the challenge for today's researchers and practitioners agriculture, increase productivity while maintaining or improving environmental quality (including water, soil and air) to be ¬ rapid population growth and increasing demand for food, researchers are continuing to study the management of high yielding varieties suitable for growing to escape environmental stresses in dry conditions an...

The advent of COVID-19 and subsequent social disruption has exacerbated existing nursing workforce shortages. As education programs healthcare providers struggle to meet the care needs their respective communities, ever-present challenge replenishing candidates persists—particularly when those face financial hardships complete education. In an effort mitigate hardships, competency-based (CBE) o...

BACKGROUND: While recognizing the economic obstacles that currently block widespread use, many concerned with improving agricultural productivity and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are focusing on fertilizer as a remedy for declining soil quality and stagnant yields. Some have suggested that SSA needs to increase fertilizer use from 9 to at least 30 kg/ha during the next decade. Othe...

Water stress adversely impacts many aspects of the physiology of plants, especially photosynthetic capacity. If the stress is prolonged, plant growth, and productivity are severely diminished. Plants have evolved complex physiological and biochemical adaptations to adjust and adapt to a variety of environmental stresses. The molecular and physiological mechanisms associated with water-stress to...

In this paper we share our experience from implementing machine translation in localization into relatively small languages of the three Baltic countries – Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian. We describe our approach in improving terminology translation and consistency by preprocessing of the source text and performing term integration. We present results of a formal evaluation of MT impact on t...