Annotated image dataset of fire blight symptoms for object detection in orchards.

The monitoring of plant diseases in nurseries, breeding farms and orchards is essential for maintaining plant health. Fire blight () is still one of the most dangerous diseases in fruit production, as it can spread epidemically and cause enormous economic damage. All measures are therefore aimed at preventing the spread of the pathogen in the orchard and containing an infection at an early stage [1-6].

[Ready to Care for Pregnant Women with Breech Presentation? - Results from an Online Survey for Midwives and Midwifery Students in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland].

The vaginal birth of breech presentation is an option for pregnant women supported by current German and international guidelines when favorable conditions and appropriately trained personnel are available. According to midwifery laws in the D-A-CH region, midwives should be able to provide care for a vaginal breech birth in emergencies. Therefore, imparting skills for breech delivery is enshrined in the curriculum for midwifery students.

Prevalence and Obstetric Management Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peripartum SARS-CoV-2-Positive Women - an Analysis of the CRONOS Registry Data.

The analysis of CRONOS data for this article presents the infection prevalence among parturients and subsequent changes in obstetric management over time in Germany. 2,184 women with peripartum SARS-CoV-2 infection (<14d before birth) were included. Monthly period prevalence was calculated using the number of affected women on the CRONOS registry relative to total monthly births in each hospital from March 2020 to May 2022 and compared to RKI data.

Rapid and low-cost insect detection for analysing species trapped on yellow sticky traps.

While insect monitoring is a prerequisite for precise decision-making regarding integrated pest management (IPM), it is time- and cost-intensive. Low-cost, time-saving and easy-to-operate tools for automated monitoring will therefore play a key role in increased acceptance and application of IPM in practice. In this study, we tested the differentiation of two whitefly species and their natural enemies trapped on yellow sticky traps (YSTs) via image processing approaches under practical conditions.

Sensor-based outdoor monitoring of insects in arable crops for their precise control.

The implementation of precision farming technologies into agricultural practice requires, among other things, precise determination of the extent and intensity of insect infestation in the farmer' fields. Manual insect identification is time-consuming and has low efficiency, especially for large fields. Therefore, scientists and practitioners devote much effort to the automatization of this process.

An automated field phenotyping pipeline for application in grapevine research.

Due to its perennial nature and size, the acquisition of phenotypic data in grapevine research is almost exclusively restricted to the field and done by visual estimation. This kind of evaluation procedure is limited by time, cost and the subjectivity of records. As a consequence, objectivity, automation and more precision of phenotypic data evaluation are needed to increase the number of samples, manage grapevine repositories, enable genetic research of new phenotypic traits and, therefore, increase the efficiency in plant research.

Spectrophotometric analyses of chlorophyll and single carotenoids during fruit development of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) by means of iterative multiple linear regression analysis.

When using spectrophotometric transmittance readings of fruit extracts, the analysis of single carotenoids is difficult because of coinciding absorption bands of the various carotenoids and chlorophylls present in the solution. Aimed at the separate analyses of pigments, an iteratively applied linear regression was developed based on spectral profiles of pigment standards. The iterative approach was validated by dilution series of pigments and compared with commonly applied equation systems.

Glycosaminoglycans in cervical connective tissue during pregnancy and parturition.

Objective: To investigate the content and distribution patterns of glycosaminoglycans in the human cervix during pregnancy and parturition.

Methods: We obtained a total of 87 specimens from nonpregnant and pregnant women. Biopsies (weight 50-200 mg) were taken from the posterior lip of the cervix.

Fibrin-fibronectin compounds in human ovarian tumor ascites and their possible relation to the tumor stroma.

Covalently linked heterogeneous fibrin-fibronectin compounds were detected in ascitic fluid of 31 patients with advanced ovarian cystadenocarcinoma by means of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay techniques, immunoaffinity chromatography, and Western blot analysis. Deposition of fibrin and fibronectin could also be demonstrated immunohistochemically in Carnoy-fixed tissue sections. Fibrin and fibronectin were found in the tumor stroma within tumor nests and more prominently in stroma surrounding the tumor nests.

[Mortality data and statistics, importance for health services and epidemiological research (author's transl)].

In most industrialized countries mortality data are the only medically relevant complete statistics for the description of health and disease in a population. Although mortality data reflect just the opposite of the state of health of a population, specific age and sex mortality rates are important indicators of the health status of a population and beyond that for the social system, e.g.

[Epidemiological data on appendicitis].

Various statistical data on the assessment of the appendicitis situation in the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD) and the GDR in recent years are drawn upon which show that the mortality rate in the BRD has declined by almost 40% since 1970. The number of hospital cases of appendicitis has been constant since 1965 among those insured by the Regional Insurance bodies, but a marked increase occured in children between 1966 and 1969. In the GRD there was a marked reduction in hospital cases of appendicitis between 1969 and 1973.