ANA PETCU1, ALEXANDRU NEMTOI1*, SORIN PASCA2, EUSEBIU-VIOREL SINDILAR3, DANISIA HABA1, FLORIN-DUMITRU PETRARIU4 1 “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgey, 16 Universitatii Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 2 “Ion Ionescu de la Brad”University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathological Anatomy and Forensic Medicin...

Oil palms are extensively planted in tropical countries and causing a severe decline biodiversity. Alley-cropping is an agroforestry practice that has been proven to sustain greater diversity of terrestrial arthropods than monoculture plantations. However, the environmental factors responsible for these differences remain unclear. This study aimed identify influencing arthropod abundance richne...

The dearth of fertile ‘virgin’ land and inaccessibility to standard chemical fertilizers, coupled with low tuber yields has made cassava cultivation unprofitable in parts of traditional cassava zone of West Africa. Field experiments were conducted at Ajibode and Alabata villages located in Ibadan (derived savanna zone), Nigeria to evaluate cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) root yield response ...

Pieces of evidence are emerging in support of the startling idea that the birth of new neurones in the adult brain in some way underlies major depression. Although there are intriguing parallels between factors that regulate neurogenesis and those predicting depression or its recovery, at this point, we should remain sceptical but allow cautious hope that more effective therapies may be suggested.

Round robin tournaments are used in a wide variety of competition settings and especially in recreational sports leagues. The outcomes of such tournaments can be modelled by an orientation of the edges of a complete graph, where each vertex corresponds to a unique competitor. A score sequence is an nondecreasing sequence of the out-degrees of such a graph. In this paper we analyze two previousl...

BACKGROUND Community interactions can produce complex dynamics with counterintuitive responses. Synanthropic community members are of increasing practical interest for their effects on biodiversity and public health. Most studies incorporating introduced species have been performed on islands where they may pose a risk to the native fauna. Few have examined their interactions in urban environme...

Sensors, communication systems and geo-reference units are required to achieve an optimized management of agricultural inputs with respect to the economic and environmental aspects of olive groves. In this study, three commercial olive harvesters were tracked during two harvesting seasons in Spain and Chile using remote and autonomous equipment that was developed to determine their time efficie...