Effects of environmental enrichment and lack of beak trimming on aspects of health, behaviour and production of commercial turkeys by Josiane G. Busatta, Luciana Foppa, Jhonatan Sperandio, Daniele S. Martins, Cristiane G. Titto

“… Aim of study: The purpose of this study was to verify whether the insertion of a pecking object as an environmental enrichment (EE) would be sufficient to prevent the beak trimming (BT) process in turkeys. Area of study: Southern Brazil. …”
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Detection of Erythropoietin in Exhaled Breath Condensate of Nonhypoxic Subjects Using a Multiplex Bead Array by Christian Schumann, Kathy Triantafilou, Stefan Krueger, Vinzenz Hombach, Martha Triantafilou, Gunther Becher, Philipp M. Lepper

“…Using a multiplex fluorescent bead immunoassay, we detected EPO in EBC, as well as tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in 13 out of 22 patients simultaneously (EPO 0.21 ± 0.03 in U/mL and TNF-α 34.6 ± 4.2 in pg/mL, mean ± SEM). …”
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Dietary and plasma atherogenic and thrombogenic indices and cardiometabolic risk factors among overweight and individuals with obesity by Reyhaneh Mokhtari, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi

“…Abstract Background Obesity and hyperlipidemia are the two central metabolic disorders linked to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). …”
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Mechanistic relationship between obesity-induced inflammation triggering endothelial dysfunction and the initiation of atherosclerosis development by Richard L. Jayaraj, Elhadi H Aburawi

Subjects: “…obesity…”
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Application of a Realistic Evaluation Approach on Three Public Health Programs Aiming at Prevention of Obesity by Vasiliki Kolovou

“…Rich literature abounds concerning the clinical effectiveness of programs aiming to produce weight gain/obesity prevention outcomes. However, there is very little evidence on how these outcomes are produced, and what interplay of factors made those programs effective (or not) in the environment that produced those effects. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnostic Method Based on VMD-AR Model and Random Forest Classifier by Te Han, Dongxiang Jiang

“…Targeting the nonstationary and non-Gaussian characteristics of vibration signal from fault rolling bearing, this paper proposes a fault feature extraction method based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) and autoregressive (AR) model parameters. …”
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Fresh Produce Handling, Sanitation, and Safety Measures: Beans, Cucumbers, Eggplants, Squash, Peppers, Sweetcorn by M. Mahovic, Jeffrey Brecht, Steven Sargent, Mark Ritenour, Keith Schneider, Amy Simonne, Jerry Bartz

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Structural Parameter Identification of Fixed End Beams by Inverse Method Using Measured Natural Frequencies by T. Türker, A. Bayraktar

“…The solution of free bending transverse vibration of the beam is obtained by solving the differential equation motion of Bernoulli-Euler beam. …”
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THE LOST ANCESTOR OF THE BROAD BEAN (VICIA FABA L.) AND THE ORIGIN OF PLANT CULTIVATION IN THE NEAR EAST by O. E. Kosterin

“…The broad bean (Vicia faba L.) was among the founder crops of the Near East; nevertheless, its wild close relatives remain unknown. …”
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Modeling Approach for Predicting the Rate of Frequency Change of Notched Beam Exposed to Gaussian Random Excitation by Ed Habtour, Mark Paulus, Abhijit Dasgupta

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Coupling Beams’ Shear Capacity Prediction by Hybrid Support Vector Regression and Particle Swarm Optimization by Emad A. Abood, Mustafa Kamal Al-Kamal, Sabih Hashim Muhodir, Nadia Moneem Al-Abdaly, Luís Filipe Almeida Bernardo, Dario De Domenico, Hamza Imran

Subjects: “…coupling beams…”
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The Application of Orthogonal Wavelet Transformation: Support Vector Data Description in Evaluating the Performance and Health of Bearings by Weipeng Li, Yan Cao, Lijuan Li, Siyu Hou

“…Finally, the performance and health of bearings are evaluated with HI. According to the classification of two sets of experimental data of rolling bearings, the proposed method better reflects the degeneration of bearing’s performance compared with the (SVDD) HI value without extraction of characteristic value, being entirely able to evaluate the entire life cycle of bearings from normal operation to fault and degradation. …”
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Accuracy of Linear Measurements of Galileos Cone Beam Computed Tomography in Normal and Different Head Positions by Mahnaz Sheikhi, Sajad Ghorbanizadeh, Mehrdad Abdinian, Hossein Goroohi, Hamid Badrian

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The Hybrid KICA-GDA-LSSVM Method Research on Rolling Bearing Fault Feature Extraction and Classification by Jiyong Li, Shunming Li, Xiaohong Chen, Lili Wang

“…Rolling element bearings are widely used in high-speed rotating machinery; thus proper monitoring and fault diagnosis procedure to avoid major machine failures is necessary. …”
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Study on the Dynamic Problems of Double-Disk Rotor System Supported by Deep Groove Ball Bearing by Yang Liu, Jiyuan Han, Siyao Zhao, Qingyu Meng, Tuo Shi, Hui Ma

“…Aiming at the analysis of the dynamic characteristics of the rotor system supported by deep groove ball bearings, the dynamic model of the double-disk rotor system supported by deep groove ball bearings was established. …”
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Optimization of Calcined Beans Pod Ash – Cement Blended Concrete Mix Using Taguchi Method by Oluwatoyin P Joseph, Adeola A Adedeji, Mokuolu A Olubunmi, Alomaja A Jonathan, Emmanuel O Ajadi

Subjects: “…Beans-pod…”
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A Broadband Vibration-Based Energy Harvester Using an Array of Piezoelectric Beams Connected by Springs by V. Meruane, K. Pichara

“…Piezoelectric cantilevered beams have been widely used as vibration-based energy harvesters. …”
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Defensive Adaptations and Natural Enemies of a Case-Bearing Beetle, Exema Canadensis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Richard B. Root, Frank J. Messina

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INFLUENCE OF LASER BEAM PROFILE ON LIGHT SCATTERING BY HUMAN SKIN DURING PHOTOMETRY BY ELLIPSOIDAL REFLECTORS by M. A. Bezuglyi, N. V. Bezuglaya, S. Kostuk

“…For highly scattered corneous layer and epidermis the illumination of middle and external rings of photometric images changes depending from the laser beam profile for more than 50 % in transmitted and 30 % in reflected light. …”
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Stabilization mechanism of white kidney bean based milk through novel perspectives of endogenous starch by Chunli Kong, Yixuan Zhang, Yimei Hu, Caiping Duan, Zheng Yan, Sumei Zhou

Subjects: “…White kidney bean…”
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