In spite of its numerous potential applications, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) remains a difficult (and mainly unsolved) problem. In addition to the intrinsic difficulty of the task, users tend to go beyond the pre-defined lexicon words, and the important keywords necessary to understand voice requests are often lost in extra words. In this context, it is often interesting to develop Keywo...

Melioidosis is an often fatal infectious disease affecting humans and animals in tropical regions and is caused by the saprophytic environmental bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Domestic gardens are not only a common source of exposure to soil and thus to B. pseudomallei, but they also have been found to contain more B. pseudomallei than other environments. In this study we addressed whethe...

The NAM-B1 gene is a NAC transcription factor that affects grain nutrient concentrations in wheat (Triticum aestivum). An RNAi line with reduced expression of NAM genes has lower grain protein, iron (Fe), and zinc (Zn) concentrations. To determine whether decreased remobilization, lower plant uptake, or decreased partitioning to grain are responsible for this phenotype, mineral dynamics were qu...

Dickeya solani is one of the most important pectinolytic phytopathogens responsible for high losses in potato, especially in seed potato production in Europe. Lytic bacteriophages can affect the structure of the host population and may influence spread, survival and virulence of the pathogen and in consequence, infection of the plant. In this study, we aimed to acquire information on the viabil...

Black soldier flies, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), are of particular interest for their applications in waste management. Feeding on decaying organic waste, black soldier flies successfully reduce manure in confined animal feeding operations of poultry, swine, and cattle. To optimize waste conversion in confined animal feeding operations and landfill facilities, it is imperat...

In this study, conventional and organic olive tree nurseries were compared through a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analysis to identify processes that have greater environmental impact which of the two systems leads lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Carbon sequestration in woody biomass plants grown with both management was also considered. The research carried out on six nurseries, four mana...

We analytically prove that the matter solution of vacuum string field theory constructed by Kostelecky and Potting is the matter sliver state. We also give an analytical proof that the ghost solution by Hata and Kawano is the sliver state in the twisted ghost CFT. It is also proved that the candidate state for the tachyon proposed by Hata and Kawano can be identified with the state constructed ...

Abstract We evaluated whether reducing irrigation frequency and volume alters the ability of Phytophthora plurivora P. cinnamomi to cause root rot on rhododendron grown in a noninfested potting medium or media infested with 1 100 propagules per gram (ppg) pathogen. Plants were irrigated maintain substrate moisture >70% container capacity (1.0X), one-half 1.0X (0.5X), two times at each ev...