BACKGROUND Antibiotic residues can cause antibiotic resistance in livestock and their food safety-related issues have increased the consumer demand for products lacking these residues. Hence, developing safe and effective antibiotic alternatives is important to the animal feed industry. With their strong antibacterial actions, antimicrobial peptides have potential as antibiotic alternatives. ...

There is an obvious trade-off between the amount of gained information from user surveys and low cost time efforts survey. In this study, we propose a Parsimonious Best Worst Method (P-BWM) to unburden evaluators large number pairwise comparisons originated by numerous factors alternatives required (BWM) in complex decision problems. The new BWM model assigns priorities many elements contrastin...

This study aims to select an effective mitigation approach from different alternatives upgrade substandard RC bridges meet the seismic performance objectives of current design standards. The assessment results for existing benchmark bridge confirmed that bent curvature ductility and bearing displacement control response. Thus, five contemporary retrofit solutions were investigated, including ad...

Remedial alternatives for arsenic impacted ground water at a former insecticide manufacturing facility are developed and analyzed in this thesis. Five remedial technologies are evaluated, including conventional pump and treat, monitored natural attenuation, soil flushing, electrokinetics, and in-situ fixation. Twelve case studies of arsenic impacted sites are developed from telephone interviews...

The importance of the research was represented in highlighting possibility success through inclusion development institutions, community awareness, and economic developmental successes. As for second topic, it dealt with search alternatives project building a civil democratic state Iraq accompanying demands that included emergence political feudalism new pattern tyranny, as well reliance on Leb...

We present a comparative study of Finnish and Swedish free-text nursing narratives from intensive care. Although the two languages are linguistically very dissimilar, our hypothesis is that there are similarities that are important and interesting from a language technology point of view. This may have implications when building tools to support producing and using health care documentation. We...

PREFACE This publication is regarded by the author as supplementary training material for students who are familiar with, or are studying, elementary theory of sampling including stratification, cluster sampling, ratio and regression estimation, sampling with probability proportional to size, and multiple-stage sampling. After studying sampling methods one at a time, it is important to get a un...

In Switzerland, the advantages of timber buildings for climate are broadly discussed. following paper, a comparative sustainability assessment four building alternatives is presented. Especially contribution implementing Swiss versus implementation imported highlighted. Additionally, timber-hybrid structures compared to pure reinforced concrete structure. The structure, with timber, has clear e...

Information and communication technology (ICT) enable information to be accessed processed through all kinds of visual, audio, printed written tools. This study aimed evaluate the ICT development G7 countries by using Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. Accordingly, Entropy method was used specify criteria weights, Proximity Indexed Value (PIV), Range (ROV), COmplex PRoportional ASse...