Continuous monitoring of patients involves collecting and analyzing sensory data from a multitude of sources. To overcome communication overhead, ensure data privacy and security, reduce data loss, and maintain efficient resource usage, the processin...
Health-related claims on food products influence consumers and their food preferences. None of the European countries have restricted the use of health claims to foods of high nutritional quality despite the regulatory background provided by the Euro...
The increasing need for effective analytical tools to evaluate beef quality has prompted the development of new procedures to improve the animal sector’s performance. In this study, three beef breeds—Thai native (TN), crossbred Brahman &t...
Chromatographic fingerprint technology has become the standard of quality control for traditional herbal medicines (THMs). But several issues are associated with the wavelength selection of the representative fingerprint, such as contradictory evalua...
Wind profiling within operating wind farms is important for both wind resource assessment and wind power prediction. With increasing wind turbine size, it is getting difficult to obtain wind profiles covering the turbine-affecting area due to the lim...
In this study, a quantitative profiling method for detecting free fatty acids in crude lanolin based on the Quality by Design (QbD) concept was developed. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a charged aerosol detector (CAD) an...
Ultrafine dark tea powder (UDTP) was prepared by superfine grinding and sieving through a 200-mesh sieve, and incorporated into cookies to improve their textural properties, sensory acceptability and flavor characteristics. Through single-factor expe...
Although nutrient profiling systems can empower consumers towards healthier food choices, there is still a need to assess diet quality to obtain an overall perspective. The purpose of this study was to develop a diet profiling algorithm (DPA) to eval...
In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, companies are focusing on securing artificial intelligence (AI) technology to enhance their competitiveness via machine learning, which is the core technology of AI, and to allow computers to acquire a...
The present study evaluated the effects of dietary selenium sources on growth performance, slaughter traits, meat quality, tissue selenium deposition, and transcriptomic profiles in the longissimus dorsi muscle of Tibetan pigs. Seventy-two Tibetan pi...
Background/Objectives: Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent in young individuals with eating disorders (EDs) and are associated with increased psychopathology and poorer clinical outcomes. However, sleep alterations in ED populations are heterogen...
The increasing complexity of dendritic cell (DC)-derived exosome (DEX) immunotherapy demands structured monitoring protocols capable of translating molecular activity into actionable clinical outputs. This study proposes a standardized, multistage im...
In recent years, the “quality by design” (QbD) approach has been used for developing pharmaceutical formulations. This is particularly important for complex dosage forms such as topical semisolid products. The first step for developing a...
Insomnia is a widespread sleep disorder associated with physical and mental health conditions. Although the heterogeneity of insomnia presentations has been acknowledged, research investigating clinically meaningful insomnia subtypes is still ongoing...
Background: Prostate cancer substantially affects patients’ quality of life (QoL). However, whether distinct QoL profiles exist among patients remains unclear. Objective: This study aimed to identify latent QoL profiles among patients with pros...
9 February 2021
Women’s participation in society has been increasing; however, they often remain overloaded with housework, and this gender role difference can hinder their work-life balance in Korea. Therefore, this study classified latent profiles according to job...
25 November 2021
This study aimed to examine the multi-faceted lifestyle profiles of community-dwelling middle- and older-aged adults based on their physical activity, participation in various activities, and nutrition. It identified the association of lifestyle prof...
Improving rice production in modern agriculture relies heavily on the overuse of chemical fertilizer, which adversely affects grain quality. Biochar (BC) application is well known for enhancing rice yield under reduced nitrogen (N) application. There...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of oxidized soybean meal and oxidized soybean oil on the muscle oxidative stability, flesh quality, amino acid profile, and fatty acid profile of blunt snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala. Oxidized soybean...
The quality of fat in infant milk is determined by the fatty acid profile and selected indices describing nutritional value. The aim of this study was to analyze the fatty acid profile and lipid quality indices of infant formulas and compare these da...
The comprehensive quality assessment of raw milk from small-scale producers remains essential for improving dairy sector competitiveness. This study employed a multivariate approach to correlate the physicochemical, colorimetric, and sensory profiles...
The evaluation of surface quality after milling still represents a challenge due to the stratified structure of wood. In this paper, the surface quality of beech wood obtained by profile milling was analyzed differentiating between tool marks, fuzzy...
Background/Objectives: The administration of medicines via enteral feeding tubes presents unique challenges, including dose loss, tube blockage, and user-dependent variability. Although Quality by Design (QbD) frameworks provide a structured approach...
Road roughness evaluation can be carried out using different approaches. Among these, the assessment of ride quality level perceived by road users is one of the most-used. In this sense, different evaluation methods have been developed in order to li...
Wind profiler radar (WPR) is used for all-weather atmospheric wind-field monitoring. However, the reliability of these observations reduces significantly when there is electromagnetic interference echo, generally caused by ground objects, birds, or r...
Kargı Tulum cheese differs from other Tulum cheeses with its unique production and ripening method. No systematic study has yet explored the change in the volatile compounds and fatty acids during the ripening process of Kargı Tulum cheese....
As China’s second operational Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder, Fengyun-4B/GIIRS can provide temporally and spatially continuous atmospheric temperature profile (ATP) and atmospheric humidity profile (AHP) information, which can b...
Objective: This study aimed to identify distinct dyadic coping profiles among infertile couples undergoing assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and to examine the associations between these coping profiles, depressive symptoms, and fertility qua...
This study investigates the impact of high-resolution spatiotemporal profiles of road transport emissions on urban air quality simulations for Thessaloniki, Greece. Dynamic spatiotemporal emission profiles were developed based on real vehicle speed d...
In the current study, an observational procedure, recorded in video, was used to evaluate the quality of parent-child interactions in a sample of vulnerable Portuguese families (n = 47) with school-aged children followed by Child Protective Services...
Background/Objectives: Healthcare utilization is a behavioral phenomenon influenced by psychosocial factors. This study took place in South Tyrol, a culturally diverse autonomous province in northern Italy, and aimed to identify latent profiles of pr...
A study was carried out with the purpose of determining the day-to-day practices, positive and stressful life experiences, and psychological profiles that underpin different perceptions of quality of life and perceived satisfaction. A total of 1095 a...
Radio occultation offers high vertical resolution, global coverage, and low sensitivity to clouds and precipitation, making it a useful complement to existing atmospheric sounding techniques. The YunYao constellation, the first commercial meteorologi...
14 December 2022
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the safety parameters, nutritional value and sensory profile of the meat from spiny-cheek crayfish (Faxonius limosus), captured from the Danube River in Serbia. To achieve this, we determined their microbi...
Background: Sleep disorders are highly prevalent among healthcare workers (HCWs) globally, with occupational stress (OS) being a major underlying cause. Psychological capital (PsyCap) may serve as a protective resource, yet its combined relationship...
The prevalence of hypercholesterolemia caused by an unhealthy lifestyle is increasing worldwide and is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. One of the causes of hypercholesterolemia is an unhealthy diet. The aim of this study...
Walnut oilcake is a low-cost by-product of the edible oil industry but at the same time it is a valuable source of dietary fiber, natural antioxidants, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. In the context of health-friendly confectionary food products and...
The present study investigated the additive effects of L-Arginine (L-Arg) with potassium carbonate (PC) on the quality characteristics of phosphate-free frankfurters. The results showed that L-Arg combined with PC could act as a viable phosphate repl...
The nutritional quality and amino acid profiles of 165 tomato samples (66 regular and 99 cherry varieties) from Beijing and Shandong in Northern China were assessed. The results showed that the regional origin was associated with differences in Dry M...
Developing tools to assess university lecturers on the quality of their teaching practice is a priority for achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. The aim of this research is therefore to propose a typology of teaching profiles and analyse t...
Soybean is a rich source of vegetal protein for both animal and human consumption. Despite the high levels of protein in soybean seeds, industrial processing to obtain soybean bran significantly decreases the final protein content of the byproducts....
Background/Objectives: Multimorbidity is associated with substantial healthcare burdens, but its associations with health and economic outcomes among young adults remain poorly characterized. This study examined associations between clinically define...
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a major inhibitory neurotransmitter, is used as a feed additive in aquaculture. However, its effects on muscle quality and lipid metabolism in fish remain understudied. Therefore, three diets supplemented with 0%, 0.01...
There is a growing interest in the Mediterranean regions to switch to conservation agriculture (CA) to address climate change and soil deterioration issues. The novelty of this study lies in the quality of the supply chain, from the raw material (dur...
Background: Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) questionnaires characterize the impact of oral conditions. However, similar summary scores of abbreviated instruments may obscure differences in how oral diseases affect specific OHRQoL compone...
The influence of freezing on the protein profile and quality traits in bovine Longissimus thoracic (LT) muscle was investigated by the data-independent acquisition (DIA) technique. Compared to fresh meat, a total of 262 proteins were identified as di...
The flavoring of olive oils with aromatic plants is commonly used to enrich the oils with aromatic and antioxidant compounds. Origanum majorana L. was applied as a flavoring agent for extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), at concentrations of 20 g L−1...
There are indications of reduced meat quality in entire male pigs (EMs) in comparison to surgically castrated pigs (SCs); however, the differences are not strongly confirmed, and the etiology is not clarified. In the present study, samples of the lon...
The Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) satellite carrying the advanced Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation Sounder-II (GNOS-II) is already in operation for radio occultation (RO) observation, with the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS-2...
In this study, juices extracted from three apple cultivars (Golden Delicious, Pinova, and Red Delicious) were stabilized by means of thermal treatment (TT) and high-pressure processing (HPP, 600 MPa 3 min); pH, total titratable acidity, total soluble...
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