WINTER BIOENERGETICS OF EASTERN WILD TURKEYS: UNDERSTANDING ENERGY BALANCE AND SURVIVAL IN NORTHERN POPULATIONS by Peter J. Pekins

“…In such situations adult hens have survival advantage over juvenile hens due to more body fat and lower FMR (kJ/kg/d). Use of available supplemental food is predictable and a function of energy balance that is strongly influenced by snow conditions that reduce quantity and quality of forage. …”
Get full text

Oral health-related quality of life of edentulous patients after complete dentures relining by Krunić Nebojša, Kostić Milena, Petrović Milica, Igić Marko

“…The patients with soft denture relines were more satisfied. Conclusion. Relining of maxillary complete dentures significantly positively impacts the quality of life of patients in all the tested domains (masticatory function, psychological discomfort, social disability, pain and oral hygiene). …”
Get full text

Impact of a First-Order Riparian Zone on Nitrogen Removal and Export from an Agricultural Ecosystem by J.T. Angier, G.W. McCarty, T.J. Gish, C.S.T. Daughtry

“…However, riparian zone function can vary under different conditions, with varying impacts on the regional (and ultimately global) environment. …”
Get full text

Efficient Methodology for Power Management Optimization of Hybrid-Electric Aircraft by Giuseppe Palaia, Karim Abu Salem, Erasmo Carrera

“…The power supplied by the thermal engine, modeled as a time piecewise function, is a design variable; a parametric study on the number of intervals composing this function is performed. …”
Get full text

Effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus on production performance and immunity of broiler chickens and their mechanism by Jinmei Liu, Hongxia Gu, Rui Jia, Shuzhen Li, Zhimin Chen, Aijuan Zheng, Wenhuan Chang, Guohua Liu

“…IntroductionLactobacillus species have attracted more and more attention as a potential antibiotic substitute for human health and animal production due to their remarkable antibacterial effects. …”
Get full text

Enhancing the thermal conductivity and viscosity of ethylene glycol-based single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) nanofluid: An investigation utilizing equilibrium molecular dynamics... by Shubhankar Sarkar, Papiya Pal, Nanda Kumar Ghosh

“…To validate the results, radial distribution function (RDF) and stress autocorrelation function (SACF) have been estimated. …”
Get full text

EFFECTS OF ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTION VS. THROMBOLYSIS ON INTRACARDIAC HEMODYNAMICS AND LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELLING IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION by M. Kh. Makoeva, S. P. Semitko, A. G. Avtandilov

“…To assess the dynamics of myocardial contractility, geometry, and diastolic function in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) after endovascular intervention vs. thrombolysis. …”
Get full text

Effects of Integrating Music Therapy into Family Support System on Adolescent Depression by Jie Zhou, Liying Liu, Lipeng Zheng

“…The FAD score in the music therapy group improved more significantly in dimensions such as problem-solving, communication, emotional involvement, behavior control, and overall function than that of the conventional group (P < 0.05). …”
Get full text

Pitch characteristics of real-world infant-directed speech vary with pragmatic context, perceived adult gender, and infant gender. by Emily M Neer, Anvi Brahmbhatt, Catherine R Walsh, Anne S Warlaumont

“…Adult speakers used significantly more imperatives and questions and sang more frequently to infants than other adults. …”
Get full text

Evidence of Subsurface Control on the Coevolution of Hillslope Morphology and Runoff Generation by David G. Litwin, Ciaran J. Harman

“…We found that hillslopes were systematically shorter and saturated areas more dynamic at the lower transmissivity site. To test whether these features could be the result of coevolution between topography, hydrological function, and subsurface properties, we estimated all parameters of a coupled groundwater‐landscape evolution model for each site. …”
Get full text

Correlations of Free Thyroid Hormones Measured by Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Immunoassay in Dogs by Raffaella Sasso, Marcello Siniscalchi, Serenella d’Ingeo, Gianluca Ventriglia, Candida Bitetto, Angelo Quaranta

“…Although CLEIA is cost-effective and widely used for screening, LC-MS/MS is recommended for the more precise assessment of thyroid function.…”
Get full text

Camparision Results of Administration of Glucoseamine and Glucoseamine with Alendronate in Symptomatic Relieve of Knee DJD by Hamid Reza Arti, Seyed Abdolhossin Mehdinasab, Naser Sarafan

“…Several studies explain that glocosamine Is better than plasebo and its efficacy is more in comparison with NSAID in knee osteoarthritic patient.Alendronate is prescribed for osteoprothic patients. …”
Get full text

A Prediction Method for Postconstruction Settlement of Pile-Soil Composite Subgrade Based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation by Hao Shan, Guanghui Jiang, Yajing Chang, Junli Cheng, Baoning Hong, Shengcheng Wang

“…Secondly, each factor index was standardized, and the normal distribution function in the form of exponential was used to construct the standard membership function for the first and second factor indexes. …”
Get full text

Cryo-EM structures of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in liposomes by Vikram Dalal, Brandon K Tan, Hanrui Xu, Wayland WL Cheng

“…It has been suggested that large nanodiscs are superior for supporting membrane protein function. However, ELIC localizes to the rim of large circularized nanodiscs, and structures of ELIC in large nanodiscs deviate from the liposome structures more than those in small nanodiscs. …”
Get full text

Visual Positioning Detection of EMU Brake Pad Based on Deep Learning by GUAN Chunling, XU Yingjie, SONG Yuechao

“…To address the issue of indistinct image features in real-world scenarios, based on the Faster R-CNN (region conventional neural network) algorithm, an edge detection branch is introduced, and a target edge loss function is added to the loss function, integrating edge information from an auxiliary network. …”
Get full text

Media Project: Concept, Features, Aspects of Quality Management by V. A. Plotnikov, O. A. Shamina

“…Trends in the consumption of media products are considered: the media are becoming more and more entertaining; strengthening the primacy of the function of satisfying consumer requests before the function of education and upbringing; consumer expectations are simplified.…”
Get full text

The relation between neck strength and psychological distress: preliminary evidence from collegiate soccer athletes by Tara Porfido, Nicola L de Souza, Allison M Brown, Jennifer F Buckman, Brian D Fanning, James S Parrott, Carrie Esopenko

“…Aim: To examine whether neck strength and symmetry are associated with psychological function in athletes with exposure to repetitive head impacts. …”
Get full text

Schatzki ring as a symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease by M. D. Levin, G. Mendel'son

“…When in a horizontal position, this portion of the esophagus evacuates its contents into the tomach as a result of ampullary function. It is proximally closed by ontracting the functional proximal sphincter (PS). …”
Get full text

An Algorithm for Extracting Features of Basketball Players' Foul Actions Based on an Attention Mechanism by Peng Wang

“…After fusion, the feature fusion results are input into the classifier with the cross-entropy loss function as the loss function, and the probability value of each possible foul action and the tag target probability are output, complete basketball player foul action feature extraction. …”
Get full text

Sex-specific differences in preclinical models of advanced chronic liver disease and portal hypertension by Peio Aristu-Zabalza, María Andrés-Rozas, Zoe Boyer-Díaz, David P. Al-Adra, Douglas Maya-Miles, Sergi Guixé-Muntet, Anabel Fernández-Iglesias, Jordi Gracia-Sancho

“…No differences were observed in hepatic microvascular function. In the BDL model, females had more fenestrae and porosity, and less fibrosis. …”
Get full text