Pathways from women's group-based programs to nutrition change in South Asia: a conceptual framework and literature review [PDF]
, 2018 Improving the nutritional status of women and children in South Asia remains a high public health and development priority. Women's groups are emerging as platforms for delivering health- and nutrition-oriented programs and addressing gender and ...
Cunningham, Kenda +8 more
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The Network of Counterparty Risk: Analysing Correlations in OTC Derivatives
, 2015 Counterparty risk denotes the risk that a party defaults in a bilateral contract. This risk not only depends on the two parties involved, but also on the risk from various other contracts each of these parties holds.
Garas, Antonios +2 more
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Genome-Wide Association of Rice Blast Disease Resistance and Yield-Related Components of Rice
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2015 Robust disease resistance may require an expenditure of energy that may limit crop yield potential. In the present study, a subset of a United States Department of Agriculture rice core collection consisting of 151 accessions was selected using a major ...
Xueyan Wang +4 more
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Going against the flow: A critical analysis of virtual water trade in the context of India's National River Linking Programme [PDF]
, 2007 Virtual water trade has been promoted as a tool to address national and regional water scarcity. In the context of international (food) trade, this concept has been applied with a view to optimize the flow of commodities considering the water endowments ...
Hoekstra, Arjen Y. +3 more
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BREEDING OF RICE VARIETIES WITH PYRAMIDING GENES TOLERANT TO DISEASES
Зерновое хозяйство России, 2018 Rice can significantly decrease the harvest of grain when it’s damaged with a dangerous fungus ‘Pyricularia grisea’ (rice blast). Single genes resistant to the pathogen are usually unefficient. That’s why it’s necessary to breed productive rice varieties,
P. I. Kostylev +4 more
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Marker assisted rice breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stressors
BIO Web of Conferences, 2020 Due to the fact that blast (causative agent – Pyricularia oryzae Cav.) is considered to be one of the harmful diseases of rice around the world, weeds compete with the crop for light, mineral nutrition and space, the accelerated development of resistant ...
Dubina Elena +4 more
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Health Challenges for the People of New Orleans: The Kaiser Post-Katrina Baseline Survey [PDF]
, 2007 Presents detailed findings from a household survey of Greater New Orleans area residents conducted in Fall 2006. Examines the health care status of residents and their access to health care services after the Hurricane Katrina ...
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Quality of End-of-Life Cancer Care for Medicare Beneficiaries [PDF]
, 2010 The report shows that many challenges remain to improving the care of patients with serious, life-limiting illness. For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in
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Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionHuruan1212 (HR1212) is well-regarded for its superior eating and cooking quality in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China. Still, its high susceptibility to rice panicle blast and lack of fragrance have limited its further spread ...
Junhua Ye +17 more
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Transcriptome Analysis and Functional Identification of Xa13 and Pi-ta Orthologs in Oryza granulata
The Plant Genome, 2018 Nees & Arn. ex Watt, a perennial wild rice species with a GG genome, preserves many important genes for cultivated rice ( L.) improvement. At present, however, no genetic resource is available for studying .
Rui Yang +9 more
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