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Managing Semi-Arid Rangelands for Carbon Storage: Grazing and Woody Encroachment Effects on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen.
(PLOS ONE, 2015-10-13)
High grazing intensity and wide-spread woody encroachment may strongly alter soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools. However, the direction and quantity of these changes have rarely been quantified in East African savanna ...
Mammalian wildlife diversity in rubber and oil palm plantations.
(CABI, 2016-07-27)
In the face of globally diminishing natural habitats in biodiversity-rich regions, agricultural landscapes around protected areas have increasingly gained importance as extended habitat for wildlife species. Rubber (Hevea ...
Semitransparent Building-Integrated Photovoltaic: Review on Energy Performance, Challenges, and Future Potential
(Hindawi, 2019-10-20)
Buildings consume large amounts of energy, and their transformation from energy users to producers has attracted increasing interest in the quest to help optimize the energy share, increasing energy efficiency and environmental ...
Solvent effects on molecular encapsulation of Toussantine-A by chitosan nanoparticle: A metadynamics study
(Elsevier, 2019-10-15)
We report a metadynamics study of toussantine-A with chitosan nanoparticle in dimethyl sulfoxide and water in order to assess the solvent related effects on free energy and interaction stability between the two compounds. ...
Biomonitoring of Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) Activity among Smallholder Horticultural Farmers Occupationally Exposed to Mixtures of Pesticides in Tanzania
(Hindawi, 2019-09-11)
Biomonitoring of pesticides exposure has currently become a matter of great public concern due to the potential health effects of
pesticides. ,is study assessed levels of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibition and associated ...
Current State of Modern Biotechnological-Based Vaccines for Aquaculture: A Systematic Review.
(Hindawi, 2019-07-29)
This systematic review describes what "the cutting edge vaccines for are". The focus is on types of high tech biotechnological based vaccines, target gene or antigen in developing these vaccines, and challenge model fish ...
Conserved, breed-dependent, and subline-dependent innate immune responses of Fayoumi and Leghorn chicken embryos to Newcastle disease virus infection.
(Scientific Reports, 2019-05-10)
Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is a threat to the global poultry industry, but particularly for smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries. Previous reports suggest that some breeds of chickens are less susceptible ...
Porous Polyethylene Composite as Biomass Carrier for Red Pigment Production Using Monosodium Glutamate Wastewater as Medium
(American Scientific Publishers, 2012-10-01)
Abundant acidic wastewater from monosodium glutamate production is difficult to treat, leading to serious water pollution. Utilization of monosodium glutamate wastewater (MSGW) with high concentration of COD (33170 mg/L) ...
Dynamics of nicotine across the soil–tobacco plant interface is dependent on agro-ecology, nitrogen source, and rooting depth
(Elsevier, 2019-12)
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is the primary nicotine producing plant through its root system (Steppuhn et al., 2004; Shoji et al., 2008). It produces nicotine to as high as 4% of its leaf content compared with potato, ...
Ki-67, p53 and BCL-2 Expressions and their Association with Clinical Histopathology of Breast Cancer among Women in Tanzania
(Scientific Reports, 2019-07-09)
This study associated Ki-67, p53, and BCL-2 markers with clinical histopathological (CH) features using
currently available limited data on these markers in Tanzania. Retrospective chart review study was
conducted among ...