Good practice for assignment of breeds and populations—a review by H. Wilmot, H. Wilmot, N. Gengler

“…After an appropriate quality control of markers and the building of a representative reference population, three main steps can be followed to develop a genomic breed/population assignment tool: 1) The selection of discriminant markers, 2) The development of a model that allows accurate assignment of animals to their breed/population of origin, the so-called classification step, and, 3) The validation of the developed model on new animals to evaluate its performances in real conditions. The first step can be avoided when a mid- or low-density chip is used, depending on the methodology used for assignment. …”
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Bound states and atomic interaction in giant atom waveguide QED with dispersive coupling by Mingzhu Weng, Zhihai Wang

“…We demonstrate the relative position dependent atomic coupling and explore its application in the state transfer. We find that the transfer fidelity of a superposition state can approach 0.999. …”
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Dietary supplementation of composite feed additive reduces enteric methane production and enhances feed efficiency, milk production and immunity in Murrah buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) by Avijit Dey, Shyam S. Paul, Satbir S. Dahiya, Ashok K. Balhara, Jerome Andonissamy, Balbir S. Punia, Yendrembam M. Chanu

“…The feed supplement was developed at the institute, composed of an ideal combination of methane inhibitors, alternate hydrogen sinks, and some rumen-stimulating agents (Indian Patent Grant No. 388717 dated 08.02.2022) and its efficacy examined through a series of in vitro experiments. …”
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Peripheral Arterial Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Is Associated with an Increase in Fibrinogen Levels by Qin-Fen Chen, Dan Cao, Ting-Ting Ye, Hui-Hui Deng, Hong Zhu

“…The present study is undertaken to investigate the fibrinogen levels in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its relation to peripheral artery disease (PAD) based on a more accurate and applied noninvasive measurements of duplex ultrasonography. …”
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Brown Dog Tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latreille (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae) by Cynthia C. Lord

“… The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latreille, is unusual among ticks, in that it can complete its entire life cycle indoors. Because of this, it can establish populations in colder climates, and has been found in much of the world. …”
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Dapagliflozin inhibits ferroptosis to improve chronic heart failure by regulating Nrf2/HO-1/GPX4 signaling pathway. by Jing Zhang, Xuefeng Chen, Shilin Lv, Qingqing Hao

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Dapagliflozin can improve heart failure by inhibiting oxidative stress and ferroptosis, and its mechanism may be related to the regulation of Nrf2/HO-1/GPX4 signaling pathway.…”
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Assessment of vitamin D-related knowledge, attitudes and practices among Sultan Qaboos University students in Oman: a cross-sectional study by Rahma Said Al Hadhrami, Rehab Al Kaabi, Hajer Juma Al Shuaibi, Rawan Salim Al Abdulsalam

“…Despite being a sun-rich country, vitamin D deficiency is widespread in Oman (87.5%).Aim This study aimed to evaluate knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding vitamin D among university students in Oman to assess the need for additional awareness campaigns.Methods and sitting This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted from September to December 2022 and involved 399 students enrolled in various degree programmes at the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Muscat, Oman, using self-administered, 38-item vitamin D-related KAP (D-KAP-38) questionnaire to collect information regarding the participants’ vitamin D-related general knowledge, nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practices.Results Of the 399 college students, 384 (96.2%) were Omani nationals, 283 (70.9%) were women and 255 (64.1%) were between the ages of 20 and 26 years. …”
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Association between social determinants of health and premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and sex differences in US adults: A cross-sectional study by Chun Yang, Na Zhang, Tiankuo Gao, Yingxin Zhu, Chen Gong, Mingyue Xu, Cuicui Feng

“…Weighted logistic regression models were used to examine the relationship between SDoH (including eight sub-items and the cumulative number of unfavorable SDoH) and premature ASCVD. …”
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Logic-Based Security Architecture for Systems Providing Multihop Communication by Iman Almomani, Eman Al-Banna, Mousa AL-Akhras

“…Several standards define security requirements and enforcers, such as ITU-T Recommendations X.800 and X.805. It is essential to specify and analyze protocols to know which security requirements they achieve. …”
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Compte rendu de : Flaubert 6. Fiction et philosophie, avec des notes inédites de Flaubert sur la philosophie de Spinoza et de Hegel, textes réunis et présentés par Gisèle Séginger,... by Éric Le Calvez

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Genome Characterization of Mammalian Orthoreovirus and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Isolated from the Same Fattening Pig by Xiaoxuan Li, Jiakai Zhao, Jingjie Li, Yangzong Xiri, Zhixiang Liu, Qin Zhao, Yani Sun

“…Compared with CV777 and other PEDV variant strains, its spike (S) protein exhibited two unique mutations (S663T and L966M). …”
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Robust Spectrum Sensing Demonstration Using a Low-Cost Front-End Receiver by Daniele Borio, Emanuele Angiuli, Raimondo Giuliani, Gianmarco Baldini

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The Model of the Success of Settlement Twinning in the Hungarian-Croatian Cross-Border Region by Krisztina Keller, Kristina Svržnjak, Nikoletta Kaszás

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Investigation of the application of an automated monitoring system for detecting transmission cable deterioration in Nigeria: A case study of transmission cable lines between Offa... by C.S. Omoniabipi, R. Agbadede, K.C. Emmanuel, O.J. Adewuni, I. Allison

“…The best classification performance achieved a minimum mean squared error (MSE) of 0.074346 after 24 iterations (epochs) of training, validation, and testing. …”
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Fetal cardiac function in pregnancy affected by congenital heart disease: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study by Anna Erenbourg, Tracie Barber, Vera Cecotti, Stefano Faiola, Ilaria Fantasia, Tamara Stampaljia, Hagai Avnet, Beata Radzymińska-Chruściel, Neama Meriki, Alec Welsh

“…Functional parameters could potentially identify fetuses at risk of cardiac failure before its development. However, these techniques have not translated from research to clinical settings, due to a lack of standardization and poor repeatability. …”
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Transendothelial migration of the Lyme disease spirochete involves spirochete internalization as an intermediate step through a transcellular pathway that involves Cdc42 and Rac1 by Daiana Alvarez-Olmedo, Claire Kamaliddin, Theodore B. Verhey, May Ho, Rebekah De Vinney, George Chaconas

“…ABSTRACT Despite its importance in pathogenesis, the hematogenous dissemination pathway of Borrelia burgdorferi is still largely uncharacterized. …”
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Sapote Fruit Fly, Serpentine Fruit Fly, Anastrepha serpentina (Wiedemann) (Insecta: Dipera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr.

“…It is an important species in Mexico because its larvae infest sapote (Caloca.rpum spp.), sapodilla (Achras zapota), willowleaf lucuma (Lucuma salicifolia) and related fruits. …”
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Vie et œuvre d’Eugène Poilane (1888-1964) by Ariadna Burgos, Benoît Carré

“…He spent over half a century in Indochina and, was able to fit in well in the society, even embodying some of its most tragic upheavals. His various observations, mostly unpublished, can be found on the labels of his herbarium specimens, in his notebooks, as well as in a set of manuscripts and correspondence which he bequeathed to the MNHN. …”
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CONTENT OF MODERN EDUCATION: CHOICE OF THE PATH by V. A. Testov

“…Modernization of education and formation of its content according to modern realities and the prospects of society development appear to be the most acute issues since the future of the country depends on their decision. …”
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Geranylgeranyl Transferase-I Knockout Inhibits Oxidative Injury of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Attenuates Diabetes-Accelerated Atherosclerosis by Guo-Ping Chen, Jian Yang, Guo-Feng Qian, Wei-Wei Xu, Xiao-Qin Zhang

“…Our previous studies found that GGTase-I played an important role in diabetes-accelerated atherosclerosis. However, its exact role is largely unclear. In this study, mouse conditional knockout of VSMC GGTase-I (Pggt1bΔ/Δ mice) was generated using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. …”
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