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A subset of commercially available diets includes raw meatbased diets
Many of those events have involved food vehicles that have not previously been implicated in L. monocytogenes transmission. Prior studies have argued that while improved control measures in some regions have decreased the prevalence of L. monocytogenes in food products such as meat and poultry, the rates of illness and particularly of invasive disease have…
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Documenting the adaptive benefit of homologous recombination in bacteria has proved difficult
Accordingly, plant roots in dry environments have fewer soil water source options, so xylem water and bulk soil water will trend towards similar isotopic compositions.Despite our unique data set and our observations, several open questions remain: a) Biophysical processes: Recent research shows that various complex bio-physical processes in the soil plant-atmosphere continuum may help explain why…
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Raspberry production and price data are obtained from the U.S.
SWD biology and infestation intensity is affected by climatic conditions and the availability of host fruit, implying that different climatic conditions and influences of neighboring crops could significantly impact SWD-related yield losses.On the other hand, organic raspberry producers still face significant SWD-induced yield losses. Private communications with raspberry producers indicate that these producers experience yield…
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We used DSMs to model memory search in a new naturalistic active learning task
Many of these countries have limited legislative and economic capacities to resist multinational tobacco companies’ influence and investments. As a consequence of expanded tobacco agriculture, there are short-term economic benefits for some farmers, but there will be long-term social, economic, health and environmental detriments for many others.Due to widespread concerns about unfair labour practices in…
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The value of agricultural output also varies among the 58 counties in California
The Cholesky values of the constrained model are equal to indicating that the extended Slutsky matrix S of equation is negative semi-definite and satisfies the rank condition of theorem 1. Hence, the PITP hypothesis is not rejected also in version 2 of the model. We notice that, in this case, the value of the log-likelihood function obtained using…
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The figures include both the direct outlays and the opportunity costs of intervention
A significant amount of liquidation occurs, in contrast, during the tax scenario, due largely to the high levels of real interest rates. Thus, while it would be expected that the higher grain prices of the subsidy scenario would hurt the livestock sector, this effect is more than offset by higher income and lower interest rates.…
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The contribution of this paper is to bear this hypothesis to empirical scrutiny
The associations using the mediation model weakened and became non-significant, as hypothesized . Of the constructs of pesticide exposure, AChE activity accounted for most of the weakening of the association in the mediation model. Model 2 further adjusted for AChE and hemoglobin yielded an OR per SD decrease in time after the harvest of 1.83…
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Various chemical methods have been used to modify agricultural wastes in recent decades
The results are presented in Table 2. Individuals with higher NEP scores were more likely to favor the ‘‘don’t build’’ option over the ‘‘build out’’ option, for both open space and agricultural land. Individuals living closer to farms were more likely to favor the ‘‘don’t build’’ option over building single-family homes on agricultural land, and…
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This labor substitution has potential to further mitigate contraction in times of crisis
Column 3a reports estimates of the previous coefficient α on the interacted variable for Equation 3. This equation also includes a triple interaction coefficient γ with female to determine the impact of drought on females. This coefficient γ is listed in column 3b. When we look at the female interaction that is added in column…
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Overexpression of osmotin in transgenic plants delayed disease symptoms from fungal pathogens
Plants have evolved diverse mechanisms to defend against fungal infections, as summarized in Fig. 1, with one important route utilizing the secretion of proteins to delay fungal infection or inhibit fungal growth. These plant anti-fungal proteins are promising candidates since they are biodegradable, generally nontoxic to humans and antagonistic microorganisms, and most importantly, have evolved…