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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38543699/post-vaccination-sero-monitoring-of-peste-des-petits-ruminants-in-sheep-and-goats-in-karnataka-progress-towards-ppr-eradication-in-india
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan, Rakshit Ojha, Kirubakaran Vinod Kumar, Anand Asha, Suhail Ashraf, Annett Helcita Dsouza, Archana Pal, Prajakta Prashant Bokade, Shakuntala Krishnaiah Harshitha, Ramchandra Deshpande, Mahadevappa Swathi, Kuralayanapalya Puttahonnappa Suresh, GurrappaNaidu Govindaraj, Subramanya Prasad Hasnadka, Shanmugam ChandraSekar, Divakar Hemadri, Anirban Guha, Njeumi Felix, Satya Parida, Baldev Raj Gulati
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) presents economic challenges in enzootic countries impacting small ruminant productivity. The state of Karnataka, India, implemented a mass vaccination campaign in alignment with the PPR-Global Eradication Programme (GEP) and the National Strategic Plan for PPR eradication. This study was conducted from January to March 2023 to assess seroconversion in post-vaccinated goats and sheep at the epidemiological unit (epi-unit) level, aligning with the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) guidelines in the PPR Global Control and Eradication Strategy (GCES)...
February 22, 2024: Viruses
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38543394/recent-progress-in-cellulose-hydrophobization-by-gaseous-plasma-treatments
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REVIEW
Gregor Primc, Alenka Vesel, Rok Zaplotnik, Marija Gorjanc, Peter Gselman, Marián Lehocký, Miran Mozetič
Cellulose is an abundant natural polymer and is thus promising for enforcing biobased plastics. A broader application of cellulose fibers as a filler in polymer composites is limited because of their hydrophilicity and hygroscopicity. The recent scientific literature on plasma methods for the hydrophobization of cellulose materials is reviewed and critically evaluated. All authors focused on the application of plasmas sustained in fluorine or silicon-containing gases, particularly tetrafluoromethane, and hexamethyldisiloxane...
March 12, 2024: Polymers
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38539938/the-genetic-basis-underpinning-sexually-selected-traits-across-different-animal-lineages-are-there-genetic-mechanisms-in-common
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REVIEW
Ji Hyoun Kang
Sexual selection involving female choice or female preference ('inter-sexual' selection) and/or male-male competition ('intra-sexual' selection) is one of the key mechanisms for evolutionary diversification and speciation. In particular, sexual selection is recently suggested to be an important mode to drive the evolution of the "novel" phenotype (i.e., "evolutionary novelty"). Despite extensive studies performed on sexually selected traits or male-specific ornaments (or weapon-like structures) with respect to their evolutionary origin, history and fitness benefits, relatively little is known about the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying their developmental process...
March 8, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535638/three-dimensional-vanadium-and-nitrogen-dual-doped-ti-3-c-2-film-with-ultra-high-specific-capacitance-and-high-volumetric-energy-density-for-zinc-ion-hybrid-capacitors
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Xinhui Jin, Siliang Yue, Jiangcheng Zhang, Liang Qian, Xiaohui Guo
Zinc-ion hybrid capacitors (ZICs) can achieve high energy and power density, ultralong cycle life, and a wide operating voltage window, and they are widely used in wearable devices, portable electronics devices, and other energy storage fields. The design of advanced ZICs with high specific capacity and energy density remains a challenge. In this work, a novel kind of V, N dual-doped Ti3 C2 film with a three-dimensional (3D) porous structure (3D V-, N-Ti3 C2 ) based on Zn-ion pre-intercalation can be fabricated via a simple synthetic process...
March 8, 2024: Nanomaterials
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535415/effect-of-covid-19-on-key-performance-indicators-of-spanish-professional-soccer-league
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
José Fernández-Cortés, Carlos D Gómez-Carmona, David Mancha-Triguero, Javier García-Rubio, Sergio J Ibáñez
The unprecedented COVID-19 health crisis severely disrupted global sports in 2020, prompting lengthy suspensions followed by resumed competitions under abnormal behind-closed-doors conditions without fans. These disruptions necessitated tactical adaptations by coaches and teams, attempting to still achieve successful outcomes. This study investigates the pandemic's impacts on performance metrics and indicators within Spanish professional soccer. Utilizing systematic notational analysis, 760 match cases from the 2019-2020 La Liga season were examined, comprising 27 matchdays from the pre-COVID context and 11 after resumption...
February 21, 2024: Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38534252/detection-of-parasites-in-the-field-the-ever-innovating-crispr-cas12a
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REVIEW
Xin Li, Zhisheng Dang, Wenqiang Tang, Haoji Zhang, Jianwei Shao, Rui Jiang, Xu Zhang, Fuqiang Huang
The rapid and accurate identification of parasites is crucial for prompt therapeutic intervention in parasitosis and effective epidemiological surveillance. For accurate and effective clinical diagnosis, it is imperative to develop a nucleic-acid-based diagnostic tool that combines the sensitivity and specificity of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) with the speed, cost-effectiveness, and convenience of isothermal amplification methods. A new nucleic acid detection method, utilizing the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas) nuclease, holds promise in point-of-care testing (POCT)...
March 14, 2024: Biosensors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38531129/effects-of-yeast-inoculation-methods-on-caproic-acid-production-and-microbial-community-during-anaerobic-fermentation-of-chinese-cabbage-waste
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ranran Chen, Xiaonan Zhou, Liu Huang, Xiaofeng Ji, Zhengang Chen, Jiying Zhu
To provide a sufficient supply of electron donors for the synthesis of caproic acid, yeast fermentation was employed to increase ethanol production in the anaerobic fermentation of Chinese cabbage waste (CCW). The results showed that the caproic acid yield of CCW with ethanol pre-fermentation was 7750.3 mg COD/L, accounting for 50.2% of the total volatile fatty acids (TVFAs), which was 32.5% higher than that of the CCW without yeast inoculation. The synchronous fermentation of yeast and seed sludge significantly promoted the growth of butyric acid consuming bacterium Bacteroides, resulting in low yields of butyric acid and caproic acid...
March 25, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38530738/multi-label-conditional-generation-from-pre-trained-models
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Magdalena Proszewska, Maciej Wolczyk, Maciej Zieba, Patryk Wielopolski, Lukasz Maziarka, Marek Smieja
Although modern generative models achieve excellent quality in a variety of tasks, they often lack the essential ability to generate examples with requested properties, such as the age of the person in the photo or the weight of the generated molecule. To overcome these limitations we propose PluGeN (Plugin Generative Network), a simple yet effective generative technique that can be used as a plugin for pre-trained generative models. The idea behind our approach is to transform the entangled latent representation using a flow-based module into a multi-dimensional space where the values of each attribute are modeled as an independent one-dimensional distribution...
March 26, 2024: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38529410/physiological-anthropometric-and-athletic-performance-adaptations-from-completing-a-1-month-pre-season-period-a-two-year-longitudinal-study-in-female-collegiate-soccer-players
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew S Perrotta, Brent D Day, Camila J Correa, Anika J Scott, Jennifer Ramos, Elizabeth A Gnatiuk, Darren E R Warburton
INTRODUCTION: Collegiate coaches and integrative support staff often utilize pre-season as a brief and intense training period to prepare athletes technically, tactically, and physiologically, to meet the demands of competition during a soccer season. This study sought to examine the dose-response from performing on-field soccer activities during a four-week pre-season period in female collegiate soccer players, and if the magnitude in response was associated with accumulated exercise stress...
2024: Frontiers in sports and active living
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38526998/mating-dynamics-of-a-sperm-limited-drosophilid-zaprionus-indianus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer M Gleason, Barnabas Danborno, Marena Nigro, Henry Escobar, Micalea J Cobbs
When males have large sperm, they may become sperm limited and mating dynamics may be affected. One such species is Zaprionus indianus, a drosophilid that is an introduced pest species in the Americas. We examined aspects of mating behavior in Z. indianus to determine the senses necessary for mating and measure female and male remating habits. We found that vision is necessary for successful copulation, but wings, which produce courtship song, are not needed. Males need their foretarsi to successfully copulate and although the foretarsi may be needed for chemoreception, their role in hanging on to the female during copulation may be more important for successful mating...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38526610/haemoglobin-mass-responses-and-performance-outcomes-among-high-performance-swimmers-following-a-3-week-live-high-train-high-camp-at-2320%C3%A2-m
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Daniel J Astridge, Michael McKenna, Adrian Campbell, Anthony P Turner
AIM: Greater quantification and characterisation of training load (TL) throughout Live-high, train-high (LHTH) altitude (ALT) training is required to identify periodisation strategies that may lead to physiological and performance improvements in swimmers. PURPOSE: This study aimed to examine the physiological responses and performance outcomes of 14 high-performance swimmers (FINA points: 836.0 ± 35.1) following 3 weeks of LHTH at 2320 m, while characterising the training load periodisation strategy adopted during the intervention...
March 25, 2024: European Journal of Applied Physiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38526339/fluorescent-nanodiamond-immunosensors-for-clinical-diagnostics-of-tuberculosis
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Trong-Nghia Le, Mhikee Janella N Descanzo, Wesley W-W Hsiao, Po-Chi Soo, Wen-Ping Peng, Huan-Cheng Chang
Fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) are carbon nanoparticles containing a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy defects as color centers. These centers have exceptional photostability and unique quantum properties, making them useful for ultrasensitive biosensing applications. This work employed FNDs conjugated with antibodies as magneto-optical immunosensors for tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics using competitive spin-enhanced lateral flow immunoassay (SELFIA). ESAT6 (6-kDa early secretory antigenic target) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a clinical marker of TB...
March 25, 2024: Journal of Materials Chemistry. B, Materials for Biology and Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38524823/contemporary-practices-of-portuguese-and-brazilian-soccer-coaches-in-designing-and-applying-small-sided-games
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Filipe Manuel Clemente, José Afonso, Rui Miguel Silva, Rodrigo Aquino, Luiz Palucci Vieira, Fernando Santos, Israel Teoldo, Rafael Oliveira, Gibson Praça, Hugo Sarmento
This descriptive study aimed to investigate the current practices of Portuguese and Brazilian soccer coaches in the design and implementation of small-sided games (SSGs) in soccer. A total of 187 male coaches participated in the online survey, consisting of 82 Portuguese and 105 Brazilian individuals. These coaches held various positions within the technical staff, with 63 serving as head coaches, 38 as assistant coaches, 38 as physical trainers, and 48 in other roles related to the technical staff. Additionally, the participants represented both youth (n = 102) and adult competitive levels (n = 59), along with some who were not currently associated with a specific group...
March 2024: Biology of Sport
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38523479/participation-in-sports-or-recreational-activities-after-osteochondral-allograft-transplantation-of-the-talus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joseph W Fiske, Aliasgar H Dalal, Julie C McCauley, William D Bugbee
BACKGROUND: Fresh osteochondral allograft (OCA) transplantation is a viable treatment option for osteochondral defects of the talus. However, sufficient data are not available on patients' participation in sports or recreational activities after the procedure. PURPOSE: To assess whether patients undergoing OCA transplantation of the talus participated in sports or recreational activities postoperatively. STUDY DESIGN: Case series; level of evidence, 4...
March 25, 2024: American Journal of Sports Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38522200/selective-leaching-of-indium-from-spent-lcd-screens-by-siderophore-desferrioxamine-e
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kun Zheng, Marc F Benedetti, Rohan Jain, Bradley M Guy, Katrin Pollmann, Eric D van Hullebusch
Given the criticality of indium (In) in high-tech applications, spent LCD screens can represent a viable secondary In resource. In this work, an innovative and alternative technology to selectively leach In from spent LCD screens using a microbial chelating agent, desferrioxamine E (DFOE), was developed. Indium was concentrated from spent LCD screens by implementing an adapted pre-treatment procedure, allowing the isolation of an indium-rich glassy fraction. During leaching, the competition between aluminum (Al) and In for complexation with DFOE leads to the precipitation of In(OH)3 at low DFOE concentrations (12-240 µM)...
March 12, 2024: Journal of Hazardous Materials
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38510545/changes-in-hamstring-contractile-properties-during-the-competitive-season-in-young-football-players
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paweł Pakosz, Mariusz Konieczny, Przemysław Domaszewski, Tomasz Dybek, Mariusz Gnoiński, Elżbieta Skorupska
BACKGROUND: The study aimed to examine alterations and imbalances in hamstring muscle contractile properties among young football players throughout their competitive season, and to understand how these changes might contribute to the risk of muscle injuries. Hamstring injuries are particularly common in football, yet the underlying causes and effective prevention methods remain unclear. METHODS: The research involved 74 young footballers who were assessed before the season (pre-test) and after 12 weeks of training (post-test)...
2024: PeerJ
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38508071/improve-the-accuracy-of-ft-nir-for-determination-of-zearalenone-content-in-wheat-by-using-the-characteristic-wavelength-optimization-algorithm
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jingwen Zhu, Yu Chen, Jihong Deng, Hui Jiang
The research contributes a unique method to achieve high-precision quantification of zearalenone (ZEN) in wheat, significantly improving accuracy in the analysis. Fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) was employed to capture the spectral information of wheat with different mildew degrees. Three feature selection models, competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), support vector machine-recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE), and multiple feature-spaces ensemble-least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (MFE-LASSO) were introduced to processed pre-processed near-infrared spectral data and established partial least squares (PLS) regression according to the selected features...
March 15, 2024: Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38505467/non-invasive-prediction-of-overall-survival-time-for-glioblastoma-multiforme-patients-based-on-multimodal-mri-radiomics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jingyu Zhu, Jianming Ye, Leshui Dong, Xiaofei Ma, Na Tang, Peng Xu, Wei Jin, Ruipeng Li, Guang Yang, Xiaobo Lai
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and deadly primary malignant brain tumor. As GBM tumor is aggressive and shows high biological heterogeneity, the overall survival (OS) time is extremely low even with the most aggressive treatment. If the OS time can be predicted before surgery, developing personalized treatment plans for GBM patients will be beneficial. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a commonly used diagnostic tool for brain tumors with high-resolution and sound imaging effects. However, in clinical practice, doctors mainly rely on manually segmenting the tumor regions in MRI and predicting the OS time of GBM patients, which is time-consuming, subjective and repetitive, limiting the effectiveness of clinical diagnosis and treatment...
July 2023: International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38500087/australian-sport-and-physical-activity-behaviours-pre-during-and-post-covid-19
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rochelle Eime, Jack Harvey, Melanie Charity
BACKGROUND: Globally, COVID-19 and associated restrictions impacted negatively on recreational physical activity (RPA). Participation in community sport was significantly impacted with cancelled training and competitions. Whilst team and club-based sport participation declined during COVID-19 restrictions, participation in some physical activities actually increased, particularly individual and online activities and outdoor activities not requiring facilities. AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate changes in the patterns of participation in club-based sport, informal sport and other RPA in Australia from pre, during and post-COVID-19 restrictions...
March 18, 2024: BMC Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38499934/deloading-practices-in-strength-and-physique-sports-a-cross-sectional-survey
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David Rogerson, David Nolan, Patroklos Androulakis Korakakis, Velu Immonen, Milo Wolf, Lee Bell
BACKGROUND: This study explored the deloading practices of competitive strength and physique athletes. A 55-item anonymised web-based survey was distributed to a convenience-based, cross-sectional sample of competitive strength and physique athletes (n = 246; males = 181 [73.6%], females = 65 [26.4%]; age = 29.5 ± 8.6 years) who had 8.2 ± 6.2 years of resistance training and 3.8 ± 3...
March 18, 2024: Sports Medicine—Open
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