Review: Feed efficiency and metabolic flexibility in livestock by W.M. Rauw, L.H. Baumgard, J.C.M. Dekkers

“…This review evaluates the relationship between metabolic flexibility and feed efficiency during anabolism (growth), fasting, immune activation, general stress, and heat stress, with a focus on pig production. We start with a brief overview of energy processes and substrate metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and protein. …”
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اعتماد برنامج المکتبات والمعلومات بجامعة المنوفية : المشکلات والصعوبات by فاطمة خمیس

“…The study aimed to identify the problems and difficulties that the Librariesand Information Department faced when applying the standards, indicators,elements and characteristics of the evaluation and accreditation guide for theeducational program in higher education institutions and Al-Azhar through theexperience of accrediting the Library and Information Program at the University ofMenoufia.The study identified problems at the level of five main axes focused Thefirst axis focused on problems from a formal point of view, while the second axisdealt with coding at the level of standards, while the third axis represented theabsence of forms for questionnaires required for accreditation, while the fourthaxis devoted to problems at the level of procedures, and finally the fifth axisaddressed problems at the level of relationships between standards, Theresearcher used the Descriptive Analytical Methodology, as the researcheranalyzed the actual content of the actual application of the evaluation andaccreditation guide for the educational program in higher education institutionsand Al-Azhar through the experience of accrediting the library and informationprogram at the University of Menoufia , The study reached to identify thoseproblems in the above five axes, the most important of which are the presence ofindicators, elements and characteristics in other than their correct locations, therecurrence of coding at the level of the first three criteria under each of theprogram management axis and the axis of educational effectiveness, theabsence of models of questionnaires required to meet the criteria , The guidedoes not include flowcharts in which the starting point and the end point arespecified to meet the standard, the absence of a model procedural guide thatclarifies the steps of work within the standard and one of the most importantrecommendations of the study is the preparation of a model procedural guide bythe National Authority to ensure the quality of education and accreditationclarifies the method of work within Evaluation and accreditation guide for the  educational program in higher education institutions and Al-Azhar, preparing anew edition of the "evaluation and accreditation guide for the educationalprogram in higher education and Al-Azhar institutions taking into account thefollowing: Non-repetition of coding at the level of the first three criteria under boththe program management axis and the educational effectiveness axis and toinclude The new version of the guide provides flow charts that define a point Thestart and the end point to meet the standard…”
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Standalone Containment Analysis of Four Phébus Tests with the ASTEC and the MELCOR Codes by Bruno Gonfiotti, Sandro Paci

“…After the severe accident (SA) occurred at the Three-Miles Island Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), important efforts on the investigation of the different phenomena during this kind of accidents have been started. Several experimental campaigns investigating one phenomenon at time or the combination of two or more phenomena have been performed. …”
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Noi cercetări arheologice la cetatea Saschiz I. Incinta exterioară by Marcu Istrate, D., Dobrotă, S., Rezi, B., Gál, S.

“…This paper, the first one in the series, concerns the findings from the area of the outer ward, of which at the start of the research only the ruins of the two towers that were flanking the southern entrance could still be clearly discerned. …”

Feminism and Faith: Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts by Arina LUNGU-CIRSTEA

“…Whatever their personal choices, Christian spirituality turns out to be a key factor in determining the specific place they – or indeed their fictional heroines – occupy in the social world. Taking as a starting point the idea that “the identities of place are always unfixed, contested and multiple” (Doreen Massey), this essay focuses on these writers” efforts to assert women’s spiritual identity against the rigid boundaries of the social spaces they are often confined into.…”
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Course of Hyperkalemia in Patients on Hemodialysis by Bruce Spinowitz, Steven Fishbane, Masafumi Fukagawa, Martin Ford, Nicolas Guzman, Anjay Rastogi

“…In DIALIZE, 196 patients receiving hemodialysis three times weekly were randomized to placebo or sodium zirconium cyclosilicate 5 g starting dose once daily on nondialysis days for 8 weeks. …”
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THE ANALYSIS OF THE ARTISTIC AND GRAPHIC DESIGN OF THE HUMOROUS MAGAZINE «BALDA» IN THE CONTEXT OF SPECIALIZED EDITIONS OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY by Svetlana N. Sheveleva

“…Despite the fact, that the arrest of the magazine was later lifted, the editorial board decided to close the magazine «Balda» by starting to publish the satirical, humorous and caricature magazine of the workers of the printing and bookbinding business «Topor». …”
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High-resolution Cryo-EM Structure Determination of a-Synuclein—A Prototypical Amyloid Fibril by Juan Sanchez, Joshua Pierson, Collin Borcik, Chad Rienstra, Elizabeth Wright

“…This workflow should serve as a starting point for individuals new to the neurodegeneration and structural biology fields. …”
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Development of a guide for continuous positive airway pressure use - A good fit: Making continuous positive airway pressure work for you by Adeel Meraj, Lauren Koep, Muhammad R. Baig

“…Positive airway pressure (PAP) NAP, a daytime sleep study for patients with anxiety about starting CPAP and exposure-based cognitive behavioural interventions are the mainstay for the management of CPAP intolerance. …”
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Phase Ib open-label, multicenter study of pixatimod, an activator of TLR9, in combination with nivolumab in subjects with microsatellite-stable metastatic colorectal cancer, metast... by Matthew Burge, David Goldstein, Andrew Haydon, Nick Pavlakis, Charlotte Lemech, Edward Hammond, Darryn Bampton, Keith Dredge, Michael P Brown, Andrew Clouston, Nigel J Waterhouse, Amanda C Stanley, Lucie Leveque-El Mouttie, Grace M Chojnowski

“…Objectives included assessment of safety, antitumor activity, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetic profile.Results Fifty-eight participants started treatment. The maximum tolerated dose of pixatimod was 25 mg in combination with 240 mg nivolumab, which was used in the expansion phases of the study. …”
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Cohort profile: Anhui Maternal–Child Health Study in China by Yunxia Cao, Ruoling Chen, Weiju Zhou, Xiaofeng Xu, Xiaoqing Peng, Jiaqian Yin, Chunmei Liang, Ranjit Khutan, Fang-Biao Tao

“…Purpose The Anhui Maternal–Child Health Study (AMCHS) aims to examine determinants of reproduction, pregnancy and postpartum maternal and child health outcomes in Chinese women who received assisted reproductive technology (ART).Study design and participants AMCHS is an ongoing cohort study starting from May 2017. AMCHS recruits participants from all couples who sought ART treatment in the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China. …”
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Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Pressure and B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels Guidance of Low-Dose Furosemide Treatment to Prevent Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in Patients with Per... by Guoqiang Gu, Demin Liu, Rui Lu, Wei Cui

“…Patients enrolled received a continuous intravenous infusion of normal saline starting 4 h before PCI until 24 h after surgery. LVEDP was measured immediately after surgery. …”
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Total neoadjuvant chemotherapy according to the FOLFIRINOX regimen for locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the stomach and cardioesophageal junction: interim results by M. V. Sedova, M. A. Batov, A. A. Kolomeytseva, V. M. Khomyakov, N. N. Volchenko, A. A. Fedenko

“…The study included 136 patients, 119 of whom started treatment according to the protocol (ITT population). …”
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The Effects of Garlic and Red Chilli Pepper Powder on Physicochemical, Microbiological, and Sensory Properties of Cincalok by Risa Nofiani, Novi Maulidi Syahmurdiandi, Puji Ardiningsih

“…The colour of recipe A started changing from pink to a light brown colour on the surface on day 28. …”
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The Imprint of the War in Ford Madox Ford’s Critical Writings by Isabelle BRASME

“…These allow us to explore how the impressionist technique which Ford started to theorise before the war, came to be renewed and refined in his post-war writing, trying as it does to render the inexpressible experience of the war.…”
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TERT de novo mutation-associated dyskeratosis congenita and porto-sinusoidal vascular disease: a case report by Ge Yu, Guijie Xin, Xu Liu, Wanyu Li, Chen Shao, Runping Gao

“…After 6 months, he has moderate iron deficiency anemia and has started receiving polysaccharide iron complex therapy. …”
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Provision of Registration Services by Public Administration Agencies in the Field of Land Protection by M. V. Chorna

“…The author of the article has stated that the land relations reform and the start of decentralization led to changes in the system of public administration agencies in the field of land protection and expanded their powers, for example, to provide registration services. …”
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Comparison of target concentration of propofol during three phases of live donor liver transplant surgery using a target-controlled infusion of propofol total intravenous anaesthes... by Neha Garg, Yatin Kalra, Shivali Panwar, Mahesh K. Arora, Udit Dhingra

“…After anaesthesia induction and tracheal intubation, BIS-guided propofol infusion was started using TCI-TIVA with target plasma concentration (TPC) set initially at 2.5 μg/mL in all patients using the Marsh model. …”
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Exposure of Mycobacteriodes abscessus clones to mucin affects bacterial phenotype by Amy Leestemaker-Palmer, Tiffany Ong, Luiz E Bermudez

“…During biofilm formation, the amount of protein in the matrix started to decrease at month 3 between day 7 and day 14, with progressive overall biomass decreased in month 6. …”
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Cosmic rays escape from their sources by A. Marcowith

“…In a simplified view, we mainly focus on the propagation of CRs along 1D magnetic flux tubes before turbulent motions start to mix them over a turbulent coherence length, and then we further question this assumption. …”
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