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head, etc ; coproducts; food chemistry; gelation; gels; herring; lipid peroxidation; myosin; protein isolates; proteolysis; spring; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Effect of catching season (spring vs fall), pre-sorting and selective recombination of different herring filleting co-products on protein yield during valorisation using the alkaline pH-shift technology was studied. Impacts of the pre-processing conditions on lipid oxidation, rheological, structural and functional properties of the proteins were also investigated. The sorted frame fraction resulte ...
Milena V. Freitas; Celma G. Lemos; Raquel B. Ariede; John F.G. Agudelo; Rubens R.O. Neto; Carolina H.S. Borges; Vito A. Mastrochirico-Filho; Fábio Porto-Foresti; Rogério L. Iope; Fabrício M. Batista; José R.F. Brega; Diogo T. Hashimoto
... Deep learning (DL) is a cutting-edge technology that enables high-throughput phenotyping in aquaculture. The routine application of DL offers new opportunities for the genetic selection of appearance traits, especially those related to body shape. The criteria currently used for the trait selection of commercial interest, such as rapid growth and weight gain, can directly influence the animal's ap ...
... Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) is cultivated by licensed producers in Canada for medicinal and recreational uses. The recent legalization of this plant in 2018 has resulted in rapid expansion of the industry, with greenhouse production representing the most common method of cultivation. Female cannabis plants produce inflorescences that contain bracts densely covered by glandular trichomes, which s ...
head, etc ; animal welfare; compliance; distress; economic outlook and situation; expert opinion; food industry; food sanitation; meat production; model validation; pain; poultry; red meat; risk; risk management; slaughter; slaughterhouses; statistical models; Show all 18 Subjects
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... Slaughter of animals is a necessary step of meat production process that takes place out of public view, but that is a subject of consumers' and civil society organisations’ concern. Public policies are progressing constantly to meet social expectations and optimize official controls in slaughterhouses. Regarding animal welfare, the main objective of official controls of food business operators (F ...
head, etc ; CRISPR-Cas systems; Oreochromis niloticus; aquaculture; basement membrane; body size; body weight; brain; carp; condition factor; fins; fluorescence; gene expression; genes; growth performance; hybridization; males; mammals; muscles; mutants; mutation; myostatin; phenotype; phylogeny; sexual dimorphism; skeletal muscle; specific growth rate; weight gain; Show all 28 Subjects
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... Tilapia is the second most prolific species grown in aquaculture after carp, and is widely grown in >100 countries. Myostatin (MSTN) has been proved to be a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. Mutation of MSTN gene resulted in significant increase in both body size and muscle mass in vertebrates, mostly with a species-specific effect. To generate a new strain in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis ...
... Most vet practices now make their hip and elbow dysplasia submissions using the new Canine Health Schemes' online portal as Clare McNamara, CHS head of operations, explains. ...
Zalina Abu Zaid; May Kay Neoh; Zulfitri Azuan Mat Daud; Nor Baizura Md Yusop; Zuriati Ibrahim; Zuwariah Abdul Rahman; Norshariza Jamhuri; Aishah Zafirah Abdul Azim
head; head and neck neoplasms, etc ; energy; monitoring; muscle tissues; neck; radiotherapy; weight loss; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Background: Weight loss is well-known among head and neck (HNC) patients during radiotherapy and could continue after the treatment is completed. Weight monitoring is essential for treatment outcomes and cancer surveillance. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the weight loss during and post-treatment among HNC patients. Methods: A total of 45 out of 50 patients post-treatment were included in ...
... Remote sensing for image object detection has numerous important applications. However, complex backgrounds and large object-scale differences pose considerable challenges in the detection task. To overcome these issues, we proposed a one-stage remote sensing image object detection model: a multi-feature information complementary detector (MFICDet). This detector contains a positive and negative f ...
... Steven McCulloch, head of research at the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation, argues that the UK should ban the use of farrowing crates for pigs and the veterinary profession must provide its full support. ...
... The task of multi-object tracking via deep learning methods for UAV videos has become an important research direction. However, with some current multiple object tracking methods, the relationship between object detection and tracking is not well handled, and decisions on how to make good use of temporal information can affect tracking performance as well. To improve the performance of multi-objec ...
... With the rapid development of remote sensing with small, lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), efficient and accurate crop spike counting, and yield estimation methods based on deep learning (DL) methods have begun to emerge, greatly reducing labor costs and enabling fast and accurate counting of sorghum spikes. However, there has not been a systematic, comprehensive evaluation of their appl ...
... In order to study the cavitation performance of centrifugal pumps with low specific speeds under the condition of gas–liquid two-phase flow, a cavitation test rig for pumping gas–liquid two-phase flow was set up. The cavitation performance of the pump with a specific speed of 32 was studied. The variation of the head, pressure pulsation intensity, and vibration intensity with the cavitation allowa ...
... This study investigates the simulation of celerity attenuation and head damping in transient flows using a Lagrangian approach rather than an Eulerian approach. Typically, the Lagrangian approach requires orders of magnitude fewer calculations, resulting in the rapid solution of very large systems. Additionally, it is based on a simple physical model. As the method is continuous in both time and s ...
Bastien Planchamp; Franck Forterre; Beatriz Vidondo; Angel M. Hernandez‐Guerra; Ioannis N. Plessas; Martin J. Schmidt; Maja A. Waschk; Christina Precht
... OBJECTIVE: To determine cutoff values for the diagnosis of atlantoaxial instability (AAI) based on cross‐sectional imaging in small‐breed dogs. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective multicenter study. SAMPLE POPULATION: Client‐owned dogs (n = 123) and 28 cadavers. METHODS: Dogs were assigned to three groups: a control group, a “potentially unstable” group, and an AAI‐affected group, according to imaging fin ...
... The structure of the olfactory organ in scissortail sergeant Abudefduf sexfasciatus was studied. Smaller specimens with a total length of <30–35 mm have two nostrils, while larger fish retain only the posterior one. The olfactory rosette is arrow-shaped, oval; the total number of lamellae devoid of secondary folding increases with the growth of the fish, but does not exceed 15 (with a total length ...
... A little-known species from the Altai, Pterostichus (Petrophilus) magoides (Straneo, 1937), is redescribed on the base of type specimens and supplementary material. Its systematic position and distribution are discussed. New synonymy is established: Pterostichus magoides = Pterostichus (Petrophilus) tatianae E. Berlov, 1996, syn. n. Tis species is similar to P. magus (Mannerheim, 1825), sharing wi ...
... Monitoring and identification of ships in remote sensing images is of great significance for port management, marine traffic, marine security, etc. However, due to small size and complex background, ship detection in remote sensing images is still a challenging task. Currently, deep-learning-based detection models need a lot of data and manual annotation, while training data containing ships in re ...
... Detection of the Fusarium head blight (FHB) is crucial for wheat yield protection, with precise and rapid FHB detection increasing wheat yield and protecting the agricultural ecological environment. FHB detection tasks in agricultural production are currently handled by cloud servers and utilize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Hence, this paper proposed a lightweight model for wheat ear FHB detec ...
head, etc ; polypropylenes; rheometers; viscosity; wood; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The study presents the results of rheological tests of wood polymer composites (WPC) on a polypropylene matrix. The influence of the filler on the additional pressure losses as a result of entrance effects has been analysed. The tests were carried out with the use of a capillary rheometer and a rheological head at the values of apparent share rate up to 101 860 s⁻¹.The influence of the Bagley corr ...
... The female victim died 17 h after the discharge of a.38 caliber unjacketed bullet into the temporal bone above her right ear. Her boyfriend was accused of homicide and convicted. The victim was able to affect coordinated movements for some seconds after her devastating head wound. Her post shooting movements were documented by bloodstains. Two forensic pathologists where mistaken in calling gunpow ...