Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) is a key pathogen causing calf diarrhea and bovine respiratory diseases, bringing sustained economic losses to the cattle industry. As an RNA virus, BCoV possesses high mutation and recombination capacities, leading to promi...
The analysis of the body center of mass (BCoM) 3D kinematics provides insights on crucial aspects of locomotion, especially in populations with gait impairment such as people with amputation. In this paper, a wearable framework based on the use of di...
Coronaviruses are RNA viruses that cause significant disease within many species, including cattle. Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) infects cattle and wild ruminants, both as a respiratory and enteric pathogen, and possesses a significant economic threat t...
The separation of oil-in-water emulsions from industrial wastewater remains a significant challenge, particularly under saline conditions. This study evaluated bacterial cellulose (BC) membranes from Komagataeibacter hansenii for filtering synthetic...
Abundant in nature, carotenoids are a class of fat-soluble pigments with a polyene tetraterpenoid structure. They possess antioxidant properties and their consumption leads to certain health benefits in humans. Carotenoid cleavage oxygenases (CCOs) a...
Indoxyl sulfate (IS) is a metabolic byproduct of indole metabolism. IS readily interacts with the mitochondrial redox metabolism, leading to altered renal function. The β-carotene oxygenase-2 (BCO2) enzyme converts carotenoids to intermediate pr...
Biological sex is a fundamental determinant of physiological differences, including metabolic processes and disease susceptibility. β-carotene (BC), a provitamin A carotenoid, is known for its health benefits, but its sex-specific effects on its...
Bezier curve-based optimization (BCO) provides a population-based search framework that generates candidate solutions along linear, quadratic, and cubic Bezier paths defined by control points. This paper presents IBCO, an improved BCO configuration t...
In this study, 6061 aluminum alloy was proposed for welding using bypass coupling double-sided arc welding (BCO-DASW) to further improve its welding quality and efficiency. To gain insight into the thermal and force regulation mechanism of the BCO-DA...
The global epidemic of bovine coronavirus (BCoV) has caused enormous economic losses. The characterisation and genetic composition of endemic strains in Southwest China remain elusive. This study aimed to fill this gap by isolating three BCoV strains...
An outbreak of winter dysentery, complicated by severe respiratory syndrome, occurred in January 2020 in a high production dairy cow herd located in a hilly area of the Calabria region. Of the 52 animals belonging to the farm, 5 (9.6%) died with seve...
The integration of biochars into photocatalytic systems to increase their efficiency in the degradation of different pollutants in water has gained attention in recent years. However, systematic studies on optimizing biochar properties for photocatal...
Coronaviruses (CoVs) belong to the group of enveloped positive-sense single-strand RNA viruses and are causative agents of respiratory, gastro-intestinal, and central nervous systems diseases in many host species, i.e., birds, mammals, and humans. Be...
Bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) is one of the primary causes of morbidity, mortality, and economic loss in cattle worldwide. Accurate and rapid identification of causative pathogenic agents is essential for effective disease management and...
Superconducting thin films are widely applied in various fields, including switching devices, because of their phase transition behaviors in relation to temperature changes. Therefore, it is important to quantitatively determine the optical constant...
The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) showed how genetic mutations can alter coronavirus characteristics. However, the evolution of livestock coronaviruses remains understudied. We analyzed 15 bovine coronavirus (BCoV), three porcine hemag...
In this study, virological surveillance focused on coronaviruses in marmots in the Alpine region in 2022, captured as part of a population control reduction program in the Livigno area. Seventy-six faecal samples were randomly collected from marmots...
In this paper, a comparison among Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) and the Bat Algorithm (BA) is presented. In addition, a modification to the main parameters of each algorithm through an interval type-2 fuzzy logic sy...
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are common among humans and many animals, causing respiratory or gastrointestinal diseases. Currently, only a few antiviral drugs against CoVs are available. Especially for SARS-CoV-2, new compounds for treatment of COVID-19 are...
Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) is a major cause of respiratory and enteric diseases in cattle, resulting in substantial economic losses to the global cattle industry. Next-generation epitope-focused vaccines require conserved neutralizing determinants to...
Objectives: Bovine coronaviruses (BCoV) are endemic worldwide, causing diarrhea, winter dysentery, and bovine respiratory disease in newborn calves. These lead to higher calf mortality, reduced growth of fattening cows, and lower milk production in a...
Lycopene is a non-provitamin A carotenoid that exhibits several health benefits. Epidemiological data support a correlation between lycopene intake and the attenuation of several chronic diseases, including certain types of cancers and cardiovascular...
This study reports the recycling of discarded denim textiles by the production of all-cellulose composites (ACCs). Discarded denim fabrics were shredded into fibers and then made into nonwoven fabrics by carding and needle punching. The produced nonw...
The rational design of cost effective and highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts plays an extremely important role in promoting the commercial applications of electrochemical water splitting. Herein we reported a sacrificial templ...
Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) has spilled over to many species, including humans, where the host range variant coronavirus OC43 is endemic. The balance of the opposing activities of the surface spike (S) and hemagglutinin-esterase (HE) glycoproteins cont...
The electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 into value-added chemicals offers a promising route to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, yet the uncontrollable structural reconstruction and surface rearrangement of electrocatalysts during operation often lead...
Despite high similarity of canine respiratory coronavirus (CRCoV), bovine coronavirus, (BCoV) and human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43), these viruses differ in species specificity. For years it was believed that they share receptor specificity, utilizi...
Coronaviruses are worldwide-distributed RNA viruses with zoonotic potential and the ability to jump from one host species to another, including humans. Even after the COVID-19 pandemic, the search for new, biologically active substances with anti-cor...
Both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis are highly prevalent diseases. In both cases, inhaled corticosteroids (ICs) are associated with a decrease in exacerbations in patients with a high peripheral blood eosinophil count (BEC),...
Vascularization is necessary in tissue engineering to keep adequate blood supply in order to maintain the survival and growth of new tissue. The synergy of biologically active ions with multi-target activity may lead to superior angiogenesis promotio...
Broiler chicken lameness caused by bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO) is presently amongst the most important economic and animal welfare issues faced by the poultry industry, and the estimated economic loss is around USD 150 million....
The influence of ionic substitution in the Ca1−xCoxHPO4·nH2O compound was studied systematically for the first time. Among the fascinating features of these biomaterials is that they can be easily tailored for specific applications, for...
Scours is the most common disease in dairy calves, and it is a multifactorial syndrome complex. Cryptosporidium sp. (C. sp.), rotavirus group A (RVA), and bovine coronavirus (BCoV) are the three main pathogens associated with scours. The objective of...
The scientific community’s interest in natural compounds with antiviral properties has considerably increased after the emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), especially for their potential use in the treat...
8 July 2021
Background: Vascular strokes are the leading cause of long-term disability for adults. They impose high levels of burden on the patient, the family, and national healthcare systems worldwide. This study aimed to assess the effects of patients’ and ca...
Bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO) lameness is a bone disease characterized by the translocation of bacteria from the gastrointestinal tract, which colonize microfractures in broiler leg bones caused by rapid animal growth rate and we...
The role of Mycoplasma bovirhinis in the development of pulmonary disease in cattle is controversial and was never evaluated in cattle from Latin America. This study investigated the respiratory infection dynamics associated with M. bovirhinis in suc...
Movement smoothness is a critical metric for evaluating motor control and sensorimotor impairments, with increasing relevance in neurorehabilitation and everyday functional assessments. This study investigates the correlation between two smoothness m...
Our research assesses the effects of four forest species, namely, Swietenia macrophylla King, Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jack., Pinus occidentalis Swartz, and Pinus caribaea Morelet var. Caribaea, on the soil and litter organic carbon (C) stocks, C diox...
This experiment compared 14-day and 28-day inclusion schedules of 1,25(OH)2D3-glycosides in the broiler feed on the reduction of experimental clinical bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO) lameness, using the aerosol transmission inducti...
Geometries, equilibrium dissociation energies (De), and intermolecular stretching, quadratic force constants (kσ) are presented for the complexes B⋯CO2, B⋯N2O, and B⋯CS2, where B is one of the following Lewis bases: CO, HCCH, H2S, HCN, H2O, PH3...
Neonatal calf diarrhea (NCD) represents a major cause of economic loss in dairy cattle herds worldwide. The condition is primarily associated with several key pathogens, including enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), viral agents such as bovine r...
This article reports on the non-trivial suppression of superconductivity in the Eu1−xPrxBCO cuprates. As non-magnetic Eu3+ ions are replaced by Pr3+ carrying a magnetic moment, spin-related superconductivity loss can be expected. The research shows t...
A two-step optimal design with multi-objective functions by using two kinds of optimization methods for a six-phase synchronous reluctance motor is applied in a centrifugal compressor to achieve minimum cost, lower torque ripple, maximum efficiency a...
Neonatal calf diarrhea exhibits a complex multietiological landscape, yet diagnostic and vaccination paradigms remain historically anchored to Bovine Rotavirus A (BoRVA) and monovalent Bovine Coronavirus (BCoV) infections. The primary objective of th...
18 October 2022
The use of quantitative methods to analyze the loss in gait smoothness, an increase in movement intermittency which is a distinguishing hallmark of motor deficits in stroke patients, has gained considerable attention in recent years. In the literatur...
This experiment aimed to investigate nutrient dynamics in soil and compare plant growth responses after treatment with acidified biochar pellets inoculated with microorganisms during Kimchi cabbage cultivation, using a sigmoid function model. The tre...
Large variations in water quality and quantity are the main characteristics of rural wastewater in China, and the biggest impact caused by this is the lack of carbon sources. In this study, an anoxic–oxic (A/O) biological contact oxidation (BCO...
Fava bean (Vicia faba L.) is a nutritionally valuable and sustainable legume with strong potential for plant-based food applications. However, similar to other lipid-containing food systems, fava bean-based spreads are susceptible to lipid oxidation...
Brain tumor classification from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains challenging in settings where only image-level labels are available and tumor classes exhibit overlapping visual characteristics. In this study, we consider the publicly availab...
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