How different are the communities of invertebrates in tropical soils?

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What are the potential risks involved with the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the soil?

What are the effects of transgenic DNA in the soil food web? What consequences, if any will these have on soil health?

01 February 2019 1,047 3 View

What are the latest technologies to detect with accuracy when cows are approaching ovulation, in order to maximize fertility and conception rates?

Estrus detection is very important to enhance fertility in livestock. I am interested in learning new technologies/approaches that maximize the conception and fertility of bovine species.

31 December 2018 8,392 15 View

How effective is meliponiculture (raising of stingless bees) among rural communities of central and south America?

Meliponiculture is the cultivation/raising of stingless bees species. These are native to central and south America and in many indigenous communities they have been kept/managed for millennia. I...

07 August 2018 4,766 4 View

What ethic principles/values can be employed to achieve a sustainable development?

Too often the discussion around the concept of sustainability is linked to the environment, the economy and the social issues however achieving a sustainable development must be supported by...

03 April 2018 7,776 7 View

What is the impact of urban agriculture on the global scale?

Food production out-puts from cities can be significant and since urbanization is on the rise worldwide I would like to learn more specifically what is/are the impact/s of growing food in cities.

03 April 2018 3,376 4 View

What is the efficacy of liquid biofertilizers (e.g.: compost tea) in the production of fruits and vegetables?

What fruit and vegetables plant species respond best to the application of biofertilizers like compost tea?

02 March 2018 6,438 25 View

What can be suggested to design farms so that mutualism between animals and their plant partners may increase efficacy to foster sustainability?

What can be suggested to design farms so that mutualism between animals and their plant partners may increase efficacy to enhance the sustainability of food production systems?

02 March 2018 8,830 3 View

Is there a cheap method to assess the presence of saprophytic fungi in soils?

How can soil fungi and ectomycorrhyzae be detected in the soil? Is there a simple method that can be used to demonstrate their presence when you are in the field with farmers?

02 March 2018 8,627 6 View

How is plant nutrition being affected since the widespread use of synthetic fertilizers?

How is plant nutrition being affected since the widespread use of highly soluble synthetic fertilizers to more complex, organic soil amendments, that are typically applied on organic farms?

02 March 2018 617 14 View

What are key elements that will determine the time for a degraded soil to be restored?

Inevitably any farming activity disturbs the soil and with it, soil organic matter (SOM) will decrease, or even be lost completely (e.g.: desertification). How long will it take to restore a soil...

02 March 2018 661 19 View

Why should we choose deep learning to machine learning? Why is CNN better for image classification? Can I get Typical Answer?

What Characteristics makes CNN work better?

03 March 2021 1,458 4 View

What are some of the research gaps in machine learning and artificial intelligence in africa?

i would to know some of the research gaps in the artificial intelligence field in most african countries.

03 March 2021 6,145 3 View

Anyone plz suggest relevant topic for research in image processing+Deep learning.?

I have selected brain tumor images ...but now found that already lots of research done n this topic.

03 March 2021 5,774 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

Can you share me how teacher education is managed in your respective national educational system?

I feel that the practice in teacher education in my country is below the expected performance level due to very poor management system. Hope I will learn something from your experiences.

02 March 2021 1,516 4 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

What is the difference between L1 and L2 regularization in machine learning?

L1 and L2 regularization

28 February 2021 4,187 3 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

Is there any Machine Learning/AI algorithm that lets you predict with incomplete features without missing value imputation process?

For instance, the model is trained with A,B,C,D,E features to predict F target. Then, I want to make prediction on a new data, but with only A,C,D,E is known without doing missing value imputation...

28 February 2021 1,556 6 View