For the past several years, we have built various tools for automatic construction of biopathways to help biological experts, especially in the field of agriculture. We integrated several systems for constructing web applications for analyzing biological pathway information for agricultural species, constructing optimized pathway maps. In addition to building web applications for agricultural pathway information, we developed several stand-alone software tools, which are publicly downloadable under proper license agreements.
Agriculture ; Computational Biology ; Licensure

The change of nutritional status of primary and secondary school children (7-15 years old )living in coastal (3 communes) and agricultural (3communes) areas in Thai Binh province was assessed repeately after 9 years of intervention (1995 and 2004). The rate of underweight, stunting and wasting were 25,4%, 30,1%, and the reductive trend was faster in coastal areas than that in agricultural areas. In the year 2004, a rate of 1,1% of children in general was overweight,i.e. higher with statistical significance than that in y.1995 (0,41% in coastal and 0,57% in agricultural areas)
Nutritional Status ; child ; Agriculture

An investigation of 5 sites along with the Kim nguu and Set rivers and 5 sites along with Red river in Gia lam district has shown that the worm eggs found in 4 samples of vegetables among 120 samples of vegetables in Thanh tri district while no worm eggs found in samples of vegetables in Gia lam district. The rates of cryptosridium and cyclospores in Thanh tri were 3 times higher than this in Gia lam.
Enterosite ; Wastewate ; Agriculture

The study was conducted on 4,800 female labourers from three regions. It was selected randomly one district from every province, 2 communes from every district and 300 labourers from every commune. The result showed that agricultural female labourers have rate of 53.5 - 55.5%, most of them are 26 - 45 years of old (73.5%). Most of them have primary and secondary education (84.7%). 11.3% of participants have high-school education and 4% have just escaped illiteracy. 88% have married and 45.9% have more than 2 live children. Working duration is long (8-17 hours per day) and most of them have not received health care periodically. Labor accident rate remains to be high in agricultural female labourers with 130 cases per 10,000 people
risk factors ; Industry ; Agriculture ; Female

A survey had been conducted with 600 female farmers with the ages of 18-55. Results showed that: female farmers accounted for 51-54% of the 80% totals merely agricultural working force. 85.5% were at primary and secondary education levels. Almost were marriage, 60.5% used family planning method. Drinking water sources, river water and lake water 36.7%; drilling well water 27.36%. 94.8% population still used pond as a toilet. 2000 tons of chemical substances for plant protection with all types were used every year. The disease morbidity rate was 18.6-20% population, mainly respiratory diseases, gynecological disease, arthropathy and osteopathy. 97.05% women were taken part in propagandizing program of the public health.
risk factors ; Industry ; Agriculture ; Female

To provide theoretical basis for breeding good variety of Dendrobium denneanum, agronomic and qualitative characters of 4 different lines and relationships among them were studied. The stem length, stem diameter, leaf length, leaf width, length/ width ratio and leaf area were measured. The single fresh and dry stem was weighed and drying rate was calculated. The contents of polysaccharides and total alkaloids were determined by sulfuric acid-phenol colorimetry and acid-dye colorimetry, respectively. The correlations between characters were analyzed. The results showed that differences in major agronomic characters between four lines were significant. The plant types of dq-1 and dq-2 were higher, dq-3 was medium and dq-4 was lower. The fresh weigh of stem and content of polysaccharides were the highest in dq-2, 7.81 g and 14.33%. While the highest content of total alkaloids and was 0. 486% in dq-3. There were significant correlations between agronomic characters, but these characters had low or non correlations with qualitative characters such as polysaccharides and total alkaloids. It was shown that the content of polysaccharides and total alkaloids were significantly different among 4 lines of D. denneanum, which could be selected for different uses.
Agriculture ; Dendrobium ; anatomy & histology ; chemistry

Agricultural Workers' Diseases ; Agriculture ; Humans

Fermentation engineering is an industrial process that uses the transformation of microorganisms or other cells to produce a specific product in a specific bioreactor. Fermentation engineering has developed from an ancient food fermentation relying solely on experience accumulation to an important production mode of food, agriculture, medicine, chemical industry and other means of production and life. It has become a key technology to support the sustainable development of human beings, and is inseparable from the continuous progress of interdisciplinary technology. The interdisciplinary integration and the continuous upward movement of China's global industrial chain will inevitably put forward higher requirements for the cultivation of fermentation engineering composite talents in the new situation. In order to constantly improve the interdisciplinary fermentation engineering compound talent training system, in recent years, the research lab has been refining and improving the concept of talent training, and actively deepening the reform of talent training system. Systematic research and practice have been carried out around the aspects of training program, enrollment system, teacher background, subject setting, scientific research practice, evaluation system, etc., which has promoted the technological progress of fermentation engineering and related supporting industries, and contributed an important force to the transformation of China from a big fermentation country to a powerful fermentation country.
Agriculture ; China ; Fermentation ; Humans ; Industry

The development of high-efficiency, low-toxicity, and low-residue green pesticides is the main trend of pesticide research, and the microbial-derived antibiotics are one of the essential parts of green pesticides and play a significant role in agriculture. With the development of microbial genomics technology, metabolic engineering, high-throughput screening and other technologies, the research on new microbial-derived antibiotics has entered a new stage in agriculture. Here we briefly summarize the types of new microbial-derived antibiotics developed in agriculture over the past decade. We also introduce the research strategies for high-yield breeding and fermentation of antibiotic-producing strains in agriculture. This review may provide references for the future development of agricultural antibiotics.
Agriculture ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Pesticides

Environmental and occupational health are interconnected disciplines of public health that are concerned in maintaining a symbiotic relationship between the ecosystem and humans. This relationship is under threat by the continuous and alarming increase of the Earth's temperature causing climate change that impacts not just health but also the economy and the safety of the population. The First National Environmental and Occupational Health Forum was organized by the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines Manila to address and discuss the complex issues that the Philippines is currently experiencing when it comes to environmental and occupational health by providing a space where stakeholders from different sectors can actively participate in mapping out challenges and opportunities. The organizer's long-term vision is to catalyze and build a network of collaboration that is geared towards the improvement of health and safety in the workplace that involves mitigating the effects of climate change. The discussions in the forum gave a comprehensive insight into the different challenges we face for being one of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters: how this affects health, workplace, and environment. These challenges created new opportunities for the country to build resilience and formulate adaptive strategies to decrease the vulnerability of the population especially the workforce who are constantly exposed to different hazards that are exacerbated by changes in the environment.