionnaires; social networks; Rwanda; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Social networks play an important role in the diffusion of knowledge, and farmers draw on their personal networks to enhance their adaptive capacity to shocks. Different forms of proximity have been long recognized as important factors in knowledge and information exchanges. However, the specific roles and their interactions in agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKISs) are still far fr ...
diseasecontrol, etc ; cell differentiation; humoral immunity; lipopolysaccharides; lymph nodes; memory; vaccine development; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Memory B cells and differentiated plasma cells combine to confer sustained humoral immunity. Nonetheless, we are yet to understand how B cells decide between these fates. Although pan-T cell help augments plasma cell differentiation, signaling via CD40 alone is considered to be inhibitory. Here, we examine the capacity of CD40 signaling to interfere with lipopolysaccharide-induced differentiation. ...