Recent multinational disease outbreaks demonstrate the risk of disease spreading globally before public health systems can respond to an event. To ensure global health security, countries need robust multisectoral systems to rapidly detect and respond to domestic or imported communicable diseases. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention International Border Team works with the governm...

As an early stage of plant transformation by Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the Ti plasmid is nicked at the border sequences that delimit the T-DNA. Cleavage results in covalent attachment of VirD2 to the 5' terminal of the nicked strand by a process resembling initiation of DNA transfer that occurs in the donor cell during bacterial conjugation. We demonstrate that this cleavage can be reproduced ...

From an esoteric subject of international relations and voluntarism-based initiatives , cross-border governance has turned in the last decade into a key expression of regionalism and of dynamics of change of territorial relations in Europe. Overcoming and blurring borders lies at the core of discourses on European integration aimed at erasing tariff and non-tariff barriers from the geography of...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a suspension of the Schengen Agreement within European Union: national borders were partially controlled or closed. Especially in border regions, where idea integration is most evident, this limitations cross-border linkages, putting question border-regional resilience into focus studies. Based on case study German we operationalize various impacts alongside border....

This paper deals with the effects of cross-border transport infrastructure in the presence of agglomeration economies. Cross-border infrastructure is more likely to increase than to decrease inequalities between and within regions, and has not helped regional convergence in Europe. Under-investment due to spillovers, coordination failures, and the inadequacy of networks originally designed for ...

This paper proposes a goodness function for colour segmentation, which allows to predict whether the segmented regions will be stable against noise, variation of lighting, and change of viewpoint. As such a measure, colour saliency defined from average border contrast is proposed. While the idea to maximise border contrast in segmentation is not novel per se, it is shown here empirically that m...

This research aims to evaluate whether agritourism is a sustainable activity, comparing the profiles of accommodation, farmers, and accommodation with agricultural activities. Four specific objectives drive this study: (a) examining cultural/landscape, economic, environmental, social indicators sustainability; (b) sustainability between groups; (c) revealing there significant cross-correlation ...

Abstract The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported in Sudan on 13 March 2020. Since then, has experienced one of the highest rates COVID-19 spread and fatalities Africa. One year later, as per 22 2021, had registered 29,661 confirmed cases 2,028 deaths with a case fatality rate (CFR) 6.8 %. By 12 December 2020, 18 states Sudan, South Kordofan fifth CFR 17.4 %, only surpassed b...