4,396 Results Found

Uterine health indicators are essential tools for managing reproduction in dairy herds. This study evaluated the associations between vaginal discharge scores (VDS) assessed during the first 21 days postpartum and subsequent days open and pregnancy r...

Milk spectral data on 2118 cows from nine herds located in northern China were used to access the association of days open (DO). Meanwhile, the parity and calving season of dairy cows were also studied to characterize the difference in DO between gro...

Reproductive efficiency is a key element of profitability in dairy herds. However, the genetic evaluation of fertility traits is often challenged by the presence of high censorship rates due to various reasons. An easy approach to address this challe...

Days open (DO) is a critical economic and reproductive trait that is commonly employed in genetic selection. Making improvements using conventional genetic techniques is exceedingly challenging. Therefore, new techniques are required to improve the a...

The concepts of tajdid (renewal) and mujaddid (renewer) in Islam are discussed mainly in scholarly works. Although all Muslim scholars agree on the necessity of tajdid, they differ regarding the scope of tajdid, who the mujaddids are, and their prima...

Background and Objectives: Open aorto-iliac reconstruction (AIR) for aorto-iliac occlusive disease (AIOD) remains a high-risk procedure due to multifocal atherosclerosis affecting coronary, cerebrovascular, and renal arterial beds. This study aimed t...

Freely accessible weather APIs are an attractive input for photovoltaic (PV) power prediction, yet how their reference-based error carries through—under temporal aggregation—into day-ahead PV energy is rarely quantified before model devel...

Graph Neural Networks achieve strong closed-set accuracy in network intrusion detection but cannot flag zero-day attacks, because the closed-world assumption forces every input into a known class. OpenMax adds an Extreme Value Theory reject option, y...

Mobile smartphones, open-source set tools, and mobile applications have provided vast opportunities for timely, accurate, and seamless data collection, aggregation, storage, and analysis of agricultural data in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In this paper...

A distribution network is transforming into multi-area distribution networks. Traditional iterative multi-area coordination methods protect the privacy of each area but face a high communication burden and convergence issues. To address these challen...

This study proposes dynamic resource allocation and coordinated dispatch based on a source–load association graph for an electric–gas–heat system with wind, photovoltaics, fixed and mobile storage, power-to-gas (P2G), combined heat...

High penetration of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation in low-voltage distribution networks can cause voltage violations, limited PV accommodation, and uneven loading among neighboring distribution transformers (DTs). To address these issues, a...

Understanding the genetic basis of economically important traits is essential for enhancing the productivity, fertility, and health of dairy cattle. This study aimed to identify the pleiotropic genes associated with the 305-day milk yield (MY305), da...

Robotic observatories are ideal infrastructures that can be remotely accessed by scientists, amateurs, and general public for research and education in Astronomy. Its robotization is a complex process for ensuring autonomy, safety, and coordination a...

Background: Vaccination is a highly effective tool for controlling infectious diseases, particularly in populations at high risk of contagion due to clinical conditions or occupational exposure, such as healthcare workers. The purpose of this study i...

Despite the common belief that sleep quality at altitude is poor, the scientific evidence to support this notion is still modest. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate possible changes of actigraphy-based and subjective sleep pa...

There has been a lot of interest in digital mental health interventions but adherence to online programmes has been less than optimal. Chatbots that mimic brief conversations may be a more engaging and acceptable mode of delivery. We developed a chat...

This paper investigates the information content of the ex post overnight return for one-day-ahead equity Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasting. To do so, we deploy a univariate VaR modeling approach that constructs the forecast at market open and, accordin...

As a result of the new telecommunication ecosystem landscape, wireless communication has become an interdisciplinary field whose future is shaped by several interacting dimensions. These interacting dimensions, which form the cyber–physical con...

Spatial information about plant health and productivity are essential when assessing the progress towards Sustainable Development Goals such as life on land and zero hunger. Plant health and productivity are strongly linked to a plant’s phenolo...

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) face increasing challenges from sophisticated cyber threats, particularly zero-day attacks that evade signature-based methods. While supervised learning is effective for known attack classification, it strug...

Background: This study aims to compare perioperative morbidity and drainage tube dependence following open radical cystectomy (ORC) with ileal conduit (IC) or cutaneous ureterostomy (CU) for bladder cancer. Methods: A single-center, retrospective coh...

Background/Objectives: Chronic attention problems occur in approximately 25% of children after acquired brain injury (ABI). When delivered daily, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may improve attention; however, access to daily in-clinic...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the lactate/albumin ratio (LAR) and 28-day mortality in gastric cancer patients undergoing monitoring in a postoperative intensive care unit due to reasons such as haemodyna...

Background: Facial skin aging is a multifactorial process characterized by wrinkles, pigmentary alterations, reduced elasticity, and dermal structural changes, in which oxidative stress and low-grade inflammation play key roles. Polyphenols have gain...

Oral nutricosmetic supplements are widely used to support skin appearance, but finished multi-ingredient products require dedicated clinical evaluation because their performance cannot be inferred from ingredient-level data alone. This prospective, s...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is frequently associated with gastrointestinal symptoms, immune dysregulation, and altered microbiota-related signaling, supporting interest in microbiota-targeted interventions. This study evaluated adaptive functionin...

Intrinsic and extrinsic factors compromise skin barrier function and dermal density over time. While Brassica vegetables are known for their bioactive glucosinolates, clinical data regarding their specific effects on skin structure are limited. This...

Background: A novel day–night facial serum regimen combining antioxidants, hydration-enhancing agents, and bioactive compounds has been developed to address skin aging. Objective: The aim is to explore changes in skin aging parameters and asses...

Background: Nutritional strategies targeting NAD⁺ metabolism, mitochondrial function, and metabolic resilience are gaining attention as potential approaches to healthy aging. This study investigated the short-term physiological, cognitive, and aging-...

This study examines effects of opening hinged farrowing crates 4 or 7 days post-farrowing. Sows (n = 696) allocated to 3 treatments: PC—crate closed, T4—crate opened day 4, and T7—crate opened day 7 were assessed for body condition score (BCS), lamen...

Background: The minimally invasive implementations of the established open methods for the correction of primary vesicoureteral reflux have proven to be successful in terms of feasibility and safety. The aim of this study was to investigate to what e...

This research aims to assess the climatic temporal suitability over the year and identify the appropriate season for open-air tourism in ten Romanian cities. It was evaluated using the Enhanced Tourism Climatic Index on a temporal scale of one day an...

The secondary shelf life (SSL) is defined as the time after package opening during which the food product retains a required level of quality. The SSL, indicated in labels as “best if used within x days after opening”, could lead to domestic food was...

This study aimed to define the shelf life of canned sardines after opening to increase consumer awareness of their quality and safety and reduce food waste. For this purpose, canned sardines (Sardina pilchardus) packed with different sauces were open...

The main pregnancy test method for dairy cows is rectal palpation performed around 40–45 days from last insemination. This is an invasive examination that disrupts the cow’s routine, potentially affecting its well-being. We examined the e...

Background and Aims: Recent single-center retrospective studies have focused on laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy (LPD) in elderly patients, and compared the outcomes between the laparoscopic and open approaches. Our study aimed to determine the out...

This study assesses the efficacy of ChatGPT-4, an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) language model, in delivering precise and comprehensive answers to inquiries regarding managing polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)-related infertility. The research...

Background: Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) has been known to be associated with mortality in various surgical patients; however, its prognostic role in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) open repair remains underexplored. This study...

Window operation is among one of the most influential factors on indoor air quality (IAQ). In this paper, we focus on the modeling of the windows’ opening state in a real open-plan office with five windows. The IAQ of this open-plan office was monito...

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the application effect of endoscopic thyroidectomy via the gasless unilateral axillary (GUA) approach in thyroid cancer and its impact on the postoperative stress response. Methods: Ninety-four thyroid cancer pa...

Introduction: Re-operative laparoscopic colorectal surgery is becoming increasingly common. It can be a challenging procedure, but its benefits can outweigh the associated risks. Methods: A systematic review of the literature reporting re-operative l...

The evolving electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) marketplace and recent regulatory actions may influence youth ENDS device preferences. Using data from Waves (W) 4, 4.5, and 5 (2016–2019) of the nationally representative Population Asses...

OpenForecast is the first openly available national-scale operational runoff forecasting system in Russia. Launched in March 2020, it routinely provides 7-day ahead predictions for 834 gauges across the country. Here, we provide an assessment of the...

Jet lag and travel fatigue can occur after crossing multiple time zones in a short period of time, possibly affecting various aspects of an athlete’s behavior. However, there are few studies regarding this issue, particularly considering junior...

The application of anti-hail nets is a practice that has been employed for a long time on different fruit and vegetable cultivations and in different fields of the world. In this work, we checked the effects of shading with white anti-hail nets on th...

Greenhouse cultivation of table grapes is a challenge due to difficulties imposed by their perennial habit and chilling requirements. Despite difficulties, greenhouse cultivation allows ripening long before that in the open field. Nonetheless, for ha...

Background: Pilonidal sinus (PNS) is a common disease which can lead to complications including infection and abscess formation. Different surgical approaches have been suggested, based on primary or secondary wound closure intention healing or endos...

The aim of this study is to compare laparoscopic and conventional techniques following Total Pharyngo-laryngo-esophagectomy (TPLE) with respect to perioperative morbidity and mortality and postoperative recovery in post cricoid cancer patients. This...

This study validated the CO₂ distribution predicted by a computational fluid dynamics model considering CO₂ absorption by photosynthesis in a chamber and greenhouse. The effect of photosynthesis with CO₂ emission from a perforated tube remains not fu...