Heating Has No Effect on the Net Protein Utilisation from Egg Whites in Rats by Ryosuke Matsuoka, Yayoi Takahashi, Mamoru Kimura, Yasunobu Masuda, Masaaki Kunou

“…The soybean protein group had a significantly lower level of food intake and was thus excluded from subsequent analyses. …”
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Scale Effect on the Anisotropy of Acoustic Emission in Coal by Honghua Song, Yixin Zhao, Yaodong Jiang, Jiehao Wang

“…This may result from the increasing amount of both preexisting discontinuities and cracks (volume/number) needed for specimen failure and the lower energy dissipation AE counts generated by them. …”
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Influence of <i>Eimeria</i> spp. and <i>Clostridium perfringens</i> Infection on Growth Performance and Toltrazuril Residues in Chickens by Konrad Pietruk, Jacek Karamon, Piotr Jedziniak, Stanisław Tokarzewski, Małgorzata Olejnik

“…The analysis of liver and muscle samples showed lower levels of residues in groups challenged with <i>Eimeria</i> spp. …”
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A DIC Based Technique to Measure the Contraction of a Skeletal Muscle Engineered Tissue by Emanuele Rizzuto, Silvia Carosio, Martina Faraldi, Simona Pisu, Antonio Musarò, Zaccaria Del Prete

“…The relative error between the spontaneous contraction frequencies computed in both ways was always lower than 0.15%. In conclusion, the use of a DIC based system allows for an accurate and noninvasive measurement of biological tissues’ spontaneous contraction, in addition to the measurement of tissue strain field on any desired region of interest during electrical stimulation.…”
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Self-supervised speech representation learning based on positive sample comparison and masking reconstruction by Wenlin ZHANG, Xuepeng LIU, Tong NIU, Qi CHEN, Dan QU

“…To solve the problem that existing contrastive prediction based self-supervised speech representation learning methods need to construct a large number of negative samples, and their performance depends on large training batches, requiring a lot of computing resources, a new speech representation learning method based on contrastive learning using only positive samples was proposed.Combined with reconstruction loss, the proposed method could obtain better representation with lower training cost.The proposed method was inspired by the idea of the SimSiam method in image self-supervised representation learning.Using the siamese network architecture, two random augmentations of the input speech signals were processed by the same encoder network, then a feed-forward network was applied on one side, and a stop-gradient operation was applied on the other side.The model was trained to maximize the similarity between two sides.During training processing, negative samples were not required, so small batch size could be used and training efficiency was improved.Experimental results show that the representation model obtained by the new method achieves or exceeds the performance of existing mainstream speech representation learning models in multiple downstream tasks.…”
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Higher-Order Amplitude Squeezing in Six-Wave Mixing Process by Sunil Rani, Jawahar Lal, Nafa Singh

“…It is found that signal-to-noise ratio is higher in lower orders. This study when supplemented with experimental observations offers possibility of improving performance of many optical devices and optical communication networks.…”
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Concurrent Intracranial and Spinal Subdural Hematoma in a Teenage Athlete: A Case Report of This Rare Entity by Daniel S. Treister, Sara E. Kingston, Gabriel Zada, Manu Singh, Jesse G. A. Jones, Jena N. Mills, Alexander Lerner, Orest B. Boyko, Meng Law, Anandh Rajamohan, Mark S. Shiroishi

“…A 15-year-old male high school football player presented with episodes of headache and complete body stiffness, especially in the arms, lower back, and thighs, immediately following a football game. …”
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Coffee Consumption and Cardiovascular Diseases – Has the Time Come to Change Dietary Advice? A Mini Review by Wierzejska Regina

“…Latest studies revealed that people who drink at least 3 cups of coffee per day are at a lower risk for type 2 diabetes, as well as liver and colon cancer. …”
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The role of communication and investment in physical culture and sports as components of a healthy lifestyle by Yaroslav Leonov, Oleksandr Lohvynenko, Tetyana Lohvynenko, Anatolii Kharakhaichuk, Tetyana Kuryllo

“…Regular physical exercise is linked to improved health, longevity, and a lower risk of chronic diseases. This study explores the role of communication in promoting a healthy lifestyle through the popularisation of physical culture and sports, and examines the economic impact of such activities. …”
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Experimental Study on Influencing Factors of Resistivity Characteristics of Fully Weathered Soft Rock Packing by LI Sha, YANG Lei, LIU Jie

“…In order to study the resistivity characteristics of fully weathered soft rock fillers,laboratory tests with different particle sizes and gradations are carried out to find out the influence of water content,particle size and coarse particle content on the resistivity characteristics of weathered soft rock fillers.The test results show that the larger the particle size and the more the content of coarse particles,the less conductive it is,and the conductivity of the weathered siltstone is slightly lower than that of the weathered argillaceous sandstone.In general,the resistivity decreases with the increase of water content,and the downward trend can be roughly divided into three stages,namely,the rapid decline,the slow decline and the gradual gradual and stable stage.The resistivity of fully weathered argillaceous sandstone filler is related to the content of coarse particles.When the water content is less than 14%,the content of coarse particles has a great influence on the resistivity.The correlation between the soil resistivity and water content is a power index function,and the relationship between the soil resistivity and dry density,water content and coarse particle content is preliminarily revealed,which provides a theoretical basis for the compaction quality detection of fully weathered clay soft rock filler.…”
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Comparison between Different Keratin-composed Biosorbents for the Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Solutions by Fawzi Banat, Sameer Al-Asheh, Dheaya‘ Al-Rousan

“…Chicken feathers showed a higher Cu 2+ ion uptake and a lower Zn 2+ ion compared to human hair. Increasing the initial concentration of Zn 2+ or Cu 2+ ions, or increasing the initial pH value, increased the metal ion uptake. …”
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Modern tests for the selection of children in performance handball by Andreea-Teodora Damaschin, Ștefan Ciobanu

“…Thus, the aim of this study is to identify a battery of tests that assess the current essential motor components of female handball players and to verify their level of development in a handball team.The tests used to evaluate the motor skills of handball players were the T-reaction test, which assesses complex reaction speed at the upper limb level, the Squat Jump, CMJ, and FJ tests, which assess the explosive strength ofthe lower limbs, the 4 Jumps test, which evaluates agility and execution speed, and a test to evaluate the strength of the palm flexors.The subjects of the research were 21 amateur female handball players aged 10±1 years who practice handball at an amateur level.We identified a series of tests in the specialized literature that we applied to the subjects of this research, and the results obtained showed a good level of development of the motor qualities evaluated among the athletes, as well as differences between the right and left limbs regarding the strength of the palm flexors.…”
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Atypical Presentation of Thoracic Disc Herniation: Case Series and Review of the Literature by Ali Shirzadi, Doniel Drazin, Sunil Jeswani, Leah Lovely, John Liu

“…Pain, sensory disturbances, myelopathy, and lower extremity weakness are the most common presenting symptoms, but other atypical extraspinal complaints, such as gastrointestinal or cardiopulmonary discomfort, may be reported. …”
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In Situ Cytokine Expression and Morphometric Evaluation of Total Collagen and Collagens Type I and Type III in Keloid Scars by Isabela Rios da Silva, Luciana Colombo Rodrigues da Cunha Tiveron, Marcos Vinicius da Silva, Alberto Borges Peixoto, Carla Aparecida Xavier Carneiro, M. A. dos Reis, Pedro Carvalho Furtado, Bárbara Rocha Rodrigues, Virmondes Rodrigues, Denise Bertulucci Rocha Rodrigues

“…Significantly, the expression of mRNA for TGF-β in keloid was increased, the expressions of IFN-γ, IFN-γR1, and IL-10 were lower, and IFN-γR1 and TNF-α had no statistical difference. …”
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Highly Time-Resolved Elemental Source Apportionment at a Prague Urban Traffic Site by Laurence C. Windell, Petra Pokorná, Jaroslav Schwarz, Petr Vodička, Philip K. Hopke, Naděžda Zíková, Radek Lhotka, Jakub Ondráček, Petr Roztočil, Michal Vojtišek, Vladimír Ždímal

“…Greater PM concentrations during winter (~3 times greater) were attributed to both lower boundary layer heights and more abundant air masses from Central Europe, compared to more marine air masses during spring.…”
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The Influence of Neck Muscle Activation on Head and Neck Injuries of Occupants in Frontal Impacts by Fan Li, Ronggui Lu, Wei Hu, Honggeng Li, Shiping Hu, Jiangzhong Hu, Haibin Wang, He Xie

“…The activation of neck muscles can not only lower the head resultant acceleration under different impact intensities and the head angular acceleration in medium- and high-speed impacts, thereby reducing the risks of head injury, but also protect the neck from injury in low-speed impacts.…”
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Inequitable distribution of risks associated with occupational heat exposure driven by trade by Meng Li, Bo Meng, Yong Geng, Fan Tong, Yuning Gao, Norihiko Yamano, Sunghun Lim, Joaquim Guilhoto, Kimiko Uno, Xiaohong Chen

“…Here we show an 89% surge in trade-related labour exposure to extreme heat, escalating from 221.5 to 419.0 billion person-hours between 1995 and 2020. Lower-middle-income and low-income economies constituted 53.7% and 18.3% of global exposure but only 5.7% and 1.0% of global labour compensation. …”
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Oxidative and Antioxidative Stress Status in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease as a Result of a Chronic Inflammatory Process by Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk, Paulina Wysocka-Wojakiewicz, Martyna Jasielska, Bożena Cukrowska, Sabina Więcek, Maria Kniażewska, Jerzy Chudek

“…The average concentration of oxidized lipoprotein with average density (oxLDL) was lower in patients with IBD. Among patients with IBD, higher concentrations of oxLDL were recorded in patients with longer-duration disease and with higher concentrations of total cholesterol. …”
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Statement on the confirmatory data following the Article 12 MRL review for triclopyr by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

“…Risk manager may consider the alternative MRL of 0.07 mg/kg for oranges, lemons, mandarins and the lowering to the specific limit of quantification (LOQ) for grapefruits, apricots and rice. …”
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Elastic, strong and tough ionically conductive elastomers by Burebi Yiming, Simon Hubert, Alex Cartier, Bruno Bresson, Gabriel Mello, Armelle Ringuede, Costantino Creton

“…{{\rm{cm}}}}^{-1}$$ 10 − 6 S . cm − 1 and stress at break of ~8 MPa, whereas the simple networks without an MNE architecture show two orders magnitude lower ionic conductivity ( $${10}^{-8}\,{{{\rm{S}}}.…”
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