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Scottish Agricultural College
About: Scottish Agricultural College is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Yolk. The organization has 1306 authors who have published 2060 publications receiving 107618 citations.
Topics: Population, Yolk, Dairy cattle, Fatty acid, Polyunsaturated fatty acid
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TL;DR: The volatile oils of black pepper, clove, and thyme exhibited considerable inhibitory effects against all the organisms under test while their major components demonstrated various degrees of growth inhibition.
Abstract: The volatile oils of black pepper [Piper nigrum L. (Piperaceae)], clove [Syzygium aromaticum (L.) Merr. & Perry (Myrtaceae)], geranium [Pelargonium graveolens L'Herit (Geraniaceae)], nutmeg [Myristica fragrans Houtt. (Myristicaceae), oregano [Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum (Link) Letsw. (Lamiaceae)] and thyme [Thymus vulgaris L. (Lamiaceae)] were assessed for antibacterial activity against 25 different genera of bacteria. These included animal and plant pathogens, food poisoning and spoilage bacteria. The volatile oils exhibited considerable inhibitory effects against all the organisms under test while their major components demonstrated various degrees of growth inhibition.
4,014 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review insights from history, sociology and psychology of risk, economics and political science to develop four propositions concerning limits to adaptation and conclude that these issues of values and ethics, risk, knowledge, attitudes to risk and culture construct societal limits, but that these limits are mutable.
Abstract: While there is a recognised need to adapt to changing climatic conditions, there is an emerging discourse of limits to such adaptation. Limits are traditionally analysed as a set of immutable thresholds in biological, economic or technological parameters. This paper contends that limits to adaptation are endogenous to society and hence contingent on ethics, knowledge, attitudes to risk and culture. We review insights from history, sociology and psychology of risk, economics and political science to develop four propositions concerning limits to adaptation. First, any limits to adaptation depend on the ultimate goals of adaptation underpinned by diverse values. Second, adaptation need not be limited by uncertainty around future foresight of risk. Third, social and individual factors limit adaptation action. Fourth, systematic undervaluation of loss of places and culture disguises real, experienced but subjective limits to adaptation. We conclude that these issues of values and ethics, risk, knowledge and culture construct societal limits to adaptation, but that these limits are mutable.
2,159 citations
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Wageningen University and Research Centre1, VU University Amsterdam2, Portland State University3, World Agroforestry Centre4, Aberystwyth University5, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation6, Saint Petersburg State University7, Scottish Agricultural College8, United Nations Environment Programme9, Conservation International10, Institute for European Environmental Policy11
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an overview of the value of ecosystem services of 10 main biomes expressed in monetary units and showed that most of this value is outside the market and best considered as nontradable public benefits.
Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the value of ecosystem services of 10 main biomes expressed in monetary units. In total, over 320 publications were screened covering over 300 case study locations. Approximately 1350 value estimates were coded and stored in a searchable Ecosystem Service Value Database (ESVD). A selection of 665 value estimates was used for the analysis. Acknowledging the uncertainties and contextual nature of any valuation, the analysis shows that the total value of ecosystem services is considerable and ranges between 490 int$/year for the total bundle of ecosystem services that can potentially be provided by an ‘average’ hectare of open oceans to almost 350,000 int$/year for the potential services of an ‘average’ hectare of coral reefs. More importantly, our results show that most of this value is outside the market and best considered as non-tradable public benefits. The continued over-exploitation of ecosystems thus comes at the expense of the livelihood of the poor and future generations. Given that many of the positive externalities of ecosystems are lost or strongly reduced after land use conversion better accounting for the public goods and services provided by ecosystems is crucial to improve decision making and institutions for biodiversity conservation and sustainable ecosystem management.
1,815 citations
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TL;DR: It is concluded that, although sample size has been small in a number of surveys, there is nevertheless unequivocal evidence of global contamination of cereal grains and animal feed with several trichothecenes, ZEN and fumonisins.
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TL;DR: The demonstration of reduced fetal methylation and expression of ovine IGF2R suggests pre-implantation embryo procedures may be vulnerable to epigenetic alterations in imprinted genes, and highlights the potential benefits of epigenetic diagnostic screening in developing embryo procedures.
Abstract: Manipulation or non-physiological embryo culture environments can lead to defective fetal programming in livestock. Our demonstration of reduced fetal methylation and expression of ovine IGF2R suggests pre-implantation embryo procedures may be vulnerable to epigenetic alterations in imprinted genes. This highlights the potential benefits of epigenetic diagnostic screening in developing embryo procedures.
829 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Naomi R. Wray | 105 | 463 | 58697 |
David Smith | 100 | 994 | 42271 |
Caleb Smith | 90 | 810 | 36522 |
Gad Frankel | 83 | 310 | 21534 |
Mark W. J. Ferguson | 67 | 184 | 15773 |
Peter F. Surai | 65 | 196 | 11892 |
Ilias Kyriazakis | 64 | 380 | 14566 |
Peter G. Cook | 62 | 259 | 14865 |
David J. Hampson | 60 | 373 | 12933 |
Roel F. Veerkamp | 60 | 345 | 12341 |
John Woolliams | 59 | 383 | 15274 |
Daniel Cozzolino | 58 | 352 | 9919 |
Sandra Edwards | 57 | 387 | 11117 |
Robin Thompson | 57 | 241 | 21284 |
Alistair Lawrence | 57 | 258 | 10334 |