CHARACTERIZATION AND SOURCE IDENTIFICATION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES IN THE SEDIMENTS OF AN INTERCONNECTED RIVER-LAKE SYSTEM

Characterization and source identification of antibiotic resistance genes in the sediments of an interconnected river-lake system

Antimicrobial resistance has been a global public health concern.The river-lake systems are one of the tightly connected terrestrial ecosystems and, appear to be reservoirs of antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) and dispersal routes of resistant pathogens because they are easily impacted by human activities.Currently, systematic knowledge on the prev

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Image Denoising via Multi-Scale Gated Fusion Network

Deep convolutional neural networks have made significant progress in image denoising.However, in most cases, denoising methods using a single-stream structure with a single kernel size do not perform so well in integrating complementary contextual information; owing to the lack of this type of information, they may fail to reconstruct fine textures

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A systematic review of how vulnerability of smallholder agricultural systems to changing climate is assessed in Africa

The impacts of changing climate on agriculture have consequences on livelihoods and food security.Smallholder farmers, who have heterogeneous farming systems and limited resources, compounded with multiple risks, are greatly affected.There has been limited research showing how vulnerability assessments have evolved in the smallholder agricultural s

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