Additional Index Words. Cucumis sativus L., greenhouse, protected culture, beit alpha cucumber Abstract. The Beit Alpha (BA) cucumber is a new commodity for the Florida greenhouse industry. In past trials, BA cultivar production and quality were compared to traditional ‘Dutch’ or European cucumber cultivars. The cv. Sarig, a BA-type, produced three times more yield than the Dutch-type cv. Kalun...

BACKGROUND Adverse health effects caused by pesticide exposure have been reported in occupied Palestinian territory and the world at large. The objective of this paper is to compare patterns of pesticide use in Beit-U'mmar village, West Bank, between 1998 and 2006. METHODS We studied two populations in Beit-U'mmar village, comprised of: 1) 61 male farmers and their wives in 1998 and 2) 250 ma...

Breast cancer must be detected early to reduce the mortality rate. Ultrasound images can make it easier for clinician diagnose cases of dense breasts. This study presents a deep vision transformer-based approach predicting breast malignancy scores from ultrasound images. In particular, various state-of-the-art transformers such as BEiT, CaiT, Swin, XCiT, and Vis-Former are adapted trained extra...

Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Clinical Pharmacology, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box A178, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe 3 International Centre for Genetic Engineering a...

Zusammenfassung W hrend die Leistungsf higkeit von D Operatoren zur Detektion von Punktlandmarken in tomographischen Bildern bereits untersucht wurde z B sind Untersuchungen bzgl der Detektionsleistung von D Operatoren kaum bekannt In dieser Ar beit werden neun verschiedene D Di erentialoperatoren dahingehend untersucht ob und inwieweit sie geeignet sind Landmarken in D Bildern zu detektieren D...

In this paper the approach to problem solving using societies of agents is discussed. Al-beit being a very promising topic in Arti-cial Intelligence, it seems to lack strong theoretical and methodological foundations and easy-to-use implemented systems in order to prove its usefulness and adequacy. This is the reason a methodology for problem solving based on societies of agents is presented. T...

This case report is from Malawi Beit CURE international Hospital (BCIH), a center of excellence for the management of chronic osteomyelitis (COM) in children. Currently minimal evidence based data exists on the long term outcomes for treatment of bone defects following COM. Few studies evaluating outcomes are based solely on clinical parameters. This case study highlights the often-debilitating...