Investigation of persistant bovine viral diarrhea virus (bvdv) infection at the pregnant cows and their calves bv immunoflourescence and immunperoxidase tests by Orhan Yapkıç, Sibel Yavru

“…Blood samples which were collected with and without EDTA were taken from 62 prenatal pregnant cows, from both cows and precolostral calves at the time of birth and, after approximately 3 months, from postnatal calves which were all present in a private management in this research. …”
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Effect of a high-fat diet and iron overload on erythropoiesis in mice by Joe Varghese, Jithu James Varghese, Molly Jacob

“…However, these mice had a significantly higher reticulocyte population in the BM than those fed CD (at all time points studied). Values of hematological parameters were higher in Hamp1−/− mice than WT mice, at 24 weeks of feeding (irrespective of diet type), indicating increased erythropoiesis. …”
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Identification and validation of TSPAN13 as a novel temozolomide resistance-related gene prognostic biomarker in glioblastoma. by Haofei Wang, Zhen Liu, Zesheng Peng, Peng Lv, Peng Fu, Xiaobing Jiang

“…Using LASSO Cox analysis, we selected 12 TMZR-RDEGs to construct a risk score model, which was evaluated for performance through survival analysis, time-dependent ROC, and stratified analyses. Functional enrichment and mutation analyses were conducted to explore the underlying mechanisms of the risk score and its relationship with immune cell infiltration levels in GBM. …”
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On the Suitability of Vibration Acceptance Criteria of Process Pipework by Omar Tawfik Shady, Jamil Renno, M. Shadi Mohamed, Sadok Sassi, Asan G. A. Muthalif

“…For the models with a shorter mainline pipe, the criterial is suitable in 76.5% of the time with 68.27% confidence level.…”
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Pengaruh mediasi nilai perusahaan dari manajemen resiko, investasi langsung dan perpajakan terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi by Paulus Johan Lolo

“…Menggunakan teknik penggabungan data (pooling data) antara cross section dan time series, ditetapkan full sampling sebanyak 251 perusahaan di Sulawesi Selatan. …”
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Optimisation of Water-Use in Pulp and Paper Mills: A Streamlined Review of Scientific Journal Publications by Felicia Ocklind, Kristin Liback, Lova Lundqvist, Wilma Harge, G Venkatesh

“… The water-, and energy footprints of the processes in the pulp and paper industry are sizable enough to warrant investment of money and commitment of time truncate the same. Besides, there is also a nexus between water and energy here, with optimisation of the use of one of these resoruces enabling that of the other too. …”
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Use of Manganese Oxide-Coated Sand for the Adsorption of Uranium(VI) Ions from Aqueous Solution Using a Column Mode by Weihua Zou, Jiyun Song, Ke Li, Runping Han

“…The BDST model was also applied to predict the service times for other flow rates and initial concentrations. …”
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The Development of a Hybrid EnKF-3DVAR Algorithm for Storm-Scale Data Assimilation by Jidong Gao, Ming Xue, David J. Stensrud

“…Our tests indicate that the hybrid scheme can reduce the storm spin-up time because it fits the observations, especially the reflectivity observations, better than the EnKF and the 3DVAR at the beginning of the assimilation cycles.…”
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Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Mapping Food Crops using Sentinel-2A Imagery in West Java, Indonesia by Ridwana Riki, Kamal Muhammad, Arjasakusuma Sanjiwana, Rabbi Muh Fiqri Abdi

“…Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) Sentinel2A imagery is utilized to employ time series data as input characteristics for the three most popular machine learning models: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and Classification and Regression Trees (CART). …”
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Green Dyeing and Antibacterial Treatment of Hemp Fabrics Using Punica granatum Peel Extracts by Thitirat Inprasit, Jarinphorn Pukkao, Nattanee Lertlaksameephan, Araya Chuenchom, Kanjana Motina, Worapat Inprasit

“…The color strength (K/S) values were investigated and found to increase in line with the dye concentration, dyeing time, and temperature. Optimal dyeing of the hemp fabric was achieved when applying 6% w/v of extract at 80°C for 60 min. …”
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Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner by Jenkins Tricia

“…This paper builds upon a presentation given at “Digital Storytelling in a Time of Crisis”, an international Digital Storytelling conference that took place in Athens in May 2014. …”
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Sphere of Providing Funeral Services in Ukraine: Current Problems by V. P. Yatsenko, O. S. Yelisieieva

“…Particular attention in the process of legislative transformation taking place in various areas of legal regulation should be paid to one of the relevant areas – the provision of funeral services, which, although not included in the official list of administrative services, but have an administrative nature given the parties of their provision. At the same time, the issue of monopoly and corruption in the field of funeral services remains poorly studied. …”
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IALight: Importance-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Arterial Traffic Cooperative Control by Lu WEI, Xiaoyan ZHANG, Lijun FAN, Lei GAO, Jian YANG

“…Comprehensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world traffic scenarios demonstrate that the proposed IALight outperforms the traditional and deep reinforcement learning baselines by more than 20.41% and 17.88% in average vehicle travel time, respectively.…”
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Task Balanced Workflow Scheduling Technique considering Task Processing Rate in Spot Market by Daeyong Jung, JongBeom Lim, JoonMin Gil, Eunyoung Lee, Heonchang Yu

“…Consequently, the total task completion time is decreased. The simulation results reveal that, compared to various instance types, our scheme achieves performance improvements in terms of an average combined metric of 12.76% over workflow scheme without considering the processing rate. …”
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Trajectory to professorship for third space practitioners: a learning developer perspective by Steve Briggs

“…I have worked in the third space as a Learning Developer for almost 20 years. During this time, I have been fortunate to progress in my career from an Academic Skills Tutor to Director of Learning and Teaching Excellence. …”
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Tracking continuous positive airway pressure adherence in obstructive sleep apnea patients before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown by Abdulaziz O. BaHammam, Fawaz Alhuqayl, Ibrahim Alzaid, Ziyad Alzammam, Faisal Alhuqayl, Bader Rajeh, Galal Eldin Abbas Eltayeb, Samar Nashwan, Salih Aleissi, Ahmed Salem BaHammam

“…This highlights the need for interventions to support CPAP adherence during challenging times such as a pandemic. Further research is needed to understand the long-term effects of the pandemic on CPAP therapy adherence.…”
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Big Data Analysis Using Apache Spark MLlib and Hadoop HDFS with Scala and Java by Hoger Khayrolla Omar, Alaa Khalil Jumaa

“…In this paper, some comparisons are presented about the time performance evaluation among Scala and Java in apache spark MLlib. …”
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Fondation d’une mémoire familiale dans la cité des Namnètes : le mausolée antique des Pellières à Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique) by Frédéric Mercier

“…The preventive excavation conducted in 2006 on the site of Pellières, in Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique), showed that the summit of the Loire’s north bank was repeatedly occupied from Prehistory to the present time. Remains from Antiquity are the best represented vestiges. …”
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Kinetic, Equilibrium and thermodynamic studies on the biosorption of Cd(II) from aqueous solutions by the leaf biomass of <i>Calotropis procera</i> – ‘Sodom apple’ by Babalola J Oyebamiji, LC Overah, Adesola Babarinde, Vincent O Oninla, A Olatunde

“…Optimum conditions of pH, contact time, biomass dosage, initial metal ion concentration and temperature were determined to be 5, 60 minutes, 110 mg, 0.3 mM and 27°C respectively. …”
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Retrieval of a Dislodged Catheter Using Combined Fluoroscopy and Intracardiac Echocardiography by Gus Mitsopoulos, Robert F. Hanna, Sidney Z. Brejt, Greg E. Goldstein, Vladimir Sheynzon, Joshua L. Weintraub, William A. Gray

“…During retrieval, intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) provided real-time anatomic localization of a constantly moving, almost radiolucent micropuncture coaxial dilator fragment with respect to the tricuspid and pulmonary valves. …”
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