Each and every year hundreds of studies are published on the nutritional requirements of aquatic animals and the composition and nutritive value of different feed ingredients. However, knowledge integration efforts carried out in recent years at the UG/OMNR Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory have indicated that, in general, less than 50% of the published studies have appropriate experimental de...

The blooming of incidence and prevalence of “prosperity diseases” among the broad layers of modern day populations is rather novel phenomenon in demographic history of the human race (1). Illnesses such as obesity (2), diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cerebrovascular and cardiovascular consequences of atherosclerosis, renal insufficiency, mental disorders, and even cancer are closely related to...

BACKGROUND The steadily growing world population and our ever luxurious life style, along with the simultaneously decreasing fossil resources has confronted modern society with the issue and need of finding renewable routes to accommodate for our demands. Shifting the production pipeline from raw oil to biomass requires efficient processes for numerous platform chemicals being produced with hig...

I do not propose this evening to delve into the age-old argument concerning the discoverer of anesthesia. It is doubtful if any here assembled have, to any very great extent, witnessed surgery without anesthesia, yet only 100 years ago the screams of agony issuing from the operating room would have chilled the blood of the hardiest among us. The important point of this contribution is not which...

In the growing pig, increasing feed efficiency is a way to reduce the production cost. The residual feed intake (RFI) is defined as the difference between the observed daily feed intake (DFI) and the theoretical DFI estimated from maintenance and production requirements (GILBERT et al., 2006). A divergent selection was conducted for 4 generations in Large White males recorded between 35 and 95 ...

The architecture of IoT healthcare is motivated towards the data-driven realization and patient-centric health models, whereas personalized assistance provided by deploying advanced sensors. According to procedures in surgery, emergency unit, patients are monitored till they stable physically then shifted ward for further recovery evaluation. Normally evaluation done doesn’t suggest continuous ...

5 s I drove up to the entrance of a newly constructed hospital in Oregon recently, what struck me first was not so much the fact hat it looks like a luxurious five-star hotel it was designed in collaboration with a ospitality architect), but more so that it oes not evoke the feelings of anxiety and ear that you normally feel when you aproach a hospital. Let’s face it, for most of s, going to th...

To my family and good friends, both scattered around the World. Acknowledgments I would like to thank my mentor and thesis advisor, H.E. Stanley. Gene is an institution himself. A great scientist, a perfect advisor and a great friend. In the final version of this draft I will write a luxurious paragraph on him and the five years I spent at BU. I enjoyed so much in his research group. Unfortunat...

The use of truffles in Poland has a long tradition, yet due to some historical aspects, this knowledge was lost. Currently, truffles and truffle orchards are again receiving attention, and thanks to, e.g., historical data, they have solid foundations to be established. Publications relating to truffles between 1661 and 2017 were searched for in international and national databases, such as the ...

An interesting research problem in the supply chain industry is evaluating and determining provenance of physical goods—demonstrating authenticity luxury goods such as bottled wine. However, many systems networks have been built implemented with centralized system architecture, relying on authorities or any form intermediary, leading to issues single-point processing, storage failure, which cou...