Assessment of Biosecurity Status in Commercial Chicken Farms Found in Bishoftu Town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia by Abdulbari Ismael, Adem Abdella, Shihun Shimelis, Asamenew Tesfaye, Yimer Muktar

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Effects of Different Technological Forms of the Perilla frutescens in the Diet on Ruminal Fermentation, Milk and Plasma Fatty Acid Composition, Ruminal Biohydrogenation and Milk Qu... by Selma Büyükkılıç Beyzi, İsmail Ülger, Emrah Kaya, Buğra Ocak, Yusuf Konca

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Shrimp White Spot Viral Infections Are Attenuated by Organic Acids by Regulating the Expression of HO-1 Oxygenase and β-1,3-Glucan-Binding Protein by Ioan Pet, Igori Balta, Nicolae Corcionivoschi, Tiberiu Iancu, Ducu Stef, Lavinia Stef, Iuliana Cretescu

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Household dietary diversity and associated factors in rural and peri-urban areas of Mbale District, Eastern Uganda by Sunday Mark Oyet, Robert Mbabazi Kaahwa, Christopher Muggaga, Duncan Ongeng, Ipolto Okello-Uma

“…However, significant differences were observed in the consumption of cereals and roots/tubers/plantains (p < 0.05), while intake of animal-source foods and fruits remained generally low across both settings. …”
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A consort‐guided randomized, blinded, controlled clinical trial on the effects of 6 weeks training on heart rate variability in thoroughbred horses by Emma Santosuosso, Renaud Léguillette, Sierra Shoemaker, Ryan Baumwart, Sierra Temple, Kaneesha Hemmerling, Tessa Kell, Warwick Bayly

“…Methods Linear domain HRV variables were analyzed (high frequency [HF], low frequency [LF], their normalized units [Hfnu, Lfnu], root mean square of successive differences between beats [RMSSD], Poincaré plot features [SD1 and SD2]) while resting overnight before (baseline) and after 2, 4 and 6 weeks of training. …”
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Metabolomics Biomarkers in Prediction of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: The Role of Short Chain Fatty Acids by Maria Aslam, Omer Riaz, Jawaria Aslam, Dost Muhammad Khan, Mustafa Hameed, Muhammad Suleman, Rizwan Shahid, Turke Althobaiti, Naeem Ramzan

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Prevalence of asymptomatic Leishmania donovani infection and associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Habtamu Belay, Adugna Abera, Esayas Aklilu, Tesfahun Bishaw, Ayinalem Alemu, Geremew Tasew, Berhanu Erko

“…Six types of laboratory testing methods were employed. …”
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Association Between Weight-Adjusted Waist Index and Cognitive Function in Older Adults Without Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study by Wang Q, Yin Y, Liu W, Li L, Wang Z, Tian Y, Fan J

“…WWI was calculated using waist circumference divided by the square root of body weight. We employed linear univariate and multivariate analyses, along with curve fitting, we conducted subgroup and interaction analyses to elucidate the relationships under investigation.Results: The study incorporated a cohort of 1649 participants aged 60 years and older, each with a complete set of data, enabling a thorough analysis. …”
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Impact of Serum Prolactin and Testosterone Levels on the Clinical Parameters of Dry Eye in Pregnant Women by Samuel Kyei, Richard K. Dadzie Ephraim, Stephen Animful, Madison Adanusa, Stephen Karim Ali-Baya, Belinda Akorsah, Mabel Antwiwaa Sekyere, Kofi Asiedu

“…The correlation analysis indicated that testosterone concentration did not significantly correlate with any of the clinical parameters hence it was not included in the linear regression analysis. …”
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Predicting egg production rate and egg weight of broiler breeders based on machine learning and Shapley additive explanations by Hengyi Ji, Yidan Xu, Ganghui Teng

“…This study provides scientific evidence for predicting the production performance of broiler breeders. …”
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Development of an Alternative Protocol to Study Muscle Fatigue by Daniela A. Alambarrio, Benjamin K. Morris, R. Benjamin Davis, Emily B. Grabarczyk, Kari K. Turner, John M. Gonzalez

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Investigating the Occurrence of Soil-Transmitted Parasites Contaminating Soil, Vegetables, and Green Fodder in the East of Nile Delta, Egypt by Samah H. Yahia, Samia E. Etewa, Abd Allah A. Al Hoot, Salwa Z. Arafa, Nesreen S. Saleh, Mohamed H. Sarhan, Suzan I. Rashad, Shimaa S. Hassan

“…Food-borne parasites are major sources of human and animal illness, posing severe health risks in places with contaminated soil, poor water quality, cleanliness, and poor sanitation. …”
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Effect of supplementing epinephrine in maturation media on the developmental competence of buffalo oocytes by Ali Husnain, Abdul Khaliq, Talha Ashraf, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Yasir Zahoor, Muhammad Binyameen, Amjad Riaz

“…The statistical model included the fixed effect of treatment and random replication. …”
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Effect of temporal water restrictions on drinking behavior and time budget in lactating dairy cows according to their position in the social hierarchy within the herd by E. Nizzi, O. Dhumez, C. Hurtaud, A. Boudon

“…Hourly lying time decreased at the end of the water restriction periods, that is, at 1000 h in HL, at 1100 h in D2H, and at 1200 and 1300 h in D4H, which was not observed in CTRL, which could be interpreted as a sign of cow discomfort. …”
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Association between sperm motility in thawed semen and pregnancy rate in Mediterranean buffaloes by Armando Quintero-Moreno, Carla Osorio Meléndez, Héctor Nava-Trujillo, Jorge Rubio Guillén, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Añez, Adriana Camacho de Gutiérrez

“…In contrast, the buffalo bulls with lower fertility (C and D) had a considerable decrease in sperm with high velocity (Z: 4.84%) or immobile (6.24%) (p>0.01). There is an evident association between the average speed (VAP) provided by the CASA system and the PR in this species. …”
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Egg freshness during storage: the effect of laying hen age and shelf life prediction using a novel hybrid modeling method by Yifeng Lu, Jing Li, Zihao He, Linyun Chen, Huixin Tian, Chen Xu, Xinglian Xu, Minyi Han

“…A novel hybrid model combining BP-ANN, cuckoo search and adaptive boosting (CS-BP-AdaBoost) was proposed for predicting the remaining egg shelf life, with the input being Haugh unit, yolk index, air cell depth, albumen pH, hen age, and breed. …”
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Characterization of the Collagen Extraction Manufacturing Process Using Markov Chains and Artificial Neural Networks by Rosa Trasvina-Osorio, Sergio Alonso-Romero, Juan de Anda-Suarez, Valentin Calzada-Ledesma, Javier Yanez-Mendiola, Luis Fernando Villanueva-Jimenez, Erick Rojas-Mancera

“…MCMC-ANN can be applied to any case that requires a deeper analysis with more data or experiments.…”
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Quais et ouvrages portuaires romains de Rouen/Rotomagus (Seine-Maritime) by Marie-Clotilde Lequoy

“…These vestiges could only be very briefly observed, as they were discovered during the construction of an underground car park, following the excavation of the northern portion of the town square. This discovery consists of a wall, located precisely at the level of an interruption of the slope of the bank, and which traversed the entire area from east to west, over a length of more than 40 m. …”
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Rome à la campagne : les décors en pierre de la villa de la Grande Boussue à Nouvelles (Mons, Belgique) by Catherine Coquelet, Roland Dreesen, Éric Goemaere, Éric Leblois, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier

“…The remains of the Nouvelles villa (Mons, Belgium) were discovered by Émile de la Roche de Marchiennes at the end of the 19th century. …”
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae in black rats, pets, and humans in Zungarococha community, A rural area in the surroundings of Iquitos, Peru by Cusi Ferradas, Guillermo Salvatierra, David Payahuanca, Winnie Contreras, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Therangika A. Hangawatte, Diana León, Bruno M. Ghersi, Ricardo Gamboa, Katia Manzanares Villanueva, Viviana Pinedo-Cancino, Risa Pesapane, Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Andrés G. Lescano, Janet Foley

“…There are scarce data on rickettsial ecology in rural areas of the Peruvian Amazon basin, where seroprevalence has not been determined, and the identities of animals acting as reservoirs of these bacteria are not known. …”
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