Postweaning Performance of the Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina): A Neotropical Rodent with Potential for Domestication by Hannah-Marie Samantha Singh, Kegan Romelle Jones

“…Treatment 1 offsprings were weaned at four weeks, treatment 2 offsprings were weaned at three weeks, treatment 3 offsprings were weaned at two weeks, and treatment 4 offsprings were weaned at one week. …”
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Extreme Maternal Metabolic Acidosis Leading to Fetal Distress and Emergency Caesarean Section by Nicolas Cecere, Corinne Hubinont, Arnauld Kabulu Kadingi, Marie-Françoise Vincent, Peter Van den Bergh, Anna Onnela, Philippe Hantson

“…ABG revealed pH 7.06, PCO2 9 mm Hg, and bicarbonate 2 mmol/L. …”
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Transfer of aflatoxin M1 and sterigmatocystin from buffalo milk to soft cheeses by Maurizio Cossu, Andrea Sanna, Giannina Chessa, Stefano Sdogati, Ivan Pecorelli, Ilaria Di Marco Pisciottano, Sara Lambiase, Pasquale Gallo, Stefania Massafra, Elena Torres, Marilena Gili, Giovanni Lo Cascio, Antonio Vella, Roberto Condoleo, Bruno Neri, Guglielmo Militello, Gilberto Giangolini, Carlo Boselli

“…AFL was never detected (LoQ>10 ng/kg). Interestingly, the range concentration of AFM1 in the spinning water was 1.2 – 21 ng/kg. …”
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Dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, and crude fibre digestibility of local goats supplemented with herbs and humic acid by Dwatmadji Dwatmadji, Suteky Tatik, Soetrisno Edi, Situmorang Novi Yanti, Sitinjak Elsa Hotdiantama

“…The 4 treatments were the addition of herbs with No humid acid (T-0), Herbs + 2 g humid acid/goat (T-1), Herbs + 4 g humid acid/goat (T-2), and Herbs + 6 g humid acid/goat (T-3). …”
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The Use of Exogenous Lung Surfactant (Poractant Alfa) in Acute Respiratory Failure by Drowning by Mario Pezzi, Francesco Givigliano, Ottorino Perrone, Annamaria Scozzafava, Pietro Maglio, Patrizia Casella, Anna Maria Giglio, Mario Verre, Carlo Pietro Voci

“…After 24 and 48 hours of administration in all cases, there was an improvement in arterial blood gas analysis (ABG) parameters and imaging. All patients were discharged without clinical consequences.…”
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First report of fatty acid-derived alkaloids produced by species of the ladybird genus Scymnus (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) by Magro, Alexandra, Ramon-Portugal, Felipe, Touboul, David, Borges, Isabel, Hemptinne, Jean-Louis

“…Pupae are covered with setae on tips of which there are small droplets of liquid. …”
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Evidence for Negative Effects of Elevated Intra-Abdominal Pressure on Pulmonary Mechanics and Oxidative Stress by I. Davarcı, M. Karcıoğlu, K. Tuzcu, K. İnanoğlu, T. D. Yetim, S. Motor, K. T. Ulutaş, R. Yüksel

“…The serum levels of TOS and paraoxonase were significantly higher at the end of surgery in LC group. …”
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Trajectory of the arterial-alveolar oxygen gradient in COPD for a decade. by Kazuma Nagata, Susumu Sato, Kiyoshi Uemasu, Naoya Tanabe, Atsuyasu Sato, Shigeo Muro, Toyohiro Hirai

“…Arterial blood gas (ABG) analyses were conducted annually for ten years while monitoring the development of CRF.…”
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Gravitational Lensing of Charged Ayon-Beato-Garcia Black Holes and Nonlinear Effects of Maxwell Fields by H. Ghaffarnejad, M. Amirmojahedi, H. Niad

“…Nonsingular Ayon-Beato-Garcia (ABG) spherically symmetric static black hole (BH) with charge to mass ratio q=g/2m is metric solution of Born Infeld nonlinear Maxwell-Einstein theory. …”
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Butyrate Supplementation Improves Intestinal Health and Growth Performance in Livestock: A Review by Wenting Chen, Qingshan Ma, Yan Li, Lin Wei, Zhenwei Zhang, Adnan Khan, Muhammad Zahoor Khan, Changfa Wang

“…Supplementation with butyrate in livestock has been shown to increase average daily gain (ADG), improve gut microbiota balance, promote growth, enhance gut health, boost antioxidant capacity, and reduce diarrhea. …”
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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

“…A respective optimal parameter combination for BPA – cement concrete slump and strengths were obtained at 0.40, 5%, 0.4, 6 ml/kg of cement and 0.35, 5%, 0.4, 6 ml/kg of cement for W-C, BPA, F-T Agg, SP respectively. …”
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Effects of dietary compound acidifier (Biomin) on the growth, anti-oxidation, immunity, and intestinal health of juvenile channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) by Junyu Yan, Kai Luo, Bo Wang, Jiaxin He, Can Li, Jiang Zhou, Wenhao Lai, Xin Zhou, Jingwei Ye, Mingzhu Pan, Yingbing Su, Weihua Gao, Kai Guo, Chengmin Zhao

“…A total of 648 fish with similar initial body weight (143.77 ± 0.73 g) were randomly placed into 18 tanks, with 36 fish in each tank. …”
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超高效液相色谱-三重四极杆串联质谱法同时 测定植物油中4种维生素E异构体Simultaneous determination of four vitamin E isomers in vegetable oil by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography- triple quadrupole... by 李彩玲1，张见1,2，刘元法1,3，王晓超1，梅东旭1 LI Cailing1, ZHANG Jian1,2, LIU Yuanfa1,3, WANG Xiaochao1, MEI Dongxu1

“…分别对质谱条件、色谱条件及样品前处理条件进行了优化，并对检测方法进行了考察。结果表明：0.5 g样品经10 mL甲醇提取，35 mg C18粉末净化后，采用Kintex F5色谱柱（2.1 mm × 100 mm，1.7 μm）分离，以0.1%甲酸水溶液和0.1%甲酸-甲醇溶液为流动相梯度洗脱，流速0.4 mL/min,电喷雾离子源在正离子模式下进行多反应监测扫描，采用外标法对4种维生素E异构体进行定量；在该条件下，4种维生素E异构体在1～100 ng/mL质量浓度范围内线性关系良好，相关系数（R2）均在0.998以上，检出限均为6 ng/g，定量限均为20 ng/g，加标回收率范围为92.0%～108.0%，相对标准偏差为0.7%～7.1%,与国标方法测定结果相对误差在-4.3%~5.1%。…”
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响应面优化氯化胆碱-丙三醇体系提取芝麻蛋白工艺条件 "Response surface optimization of the extraction process conditions for sesame protein using choline chloride-glycerol system"... by 曹培换1，张晨霞1，刘燕2，马宇翔1，刘华敏1，郑永战1，3 "CAO Peihuan1，ZHANG Chenxia1，LIU Yan2，MA Yuxiang1， LIU Huamin1，ZHENG Yongzhan1,3"

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Protective potential of structural proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in protecting against COVID-19 by Inna V. Dolzhikova, Daria M. Grousova, Ilya D. Zorkov, Anna A. Ilyukhina, Anna V. Kovyrshina, Olga V. Zubkova, Olga D. Popova, Tatiana A. Ozharovskaya, Denis I. Zrelkin, Daria M. Savina, Ekaterina G. Samokhvalova, Amir I. Tukhvatulin, Dmitry V. Shcheblyakov, Denis Yu. Logunov, Alexander L. Gintsburg

“…The SARS-CoV-2 virus was used in the study. Transgenic mice B6.Cg-Tg(K18-ACE2)2Prlmn/J (F1) were used as model animals. …”
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The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies. IV. Survey Overview and Lifetime Star Formation Histories by Alessandro Savino, Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin, Meredith J. Durbin, Nitya Kallivayalil, Andrew Wetzel, Jay Anderson, Gurtina Besla, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Thomas M. Brown, James S. Bullock, Andrew A. Cole, Michelle L. M. Collins, M. C. Cooper, Alis J. Deason, Aaron L. Dotter, Mark Fardal, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Tobias K. Fritz, Marla C. Geha, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta, Rodrigo Ibata, Michael J. Irwin, Myoungwon Jeon, Evan N. Kirby, Geraint F. Lewis, Dougal Mackey, Steven R. Majewski, Nicolas Martin, Alan McConnachie, Ekta Patel, R. Michael Rich, Evan D. Skillman, Joshua D. Simon, Sangmo Tony Sohn, Erik J. Tollerud, Roeland P. van der Marel

“…(iv) A comparison with TNG50 and FIRE-2 simulated satellite dwarfs around M31-like hosts shows that some of these trends (dependence of SFH on satellite luminosity) are reproduced in the simulations while others (dependence of SFH on galactocentric distance, presence of the delayed-quenching population) are weaker or absent. …”
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Frequency of Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Palestine by Fekri Samarah, Mahmoud A. Srour, Dirgham Yaseen, Kamal Dumaidi

“…In all patients, autocontrol and direct antiglobulin (DAT) test were performed using polyspecific (anti-IgG + C3d) anti-human globulin (AHG) gel cards for the detection of autoantibodies. …”
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Injectable trace minerals administration to beef cattle at arrival: effects on growth performance, respiratory disease and serum antioxidant status by Silvia Grossi, Riccardo Compiani, Marcello Guadagnini, Andrea Rosati, Carlo Angelo Sgoifo Rossi

“…MM animals had significantly improved average daily gain (ADG0-50) (1.244 vs 1.201 kg/head/d) (p = 0.002), final weight at d50 (448 vs 446 kg) (p = 0.0203) and feed conversion rate (FCR) (6.90 vs 7.52) (p < 0.0001) compared to CON, with a tendency towards a significantly lower individual feed intake (FI) (8.46 vs 8.66 kg/head/d) (p = 0.0558). …”
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Quantification of Free Circulating DNA and Differential Methylation Profiling of Selected Genes as Novel Non-Invasive Biomarkers for Endometriosis Diagnosis by Moncef Benkhalifa, Pierre Alain Menoud, David Piquemal, Jack Y. Hazout, Sami Mahjoub, Mohammed Zarquaoui, Noureddine Louanjli, Rosalie Cabry, Andre Hazout

“…We found a significant difference between the two groups when Cf-DNA was quantified, with 3.9 times more Cf-DNA in the serum of women with endometriosis. …”
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The Role of Therapeutic Anticoagulation in COVID-19 by Ruth McGovern, Patrick Conway, Isabell Pekrul, Omar Tujjar

“…The chest X-ray was not dissimilar to previous exams, and the ABG showed hypoxia with normal pCO2 values. The decision was made to commence empiric therapeutic enoxaparin. …”
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