Automation continues to play a greater role in agricultural production with license plates commercial systems now available for machine vision identification of weeds and other pests, autonomous weed control, and robotic harvesters for fruits and vegetables.The growing availability of autonomous machines in agriculture indicates that there are oppo
Safety and efficacy of acupuncture for varicocele-induced male infertility: a systematic review protocol
Introduction Varicocele (VC) is a common clinical disease in andrology.Among a number of ways for VC treatment, surgery is the most common one, but the measurable benefit of surgical repair was slight.A growing exploration of complementary therapies has been conducted in clinical research on acupuncture for VC, but there is no relevant systematic r
Enhancing explainable SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development leveraging bee colony optimised Bi-LSTM, Bi-GRU models and bioinformatic analysis
Abstract The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a single-stranded RNA virus that caused the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).The COVID-19 outbreak has led to millions of deaths and economic losses globally.Vaccination is the most practical solution, but finding epitopes (antigenic peptide regions) in
A phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis, with numerous new species from rotting fruits
Abstract Background The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a major laboratory model in biology.Only ten Caenorhabditis species were available in culture at the onset of this study.Many of them, like C.elegans, were mostly isolated from artificial compost heaps, and their more natural habitat was unknown.Results Caenorhabditis nematodes were found t
The radical potential of student voice: Creating spaces for restless encounters
This paper starts by sketching out STRAWBERRY BANANA some of the developments in research partnerships between adults and young people within the context of formal schooling in the last twenty years and then briefly touches on some of the critiques of such work, underlining the role of values and political perspectives.The third section argues for