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Cancellous bone loss caused by ionizing radiation occurs quite rapidly in rodents
Extensive research focuses on both understanding the fundamental underlying mechanisms and finding suitable treatments for such patients. However, major health concerns remain, such as secondary drug effects, osteonecrosis of the jaw and atypical femoral fractures, motivating continued search for osteoprotective treatments against bone loss. Space radiation is a unique type of radiation, composed of various…
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It mainly has a coastal distribution in California and is the dominant phytoseiid on avocados
Species of Euseius are the most common phytoseiids on both citrus and avocado. Euseius hibisci is known from Santa Barbara County in California to the sate of Oaxaca in southern Mexico .Euseius hibisci is common and abundant in avocado orchards year round, is an important generalist predator and feeds on pollen and leaf exudates in the absence…
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The utilization of entomopathogens against thrips is not a new concept
Thrips have several generations per year, some having 8 or more. In some species, the life cycle from egg to adult may be completed in as short as two weeks when environmental conditions are optimal. Nearly 50% of the known species of thrips feed on fungi, about 40% feed on living tissues of dicotyledonous plants…
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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…