There has been growing interest to develop forage rice as a new feed resource for livestock. This study was to characterize the natural population of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and select potentially excellent strains for paddy rice silage preparation in China. One hundred and twenty-six strains were isolated and screened from paddy rice silage prepared using a small-scale fermentation system, ...

Approach and Solution The COE team updated the locator model with information including the most recent census data and factors that affect patients’ probability of choosing one lab over others, such as travel distance, capacity and location convenience of the lab. We compared the changes in importance of the decision factors from the 2009 project. The locator model was proven robust with new d...

Linkage disequilibrium mapping has been used extensively in medical and evolutionary genetics to map causal polymorphisms within genes associated with disease status or phenotypic variation for a trait. However, the initial findings of most nonhuman studies have not been replicated in subsequent studies, due in part to false positives, as well as additional factors that can render true positive...

Cocoa beans fermentation is an important step in the post-harvest processing of cocoa beans. This complex mix culture fermentation produces metabolic products that serve as the precursors for the flavor development process. Modification in the dynamics of microbial population during the fermentation may alter the overall microbial activity and thus may impact the fermentation process. Addition ...

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This paper elaborates the Sentinel-2 image processing approaches used for the estimation of the population of an area of interest at Image CLEF Remote 2017 lab by the FabSpace 2.0 Darmstadt team. The task is introduced by Image CLEF Lab as a new pilot task in 2017 (Remote) which aims at exploring Copernicus Earth Observation data (i.e. Sentinel-2 satellite imagery) in order to estimate the popu...

High population density is often associated with increased levels of stress-related hormones, such as corticosterone (CORT). Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are a socially monogamous species known for their large population density fluctuations in the wild. Although CORT influences the social behavior of prairie voles in the lab, the effect of population density on CORT has not previously ...

Our ultimate scientific goal is to understand both the biological (e.g., population structure and dynamics and behavior) and physical (e.g., advection, mesoscale physical processes, turbulence) mechanisms that act in concert to produce the observed distributions of plankton in the ocean. Our approach has been to conduct a combination of field, lab, and modeling studies. Field studies define the...