Avian influenza A (H5N1) outbreaks in different poultry farm types in Egypt: the effect of vaccination, closing status and farm size by Jean Artois, Carla Ippoliti, Annamaria Conte, Madhur S. Dhingra, Pastor Alfonso, Abdelgawad El Tahawy, Ahmed Elbestawy, Hany F. Ellakany, Marius Gilbert

“…The aim of the study was to analyse passive surveillance data that were based on observation of sudden and high mortality of poultry or drop in duck or chicken egg production, as a basis to better understand and discuss the risk of HPAI A (H5N1) presence at the farm level in large parts of the Nile Delta. Results The probability of HPAI A (H5N1) presence was associated with several characteristics of the farms. …”
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The Contribution of Agronomic Management to Sustainably Intensify Egypt’s Wheat Production by Ahmed Abdalla, Mathias Becker, Till Stellmacher

“…As agricultural practices influence the yield of bread wheat, we assessed current production strategies in the wheat-based systems of Egypt and investigated their effects on wheat productivity in four study areas in the Nile Delta. We used a multi-stage random sampling technique to select 246 wheat-producing farmers and applied structured questionnaires to assess farming practices and crop performance attributes. …”
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Genome-wide diversity and demographic dynamics of Cameroon goats and their divergence from east African, north African, and Asian conspecifics. by Getinet Mekuriaw Tarekegn, Patrick Wouobeng, Kouam Simo Jaures, Raphael Mrode, Zewdu Edea, Bin Liu, Wenguang Zhang, Okeyo Ally Mwai, Tadelle Dessie, Kassahun Tesfaye, Erling Strandberg, Britt Berglund, Collins Mutai, Sarah Osama, Asaminew Tassew Wolde, Josephine Birungi, Appolinaire Djikeng, Félix Meutchieye

“…The haplotype analysis of mtDNA showed the initial dispersion of goats to Cameroon and central Africa from north-east Africa following the Nile Delta. Whereas, the approximate Bayesian computation indicated Cameroon goats were separated from Moroccan goats after 506 generations in later times (~1518 YA), as supported by the phylogenetic net-work and admixture outputs. …”
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Soil moisture adsorption capacity and specific surface area in relation to water vapor pressure in arid and tropical soils by Adelmonem Mohamed Amer

“…This study is devoted to predict water vapour adsorption and hydro-physical properties of arid soils in middle Nile Delta (Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt) and of tropical soils (Felix and INIAP Farms) in Quevedo zone, Los Rios, Ecuador. …”
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Spatiotemporal variations of global solar radiation: Case Study Egypt by M.L. Eladawy, Mostafa Morsy, M.H. Korany, H. Abdel Basset, Mohammed El-Adawy

“…The results showed that the northern coast, particularly the Nile Delta region, has lower GSR values than the southern region. …”
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Genetic Improvement of Some Productive Traits in Zaraibi Goats by Rasha Ahmed, Mona Osman, Manal Elsayed, Hussein Mansour

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate the genetic improvement in Zaraibi goats herd raised on El-serw research station located in the north eastern part of Nile Delta, Egypt. The station belongs to Animal Production Research Institute (APRI). …”
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Monitoring and Forecasting of Urban Expansion Using Machine Learning-Based Techniques and Remotely Sensed Data: A Case Study of Gharbia Governorate, Egypt by Eman Mostafa, Xuxiang Li, Mohammed Sadek, Jacqueline Fifame Dossou

“…Such an unplanned loss of the fertile agricultural lands of the Nile Delta could negatively influence the production of premium agricultural crops for the local market and export. …”
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Proximate Composition, Bioactive Compounds, and Antioxidant Potential of Wild Halophytes Grown in Coastal Salt Marsh Habitats by Yasser A. El-Amier, Walid Soufan, Khalid F. Almutairi, Nouf S. Zaghloul, Ahmed M. Abd-ElGawad

“…Proximate composition, bioactive compounds, and antioxidant activity of five wild dominant halophytes (<i>Arthrocnemum</i><i>macrostachyum</i>, <i>Halocnemum</i><i>strobilaceum</i>, <i>Limoniastrum</i><i>monopetalum</i>, <i>Limoniastrum</i><i>pruinosum</i>, and <i>Tamarix nilotica</i>) naturally growing along the Nile Delta coast were assessed. The soil supporting these halophytes was sandy to sand-silty, alkaline, with low organic carbon, and relatively high CaCO₃. …”
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The Contribution of Mobile Pastoral Herds to Soil Fertility Maintenance in Sedentary Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems at Farm and Territory Scales—Part of Mutually Reinforcing Social a... by Véronique Alary, Véronique Alary, Adel Aboul-Naga, Mona A. Osman, Ibrahim Daoud, Ibrahim Daoud, Jonathan Vayssières, Jonathan Vayssières

“…Through a territory level approach, the present study aimed to assess the contribution of mobile pastoral herds located in the newly reclaimed land on the western desert edge of the Nile Delta on the supply of the manure for local sedentary farms. …”
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Geospatial Assessment of Water-Migration Scenarios in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6, 11, and 16 by Nidhi Nagabhatla, Rupal Brahmbhatt

“…Three case studies, Lake Chad, the Aral Sea region, and the Nile Delta, representing various geographic and socio-political settings, were selected to perform the multitemporal analysis. …”
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The “southeastern Europe” lineage of the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus (sensu lato) identified as Rhipicephalus rutilus Koch, 1844: Comparison with holotype and generatio... by Jan Šlapeta, Bruce Halliday, Jason A. Dunlop, Yaarit Nachum-Biala, Harold Salant, Sajjad Ghodrati, David Modrý, Shimon Harrus

“…The material associated with the morphology of R. rutilus was previously labelled as the “southeastern Europe” lineage and found in Israel and Egypt, including Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta, where the original type-material was collected. …”
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Biomarker and isotopic characteristics of Miocene condensates and natural gases, West Delta deep marine concession, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt by Naira M. Lotfy, Sherif Farouk, Mohammed Hail Hakimi, Fayez Ahmad, Tamer El Shennawy, Mohamed M. El Nady, Ahmad Salama, Amr M. Shehata

“…Therefore, most of the natural gases in WDDM are non-indigenous and migrated from more mature Jurassic–Cretaceous source rocks in the nearby Northern Sinai provinces or the deeper sequences in the offshore Nile Delta provinces.…”
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Integrating Active and Passive Remote Sensing Data for Mapping Soil Salinity Using Machine Learning and Feature Selection Approaches in Arid Regions by Sayed A. Mohamed, Mohamed M. Metwaly, Mohamed R. Metwalli, Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman, Nasem Badreldin

“…Soil salinity in the northern Nile Delta of Egypt severely affects agriculture sustainability and food security in Egypt. …”
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ADOPTION ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITIONAL TECHNOLOGIES BY DAIRY CATTLE SMALLHOLDERS by Atwa E., M. Elwardani, Amal Omar, H. Soliman

“…Dairy animals reared under the Nile Delta had the highest significant DMY versus those under the Middle Egypt, where it was 4.05, 8.52, and 7.29 kg vs 3.76, 7.74, and 6.48 kg per day for indigenous cows, crossbred cows, and buffaloes, respectively. …”
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Epidemiological and molecular analysis of circulating fowl adenoviruses and emerging of serotypes 1, 3, and 8b in Egypt by Amany Adel, Ahmed Abd Elhalem Mohamed, Mahmoud Samir, Naglaa M. Hagag, Ahmed Erfan, Mahmoud Said, Abd El Satar Arafa, Wafaa M.M. Hassan, Mohamed E. El Zowalaty, Momtaz A. Shahien

“…Epidemiologically, the Nile Delta governorates showed high positivity of FAdVs, which were more commonly found in broilers than in layers. …”
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West Nile virus seroprevalence and associated risk factors among horses in Egypt by Abdelfattah Selim, Ameer Megahed, Sahar Kandeel, Abdulaziz Alouffi, Mashal M. Almutairi

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018 on 930 horses, which were distributed over five governorates in the Nile delta of Egypt. The horses, which were randomly selected, were serologically tested through use of an ID screen West Nile competition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect anti-WNV immunoglobulin G (IgG) and plaque reduction neutralization tests (PRNT; gold standard) to confirm the seropositive status of animals and to avoid cross reaction with other flavi-viruses. …”
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Determination of Seroprevalence of Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia and Associated Risk Factors in Goats and Sheep Using Classification and Regression Tree by Abdelfattah Selim, Ameer Megahed, Sahar Kandeel, Abdullah D. Alanazi, Hamdan I. Almohammed

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted on 620 animals (390 sheep, 230 goats) distributed over four governorates in the Nile Delta of Egypt in 2019. The randomly selected sheep and goats from different geographical study areas were serologically tested for CCPP, and the animals’ information was obtained from flock men and farm owners. …”
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Att läsa egyptiska by Fredrik Thomasson

“…In Paris in 1802 he was given access to a print of the Demotic inscription from the Rosetta stone that had been found in the Nile Delta. The same year he published a treatise on the Demotic inscription and become instantaneously famous in orientalist circles and was in 1803 elected member of the Institut National (today’s Institut de France). …”
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Combining Hydrogeochemical Characterization and a Hyperspectral Reflectance Tool for Assessing Quality and Suitability of Two Groundwater Resources for Irrigation in Egypt by Mohamed Gad, Salah El-Hendawy, Nasser Al-Suhaibani, Muhammad Usman Tahir, Muhammad Mubushar, Salah Elsayed

“…In this study, we assessed the quality of 15 groundwater samples from El Fayoum depression in the Western Desert (WD) and 25 groundwater samples from the Central Nile Delta (CND) in Egypt using a traditional approach of the physiochemical parameters, irrigation water quality indicators (IWQIs), and hydrochemical facies. …”
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Executive management engineering plans for comparison with tsunami damage by Mojtaba Zoljoodi, Reyhane Zoljoodi

“…Historical accounts describe an earthquake and tsunami on 21 July AD 365 that destroyed cities and drowned thousands of people in coastal regions from the Nile Delta to modern-day Dubrovnik. The location and tectonic setting of this earthquake have been uncertain until now.…”
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