Agriculture is now more dependent on pesticides than ever. The value of global pesticide imports increased 3x faster in the 2000s 1990s. Structural transformations industry – including reduced innovation, regulatory costs, consolidation, and a dramatic shift to generic largely produced China have shifted prices, supply chains formulations. ‘supermarket revolution’, migration, rising labor costs...

Consolidation of nondeclarative memory is widely believed to benefit from sleep. However, evidence is mainly limited to tasks involving rote learning of the same stimulus or behavior, and recent findings have questioned the extent of sleep-dependent consolidation. We demonstrate consolidation during sleep for a multimodal sensorimotor skill that was trained and tested in different visual-spatia...

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In the present paper, we argue that the relative location of peripheral spontaneous settlements is dynamic and changes with the growth of the city. The periphery is a place under constant mutation, always reproducing new extensions of land while the old peripheries are gradually incorporated to the city and occupied by new inhabitants. It focuses on the process of consolidation within the urban...

This paper presents an empirical investigation of the consolidation process among banking organizations over the past 40 years. As merger announcements in the news make clear, consolidation is a continuing saga. While consolidation has been the dominant characteristic of the banking industry for decades, tests show that consolidation has not been a stable process. These tests indicate that nine...

Memory consolidation underpins adaptive behavior and dopaminergic networks may be critical for prolonged, selective information storage. To understand the time course of the dopaminergic contribution to memory consolidation in humans, here we investigate the effect of dopaminergic medication on recall and recognition in the short and longer term in Parkinson disease (PD). Fifteen people with PD...

This paper summarizes recent findings on the amygdala’s role in mediating acute effects of glucocorticoids on memory consolidation in rats. Posttraining activation of glucocorticoidsensitive pathways involving glucocorticoid receptors (GRs or type II) enhances memory consolidation in a dose-dependent inverted-U fashion. Selective lesions of the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (BLA) or infus...

The ability to suppress unwanted emotional memories is crucial for human mental health. Through consolidation over time, emotional memories often become resistant to change. However, how consolidation impacts the effectiveness of emotional memory suppression is still unknown. Using event-related fMRI while concurrently recording skin conductance, we investigated the neurobiological processes un...

Many production systems have acquisition and merge operations to increase productivity. This paper proposes a novel method to anticipate whether a merger in a market is generating a major or a minor consolidation, using Inverse data envelopment analysis (InvDEA) model. A merger between two or more decision making units (DMUs) producing a single merged DMU that affects the efficiency frontier, d...