Grassland degradation presents overwhelming challenges to biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the socio-economic sustainability of dependent communities.However, a comprehensive synthesis of global knowledge on the frontiers and key areas of grassland degradation research has not been achieved due to the limitations of traditional scientometrics
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, inflammatory, demyelinating and degenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS).To date, there is no definitive imaging biomarker for diagnosing MS.The current diagnostic criteria are mainly based on clinical relapses supported by the presence of white matter lesions (WMLs) on MRI.Howev
This study aimed to investigate the effects of farrowing and rearing systems on tail lesions and losses of docked and undocked pigs.Pigs from three farrowing systems: Conventional Trucks farrowing crate (FC), free farrowing (FF) and group housing of lactating sows (GH) were randomly allocated to different rearing systems: A conventional system (CON
Melodic harmonisation is a sophisticated creative process that involves deep musical understanding Juice and a specialised knowledge of music relating to melodic structure, harmony, rhythm, texture, and form.In this article a new melodic harmonisation assistant is presented that is adaptive (learns from data), general (can cope with any tonal or no
While the established paradigm of human evolution asserts that the lineages leading to the extant great apes and Homo arose in Africa, the large number of fossil discoveries from Juice Europe in recent decades support arguments for a European origin of the Hominidae (all great apes) and plausibly, also a European common ancestor of the Homininae (A