The diets of many households in developing countries are monotonous and starch-based. Integrating underutilised indigenous vegetables (UIVs) to cropping systems can contribute both crop dietary diversities, thereby improving rural households’ nutrition boosting food security. Therefore, this study established a link between the UIVs’ diversity household (HDD) UIVs producers area Southwest Niger...

Abstract We assemble a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) ranging from the optical to mid-infrared of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z < 0.4. The SED fitting analysis is performed using semiempirical templates derived Palomar-Green quasars classify sample into normal, warm-dust-deficient (WDD), and hot-dust-deficient (HDD) AGNs. Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests reveal that HDD AGN...

BACKGROUND Serious physical abuse resulting in a traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been implicated as an underreported cause of infant mortality. Nearly 80% of all abusive head trauma (AHT) occurs among children <2 years of age, with infants experiencing an incidence nearly 8 times that of 2-year olds. OBJECTIVE This study describes the validation of the CDC Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma (PAHT...

In the context of the genome-wide association studies (GWAS), one has to solve long sequences of generalized least-squares problems; such a task has two limiting factors: execution time –often in the range of days or weeks– and data management –data sets in the order of Terabytes. We present an algorithm that obviates both issues. By pipelining the computation, and thanks to a sophisticated tra...

Humidification-dehumidification desalination (HDD) systems offer a feasible approach for the production of fresh water in inaccessible areas as they can be operational using renewable energy and require little maintenance. Various studies are being carried out to boost system performance. In this paper, an open air HDD is proposed that exploits enhanced evaporation condensation processes by imp...

Abstract. Satellite-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) provide measurements in remote regions, such as the biologically sensitive but undersampled northern high latitudes, and are progressing toward true global data coverage. Recent improvements satellite retrievals total column-averaged dry air mole fractions CO2 (XCO2) from NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) have a...