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Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy
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The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited
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Semantic Process Based Framework for Regulatory Reporting Process Management
Publisher: Aircc Publishing Corporation
Date: 21-12-2019
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-03-2023
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-023-05772-8
Abstract: Optimal growth and development in childhood and adolescence is crucial for lifelong health and well-being 1–6 . Here we used data from 2,325 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight from 71 million participants, to report the height and body-mass index (BMI) of children and adolescents aged 5–19 years on the basis of rural and urban place of residence in 200 countries and territories from 1990 to 2020. In 1990, children and adolescents residing in cities were taller than their rural counterparts in all but a few high-income countries. By 2020, the urban height advantage became smaller in most countries, and in many high-income western countries it reversed into a small urban-based disadvantage. The exception was for boys in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in some countries in Oceania, south Asia and the region of central Asia, Middle East and north Africa. In these countries, successive cohorts of boys from rural places either did not gain height or possibly became shorter, and hence fell further behind their urban peers. The difference between the age-standardized mean BMI of children in urban and rural areas was .1 kg m –2 in the vast majority of countries. Within this small range, BMI increased slightly more in cities than in rural areas, except in south Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and some countries in central and eastern Europe. Our results show that in much of the world, the growth and developmental advantages of living in cities have diminished in the twenty-first century, whereas in much of sub-Saharan Africa they have lified.
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
A global review of watermelon pollination biology and ecology: The increasing importance of seedless cultivars
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
Date: 09-03-2021
DOI: 10.7554/ELIFE.60060
Abstract: From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in different regions using data from 2896 population-based studies with 187 million participants. Changes in the prevalence of underweight and total obesity, and to a lesser extent severe obesity, are largely driven by shifts in the distribution of BMI, with smaller contributions from changes in the shape of the distribution. In East and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the underweight tail of the BMI distribution was left behind as the distribution shifted. There is a need for policies that address all forms of malnutrition by making healthy foods accessible and affordable, while restricting unhealthy foods through fiscal and regulatory restrictions.
Evaluating the taxa that provide shared pollination services across multiple crops and regions
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-09-2019
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-019-49535-W
Abstract: Many pollinator species visit multiple crops in multiple regions, yet we know little about their pollination service provisioning at local and regional scales. We investigated the floral visitors (n = 13,200), their effectiveness (n = 1718 single visits) and response to landscape composition across three crops avocado, mango and macadamia within a single growing region (1 year), a single crop (3 years) and across different growing regions in multiple years. In total, eight wild visitor groups were shared across all three crops. The network was dominated by three pollinators, two bees ( Apis mellifera and Tetragonula spp.) and a fly, Stomorhina discolor . The visitation network for the three crops was relatively generalised but with the addition of pollen deposition data, specialisation increased. Sixteen managed and wild taxa were consistently present across three years in avocado, yet their contribution to annual network structure varied. Node specialisation ( d ’) analyses indicated many in idual orchard sites across each of the networks were significantly more specialised compared to that predicted by null models, suggesting the presence of site-specific factors driving these patterns. Identifying the taxa shared across multiple crops, regions and years will facilitate the development of specific pollinator management strategies to optimize crop pollination services in horticultural systems.
The effect of protective covers on pollinator health and pollination service delivery
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Lasioglossum bees – the forgotten pollinators
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-02-2022
Self‐compatible blueberry cultivars require fewer floral visits to maximize fruit production than a partially self‐incompatible cultivar
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-09-2020
Honey bees are the most abundant visitors to Australian watermelon but native stingless bees are equally effective as pollinators
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2022
Abstract: Despite the benefits of a erse approach to crop pollination, global food production remains reliant on a low ersity of managed pollinators, especially the European honey bee ( Apis mellifera ). To facilitate more robust pollinator management and improve the resilience of the production system, it is necessary to understand regional variation in the pollination ecology of global food crops. Watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus [Thunb.] Matsum & Nakai) is a highly insect pollinator‐dependent crop and even though it is grown globally across many different climate zones, little is known about its pollination ecology across the erse growing regions of Australia, spanning from the tropics to the arid zone. We compared the species composition, visitation rates and effectiveness of the dominant floral visitors on 15 farms across five major watermelon‐growing regions of Australia. We found that insect species composition differed significantly among regions, but honey bees were the dominant watermelon flower visitor, with relative abundance varying from 73% to 94%. However, native bees (including stingless bees Tetragonula sp., and bees from families Megachilidae and Halictidae such as Lasioglossum , Homalictus and Lipotriches ) and flies (particularly Syrphidae sp.) also visited and transferred pollen onto watermelon flowers. In particular, native stingless bees were common visitors in several growing regions and deposited similar amounts of pollen to honey bees. Our findings indicate that the Australian watermelon industry utilizes honey bees, but the erse assemblage of available native pollinating taxa provides an additional opportunity for growers in specific growing regions. Pollination service delivery could be increased by deploying managed populations (e.g., native stingless bee colonies), employing pollinator‐safe land management practices as well as exploring methods for increasing the efficiency of managed honey bee colonies.
Related Organisations
Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute Of Immunology And Experimental Therapy
Location: Poland
Royal Holloway University Of London
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The New Zealand Institute For Plant & Food Research Limited
Location: New Zealand
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