BACKGROUND Strawberry diseases are a major limiting factor that severely impact plant agronomic performance. Regarding limitations of traditional techniques for detection of pathogens, researchers have developed specific DNA-based tests as sensitive and specific techniques. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods used for detection or qu...

Background Antibiotic use in human medicine, veterinary medicine, and agriculture has been linked to the rise of antibiotic resistance globally. We did a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarise the effect that interventions to reduce antibiotic use in food-producing animals have on the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals and in humans. Methods On July 14, 2016, we se...

Abstract Background Spring frosts pose an important threat to orchard productivity in temperate zones and projections do not exclude damaging events the future. However, there is no up-to-date systematic comparison of effectiveness conditionality existing passive active damage prevention strategies. This review seeks answer questions “How performances spring frost reduction strategies fruit orc...

Thesauri are used to tag semi-structured documents, texts, while more complex semantic structures are used to describe (annotate) scientific data. We are creating a Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) by mapping AGROVOC, CABT and NALT – three major thesauri in the area of food and agriculture, with a beta release in May 2016. We see GACS as a hub linking user-oriented thesauri with semant...

Brain cortices or bulk-isolated neuronal cell bodies prepared from cortices of 8-day old male rats were used as the source of a I-methyl adenine-specific tRNA methyltransferase (tRNA-AMT). Ammonium sulfate fractionation and chromatography on spheroidal hydroxylapatite and Sephadex (3-200 yielded an 80-fold purified enzyme, as determined by using E. coli bulk tRNA as substrate. The kinetic param...

The use of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) in aggregated metadata collections facilitates the implementation of search mechanisms operating on the same term or keyphrase space, thus preparing the ground for improved browsing, more accurate retrieval and better user profiling. Automatic thesaurus-based keyphrase extraction appears to be an inexpensive tool to obtain this information, but t...

The most frequently used concepts from AGROVOC, CABT, and NALT – three major thesauri in the area of food and agriculture – have been merged into a Global Agricultural Concept Scheme, with 15,000 concepts and over 350,000 terms in 28 languages in its beta release of May 2016. This set of core concepts (“GACS Core”) is seen as the first step towards a more comprehensive Global Agricultural Conce...

Adeyemo, K. A., Isiavwe, D., Adetula, Olamide, O., & Folashade, O. (2020). Mandatory adoption of the Central Bank Nigeria’s cashless and e-payment policy: implications for bank customers. Banks Systems, 15(2), 243-253. https://doi.org/10.21511/bbs.15(2).2020.21 Barabashev, Makarov, I., Zarochintcev, S. (2022). How to shape government policies on high-technology development using indicative ...

•Coral reef habitat, biodiversity, fisheries, effort, and food-web impacts are evaluated•Global coverage of living coral has declined by half since the 1950s•Catch associate fishes per unit effort decreased 60% 1950•Coral reefs’ capacity to provide ecosystem services 1950s Coral ecosystems important for tropical subtropical coastal communities, small-island developing states, Indigenous peoples...