Can we replace toxicants, achieve biosecurity, and generate market position with semiochemicals?

Can we replace toxicants, achieve biosecurity, and generate market position with semiochemicals?

*Correspondence: David M. Suckling, Better Border Biosecurity, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd., PB 4704, Christchurch, New Zealand e-mail: max.suckling@ plantandfood.co.nz Biosecurity covers both long-term management of existing pests and the urgent government responses to alien invasive species which have yet to become fully established. Mating disruption, mass trapp...

Can we replace curation with information extraction software?

Can we use programs for automated or semi-automated information extraction from scientific texts as practical alternatives to professional curation? I show that error rates of current information extraction programs are too high to replace professional curation today. Furthermore, current IEP programs extract single narrow slivers of information, such as individual protein interactions; they ca...

What we have accomplished and what we can achieve.

Risk assessment - can we achieve consensus?

OBJECTIVE The object of this conference paper was to review and discuss caries risk assessment in general practice from the questions i) 'Why', ii) 'When', and iii) 'How'. METHOD Narrative review. RESULTS i) Patient caries risk assessment is the basic component in the decision-making process for adequate prevention and management of dental caries and for determination of individual recall i...

How Can We Achieve Healthy Aging?

Population aging affects all countries, and all income groups.[...].