Objective: To investigate the impact of corneal photograph quality on convolutional neural network (CNN) predictions.Design: A CNN trained to classify bacterial and fungal keratitis was evaluated using photographs of ulcers labeled according to 5 corneal image quality parameters: eccentric gaze direction, abnormal eyelid position, over/under-exposu

Higher biodiversity leads to more productive ecosystems which, in turn, supports more biodiversity.Ongoing global changes affect ecosystem productivity and, therefore, are expected to affect productivity-biodiversity relationships.However, the magnitude of these relationships may be affected by baseline biodiversity and its lifeforms.Cork oak (Quer

Mushrooms represent a formidable source of bioactive compounds.Some of these may be considered as biological response modifiers; these include compounds with a specific biological function: antibiotics (e.g.plectasin), immune system stimulator (e,g, lentinan), antitumor agents (e.g.krestin, PSK) and hypolipidemic agents (e.g.lovastatin) inter alia.

The purpose of this study was a description of the species-specific characteristics of the celiac artery in greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus).In the greater Hotplate Receptacle flamingos examined in this study, it was observed that the celiac artery (a.celiaca) originated from the right ventrolateral surface of the descending aorta (aorta d

Long-term regional convergence hypothesis is examined for 32 Mexican states in a regional growth model with poverty traps using a new dataset on regional income inequality for the period 1940-2011.Although zero-growth poverty trap hypothesis is rejected for 28 out of 32 states, the evidence confirms B- convergence and s-convergence for the period 1