The effective identification of the economic withholding behavior of the generators can help ensure the fair operation of the electricity market. A SCAD-logit model is proposed to improve the performance of the logit model for the massive data of ele...
Background/Objectives: The change in critically ill patients makes limitation of therapeutic effort (LTE) a widespread practice when therapeutic goals cannot be achieved. We aimed to describe the application of LTE in a post-surgical Intensive Care U...
In current Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain systems, miners usually form mining pools to compete with other pools/miners in the mining competition. Forming pools can give miners steady revenues but will introduce two critical issues. One is mining pool...
This paper proposes an approach for pool mining in public blockchain systems based on the employment of a recently reported consensus protocol with the puzzle based on a symmetric encryption that provides an energy–space trade-off and reduces e...
Microgrids have the potential to provide security and flexibility to power systems through the integration of a wide range of resources, including distributed energy storage, usually in the form of batteries. An aggregation of microgrids can enable t...
Knowledge loss (KL), the disappearance of critical knowledge once a project ends, remains a persistent threat to the sustainability of organizational performance and competitiveness despite ongoing efforts to implement knowledge retention (KR) method...
The e-Bupot Unification application was published in order to provide ease of administration, especially for tax with holders. The purposes of this study are to describe what tax obligations can be fulfilled by a tax withholder using this application...
In the blockchain system, mining pools are popular for miners to work collectively and obtain more revenue. Nowadays, there are consensus attacks that threaten the efficiency and security of mining pools. As a new type of consensus attack, the Fork A...
Consensus algorithms are the essential components of blockchain systems. They guarantee the blockchain’s fault tolerance and security. The Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm is one of the most widely used consensus algorithms in blockchain...
Drought stress significantly limits oil palm productivity, highlighting the need to characterize integrated responses to water deficit. This study evaluated morphological, stomatal, anatomical, and biochemical responses of ten commercial oil palm gen...
Macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF or CSF-1) is known to have a broad range of actions on myeloid cells maturation, including the regulation of macrophage differentiation, proliferation and survival. Macrophages generated by M-CSF stimulus h...
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This study presents, for the first time, empirical data on practices regarding bioethical decision-making in treatment of preterm and ill newborns in Greece. The aim of the study was to: (a) record self-reported practices and involvement of Greek phy...
The impact of recommended withholding periods (RWPs) for omeprazole on the recurrence of Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) is unknown. The study was designed to compare the effect of two RWPs on EGUS recurrence post-omeprazole treatment and to det...
As wind power penetration increases, understanding its potential to exercise unilateral market power is critical. This dynamic is particularly relevant in systems like the Colombian wholesale electricity market, which is characterized by a strong dep...
In the last few years, important changes have occurred in the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients that were admitted to cardiac intensive care units (CICU). Care has shifted from acute coronary syndrome patients towards elderly p...
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, practitioners had to make tragic decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources in the ICU. The Italian debate has paid a lot of attention to identifying the specific regulatory criteri...
Veterinarians sometimes prescribe antimicrobials even when they know or suspect that they are unnecessary. The drivers of this behaviour must be understood to design effective antimicrobial stewardship interventions. Semi-structured interviews were c...
Drought events are expected to induce both immediate and delayed effects on tree functioning, yet the persistence and dynamics of these legacy effects remain poorly understood. In an experimental set-up, European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) saplings w...
Background: The Act on Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) for patients at the end of life (the Korean LST Decision Act), implemented in the Republic of Korea in February 2018, has led to changes in the end-of-life decision-making (EOLDM) process in chil...
The present work evaluates the main adaptive mechanisms developed by young sweet cherry trees (Prunus avium L.) to cope with drought. For this purpose, the young trees were subjected to two drought cycles with different water stress intensities follo...
Objectives: Patients receiving remission induction therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) are at high risk of developing invasive fungal disease (IFD). Newer therapies with targeted antileukemic agents and the emergence of azole resistance pose a...
Considering current global climate change, drought stress is regarded as a major problem negatively impacting the growth of soybeans, particularly at the critical stages R3 (early pod) and R5 (seed development). Microbial inoculation is regarded as a...
Background: Guidelines recommend shared decision making (SDM) between neonatologists and parents when a decision has to be made about the continuation of life-sustaining treatment (LST). In a previous study, we found that neonatologists and parents a...
This paper proposes a variant of the recently reported pool mining approach and provides a reduction in the energy that is consumed by the blockchain consensus protocol. The novelty of the proposed architecture lies in the employment of an innovative...
Biochar improves soil physical, biochemical, and microbial properties, leading to the amelioration of soil fertility, which, in turn, results in better growth and yield in crop plants. The current study aimed to evaluate whether using different level...
Intensive care units (ICUs) around the world have been hugely impacted by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the vast numbers of patients admitted with COVID-19, requiring respiratory support and prolonged stays. This pressure, with resulting shortages of I...
Crop resistance to environmental stress is a major issue. The globally increasing land degradation and desertification enhance the demand on management practices to balance both food and environmental objectives, including strategies that tighten nut...
Background and Objectives: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) provides temporary respiratory or circulatory support when conventional therapies fail. Some patients do not recover and are not candidates for transplant or durable mechanical sup...
Background/Objectives: Global maize production is considerably affected by drought aggravated by climate change. No genome-wide association study (GWAS) or candidate gene analysis has been performed using chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) and hyperspec...
A field experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory of Bangladesh Agricultural University to evaluate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculation and foliar supplementation of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) on the per...
Nutritional support is an important part of the treatment of critical ill children and the phase of disease has to be taken into account. The metabolic stress response during acute critical illness is characterized by severe catabolism. So far, there...
Background and Objectives: Increasing reluctance to perform surgical mitral valve repair or replacement particularly in high-risk patients with poor left-ventricular function is trending. These patients are increasingly treated interventionally, e.g....
Copper (Cu) is an essential metal micronutrient, and a fungal pathogen’s ability to thrive in diverse niches across a broad range of bioavailable copper levels is vital for host colonization and fungal propagation. Recent transcriptomic studies...
The forced cultivation of strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) requires fast flower bud differentiation. Using temporary nutrient-withholding periods is a common management practice for inducing flower bud differentiation at strawberry nurs...
Our objective was to develop and test a new approach to obtaining parental policy guidance about disclosure of incidental findings of newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), including heterozygote carrier status and the conditions known as CFTR-r...
The invasive fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans is responsible for the collapse of several North American bat species through an infectious fungal skin disease known as White-Nose Syndrome (WNS). Recent transcriptomic studies have suggested...
Drought stress is one of the environmental stress factors exacerbated by climate change. It causes water deficit stress, leading to economic yield losses. Its impact is largely felt in semi-arid and arid regions, often occupied by resource-limited fa...
In March 2020, dental care providers, including special care dentistry (SCD) services, had to face an extraordinary change of their standard operating procedures (SOP), with deferred domiciliary dental care, withholding conscious dental sedation serv...
This paper reviews research and theory on the important topic of labour turnover resulting from issues related to job performance and/or job satisfaction which have, in turn, been initiated by changes in work motivation. We focus on labour turnover i...
Mg0.95Ni0.05TiO3 ceramics were prepared by traditional solid-state route using sintering temperatures between 1300 and 1425 °C and holding time of 2–8 h. The sintered samples were characterized for their phase composition, micro-crystalline...
The management of enteral feeds in preterm infants with a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (hs-PDA) is a major challenge for neonatologists due to the fear of gastrointestinal (GI) complications. This review aims to analyze the av...
Bovine mastitis is a significant economic burden for dairy enterprises, responsible for premature culling, prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic use, reduced milk production and the withholding (and thus wastage) of milk. There is a desire to ident...
Background: Managing acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in patients receiving treatment with vitamin K antagonists (VKA) or non-VKA oral anticoagulants (NOACs) is difficult and the challenge this poses for stroke telemedicine remains unexplored. Methods: We...
Background: The seedling stage has received little attention in maize breeding to identify genotypes tolerant to water deficit. The aim of this study is to evaluate incorporation of seed weight (expressed as hundred kernel weight, HKW) as a covariate...
An implied volatility surface is typically rebuilt each day from that day’s quotes alone, even though the quotes missing on a given day were usually traded the previous day. We treat a panel of daily surfaces as frames over moneyness, maturity...
The growth and yield of sugarcane have been negatively impacted by drought stress, particularly during two stages of development, namely, tillering and elongation. This research aimed to determine the responses of diverse sugarcane cultivars under wa...
In critically ill children admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), enteral nutrition (EN) is often delayed due to gastrointestinal dysfunction or interrupted. Since a macronutrient deficit in these patients has been associated with advers...
Drought stress is a major environmental factor limiting plant growth and distribution, with severe drought leading to plant mortality. This study investigates the physiological mechanisms underlying drought-induced mortality in one-year-old seedlings...
Incorporation of manures into soil can add nutrients, improve soil structure and enhance biodiversity, thereby improving the sustainability of vegetable production systems. Unfortunately, manures can also potentially contain human enteric pathogens....
To understand the physiological basis of tolerance to combined stresses to low phosphorus (P) and drought in mungbean (Vignaradiata (L.) R. Wilczek), a diverse set of 100 accessions were evaluated in hydroponics at sufficient (250 μM) and low (3 &...
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