Is Our Food Safe from Pesticides? by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Growers of the food supply have adopted the use of integrated pest management (IPM) because it is no longer possible to rely solely on chemical pesticides to prevent unacceptable crop losses. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), IPM is the coordinated use of pest and environmental information and available pest control methods to prevent unacceptable levels of damage by the most economical means with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment. …”
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Mange in Rabbits: An Ectoparasitic Disease with a Zoonotic Potential by Wafaa A. Abd El-Ghany

“…Mange in rabbits is a very important parasitic disease causing high losses. The disease is caused mainly by Sarcoptes scabiei, Psoroptes cuniculi, Cheyletiella parasitovorax, and Notoedres cati. …”
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Development of model of optimal control of water supply system by A. D. Taghiyeva

“…To eliminate the deficiencies in management, tasks are set to determine the necessary intensities of product supply in the facilities, allowing timely provision of consumers with the necessary volume of products, to minimize losses, product discharges of facilities in the system during a certain control period.…”
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Locating causes of abnormality of EPG experience based on decision tree by Xiaomin TAN, Ai FANG, Bing LIANG, Haojie YANG

“…Improving user experience has always been the focus of IPTV operation.However,IPTV network is relatively complex,including multiple scheduling links such as set-top box,access network,EPG page,EPG server and media server.Once the abnormality occurs,monitoring indicators of each link will be checked to locate the cause of abnormality by human experience.The operation mode relies on professionals,which is inefficient and unable to stop losses quickly.Thus,to solve the problem above,based on big data technology,decision tree was implied to locate the cause of abnormality according to the classification rule of the tree model.Decision tree model has been used in actual networks of IPTV and helps to find out the cause of abnormality,which improves the efficiency of operation.…”
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Progress in Flood Risk Assessment Based on Data-Driven Methods by HE Xinyu, TIAN Wenchong, ZHANG Zhiyu, LIAO Zhenliang

“…Flood is one of the most common natural disasters in China,which has made a serious impact on China's economy and society.Flood risk assessment can help management decision makers prevent and reduce flood losses in flood-prone areas.In recent years,data-driven methods have played an increasingly important role in flood risk modeling due to their fast modeling processes and accurate spatial prediction capabilities.This paper summarizes the research progress in data-driven methods applied to flood risk assessment and divides data-driven methods into two categories,i.e.…”
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The paths to carbon neutrality in the Russian electric power industry by N. G. Lyubimova

“…The introduction of a “carbon” tax can cause big losses for Russian manufacturers. To reduce the carbon intensity of electricity production and maintain “carbon neutrality” in the future Russia has to increase generation at nuclear, hydroelectric and other renewable energy sources, take measures to improve the fuel combustion efficiency at coal-fired power plants and introduce more economical gas turbine and combined cycle equipment installations at gas power plants.…”
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Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Disease by Jack C. Comstock, Robert A. Gilbert

“…Later it was reportedly associated with yield losses of 25% or more in the cultivar SP 71-6163 in Brazil. …”
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Adaptation and Validation of the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief—Present Scale by Rocio Luana Gruppi, Cecilia Yaccarini, Agustin Freiberg Hoffmann, Andrew Futterman, Hugo Simkin

“…This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties and internal consistency of the Spanish version of the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief- Present \[TRIG-Present\] in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which assesses a series of thoughts, emotions and behaviors in losses related to the present. A total of 285 adults participated in the study with ages between 18 and 80 years (M = 55.09, SD = 15.27) and both sexes (Men = 42.8%, Women = 57.2%). …”
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Winter wheat yield responses to growing degree days: Long-term trends and adaptability in major producing areas of China by Ziyang Liu, Davide Cammarano, Xiaojun Liu, Yongchao Tian, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao, Qiang Cao

“…In all regions, the increase in accumulated GDD in the sowing-to-jointing stage causes yield losses, and the losses in the southern region are greater than those in the northern region. …”
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How Are Cows Cooled on Dairy Farms in Florida? by Bethany Dado-Senn, Geoffrey E. Dahl, Jimena Laporta

“…These conditions and their associated losses in productivity pose a growing concern to dairy producers, as more frequent and severe fluctuations in temperature, precipitation, and droughts are predicted to occur in the United States. …”
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Development of a Compact Wide-Slot Antenna for Early Stage Breast Cancer Detection Featuring Circular Array Full-View Geometry by S. S. Tiang, M. S. Hathal, N. S. Nik Anwar, M. F. Ain, M. Z. Abdullah

“…The design is based on a p-shaped wide-slot structure with 50 Ω microstrip feeding circuit to eliminate losses of transmission. The design parameters are optimized resulting in a good reflection coefficient at −10 dB from 4.5 to 10.9 GHz. …”
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Effective and sustainable prevention and control of pork tapeworm diseases in humans and pigs in Tanzania: a policy brief by Helena A. Ngowi, George Makingi, Fredy Mlowe, Fredy Mlowe, Christina Wilson, Flora Kajuna, Flora Kajuna, Mwemezi Kabululu, Mwemezi Kabululu, Ayubu Churi, Chacha Nyangi, Chacha Nyangi, Mary-Winnie Nanyaro, Innocent Melkiory, Cosmas Nonga, Shanel V. Matembo, Bernard James Ngowi, Fatna Kivava, Christina Kitundu, Antony Nyerere, Ernatus Mkupasi

“…The parasite costs Tanzanian society approximately USD 8 million annually due to costs for management of epilepsy caused by the parasite (USD 5 million) and losses due to condemnation of infected pork (USD 3 million). …”
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Fiber optic control system for geotechnical parameters of mine by A. D. Mekhtiyev, A. I. Soldatov, Ye. G. Neshina, A. D. Alkina

“…The results of dependences of additional optical losses on the applied force are obtained.…”
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Fractal Acoustic Metamaterials with Subwavelength and Broadband Sound Insulation by Yu Liu, Meng Chen, Wenshuai Xu, Tao Yang, Dongliang Pei, Heng Jiang, Yuren Wang

“…Using the finite element method and the S-parameter retrieval method, the band structures, the effective parameters, and the transmission losses of these acoustic metamaterials with different fractal orders are researched individually. …”
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FLEXIBLE SYNCHRONOUS REGULATION OF POWER ELECTRONIC BLOCKS OF TRANSFORMER-BASED PHOTOVOLTAIC STATIONS by OLESCHUK, Valentin

“…This scheme is based on the continuous regulation of the switching frequency of the inverters relative to the magnitude of the DC voltages of the PV strings, ensuring equivalence of switching losses across each inverter. The proposed control and PWM techniques ensure the elimination of even-order harmonics and subharmonics in spectra of voltage at inverter-side windings of power transformer, helping to increase the operating efficiency of inverter-based PV stations. …”
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Effect of Thickness on Structural and Optical Properties of Tetra-tert- butyl-2, 3-naphthalocyanine Thin Films by I. Dhanya, C S Menon

“…Various optical constants like band gap energy, Eg the width of band tails of localized states into the gap, EU and steepness parameter, β gets calculated and the variation of different optical parameters like refractive index, extinction coefficient, dielectric constants, optical conductivity and surface and volume energy losses with photon energy are estimated.…”
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›Subthematische Arbeit‹. Komponieren mit mehrstimmigen Satzmodellen bei Mozart by Hans-Ulrich Fuss

“…Ein anderer, zunächst als bloßes ›Füllmaterial‹ erscheinender Parallelführungs-Topos entwickelt sich zu einer Klangfolge, die mit großer Subtilität das Durchführungsgeschehen an die Exposition bindet.…”
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Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Individuals with Diabetes Mellitus in the Sultanate of Oman by Noora Al Shihi, Abdulhakeem Al Rawahi, Raya Al Jahdhami, Rayyan Al Riyami, Abdulaziz Al Murazza, Noor Al Busaidi, Fatma Al Riyami, Suad Al Salti

“…However, only 14.6% and 12.6% regularly flossed and used mouthwash, respectively. With regards to attitudes, 0.5%, 23.8%, and 75.8% of the participants demonstrated poor, moderate, and good attitudes toward oral health, respectively. …”
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Water woes: the institutional challenges in achieving SDG 6 by Jaivime Evaristo, Yusuf Jameel, Cecilia Tortajada, Raymond Yu Wang, James Horne, Howard Neukrug, Carlos Primo David, Angela Maria Fasnacht, Alan D. Ziegler, Asit Biswas

“…Annual NRW losses are estimated at an astonishing 126 billion cubic meters, costing roughly USD 39 billion. …”
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Preliminary ultrasonography study of the pancreas in the dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) by El Hassania Lakhel, Khalid El Allali, Mohamed Rachid Achaâban, Rahma Azrib

“…IntroductionPancreatic lesions in camels can lead to significant economic losses. They are practically undetectable, as clinical signs alone are insufficient for specific diagnosis. …”
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