Pests and diseases have caused significant problems since the domestication of crops, resulting in economic loss and hunger. To overcome these problems, synthetic pesticides were developed to control pests; however, there are significant detrimental side effects of synthetic pesticides on the environment and human health. There is an urgent need to develop safer and more sustainable pesticides.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather events, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have highlighted global food system vulnerabilities and a lack of preparedness and prospective planning for increasingly complex disruptions. This has spurred an interest in food system resilience. Despite the elevated interest in food system resilience, there is a lack of comparative analyses of national-level food system resilience efforts.
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August 2021
Tripl3t and Zeuska are siphoviral bacteriophages that were isolated from Mycobacterium smegmatis mc 155 and contain double-stranded DNA genomes 53,565 bp and 53,598 bp in length, respectively. Tripl3t and Zeuska were annotated by students at Bluff Dale High School (Bluff Dale, TX) and Tolar High School (Tolar, TX) in community engagement with Tarleton State University.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be at greater risk for developing antivaccine beliefs that lead to vaccine delays and/or refusals for their children. We investigated current parental vaccine hesitancy, parents' beliefs about causes of children's developmental delays, and children's vaccination histories among parents of children with ASD or non-ASD developmental delays. Data were analyzed from 89/511 parents (17.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Appointment compliance (AC) has a significant impact on patient care; however, determinants of AC in Ophthalmology and its subspecialties remains elusive.
Methods: We performed a five-year retrospective analysis across Kresge Eye Institute (KEI) and its affiliated Michigan locations. A total of 597,364 appointments across >13 subspecialties were included.