Powdery mildew disease (PMD) is caused by the obligate biotrophic fungus Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck (M.diffusa) and results in TV significant yield losses in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) crops.By identifying disease-resistant genes and breeding soybean accessions with enhanced resistance, we can effectively mitigate the detrimental i
Applying Decision Trees to Examine the Nonlinear Effects of Multiscale Transport Accessibility on Rural Poverty in China
Accessibility plays an important role in alleviating rural poverty.Previous Maca studies have explored the relationship between accessibility and rural poverty, but they offer limited evidence of the collective influence of multiscale transport accessibility (town-level, county-level, and prefecture-level accessibility) and its nonlinear effects on
The Fuzzy Concept of Idiom and What It Might Mean for Bilingual Dictionaries
Linguistic categories were developed as tools for describing language systems and making them easier to learn.However, like many theoretical concepts and systems, they do not fully represent the real world and, in some cases, seek to imprison linguistic units within a well-ordered system - a procrustean bed as it were.Besides, although the most gen
Treatment of diseases associated with cicatricial alopecia
Cicatricial (scarring) alopecia may result from perifollicular inflammation that destroys hair follicles and replaces them with connective tissue (primary cicatricial alopecia) or from damage done to follicles by other pathology that Crimp lugs and terminals is not primarily directed against follicles (secondary cicatricial alopecia).Examples of su
Deterrence and Arms Control: An Interview with Robert Gallucci
Ambassador Robert Gallucci is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A.Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he earlier served as the Dean.He led the John D.and Catherine T.MacArthur TV Foundation as president from 2009 to 2014.His career in the US Department of State spanned 21 years and included