BACKGROUND:Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic arbovirus that causes severe disease in livestock and humans.The virus has caused recurrent outbreaks in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula since its discovery in 1931.This review sought to evaluate RVFV seroprevalence across the African continent in livestock, wildlife and humans in order to un
Contaminant levels in Norwegian farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the 13-year period from 1999 to 2011
Background: Environmental pollutants such as dioxins and PCBs, heavy metals, and organochlorine pesticides are a global threat to food safety.In particular, the aquatic biota can bioaccumulate many of these contaminants potentially making seafood Totes of concern for chronic exposure to humans.Objectives: The main objective was to evaluate trends o
Differentiated muscles are mandatory for gas-filling of the Drosophila airway system
At the end of development, organs acquire functionality, thereby ensuring autonomy of an organism when it separates from its mother or a protective egg.In insects, respiratory competence starts when the tracheal system Drain Clip fills with gas just before hatching of the juvenile animal.Cellular and molecular mechanisms of this process are not ful
Cordycepin production by Cordyceps militaris cultivation on spent brewery grains
This is a first report on C.militaris mycelia and fruiting bodies cultivation End Table on solid-state containing spent brewery grains (SBG).Five different strains of C.militaris were cultivated on substrates containing rye grains and 0 to 60% SBG.Stromata formation on SBG-containing substrates was noticed with two C.militaris strains.All strains f
A Self-Adaption Butterfly Optimization Algorithm for Numerical Optimization Problems
For shortcomings of poor exploaration and parameter complexities of the butterfly optimization algorithm, an improved butterfly optimization algorithm based the self-adaption method (SABOA) was proposed to extremely enhance the searching accuracy and the iteration capability.SABOA has advantages of having fewer parameters, the simple algorithm stru