16-wk experiment with laying hens was carried out to examine the effects of feeding of mycotoxin-contaminated maize (CM) on performance, nutrient digestibility, weight of organs, serum chemical parameters, and antibody titers to Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in serum. Also tested were fimbrien antigen K88 in egg yolk and zearalenone (ZON) residues in eggs and tissues. The Fusarium-toxin-contami...

Deep ocean water (DOW) has been shown to enhance the functional components of fungi, resulting in increased health benefits. Therefore, using DOW for culturing fungi can enhance the cordycepin and adenosine of Cordyceps militaris (CM) and its protective effects on the liver. In this study, the antiliver fibrosis effects and mechanisms of ultrapure water-cultured CM (UCM), DOW-cultured CM (DCM),...

Background: The timing of umbilical cord clamping may affect the need to bloodtransfusion and other morbidities of preterm infants. This study aimed to compare three different cord clamping timing (immediate cord clamping, delayed cord clamping and umbilical cord milking) in preterm infants delivered by cesarean section (CS). <em...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Uremic cardiomyopathy (UCM) is a complication in chronic kidney disease. We investigated if endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) is involved in UCM, and determined the efficacy of tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) in UCM prevention. METHODS Mice were divided randomly into three groups: sham (saline, i.p), 5/6 nephrectomized (Nx) (saline, i.p) and Nx+TUDCA (250 mg/kg/day, i.p.). ...

Abstract Popularly used in marketing and business, gamification has been gaining interest educational contexts for its potential to invigorate otherwise mundane or difficult processes. A gamified environment transfers motivational elements of games learning activities thereby engaging learners the task thus transforming dull classroom environments smart ones. This paper presents design process ...

We have developed a highly detailed mathematical model for the urine concentrating mechanism (UCM) of the rat kidney outer medulla (OM). The model simulates preferential interactions among tubules and vessels by representing four concentric regions that are centered on a vascular bundle; tubules and vessels, or fractions thereof, are assigned to anatomically appropriate regions. Model parameter...

Sergey Samsonov,1,2 John Beavan,1 Pablo J. González,3 Kristy Tiampo3 and José Fernández4,5 1GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected] 2European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, Walferdange, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg 3Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 4Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia (CSIC-UCM), Fac. C. Matematicas, M...

The classic bribery problem is to find a minimal subset of voters who need to change their vote to make some preferred candidate win. We find an approximate solution for this problem for a broad family of scoring rules (which includes Borda and t-approval), in the following sense: if there is a strategy which requires bribing k voters, we efficiently find a strategy which requires bribing at mo...

The authors conducted two experiments that served as a test bed for applying the recently developed uncontrolled manifold (UCM) approach to rhythmic motor coordination, which has been extensively investigated from a coordination dynamics perspective. The results of two experiments, one investigating within-person and one investigating between-persons rhythmic movement coordination, identified s...