Search Results - "Classics"

Biotechnology approaches in breeding for biotic stress resistance in yam (Dioscorea spp.) by Agre, A.P., Mondo, J., Edemodu, A., Matsumoto, R., Kolade, O., Kumar, P. Lava, Asiedu, R., Akoroda, M.O., Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Gedil, Melaku A, Adebola, P.O., Asfaw, A.

“…Breeding initiatives in yam to develop improved cultivars have long relied on conventional or classical methods, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive. …”
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Profiling women’s reality of risk and vulnerabilities in the Nigerian cassava agri-food system by Adeyemo, Temitayo A., Nwanze-Olaosebikan, Olamide, Omitoyin, Siyanbola A.

“…Methodology: The study used data of 168 women in different and sometimes overlapping nodes of the cassava value chain. The classical Vulnerability as Expected Poverty measure was used to assess women’s vulnerability to risks. …”
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African swine fever virus rapid detection assays evaluation by Lacasta, Anna, Oba, Peter, Dione, Michel M.

“…Clinical diagnostics is often challenging since ASF shares common clinical signs with other pig diseases (e.g. classical swine fever) in its acute form; and for the chronic forms subtle clinical signs can be overlook. …”
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How accurate are yield estimates from crop cuts? Evidence from smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia by Kosmowski, Frederic, Chamberlin, Jordan, Ayalew, Hailemariam, Sida, Tesfaye, Abay, Kibrom A., Craufurd, Peter

“…The nature of bias is non-classical: bias is correlated with plot size as well as with plot management characteristics. …”
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Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: A synthesis of the literature by Cunningham, Kenda, Ruel, Marie T., Ferguson, Elaine, Uauy, Ricardo

“…We systematically searched Global Health, Embase (classic and Ovid), MEDLINE, Campbell Collaboration, Popline, Eldis, Web of Science, EconLit and Scopus. …”
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Transboundary viral diseases of pigs, poultry and ruminants in Southeast Asia: a systematic review by Thi Ngan Mai, Thanh Trung Nguyen, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Unger, Fred, Hu Suk Lee

“…Relatively few studies evaluated the distribution of TAD, where most of the studies focused on diseases that are important for international trade, such as avian influenza (AI), African swine fever (ASF), classical swine fever (CSF), foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and Newcastle disease (ND). …”
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Monitoring systems for managing natural resources: economics, indicators and environmental externalities in a Costa Rican watershed by Hazell, Peter B. R., Chakravorty, Ujjayant, Dixon, John, Celis, Rafael

“…This watershed exhibits classic multiple user and externality problems: deforestation by dairy and cattle farmers in the upper watershed leads to soil erosion and siltation of the various reservoirs that feed an important hydro-electric power generation system, and agro-chemical use by irrigated farmers has adverse impacts on a highly valued wetlands park and on wildlife and fishing in the lower reaches of the watershed.…”
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Price, income and nutrition course: Tufts University and IFPRI course by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Current research and work in progress (mostly by IFPRI colleagues) will illustrate many of the concepts discussed in class, as well as classic" readings in food policy. Topics: Overview of the role of incomes and prices in determining nutritional status/; Policy approaches to incomes and prices as mechanisms for affecting food consumption/; Methods for evaluating effectiveness of price and income policies (overview)/; Effectiveness of price and income policies/; Basic economic concepts: Supply, demand, equilibrium, price formation, and elasticity/; Basic economic concepts: Household consumption, utility analysis, indifference curve analysis, income and substitution effects, normal and inferior foods, and income-specific consumption parameters/; Extensions: Demand for micronutrients; effects of intrahousehold distribution on elasticity estimates, time allocation, and demand for food/; Farm household behavior and price policy: Production functions, marketed surplus, and prices as determinants of income and consumption of farmers and non-farmers/; Markets: Functions and failures/; Extensions: Nutrition and farm productivity, gender and agricultural production, and agricultural supply and nutrition/; Consumer price interventions: Explicit subsidies to consumers, implicit subsidies to consumers, subsidies to producers, effectiveness, and implementation issues/; Income interventions: Types, effectiveness, and differences between LDCs and developed safety net and food for work programs/; Intrahousehold issues: alternative views of the household, evidence on intrahousehold allocation, household composition and individual consumption, differential control of assets and incomes within the household/; Policy analysis case study/; Macro food policy: Macro prices and food sector, rural-urban terms of trade, and issues of urban bias/; Structural adjustment"…”
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Impact evaluation of the economic inclusion programme in Kenya: Baseline report for cohort 2 by Abay, Kibrom A., Ayalew, Hailemariam, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hidrobo, Melissa, Kimathi, Sally, Kosec, Katrina, Marilign, Yalew M.

“…Graduation and economic inclusion programs complement cash or food transfers with multisectoral investments in asset building, income generation, skill training, and access to financial services and markets to strengthen resilience and opportunity for households who are poor (Andrews et al., 2021). Compared to classic social assistance programs that offer regular cash or food transfers to ensure minimum consumption levels, these programs aim to enable beneficiaries to invest in assets and skills that can make them more productive. …”
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Estimating a social accounting matrix using entropy difference methods by Robinson, Sherman, El-Said, Moataz

“…It then describes the classical RAS procedure and the entropy difference approach. …”
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QTL-seq for the identification of candidate genes for days to flowering and leaf shape in pigeonpea by Singh, Vikas, Sinha, Pallavi, Obala, Jimmy, Khan, Aamir W., Chitikineni, Annapurna, Saxena, Rachit K., Varshney, Rajeev K.

“…The identified genomic regions for days to flowering were also validated with the genotyping-by-sequencing based classical QTL mapping method. A comparative analysis of the identified seven genes associated with days to flowering on 12 Fabaceae genomes, showed synteny with 9 genomes. …”
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Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae: A diverse pathogen with limited clonality by Mayor, D., Jores, Joerg, Korczak, B.M., Kuhnert, P.

“…Population analysis showed that recombination in M. hyopneumoniae occurs and that strains are very diverse with only limited clonality observed. Elaborate classical MLST schemes using multiple targets for M. hyopneumoniae might therefore be of limited value. …”
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The prevalence of infectious bursal disease in chickens in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Tibebu, A., Bahiru, A., Yitbarek, T., Teshome, Y., Tamrat, H., Ferede, Y., Assefa, Ayalew, Mekonnen, S.A.

“…Female chickens had a higher pooled prevalence (68%; 95% CI 55–79%) than males (62%; 95% CI 48–74%). Both classical virulent (cvIBDV) and very virulent (vvIBDV) serotype I genotypes have been identified in Ethiopia. …”
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Enhancing regeneration in white yam (Dioscorea rotundata) through friable embryogenic callus by Syombua, E.D., Tripathi, J.N., Tripathi, L.

“…However, its genetic improvement via classical breeding is challenging and time-consuming due to an erratic flowering pattern, poor seed set, dioecious nature, low pollen fertility, and low seed germination rates. …”
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EXGEP: a framework for predicting genotype-by-environment interactions using ensembles of explainable machine-learning models by Yu, Tingxi, Zhang, Hao, Chen, Shoukun, Gao, Shang, Liu, Ze, Wang, Jiankang, Crossa, Jose, Montesinos-Lopez, Osval Antonio, Hearne, Sarah, Li, Huihui

“…When used with four different combinations of genotypes and environmental data, EXGEP exceeded the yield prediction performance of the classic model Bayesian ridge regression model by 17.37%-42.35%. …”
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Integrating diverse methods to understand climate-land interactions in East Africa by Olson, J.M., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J.A., Campbell, D.J., Davis, A.Y., Jianjun, Ge, Huebner, M., Lofgren, B.M., Lusch, D.P., Moore, N.J., Pijanowski, B.C., Jiaguo, Qi, Thornton, Philip K., Torbick, N.M., Wang, S.

“…These questions and the conceptual approach of the research design of the Climate–Land Interaction Project (CLIP) are rooted in the classical human–environment research tradition in Geography. …”
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Sustainable use of groundwater for irrigation: a numerical analysis of the subsoil water fluxes by Ahmad, Mobin-ud-Din, Bastiaanssen, Wim G.M., Feddes, R.A.

“…Such information cannot be obtained from classical phreatic surface fluctuation data, and unsaturated zone modelling therefore provides additional insights for groundwater policy making.…”
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Seroprevalence and risk factors of Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) infection among humans in Bura irrigation scheme, Tana River County, Kenya by Mwololo, D.K., Kitala, P.M., Wanyoike, S.K., Bett, Bernard K.

“…Screening was done using a commercial ELISA antibody test kit (SERION ELISA classic Coxiella burnetii Phase 1 IgG) for the detection of human antibodies in serum directed against Coxiella burnetii Phase 1. …”
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Major QTLs control resistance to Rice hoja blanca virus and its vector Tagosodes orizicolus by Romero, Luz Elena, Lozano Potes, Iván, Garavito, Andrea, Carabalí, Silvio J., Triana Espinel, Mónica, Villareal, Natalia, Reyes, Luis, Duque E., Myriam Cristina, Martínez, César P., Calvert, Lee A., Lorieux, Mathias

“…The disease is caused by the rice hoja blanca virus (RHBV), which is transmitted by the planthopper vector Tagosodes orizicolus. Because classical breeding schemes for this disease rely on expensive, time-consuming screenings, there is a need for alternatives such as marker-aided selection. …”
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Distribution of duricrusted bauxites and laterites on the Bamiléké plateau (West Cameroon): constraints from GIS mapping and geochemistry by Momo, M.N., Yemefack, Martin, Tematio, P., Beauvais, A., Ambrosi, J.

“…Alumina contents obtained from duricrust samples were analyzed by geostatistical methods and classical kriging interpolation to discriminate between bauxitic and ferruginous laterites. …”
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