The use of the Walktrap community detection algorithm appeared to be a powerful tool as it was able to identify trade communities that match known production systems and areas. For example, intensive production systems in north-west of France, north-east of Spain, and north of Italy were clearly identified. Similarly, the commercial outdoor production systems in…
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Percent survival at higher densities is essential in determining farming feasibility
For future, the filtering screen of tanks should be of a finer mesh so as to allow longer retention of Artemia. This may require more frequent tank cleaning, perhaps stressing larvae, but the trade off would be observation of true feeding rates, which is required for maximizing efficiency of feeding schedules and densities. Possible cannibalism was…
Rain and off-site sources were the least commonly used for both compliant sites and non-compliant sites
Extreme outliers were defined as those values outside 1.5 times the bounds of the interquartile range . Farms were not required to use water meters, and those without meters often estimated usage based on how frequently they filled and emptied small, temporary storage tanks otherwise used for gravity feed systems or nutrient mixing. The final dataset…
The same research group studied 259 salt miners in five mines with different diesel exposures
Selected indoor home concentrations of various semivolatile PAH compounds for 33 homes in Californiaand Ohio ranged from 9.2 to 210 ng/m3 for phenanthrene, 0.29 to 1100 ng/m3 for quinoline, 2.40 to 37.4 ng/m3 for fluoranthrene, and 0.00 to 4.13 ng/m3 for benzo[a]pyrene . Concentrations were higher in homes with tobacco smoking. Phenanthrene, for example, was…
The distress and accompanying interference in life areas must be taken seriously
Moreover, strategies to improve encoding may be of benefit to persons living with HIV-associated memory deficits; for example, requiring self-generation of stimulus pairing has shown to greatly improve immediate and delayed verbal recall in HIV disease . Translated to a clinical setting, asking a patient to generate their own plan for remembering their medications may deepen…
Tobacco product curiosity correlates with product susceptibility and use among youth
While outcomes could be interpreted differently, they likely reflect multifaceted perceptions with plausible roles in decision making. When considering risks and potential benefits of tobacco products, adolescents hold views that include multiple aspects of social and physical risks. For e-cigarettes, specifically, adolescents cite multiple influences, both related to the product itself and their social context. Adolescents’…
Pipeline drugs show promise for both generalized and focal epilepsy
In a promising development, successful enhancement of hippocampal-dependent memory in patients with epilepsy has now been reported with lateral temporal stimulation and independently in entorhinal white matter using q-burst stimulation.Emilio Perucca, MD, PhD, focused on the rational use of anticonvulsant medication and reviewed a systematic approach to sequencing and combining antiepileptic medications. Giventhe extensive choice of treatments,…
Comprehensive assessments were conducted in order to determine both the COPS and the POPS criteria
Sahin et al. found that not only is the frequency of childhood trauma higher among high-risk participants compared to healthy controls, but also that childhood trauma was related to baseline severity of positive symptoms. Others have found that the intensity of perceptual abnormalities are higher among groups that have experienced physical abuse and other trauma…
Future work should expand upon this task to include more trials for improved power and signal reliability
Complete data required for functional connectivity analyses were available from 216 fMRI scans across placebo and alcohol challenge sessions for 108 individuals. The subjects were comprised of 54 pairs of low- and high-LR participants who were matched on sex, demography, drinking frequency and usual quantities, as well as tobacco and cannabis use. The data presented…
The City of Flagstaff contracted with the Coconino County Health Department to enforce the ordinance
At the first reporting deadline in October 2003, contributions to the health groups’ Proposition 200, the Task Force to Eliminate Smoking in the Workplace totaled $6,054, virtually all of it coming from ACAS and Fairbanks. During this same period, Proposition 201, carrying the same name as Tempe’s repeal attempt, Citizens for Fair Non-Smoking Laws ,…