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Factors Associated with Honey Bee Colony Losses: A Mini-Review
The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera L., Hymenoptera: Apidae) is a species of crucial economic, agricultural and environmental importance. In the last ten years, some regions of the world have suffered from a significant reduction of honey bee colonies.
P. Hristov+3 more
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Recently, the honey and propolis of stingless bees have been attracting growing attention because of their health-promoting properties. However, studies on these products of African Meliponini are still very scarce. In this preliminary study, we analyzed
M. Popova+7 more
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The worldwide importance of honey bees as pollinators in natural habitats
The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most frequent floral visitor of crops worldwide, but quantitative knowledge of its role as a pollinator outside of managed habitats is largely lacking.
Keng-Lou James Hung+4 more
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Genetic Variation in Antimicrobial Activity of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Seminal Fluid
Honey bees can host a remarkably large number of different parasites and pathogens, and some are known drivers of recent declines in wild and managed bee populations.
Shannon Holt+7 more
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HONEI: A collection of libraries for numerical computations targeting multiple processor architectures [PDF]
We present HONEI, an open-source collection of libraries offering a hardware oriented approach to numerical calculations. HONEI abstracts the hardware, and applications written on top of HONEI can be executed on a wide range of computer architectures such as CPUs, GPUs and the Cell processor.
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Phenolic Compounds in Honey and Their Associated Health Benefits: A Review
Honey is a natural substance appreciated for its therapeutic abilities since ancient times. Its content in flavonoids and phenolic acids plays a key role on human health, thanks to the high antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that they exert ...
Danila Cianciosi+12 more
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Diversity and Global Distribution of Viruses of the Western Honey Bee, Apis mellifera
In the past centuries, viruses have benefited from globalization to spread across the globe, infecting new host species and populations. A growing number of viruses have been documented in the western honey bee, Apis mellifera.
Alexis L. Beaurepaire+13 more
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Morphmetric analysis of apis cerana populations in Huangshan, China
Honey bees (Apis cerana Fabricius) were collected from 195 colonies at seven different localities spanning the main beekeeping areas in Huangshan. Morphometric methods were used to measure seven standard morphometric characters, and these bees were ...
Yu Linsheng+5 more
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The Honey Badger of BFT Protocols
The surprising success of cryptocurrencies has led to a surge of interest in deploying large scale, highly robust, Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) protocols for mission-critical applications, such as financial transactions.
Andrew K. Miller+4 more
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Explaining the reasons for the increased mortality of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) in recent years, in Europe and North America, has become a global research priority in apicultural science.
Pohorecka Krystyna+4 more
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