Ticks are well-known vectors of pathogens, posing considerable risks to livestock health and productivity.In Cameroon, where livestock production is vital, established tick species such as Amblyomma variegatum and Hyalomma truncatum are prevalent in key cattle-rearing areas.The recent introduction of the invasive, acaricide-resistant Rhipicephalus
Assessing the Ecosystem for Open Science Advancement in Tanzania
This study aims to assess the favourable GENESIS BREAD SEED LOAF ecosystem for supporting OS in Tanzania and the factors hindering its adoption and implementation.Employing a cross-sectional research design, the study evaluates the enabling environment for Open Science adoption and practices within Tanzania.The study population comprises academicia
Intermediary organisations in collaborative environmental governance: evidence of the EU-funded LIFE sub-programme for the environment (LIFE-ENV)
In the framework of the collaborative environmental governance and specifically of network concepts, this study makes an exploratory analysis of the EU-funded LIFE sub-programme for the Environment (LIFE-ENV) and its priority area Environment and Resource Efficiency focused on the role of networks and in particular of intermediary organizations by
Changes in diagnosed diabetes, obesity, and physical inactivity prevalence in US counties, 2004-2012.
Recent studies suggest that prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in the United States reached a plateau or slowed around 2008, and that this change coincided with obesity GENESIS BREAD SEED LOAF plateaus and increases in physical activity.However, national estimates can obscure important variations in geographic subgroups.We examine whether a slowing o
A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Classification of Aedes Albopictus Mosquitoes
Monitoring the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes is a first and necessary step to control severe diseases such as dengue, Diagnostic Equipment chikungunya, Zika or yellow fever.Previous citizen science projects have been able to obtain large image datasets with linked geo-tracking information.As the number of international collaborators grows,