BACKGROUND Calprotectin is a marker of inflammation, but its clinical utility in dogs with chronic inflammatory enteropathies (CIE) is unknown. OBJECTIVE Evaluation of fecal calprotectin in dogs with biopsy-confirmed CIE. ANIMALS 127 dogs. METHODS Prospective case-control study. Dogs were assigned a canine chronic enteropathy clinical activity index (CCECAI) score, and histologic lesions ...

Introduction Older men are at increased risk for prostate cancer. As seniors turn to the Internet for cancer information, it is important that the resources they locate about lifestyle behaviors and screening are culturally appropriate and easy to understand. This study was a comprehensive analysis of prostate cancer risk as portrayed on the Internet with assessment of content readability and c...

BACKGROUND As a natural fermentation product secreted by Clostridium species, bio-based 1-butanol has attracted great attention for its potential as alternative fuel and chemical feedstock. Feasibility of microbial 1-butanol production has also been demonstrated in various recombinant hosts. RESULTS In this work, we constructed a self-regulated 1-butanol production system in Escherichia coli ...

Thermally cured thermoset polymers such as epoxies are widely used in industry and manufacturing due to their thermal, chemical, electrical resistance, mechanical strength toughness. However, it can be challenging 3D print thermally thermosets without rheological modification because they tend flow not hold shape when extruded cure times of minutes hours. printing inside a support bath addresse...

Background: Although the new treatment methods developed in recent years are aiming to minimize need for cooperation of patients; however, latter still important factor treatment. The aim study was evaluate level Class III maloc-clusion patients with orthodontic Materials and methods: This followed a cross-sectional style; targeted population malocclusion who were treated three different types ...

When compared to the over-simplified classical skin-effect model, the accurate classical relaxation-effect modelling approach for THz structures at room temperature can be mathematically cumbersome and not insightful. This paper introduces various interrelated electrical engineering concepts as tools for characterizing the intrinsic frequency dispersive nature of normal metals at room temperatu...

A new and potentially important method for predicting, analysing and comparing responses of hearing aid algorithms is studied and presented here. This method is based on a timefrequency representation (TFR) generated by a computational auditory model. Hearing impairment is simulated by a change of parameters of the auditory model. To simulate the basilar membrane (BM) filtering part of the audi...