This study explores innovative designs for the cap of a marker pen, aiming to address the issues of cap loss and ink evaporation during marker pen usage. This study applies intrinsic safety, universal design and TRIZ as research methods. TRIZ has gre...
Pen shell (Atrina pectinata) is a popular food source with a high commercial value in a number of Asian Pacific areas. The natural A. pectinata population has been declining continuously over the past several decades. Microsatellite DNA markers are a...
This work reports the development and optimization of a rapid and low-cost pen-on-paper plotting approach for the fabrication of paper-based analytical devices (PADs) using commercial writing stationery. The desired fluidic patterns were drawn on the...
The most important tool for controlling an industrial robotic arm is a teach pendant, which controls the robotic arm movement in work spaces and accomplishes teaching tasks. A good teaching tool should be easy to operate and can complete teaching tas...
Background: The cardiotoxic effects of doxorubicin (DOX), a powerful chemotherapeutic drug, are widely recognized. Cuproptosis, a unique copper-dependent form of controlled cell death, may be involved in DOX-induced cardiomyopathy, according to recen...
Using alternative ingredients or low-quality grain grades to reduce feeding costs for pig diets can introduce mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol (DON) into feed, which is known to induce anorexia, inflammation, and oxidative stress. Adding vitamin 25(...
Dystocia is the greatest contributor to neonatal lamb mortality in Australia and poses significant welfare and economic concerns worldwide. In this study, we set out to investigate whether pen-side analysis technology could be employed to detect bloo...
Beta (β)-lactam antibiotic is an industrially important molecule produced by Penicillium chrysogenum/rubens. Penicillin is a building block for 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA), an important active pharmaceutical intermediate (API) used for semi...
This work reports the fabrication of integrated electrochemical fluidic paper-based analytical devices (ePADs) using a marker pen drawing and screen-printing. Electrodes were deposited on paper using screen-printing with conductive carbon ink. Then,...
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) following endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) is often diagnosed too late using conventional markers, limiting opportunities for timely intervention in this high-risk population. We investigated whether a mechanism-based bioma...
The scientific community needs objective measures to appropriately assess animal welfare. The study objective was to assess the impact of housing system on novel physiological and behavioral measurements of animal welfare for laying hens, including s...
Laying hens can experience a progressive increase in bone fragility due to the ongoing mobilization of calcium from bones for eggshell formation. Over time, this escalates their susceptibility to bone fracture, which can reduce their mobility and cau...
Background/Objectives: In the context of acute heart failure, proenkephalin A (penKid) has emerged as a prognostic marker for acute kidney injury (AKI), whereas bioactive adrenomedullin (bio-ADM) has been identified as a significant biomarker linked...
To address challenges such as complex background interference, limited long-range modeling capabilities of CNNs, and poor generalization in steel-concrete cross-material scenarios, this study proposes an enhanced detection framework. This framework i...
A robot trajectory teaching system with a vision-based positioning pen, which we called Solpen, is developed to generate pose paths of six degrees of freedom (6-DoF) for vision-guided robotics applications such as welding, cutting, painting, or polis...
The microbiome–gut–bone axis may influence skeletal physiology in fast-growing broilers. This study evaluated dietary Bacillus subtilis DSM 29784 combined with a phytogenic blend (BsP) in 560 male Ross 308 broilers assigned to control or...
Trajectory-based writing system refers to writing a linguistic character or word in free space by moving a finger, marker, or handheld device. It is widely applicable where traditional pen-up and pen-down writing systems are troublesome. Due to the s...
Anaplasma marginale and Babesia bigemina are tick-borne pathogens, posing significant threats to the health and productivity of cattle in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Currently, detection of Babesia bigemina and Anaplasma marginal...
Background: Long-term data on the feasibility, adherence, and efficacy of the Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet combined with partial enteral nutrition (CDED + PEN) in adults with active Crohn’s disease (CD) remain limited. Methods: In this...
(1) Background: The CDED + PEN (partial enteral nutrition) is a promising method of nutritional treatment in active Crohn’s disease (CD). An increase in fecal calprotectin (FCP) level—a marker of mucosal inflammation—happens to be t...
Roles of plant-derived cinnamaldehyde, carvacrol, and thymol in the gut and bone health of laying hens was evaluated in the present study. After acclimation for 2 weeks, a total 384 of 52-week-old laying hens were allocated into three groups for 6 we...
Background: Reliable and non-invasive methods for assessing welfare in poultry are essential for improving evidence-based welfare monitoring and advancing management practices in commercial production systems. The iris-to-pupil (IP) ratio, previously...
Understanding the genetic background underlying the expression of behavioral traits has the potential to fasten the genetic progress for reduced aggressive behavior of pigs. The monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene is known as the “warrior” ge...
The addition of xylanase to piglet diets is known to improve performance and nutrient digestibility. The present study aimed to assess the impact of new xylanase on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and gut function of weaned piglets. A...
A total of sixty crossbred ([Landrace × Yorkshire] × Duroc) pigs with an initial body weight of 46.34 ± 0.13 kg were randomly assigned to four treatments under thermoneutral (TN, 22 °C) or heat-stress (HS, 31 °C) conditions...
The objectives were to determine effects of a hatchery byproduct mixture (HBM) on growth performance and to measure digestible energy concentrations in various HBM. In the growth performance experiment, 96 pigs (initial body weight = 9.6 ± 0.8...
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of dietary fatty acid (FA) saturation and carbon chain length on brain bile acid (BA) metabolism and neuronal number in a pig model of pediatric NAFLD. Thirty 20-day-old Iberian pigs, pair-hou...
Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) remains a major diagnostic challenge in critically ill patients, as conventional functional criteria—serum creatinine and urine output—often detect AKI after clinically relevant pathophysiolo...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, affecting millions of people worldwide, especially among the elderly population. It has been demonstrated that handwriting impairment can be an important early marke...
This study investigated if there is any confounding effect of stocking rate on the use of internal markers to determine and predict the dietary ingredient composition, dry matter intake (DMI) and digestibility of diets consumed by sheep. Fifteen shee...
A dip-and-read microfluidic paper-based analytical device (µPAD) was developed for the qualitative and quantitative detection of the total hardness of water. To create well-defined hydrophobic barriers on filter paper, a regular office printer...
The objective of this study was to compare the molecular, physiological and microbial effects of mushroom powder (MP), vitamin D2 enriched mushroom powder (MPD2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) in pigs post-weaning. Pigs (four pigs/pen; 12 pens/treatment) were...
To clarify the relationship between the fiber type composition and meat quality, we performed metabolomic analysis using porcine longissimus dorsi (LD) muscles. In the LD of pigs raised outdoors, the expression of myosin heavy chain (MyHC)1 (slow-twi...
Hemp is a sustainable, recyclable, and high-yield annual crop that can be used to produce textiles, plastics, composites, concrete, fibers, biofuels, bionutrients, and paper. The integration of microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (µPADs) with...
Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is an OIE-listed disease that requires effective surveillance tools for its detection and control. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the diagnostic performance of a novel CSFV Erns IgG AlphaLISA for...
Recently, nanotechnology has been widely adopted in many fields. The goal of this study was to evaluate the potential for amino acid coated nano minerals as a supplement in broiler feed. Zinc was selected as a model mineral for this test and suppleme...
This study was to determine the effect of the organic raising system (OR) on growth performance, meat quality, and physicochemical properties of slow-growing chickens. Three hundred and sixty (one-day-old) Korat chickens (KRC) were randomly assigned...
Identification marking mice commonly involves ear-punching with or without anaesthetic, or tail-marking with ink. To identify which is most humane, we marked weanling male BALB/c mice using ear-punching (EP), ear-punching with anaesthetic EMLATM crea...
In this paper, an experiment is carried out to acquire the dynamic mechanical properties of a simulated sandstone tunnel by a dual DIC system. The sandstone tunnel is simulated by large sandstone with a prefabricated hole in the center. The speckle s...
The study was conducted to evaluate the influence of Saccharomyces boulardii (SB) supplementation on growth performance, meat quality, cecal volatile fatty acid (VFA) profile, immune parameters, and serum biochemistry in broiler chickens fed diets wi...
In many aquaculture farms, Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) are being deployed to perform dangerous and time-consuming repetitive tasks (e.g., fish net-pen visual inspection) on behalf of or in collaboration with farm operators. Mostly, they are r...
The aim of this work was to study the continuous or intermittent impact of a multienzyme supplement on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and blood metabolites of broilers, and to evaluate production index of dietary supplementation. A total...
Plant-derived extracellular vesicles (PDEVs) are emerging as promising bioactive materials for biomedical and dermatological applications. In this study, we isolated and characterized exosome-like vesicles derived from Rosa damascena callus culture m...
This study proposes a local six-DoF pose-refinement method for small-diameter, pen-shaped instruments using geometric inconsistencies in unwrapped images of a paper-based cylindrical marker with an outer diameter of 8.3 mm after attachment. Full-circ...
Slippery coatings, such as the slippery liquid-infused porous surface (SLIPS), have gained significant attention for their potential applications in anti-icing and anti-fouling. However, they lack durability when subjected to mechanical impact. In th...
Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an escalating global health challenge, affecting over 82 million individuals each year. The increasing resistance to commonly used antibiotics such as azithromycin, ciprofloxacin,...
Weaning introduces a variety of health-related challenges in piglets, but the relative contributions of the weaning event itself versus biological age at weaning remain unclear. During this period, the gastrointestinal tract has not yet fully develop...
L-carnitine as well as lysine and methionine are amino acids of important nutritional and nutraceutical interest and are used in nutritional strategies as dietary supplements to improve feed quality characteristics in animals and broiler chicken in p...
The majority of currently available hand kinematic databases have been gathered using expensive marker-based systems or are restricted to a particular gesture-recognition task, failing to capture the dynamic nature of joints when the hand is engaged...
With the widespread adoption of intelligent technologies in animal husbandry, traditional manual feeding methods can no longer meet the demands for precision and efficiency in modern sheep farming. To address this gap, we present an intelligent robot...
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