De Crane d'Heysselaer, S., Bockstal, L., Jacquet, N., Schmetz, Q., & Richel, A. (in press). Potential for the valorization of brewer’s spent grains: a case study for the sequential extraction of saccharides and lignin. Waste Management and Research: the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association.
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This study highlights the possibility of using brewers' grains (BSGs) for the successive extraction of the main lignocellulosic biopolymers, namely cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin. An exhaustive chemical ...
Leroy, N., Hanciaux, N., Cornelis, J.-T., & Verheggen, F. (in press). Silicon accumulation in maize negatively impacts the feeding and life history traits of Spodoptera exigua Hübner. Entomologia Generalis.
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Silicon (Si) accumulation in plant tissues helps alleviate abiotic and biotic stresses, including infestation by insect pests. Here, we tested the hypothesis that Si concentration in maize leaves negatively ...
Maniriho, A., Musabanganji, E., & Lebailly, P. (in press). Food security status and coping strategies among small-scale crop farmers in Volcanic Highlands in Rwanda. Journal of Central European Agriculture.
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This paper aims to determine the level of food security of small-scale crop farmers and to identify coping strategies for food security mostly adopted by small-scale crop farmers in the Volcanic Highlands in ...
Ortiz Baez, R. P., & Bogaert, J. (2022, February). Characterizing landscape patterns in urban-rural interfaces. Journal of Urban Management.
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Due to new urbanization patterns, where cities’ edges are becoming increasingly difficult to delimit, a better understanding of urban-rural gradients has become a key issue for urban planning. These ...
Cissé, D. (2022). Effets des amendements à base de biochar sur les paramètres agro-pédologiques dans une rotation coton-maïs à l’ouest du Burkina Faso. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Gembloux, ​​Belgique.
Le défi de l’agriculture au Burkina Faso est de produire davantage pour répondre aux besoins alimentaires d’une population en constante augmentation sur des superficies de plus en plus réduites et des sols peu ...
Maes, C. (2022). Encapsulation innovante d’huiles essentielles en vue du développement de pesticides biosourcés à relargage contrôlé. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​GEMBLOUX, ​​Belgique.
Georges, B. (2022). Characterization of the river thermal regime in relation to its environment: a regional approach using in situ sensors in a temperate region (Wallonia, Belgium). Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
Due to climate change, the normal natural balance is being altered. In particular, the rise in temperature already observed is leading to numerous risks for humans and all other forms of life on Earth. Climate ...
Zhou, M. (2022). Study of Structure – Property – Function Relations of Hawthorn Pectin. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
Pectins are a family of native heteropolysaccharides ubiquitously presenting in the primary cell wall and the middle lamella of higher plants, which have been commercialized for wide applications in food ...
El-Hajjaji, S. (2022). Study of the behavior of Listeria monocytogenes in raw milk butter. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
Penteriani, V., Lamamy, C., Kojola, I., Heikkinen, S., Vermeulen, C., & del Mar Delgado, M. (2022). Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: factors other than age shape brown bear movement patterns. Animal Behaviour, 183, 61-67.
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Movement patterns may reflect individual age-specific variation. For example, individuals that sample novel areas (e.g. natal dispersal) may show different movements from those of adults settling in more ...
Shi, Z. (2022). Anti-Obesity Activity of α-AI Enriched Extracts From White Common Bean and Its Application In 3D Printing Foods. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Contact information (name city country) of the institution that issued the degree for which the dissertation/thesis was carried out. For American publications please mention the postal state abbreviation instead of USA or US. If the dissertation/thesis has been done under co-supervision mention institutions in their order of appearance in the publication. Examples: University of Liège Liège Belgium University of Luxembourg Luxembourg University of California Los Angeles CA, ​Gembloux, ​​Belgium.
SHI Zhenxing. (2022). Anti-Obesity Activity of α-AI Enriched Extracts From White Common Bean and Its Application In 3D Printing Foods (PhD Dissertation in English). Gembloux AgroBio Tech, University, Gembloux ...
Gschwantner, T., Alberdi, I., Bauwens, S., Bender, S., Borota, D., Bosela, M., Bouriaud, O., Breidenbach, J., Donis, J., Fischer, C., Gasparini, P., Heffernan, L., Hervé, J.-C., Kolozs, L., Korhonen, K. T., Koutsias, N., Kovacsevics, P., Kucera, M., Kulbokas, G., Kuliesis, A., Lanz, A., Lejeune, P., Lind, T., Marin, G., Morneau, F., Nord-Larsen, T., Nunes, L., Panti, D., Redmond, J., Rego, F. C., Riedel, T., Seben, V., Sims, A., Skudnik, M., & Tomter, S. M. (2022). Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation. Forest Ecology and Management, 505(119868), 22.
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Wood resources have been essential for human welfare throughout history. Also nowadays, the volume of growing stock (GS) is considered one of the most important forest attributes monitored by National Forest ...
Liu, Z., Chen, L., Gao, X., Zou, R., Meng, Q., Fu, Q., Xie, Y., Miao, Q., Chen, L., Tang, X., Zhang, S., Zhang, H., & Schroyen, M. (2022). Quantitative proteomics reveals tissue-specific toxic mechanisms for acute hydrogen sulfide-induced injury of diverse organs in pig. Science of the Total Environment, 806.
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Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a highly toxic gas in many environmental and occupational places. It can induce multiple organ injuries particularly in lung, trachea and liver, but the relevant mechanisms remain ...
Qian, S., Hu, F., Mehmood, W., Li, X., Zhang, C., & Blecker, C. (2022). The rise of thawing drip: Freezing rate effects on ice crystallization and myowater dynamics changes. Food Chemistry, 373.
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To better reveal the formation of thawing drip, this study investigated the ice crystallization and myowater dynamics changes in frozen bovine Longissimus dorsi muscle. In ultra-fast freezing a narrow ...
Sun, J. (2021). Genetic structure and migration of Sitobion miscanthi populations in China. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
Sitobion miscanthi (Takahashi), a wheat aphid, is an economically damaging aphid pest and the dominant species in China. Migration and diffusion are not only important manifestations of population dynamics ...
Liu, X. (2021). Waste conversion for organic fertilizer and fungal production to promote crop plants and control pests. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
A set of bottom-up interactions can be observed between soil, plant and pest. In rural areas, the discharge of livestock excrement is the main cause of water environmental pollution but with potential ...
Hou, F. (2021). Fluorescent immunochromatographic assays (FICA) for quantitative detection of the foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype O antibodies. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Beigium.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a transboundary animal disease, and a disease of great economic significance in the animal husbandry industry. The prevention and control of such epidemic diseases is ...
Maniriho, A. (2021). Productivité, efficience et profitabilité des petites exploitations agricoles dans la région des sols de laves au Rwanda. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
In intention to respond to the demand for food in both quantity and quality of the growing population in Africa, it will be necessary to apply appropriate agricultural technologies to the fragile soils of this ...
Sawadogo, W. M. (2021). Invasion de Tuta absoluta au Burkina Faso : Impact, recherche et propositions de stratégies de gestion. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Gembloux, ​​Belgique.
La mineuse sud-américaine de la tomate Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) (Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae) est l'un des ravageurs les plus redoutés de la tomate. Elle a été découverte en 2016 au Burkina Faso, un pays où ...
Elmoulat, M., Debauche, O., Mahmoudi, S., Mahmoudi, S. A., Guttadauria, A., Manneback, P., & Lebeau, F. (2021). Towards Landslides Early Warning System With Fog - Edge Computing And Artificial Intelligence. International Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, 15(2), 11-17.
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Landslides are phenomena widely present around the world responsible each year for numerous loss of life and extensive property damage. Researchers have developed various methodologies to identify area of high ...
Guo, H. (2021). In silico, in vitro, and in vivo investigation for antihypertensive activity of quinoa protein and peptides. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Gembloux, ​​比利时.
Quinoa, known as an ancient and underutilized crop, holds great promise to be an excellent protein source for its excellent nutritional and bioactive properties. The present study investigated the in silico ...
Shen, Q. (2021). Study on green preparation of chondroitin sulfate and antiosteoporosis activity of chondroitin sulfate calcium complex. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
China is the largest producer and exporter of chondroitin sulfate (CS), accounting for 80% of the world's CS production. For traditional CS isolation procedures, it is generally believed that high ...
Sawadogo, W. M., Ahissou, B. R., Somda, I., Nacro, S., Legrève, A., & Verheggen, F. (2021, December 04). Niveau de sensibilité de la mineuse de la tomate (Tuta absoluta) à divers biopesticides. Poster session presented at colloque international sur la protection des végétaux en Afrique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a worldwide invasive pest of tomatoes that reached West Africa in 2010. Synthetic insecticides remain the most widely used method of ...
Sawadogo, W. M., Mano, E., Ahissou, B. R., Somda, I., Nacro, S., Legrève, A., & Verheggen, F. (2021, December 04). Nesidiocoris tenuis au Burkina Faso: Distribution, capacité de prédation et sensibilité aux insecticides. Poster session presented at Colloque international sur la protection des végétaux en Afrique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a worldwide invasive insect species, considered a major pest of tomato. It has recently established in Burkina Faso, where chemical control remains the only ...
Sawadogo, W. M., Somda, I., Nacro, S., Legrève, A., & Verheggen, F. (2021, December 04). Criblage de pesticides homologués contre Tuta absoluta au Burkina Faso. Poster session presented at COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL SUR LA PROTECTION DES VEGETAUX EN AFRIQUE, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a leafminer species currently considered as one of the major pests of fresh tomatoes around the world. The species settled ...
Breyne, J. (2021). Forest, how should we manage your values ? An assessment of ecotourism services of the Ardennes forests and its implications for current forest policies and practices. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Gembloux, ​​Belgium.
Werrie, P.-Y., & Fauconnier, M.-L. (2021, November 13). Development of a new tool for pest management in fruit arboriculture using essential oils applied by trunk injection. Paper presented at 51st International Symposium on Essentials Oils (ISEO 2021), Visioconférence.
Bargaz, A., Elhaissoufi, W., Khourchi, S., Benmrid, B., Borden, K., & Rchiad, Z. (2021, November). Benefits of phosphate solubilizing bacteria on belowground crop performance for improved crop acquisition of phosphorus. Microbiological Research.
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Although research on plant growth promoting bacteria began in the 1950s, basic and applied research on bacteria improving use of phosphorus (P) continues to be a priority among many agricultural research ...
Georges, B., Michez, A., Piégay, H., Huylenbroeck, L., Lejeune, P., & Brostaux, Y. (2021, November). Which environmental factors control extreme thermal events in rivers? A multi-scale approach (Wallonia, Belgium). PeerJ.
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Managers need to know how to mitigate rising stream water temperature (WT) due to climate change. This requires identifying the environmental drivers that influence thermal regime and determining the spatial ...
Lamamy, C., Delgado, M. M., Kojola, I., Heikkinen, S., & Penteriani, V. (2021, November). Does moonlight affect movement patterns of a non-obligate carnivore? Brown bears do not mind that the moon exists. Journal of Zoology, 11.
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Moonlight plays a significant role in prey–predator relationships. At full moon, predators' hunting success and activity rates generally increase. Even though the analysis of facultative carnivore movement ...
Tahzima, R., Haegemans, A., Massart, S., & Hebrard, E. (2021). Flexible Spandrels of the Global Plant Virome: Proteomic-Wide Evolutionary Patterns of Structural Intrinsic Protein Disorder Elucidate Modulation at the Functional Virus-Host Interplay. Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, Volume 183(Part C).
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Intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (IDPs/IDRs) make up a large part of viral proteomes, but their real prevalence across the global plant virome are still poorly understood, partly because of their ...
Kwibuka Bisimwa, Y. (2021, October 31). Compréhension transversale des facteurs de risque associés à la dissémination de la striure brune du manioc (CBSD) dans les systèmes sémenciers à base de manioc R.D. CONGO. Paper presented at Colloque Internationale de Protection des Végétaux en Afrique, Ouagadougou, Bourkina Faso.
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Mazinga Kwey, M.* , Banza Mukalay, J.* , Kabwe Masangu, F.* , Chuimika Mulumbati, M.* , Kasongo Lenge Mukonzo, E.* , & Baboy Longanza, L.* . (2021). Impact of Organic Amendments and Mineral Fertilizers on the Growth of Vitroplants of the Great Dwarf Cultivar of Banana ( Musa sp ) Installed on a Ferralsol. Journal of Experimental Agriculture International, 43(10).
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, banana is the third largest source of starch after cassava and maize and is the primary fruit crop. However, its cultivation remains secondary due to its high mineral ...
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.
Maniriho, A., Musabanganji, E., & Lebailly, P. (2021). Factors Affecting Farm Performance among Small-Scale Farmers in Volcanic Highlands in Rwanda: What is the Role of Institutions? Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 11(4), 262-268.
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This study attempted to examine the role of institutions in boosting rural and agricultural development in the region of Volcanic Highlands in Rwanda. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from ...
Heidarian Dehkordi, R. (2021). UAV-based remote sensing for high spatio-temporal monitoring of century-old biochar effects on crop performance. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
Biochar, the solid carbon-rich residue of biomass pyrolysis, has been widely promoted in the context of climate-smart agriculture to improve soil nutrient availability, soil acidity, and water holding capacity ...
Kwibuka Bisimwa, Y. (2021, October 16). Exploration profonde sur l'étiologie des maladies virales du manioc à l'Est de la R.D. Congo. Paper presented at Atelier sur les maladies virales du manioc: Vers une stratégie de gestion durable des cultures, Bukavu, République Démocratique du Congo.
Jacquemin, F. (2021). Dynamiques spatio-temporelles des interactions entre plantes et abeilles sauvages pollinisatrices en Belgique. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
Debauche, O., Mahmoudi, S., Manneback, P., & Lebeau, F. (2021, October 07). Cloud and Distributed Architectures for Data Management in Agriculture 4.0 : Review and Future Trends. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences.
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The Agriculture 4.0 also called Smart Agriculture or Smart Farming is at the origin of the production of a huge amount of data that must be collected, stored and processed in very short times. Processing this ...
Atashi, H., Bastin, C., Soyeurt, H., Dehareng, F., Wilmot, H., Vanderick, S., & Gengler, N. (2021). Genetic parameters of butter softness and spreadability as new traits in Dual Purpose Belgian Blue. Interbull Bulletin, 56, 167-171.
The Belgian Blue (BB) breed, originated from central and upper Belgium in the 19th century, is composed of two strains including Beef Belgian Blue (BBB) and Dual-Purpose Belgian Blue (DPBB). The BBB is the ...
Zhan, Y., Zhao, L., Zhao, X., Liu, J., Francis, F., & Liu, Y. (2021, October). Terpene Synthase Gene OtLIS Confers Wheat Resistance to Sitobion avenae by Regulating Linalool Emission. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
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Sitobion avenae (Fabricius) is a major insect pest of wheat worldwide that reduces crop yield and quality annually. Few germplasm resources with resistant genes to aphids have been identified and ...
Visse-Mansiaux, M. (2021). Investigating genetic and environmental factors impacting potato dormancy and assessing management strategies to control potato sprouting during storage. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech - Université de Liège, ​Gembloux, ​​Belgique.
Sprouting during potato storage must be controlled as it leads to a decrease in tuber weight, a reduction in nutritional and processing quality, and consequently economic losses. To avoid losses during storage ...
Chen, Y., Gengler, N., Atashi, H. (Other coll.), Vanderick, S. (Other coll.), Mota, R. R. (Other coll.), Soyeurt, H. (Other coll.), & Hammami, H. (Other coll.). (2021). Genetic analysis of milk urea concentration and its genetic relationship with selected traits of interest in dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 104.
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The aim of this study was to estimate genetic parameters of milk urea concentration (MU) and its genetic correlations with milk production traits, longevity, and functional traits in the first 3 parities in ...
Rollin, J., Rong, W., & Massart, S. (2021, September 15). Cont-ID: detection of cross-contamination in metagenomic data. Paper presented at 18 eme Rencontres de Virologie Végétale, Aussois, France.
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Tahzima, R., Haegeman, A., Massart, S., & Hébrard, E. (2021, September 14). Flexible Spandrels of the Global Virome: Proteomic-Wide Evolutionary Patterns of Structural Intrinsic Protein Disorder Elucidate Modulation at the Functional Virus-Host Interplay. Paper presented at 18 eme Rencontres de Virologie Végétale, Aussois, France.
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Bauwens, S., Ploton, P., Fayolle, A., Ligot, G., Loumeto, J., Lejeune, P., & Gourlet-Fleury, S. (2021, September 13). A 3D approach to model the taper of irregular tree stems: making plots biomass estimates comparable in tropical forests. Ecological Applications.
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In tropical forests, the high proportion of trees showing irregularities at the stem base complicates forest monitoring. For example, in the presence of buttresses, the height of the point of measurement (HPOM ...
Linchant, J. (2021). Reinventing wildlife census with unmanned aerial systems: new survey designs for ungulate counts in the vast African semi-open ecosystems. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Gembloux, ​​Belgique.
As the Earth has entered the new Anthropocene Era due to the major human- driven environmental changes, human impact on biodiversity has triggered the planet’s sixth mass extinction. Most terrestrial ...
Ait Abdelouahid, R., Debauche, O., & Marzak, A. (2021). Internet of Things: a new Interoperable IoT Platform. Application to a Smart Building. Procedia Computer Science, 191, 511-517.
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According to statistics provided by Cisco, the Internet of Things market will grow rapidly and will reach 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020. All these connected devices, in smart Home ...
Naji, M. A., El Filali, S., Aarika, K., Benlahmar, E. H., Ait Abdelouhahid, R., & Debauche, O. (2021). Machine Learning Algorithms For Breast Cancer Prediction And Diagnosis. Procedia Computer Science, 191, 487-492.
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Each year number of deaths is increasing extremely because of breast cancer. It is the most frequent type of all cancers and the major cause of death in women worldwide. Any development for prediction and ...
Naji, M. A., El Filali, S., Bouhlal, M., Benlahmar, E. H., Ait Abdelouhahid, R., & Debauche, O. (2021). Breast Cancer Prediction and Diagnosis through a New Approach based on Majority Voting Ensemble Classifier. Procedia Computer Science, 191, 481-486.
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Researchers have extensively used machine learning techniques and data mining methods to build prediction models and classify data in various domains such as aviation, computer science, education, finance ...
Nguyen Minh, T. (2021). Single-cell toolbox for optimizing the production of recombinant proteins by E. coli. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Université de Liège, ​Liège, ​​Belgique.
Phenotypic heterogeneity provides the microbial population with fast adaptive response (i.e., in the range of several minutes) against various kinds of stress factors, mainly for improving the natural fitness ...