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The conditions that surround a given area, especially in reference to parameters which may influence the functioning of devices, equipment, or the readings of instruments. These...

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A form of integrative research that employs a holistic and/or systems thinking and participatory action research, combines knowledge from outside, as well as within academia and...

An aggregation of cases of a disease, injury, or other health condition (particularly cancer and birth defects) in a circumscribed area during a particular period without regard...

Biotic factors are the living parts of an ecosystem. Biotic factors such as soil bacteria, plant life, top predators, and polluters can all profoundly shape which organisms can...

A pure strain of bacteria which has been seperated from a mixed bacterial culture

Whether the system captures information about more than one hazard

Peparing purified DNA for NGS. Fragmentizes long DNA strands and ligates primers and other sequencing related bits.

The number of sequence reads in a sequencing project that align to positions that overlap a specific base on a target genome, or the average number of aligned reads that overlap...

The ultimate consumer of a foodstuff who will not use the food as part of any foodbusiness operation or activity

An assessment of organisational structures include whether the objectives are relevant and clearly defined and the existence of steering and technical committees whose members...

Proportion of known infected reference animals that test positive in the assay; infected animals that test negative are considered to have false-negative results.

The systematic, continuous or repeated, measurement, collection, collation, analysis, and interpretation of animal health and welfare related data in defined populations when...

Measures the proportions of positive results in statistics and diagnostic tests that are true positive results

MLST is a nucleotide sequence based approach for the unambiguous characterisation of isolates of bacteria and other organisms via the internet. The aim of MLST is to provide a...

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A process that begins when an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit, and is conveyed by some mode of transmission, then enters through an appropriate...

The classification of microorganisms on the basis of variation in the genotype, and/ or presence or absence of specific genes (such as those which may contribute to the...

Reasoner is a piece of software able to infer logical consequences from a set of asserted facts or axioms. The notion of a reasoner generalizes that of an inference engine, by...