Small leaf size (specifically narrow leaves) are generally favoured under high exposure and/or low water availability as they help to maintain favourable leaf temperature and improves water use efficiency [42], [44].
Free air space (FAS) is a physical parameter that can play an important role in composting processes to maintain favourable aerobic conditions.
Leaf pubescence is reported to be an adaptation to sunnier and hotter environments by reducing transpiration, increasing the probability of water uptake by leaves, maintaining favourable leaf temperature, and protecting against UV-B radiation responsible for photosynthetic inhibition [47], [48].
Therefore, maintaining favourable alleles using DW was less effective when BL was used to estimate marker effects.
In other words, maintaining favourable alleles with a low frequency becomes less important as the end of the selection program is reached.
Reduced gene flow could also be facilitated by an inversion, which could maintain favourable allele combinations despite gene flow [ 23, 42, 43].
Today the Ugandan government recognizes the need to use science and technology (S&T) as a means to achieve and maintain favourable socio-economic conditions for its population.
Taken together, this may indicate that T cells in PTB with high Mtb load are more anergic, while patients with pauci-bacillary EPTB maintain favourable immune responses.
For the 4QTL scenarios, BL performed the best among the selection criteria in terms of maintaining favourable QTL, while BLUP performed the worst.
Conversely, Kumar et al. argued that GPs are mostly comfortable with their prescribing decisions; therefore, maintaining favourable physician-patient relations is not the primary objective of their prescribing practices [ 17].
