The aim of the study was to investigate utility artificial neural networks (ANNs) for estimation reference evapotranspiration (ETo) on Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece two representative months wintertime and summertime during 2016–2019 test if using fewer inputs could lead satisfactory predictions. Datasets from sixty-two meteorological stations were employed. available mean temperature (Tmean)...

Among numerous methods that have been developed to estimate potential evapotranspiration (PET), the Food and Agricultural Organization Penman–Monteith model (FAO P–M) is often recognized as a standard method PET. This study was conducted evaluate applicability of three other PET estimation methods, i.e., Shuttleworth–Wallace (S–W) model, Thornthwaite (TW) pan across Sri Lanka with respect FAO P...

The Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis30 Information System (PAAT-IS) is hosted by FAO and it produces, collates, stores, analyses, and disseminates information on tsetse, trypanosomiasis and related sustainable agriculture and rural development for the benefit of 37 trypanosomiasis affected countries of sub-Saharan Africa and of international FAO/PAAT partners. In 2006 PAAT-IS began to ...

The incidence of obesity and insulin resistance is growing, and the increase in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) constitutes one of the biggest challenges for our healthcare systems. Many theories are proposed for the induction of insulin resistance in glucose and lipid metabolism and its metabolic sequelae. One of these mechanisms is lipotoxicity (1–4): excess lipid supply and subsequent lipid a...

BACKGROUND Ingesting Yerba Maté (YM) has become widely popular for health promotion, obesity prevention and body weight reduction, primarily due its thermogenic effectiveness. However, the YM effects on fat metabolism during exercise, when fat metabolism is already increased several fold, are unknown. The present study investigated whether acute YM ingestion augments fat metabolism parameters o...

The Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis1 Information System (PAAT-IS) is hosted by FAO and it produces, collates, stores, analyses, and disseminates information on tsetse, trypanosomiasis and related sustainable agriculture and rural development for the benefit of 37 trypanosomiasis affected countries of sub-Saharan Africa and of international FAO/PAAT partners. In 2006 PAAT-IS began to u...

This document has been prepared at the request of the Secretariat of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and in close collaboration with the FAO Plant Production and Protection Division, to facilitate the Commission’s deliberations when it will review key issues on targets and indicators for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture at its Fifteenth Regular ...

BACKGROUND We have reported a reduction in fatty acid oxidation (FAO) at the whole-body level and in skeletal muscle in severely obese (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m2) individuals; this defect is retained in cell culture suggesting an inherent component. The purpose of the current study was to determine if an impairment in whole-body fatty acid oxidation (FAO) was also evident in children with a severely obese...

Horowitz, Jeffrey F., Teresa C. Leone, Weqing Feng, Daniel P. Kelly, and Samuel Klein. Effect of endurance training on lipid metabolism in women: a potential role for PPARa in the metabolic response to training. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279: E348–E355, 2000.—Endurance training increases fatty acid oxidation (FAO) and skeletal muscle oxidative capacity. However, the source of the additional...

introduction: solar net radiation (rn) is one of the most important component which influences soil heat flux, evapotranspiration rate and hydrological cycle. this parameter (rn) is measured based on the difference between downward and upward shortwave (sw) and longwave (lw) irradiances reaching the earth’s surface. field measurements of rn are scarce, expensive and difficult due to the instrum...