Ordering-based modifiers can be particularly useful in fuzzy control and other fields related to fuzzy systems. This paper deals with the construction of such modifiers by means of hull operators with respect to fuzzy orderings.

BACKGROUND About half of people with Down syndrome (DS) exhibit some form of congenital heart disease (CHD); however, trisomy for human chromosome 21 (Hsa21) alone is insufficient to cause CHD, as half of all people with DS have a normal heart, suggesting that genetic modifiers interact with dosage-sensitive gene(s) on Hsa21 to result in CHD. We hypothesize that a threshold exists in both DS an...

OBJECTIVE To research computational methods for discovering body site and severity modifiers in clinical texts. METHODS We cast the task of discovering body site and severity modifiers as a relation extraction problem in the context of a supervised machine learning framework. We utilize rich linguistic features to represent the pairs of relation arguments and delegate the decision about the n...

The Fusarium genus of fungi is responsible for commercially devastating crop diseases and the contamination of cereals with harmful mycotoxins. Fusarium mycotoxins aid infection, establishment, and spread of the fungus within the host plant. We investigated the effects of the Fusarium mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) on the viability of Arabidopsis cells. Although it is known to trigger apoptosis...

The objective of the present study was to investigate susceptibility maize hybrids natural mycotoxins contamination: aflatoxin total (AFLA), deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenon (ZEA) and fumonisins (FB). Hybrids were grown during two production years (2019 2020) in locations. Mycotoxin contamination grains evaluated five sweet hybrids. Contamination level investigated first cluster mainly by below...

The EC Quality of Life Programme (QoL), Key Action 1--Food, Nutrition & Health aims at providing a healthy, safe, and high-quality food supply leading to reinforced consumer's confidence in the safety of the European food. Key Action 1 is currently supporting several European projects investigating analytical methods for food control including sensors, risk analysis, and food safety standardisa...

Light sensing is very important for organisms in all biological kingdoms to adapt to changing environmental conditions. It was discovered recently that plant-like phytochrome is involved in light sensing in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans[1]. Here, we show that phytochrome (FphA) is part of a protein complex containing LreA (WC-1) and LreB (WC-2) [2, 3], two central components of th...

Mycotoxins can increase disease incidence and reduce production efficiency in cattle. They exert their effects through three primary mechanisms: (1) alteration in nutrient content, absorption and metabolism, (2) changes in the endocrine and neuroendocrine function, and (3) suppression of the immune system (CAST, 1989). The resulting nonspecific symptoms may therefore be perplexing and make diag...

Mycotoxin is a worldwide problem threatening animal health and performance as well public health. The objective of this experiment was to test the effect ammonization on elimination common mycotoxins in laying hen compound feed (CF) dairy cattle total mixed ration (TMR). CF for hens TMR cows were contaminated with commonly occurring [aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), ochratoxin A (OTA), zearalenone (ZEA)] a...

Mycotoxin-producing fungi are a significant source of crop and food contamination, posing threat to global safety security. Essential oils, plant extracts phytochemicals have emerged as green preservatives extend the shelf-life foods due their unique antimicrobial properties. Unlike conventional synthetic preservatives, they sustainable safe way preserve with no or little harmful effects on env...