The objective of this investigation was to evaluate whether intravaginal infusion of probiotics (a lactic acid bacteria cocktail) around parturition would influence metabolic status and increase milk production of transition dairy cows. One hundred pregnant Holstein dairy cows were assigned to 1 of the 3 experimental groups receiving intravaginal infusion of probiotics or carrier (i.e., sterile...

Citalopram (CTR) is a worldwide highly consumed antidepressant which has demonstrated incomplete removal by conventional wastewater treatment. Despite its global ubiquitous presence in different environmental compartments, little is known about its behaviour and transformation processes during wastewater treatment. The present study aims to expand the knowledge on fate and transformation of CTR...

Coherent transition radiation (CTR) was used to study the longitudinal modulations of an electron beam exiting the UCLA/LANL high gain SASE FEL. The induced longitudinal micro-bunching of the electron beam at the exit of the undulator was measured with a frequency domain technique using the CTR emitted when this beam strikes a thin conducting foil. Formalisms for both CTR and SASE theories are ...

Recently, tag recommendation (TR) has become a very hot research topic in data mining and related areas. However, neither co-occurrence based methods which only use the item-tag matrix nor content based methods which only use the item content information can achieve satisfactory performance in real TR applications. Hence, how to effectively combine the item-tag matrix, item content information,...

The bunch shapes of an electron beams is increasingly difficult to measure, as the time-scales of interest are now sub-picosecond. We discuss here the use of coherent transition radiation CTR for such measurements. Two types of measurements are presented: the deduction of macroscopic (0.3 psec resolution) pulse profile using interferometry, and the examination of microbunch (50 fsec) structure ...

A standard model for sponsored search comprises of ranking ads by their expected revenue, that is, the product of their bid price and estimated click-through rate (CTR). In this work, we introduce two complementary use cases for ranking ads at an online classifieds site and aim to optimize a ranking formula which extends the traditional one. First, we address the task of ranking ads on the sear...

Introduction: Barrel cortex of rodents is responsible for sensory information processing from muzzle whiskers. Locus coeruleus (LC) as the main source of norepinephrine (NE) in the cortex, is effective on the sensory information processing. Methods: Rats were divided to 2 groups. One group underwent sensory deprivation (P4) and the other group served as control and did not undergo sensory d...

The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21/WAF1/ CIP1 is induced in many cell types in response to a variety of extracellular signals and causes cell cycle arrest in both the G1 and G2/M phases of the cell cycle. We reported previously that calcitonin (CT) receptor (CTR)-mediated growth inhibition of HEK-293 cells stably transfected with the human CTR is accompanied by a rapid and sustained indu...

We investigated the involvement of nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) on autonomic cardiovascular parameters, vascular reactivity, and endothelial cells isolated from aorta of monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rats. Obesity was induced by administration of 4 mg/g body wt of MSG or equimolar saline [control (CTR)] to newborn rats. At the 60th day, the treatment was started with N...

BACKGROUND The economic sustainability of all areas of medicine is under scrutiny. Limited data exist on the drivers of cost after a craniotomy for tumor resection (CTR). The objective of the present study was to develop and validate a predictive model of hospitalization cost after CTR. METHODS We performed a retrospective study involving CTR patients who were registered in the Nationwide Inp...