A Guide to Citrus Disease Identification by Stephen H. Futch

“… Citrus trees in both commercial and dooryard plantings can exhibit a host of symptoms reflecting various disorders that can impact their health, vigor, and productivity to varying degrees. …”
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Japanese Persimmon Cultivars in Florida by Ali Sarkhosh, Peter C. Andersen, Dustin M. Huff

“… Japanese persimmons were first grown in Florida in the 1870s, but as of 2017, most US plantings are on a small scale; however, even as the overall acreage has decreased, the number of farms in Florida growing the fruit increased from 2012 to 2017. Trees grow and fruit best in central and northern Florida and can produce high yields of good-quality fruit. …”
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Conflicts between People and the Florida Black Bear by Elizabeth F. Pienaar

“…Garbage is the main attractant, but bears are also attracted by bee hives, pet food, barbeque grills, fruit trees, and bird (or wildlife) feeders. Conflicts between people and black bears arise when people fail to remove or secure potential food sources. …”
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Conflicts between People and the Florida Black Bear by Elizabeth F. Pienaar

“…Garbage is the main attractant, but bears are also attracted by bee hives, pet food, barbeque grills, fruit trees, and bird (or wildlife) feeders. Conflicts between people and black bears arise when people fail to remove or secure potential food sources. …”
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A Guide to Citrus Disease Identification by Stephen H. Futch

“… Citrus trees in both commercial and dooryard plantings can exhibit a host of symptoms reflecting various disorders that can impact their health, vigor, and productivity to varying degrees. …”
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On Omega Index and Average Degree of Graphs by Sadik Delen, Musa Demirci, Ahmet Sinan Cevik, Ismail Naci Cangul

“…Using a recently defined graph index called omega index, average degree of trees, unicyclic, bicyclic, and tricyclic graphs have been given, and these have been generalized to k-cyclic graphs. …”
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Common Pines of Florida by Niels Proctor, Martha C. Monroe

“… Pine trees are highly important to Florida’s ecosystems and economy. …”
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Olivotourism as a tourist-cultural product and its influence on the dynamics of territories by Eunice Lopes, Pedro Martins

“…In this sense, product development strategies based on olive oil and olive trees are relevant to enhance knowledge of the product itself and its connection with local history and traditions. …”
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Bean Plataspid: Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Plataspidae) by Ashley Poplin, Amanda Hodges

“…Adults from established populations overwinter on light colored structures, in leaf litter, and underneath the bark of trees. Also, like stink bugs, adults tend to excrete an odor as a defense mechanism when disturbed. …”
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Tarnished Plant Bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) by Wayne N. Dixon, Thomas R. Fasulo

“… Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), the tarnished plant bug, attacks a wide variety of economically important herbaceous plants, vegetable crops, commercial flower plants, fruit trees, and nursery stock (Kelton 1975). In fact, over half of the cultivated plant species grown in the United States are listed as host plants for tarnished plant bugs (Capinera 2001). …”
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Black Scale Saissetia oleae (Olivier, 1791) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) by Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Sandra A. Allan

“… The black scale is an important pest of citrus and olive trees. Originally from South Africa, this scale is now distributed worldwide. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Interfacial Bond Strength of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer-Concrete by Miljan Kovačević, Marijana Hadzima-Nyarko, Predrag Petronijević, Tatijana Vasiljević, Miroslav Radomirović

“…This study presents a detailed analysis of various machine learning models for predicting the interfacial bond strength of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) concrete, including multiple linear regression, Multigene Genetic Programming (MGGP), an ensemble of regression trees, Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and neural networks. …”
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Conehead Termite Nasutitermes corniger (Motschulsky) (Insecta: Blattodea: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae) by Reina Tong, Katherine Tenn, Rudolf H Scheffrahn

“…., structural wood and dead wood on living trees, and they inhabit a wide range of habitats. …”
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How to interpret statistical analysis results implicated in health causality studies? by Nelsa María Sagaró del Campo, Larisa Zamora Matamoros

“…Indices, tables and graphs of the type are presented in the interpretation, similarity and cohesive trees, and implicative graph, from which the possible causal factors, confusing variables, effect modifiers and others that are identified and others which could be involved.…”
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Black Scale Saissetia oleae (Olivier, 1791) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) by Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Sandra A. Allan

“… The black scale is an important pest of citrus and olive trees. Originally from South Africa, this scale is now distributed worldwide. …”
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A multi-spectral and hyperspectral image dataset for evaluating chemical traits and the water status of avocado, olive and grape through leaf dehydration under laboratory condition... by Juan Sebastian Estrada, Rodrigo Demarco, Ciarán Miceal Johnson, Matias Zañartu, Andres Fuentes, Fernando Auat Cheein

“…This work presents a dataset composed of multi-spectral images, hyper-spectral reflectance values, and measurements of weight, chlorophyll, and nitrogen content of leaves at five different drying stages, from avocado, olive, and grape trees, which are common crops in the Valparaíso region of Chile. …”
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Lobate Lac Scale, Paratachardina lobata lobata (Chamberlin) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Kerriidae) by F. W. Howard, Robert Pemberton, Avas Hamon, Greg S. Hodges, Bryan Steinberg, Catharine M. Mannion, David McLean, Jeanette Wofford

“… A species of scale insect new to Florida is potentially one of the most devastating pests of trees and shrubs in the state's history. The lobate lac scale, Paratachardina lobata lobata (Chamberlin) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Kerriidae), a scale insect native to India and Sri Lanka, was found for the first time in Florida in August 1999 by personnel of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry (DPI) (Hamon 2001). …”
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Biomass Estimation of Dry Tropical Woody Species at Juvenile Stage by R. K. Chaturvedi, A. S. Raghubanshi, J. S. Singh

“…We suggest that 𝜌-based regression model is a viable option for nondestructive estimation of biomass of forest trees at juvenile stage.…”
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Reclaimed Water in Your Florida-Friendly Edible Landscape by Terra Freeman, Tiare Silvasy, Yilin Zhuang, Esen Momol

“…However, using reclaimed water on plants harvested and consumed from the home landscape must be approached with caution for vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, and other edible crops due to the risk of contamination from pathogens and salts. …”
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The Interplay Between Loss Functions and Structural Constraints in Dependency Parsing by Robin Kurtz, Marco Kuhlmann

“…Several of the decoding algorithms that have been applied to this task employ structural restrictions on candidate solutions, such as the restriction to projective dependency trees in syntactic parsing, or the restriction to noncrossing graphs in semantic parsing. …”
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