Farming and plant breeding have been closely associated since the early days when crops were first domesticated. Plant breeding was built on biodiversity and on the work of 10,000 years of farmers’s selection and some generations of breeders. Without understanding the science behind it, early farmers saved the seed from the best portion of their crop each season. Over the years, they selected t...

In the last decade children's blood lead levels have fallen significantly in a number of countries, and current mean levels in developed countries are in the region of 3 Mu g/dL. Despite this reduction, childhood lead poisoning continues to be a major public health problem for certain at-risk groups of children, and concerns remain over the effects of lead on intellectual development in infants...

This article examines the current state of research at intersections book history and digital humanities within field eighteenth-century studies. It addresses popular intellectual origins nexus between surveys developments in this area studies last decade. The trends field, with a particular focus on large-scale corpora databases use distant reading methods, assesses what directions future migh...

BACKGROUND Although about 90% of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is asymptomatic in newborn, some of them could show sequelae later in life. Qinba mountain area is a place with high incidence of mental retardation and a high rate of CMV intrauterine transmission in China. The correlation between asymptomatic congenital CMV infection and developmental outcomes of children in this area...

information and communication technologies are a set of tools, machines, technical knowledge, methods and skills to be used for production, trade, processing, storage, recycling, transferring, and transport of “information”. in the globalization process, information has created the possibility for formation of various formal and informal networks by individuals, groups, and even other networks,...

Over 6000 patents were issued last year in the US for software related inventions. Patent protection is available for software developments in Australia, US and Europe in addition to copyright protection. However, little use of the system has been made in Australia. We review the different types of intellectual property systems, and the use of the patent system in Australia in relation to prote...

Among recent developments in human chromosome studies a triple-X state has been recognized in females in whom the chromosome number is 47, composed of @ autosomes and 3 X chromosomes (Jacobs et al., 5959). Early surveys of nuclear sex have shown that the triple-X state is a not uncommon chromosomal anomaly. A survey of Edinburgh babies gave a frequency at birth of these abnormal females of 5 . ...

If the German euthanasia program developed from that nation’s intellectual culture, then the Nazi extension of it was not a unique horror and might be a relevant analogy for modern euthanasia debates. In this context, the case of Peter Singer (an advocate of euthanasia) and his criticisms of the Nazi analogy are particularly worthy of consideration. This article argues that Singer’s criticisms ...

In the context of evolution global economy and metamorphosis legal economic relations, characterized by virtualization relationships digitization their content, there is a continuous intensifi cation attention paid business environment leaders also decision-makers to fi eld intellectual property. This due in particular fact that for modern industries property key value generator success factor ...