The normal functioning of a gastrointestinal microflora in poultry and livestock is of significant importance, since its imbalance negatively influences an organism’s functions. In this study, the UV mutagenesis and selection were used to obtai...
Research-based Theatre (RbT) offers a powerful stimulus for dialogue about the challenges of graduate supervisory relationships. This paper traces the implementation process for Rock the Boat, an open-access educational resource that includes four pr...
The most effective treatment for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT); however, the optimal route of administration is thus far unknown. This retrospective cohort study of 343 patients sought t...
Brucellosis is a zoonotic bacterial illness that affects humans and a variety of domestic animals, especially ruminants. It is mostly transmitted through the consumption of contaminated drinks, foods, undercooked meat, or unpasteurized milk or contac...
Brucellosis in humans is under-detected and underreported in sub-Saharan Africa. Risk factors associated with Brucella infection and health seeking behaviour in response to brucellosis-like symptoms, amongst cattle farm workers and veterinary officia...
France has been officially free of bovine brucellosis since 2005. Nevertheless, in 2012, as the source of two human cases, a bovine outbreak due to B. melitensis biovar 3 was confirmed in the French Alpine Bargy massif, due to a spillover from wild,...
In South Africa, the prevalence of cattle handler exposure to Brucella on cattle farms is unknown and risk factors and cattle symptoms associated with infected cattle herds are unavailable. To address this gap, a case-control study of cattle herds wa...
There is a need for more attention to the importance of substantial parent involvement in programming for autistic children in community-based care. More encouragement is needed to ensure that practitioners prioritize parental training and involvemen...
Infectious diseases, such as lactococcosis caused by Lactococcus garvieae, are portrayed as critical limiting factors in aquaculture. The antimicrobial properties of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), mainly the production of organic acids and bacteriocins...
Bovine brucellosis is a zoonotic disease of global public health and economic importance. South Africa has had a national bovine brucellosis eradication scheme since 1979; however, no published report on elimination progress from any province exists....
Recent years have witnessed significant achievements and technological advances in citizen science (CS) projects; nevertheless, significant global challenges are present. Proof of this is in the joint efforts of international organizations to achieve...
Background and Objective: Rescue Helicobacter pylori eradication can be challenging. Rifabutin (RBT) demonstrates high activity against Helicobacter pylori and is incorporated into various rescue eradication regimens. This exploratory study was perfo...
Bovine brucellosis is an endemic zoonotic disease in South Africa with significant consequences for livestock productivity and public health. Although routine laboratory surveillance data from the Rose Bengal Test (RBT) are widely collected, they are...
Rehabilitation technologies are rapidly evolving, presenting promising interventions for people with neurological impairments. Access to technology, however, is greater in metropolitan than rural areas. Applying a capabilities approach to this access...
In this article I present how I use Research-based theatre (RbT) to better comprehend my own roots, history, and multiple selves. The purpose of this research project is also for me to explore RbT before I invite my oral storytelling students to do t...
Genomic selection (GS) can accelerate variety improvement when training set (TS) size and its relationship with the breeding set (BS) are optimized for prediction accuracies (PAs) of genomic prediction (GP) models. Sixteen GP algorithms were run on p...
This paper introduces the record-based transmuted Rayleigh distribution of order 3 (rbt-R), a three-parameter extension of the classical Rayleigh model designed to address data characterized by high skewness and heavy tails. While traditional general...
Background/Objectives: Elastic-band resistance and plyometric training, which differ in eccentric and impact loading, are commonly added to tennis conditioning, but their effects on circulating markers related to extracellular-matrix turnover and ant...
This paper presents a statistical analysis of wind speed data that can be extremely useful for installing a wind generation as a stand-alone system. The main objective is to define the wind power capacity’s contribution to the adequacy of gener...
One challenge of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-T) for relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) is achieving disease control during manufacturing. We report real-word outcomes of 100 patients treated with axicabtagene cilole...
Cancer remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Chemotherapy is effective but can cause febrile neutropenia, deplete neutrophils, and increase infection risk. Although timely fever detection is critical to prevent complications, periodic tempe...
The round block technique (RBT) is an oncoplastic surgery method that uses volume displacement techniques after partial mastectomy. However, cosmetic problems occur after tissue rearrangement in patients with small breasts or those in whom a large am...
This paper presents a numerical analysis of the free vibration of thin-walled composite and functionally graded material (FGM) I-beams, considering the effects of bending–torsional behavior using refined beam theory models RBT and RBT* built on...
Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is the recommended treatment for recurrent C. difficile infection (rCDI) following a second recurrence. FMT is considered safe in the short term when procedures for the screening of donors and transferred mater...
The genus Trichoderma comprises a group of fungi known for their beneficial effects on plant growth and stress tolerance. Light is a key environmental factor affecting many plant physiological processes. However, a significant research gap remains re...
In Japan, rebamipide (RB) mouthwash (RB-MW) for oral mucositis induced by cancer chemotherapy has been prepared using in-hospital formulation. Usually, RB-MW is prepared by dispersing crushed commercial RB tablets in the dispersion medium; however, u...
The objective of this study was to compare the pathogens and susceptibilities of the current automated, rule-based technology (RBT) antibiogram with one manually collected through chart review with additional rules applied. This study was a two-year,...
In today’s fast-changing business environment, artificial intelligence (AI) capability plays a critical role in fostering product innovation (PI). Resource-based theory (RBT) posits that resources and capabilities characterized as valuable, rar...
Replacement of fishmeal (FM) with alternative plant proteins, especially soybean meal (SBM), can cause a diarrhea-like symptom in rainbow trout (RBT), characterized by very fine fecal particles. These fines do not settle out in raceway effluent for c...
Rose Bengal antigen and smooth lipopolysaccharide (s-LPS) were produced from a field strain of Brucella ceti (“homologous” antigens) and from the reference strain B. abortus S99 (“heterologous” antigens); they are currently us...
Abattoir workers are liable to zoonotic infections from animals and animal products, primarily to diseases with asymptomatic and chronic clinical manifestations in animals, such as brucellosis. No published reports exist on the seroprevalence of bruc...
The in vitro biotransformation of phenol at 11 °C was studied using pre-spawn adult rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (RBT), brook (Salvelinus fontinalis) (BKT), and lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) (LKT) hepatic microsomal preparations. The incubat...
Background: Cold feet syndrome is characterized by hypersensitivity of sympathetic nerves to cold stimuli, resulting in vasoconstriction and reduced peripheral blood flow. This condition causes an intense cold sensation, particularly in the extremiti...
Anti-interception guidance can enhance a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) compard to multiple interceptors. In general, anti-interception guidance for aircraft can be divided into procedural guidance, fly-around guidance and active evading guidance. Ho...
Household waste separation at the source is a central part of waste management systems in Sweden. Resource recovery of materials and energy increased substantially after separate collection was implemented in the 1990s. A procedure to transform recyc...
Although clear evidence for benefits in crop production is partly missing, several natural compounds and microorganisms have been introduced to the market as biostimulants. They are supposed to enhance nutrient efficiency and availability in the rhiz...
High route loss and line-of-sight requirements are two of the fundamental challenges of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications that are mitigated by incorporating sensor technology. Sensing gives the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent comprehe...
Serological tests may represent an essential tool for the diagnosis of camel brucellosis; however, concerns arise in the scientific community regarding the direct transposition from cattle and small ruminants without adequate validation. The present...
Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common tumor of the eye in early childhood. Although recent advances in conservative treatment have greatly improved the visual outcome, local tumor control remains difficult in the presence of massive vitreous seeding...
Green innovation has become one of the mainstream concepts to address environmental issues. However, research on green innovation, especially at the firm level, is still evolving. Building upon the natural resource-based view (NRBV) and resource-base...
Hypnotizability is a cognitive trait associated with differences in the brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation of individuals with high hypnotizability (highs) and low hypnotizability scores (lows). The study investigated possible hypnotizability-r...
Brucellosis remains a significant zoonotic disease globally, causing considerable economic and public health consequences, particularly in high-risk areas of South Africa (SA) with extensive animal production, including the Limpopo and Free State pro...
Treatment with geldanamycin (GA) leads to an increase in [Ca2+]c and the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in rat brain tumor 9L RBT cells. GA-exerted calcium signaling was blocked by BAPTA/AM and EGTA. The effect of GA on [Ca2+]c was signi...
Background: Brucellosis is a zoonotic infectious disease. It is estimated that the number of cases reported today is much less than the actual number. We still have difficulty in diagnosing the disease and its organ involvement. In this sense, new ap...
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the collagen type I/III ratio and scarring in patients who underwent immediate reconstruction with the round block technique (RBT) after breast conservation surgery. Seventy-eight pati...
This research examines the relationship between big data analytics capability (BDAC) and competitive advantage (CA) in China’s agribusiness sector, with a specific focus on the mediating role of absorptive capacity (AC). Although BDAC has been...
Sera from 432 small ruminants (335 sheep and 97 goats) from 72 farms in Duhok Province, northern Iraq, were collected to investigate risk factors associated with brucellosis seropositivity. Serum samples were tested using the Rose Bengal test (RBT) a...
Brucellosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases in Greece, causing a significant burden on both human and animal vitality as well as economic loss. The present study was conducted from 2015 to 2022 on 711,415 serum samples by determining t...
Wild species are weedy relatives and progenitors of cultivated crops, usually maintained in their centres of origin. They are rich sources of diversity as they possess many agriculturally important traits. In this study, we analysed 25 wild species a...
Buprenorphine has gained widespread popularity for use in rabbits, while much less is known about methadone. Our aim was to compare sedative, analgesic, and respiratory effects of methadone and buprenorphine as part of balanced anaesthesia. Forty-eig...
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