Nutrition as a military capability to deliver human advantage: more people, more ready, more of the time.

Soldiers must achieve high-level mission-preparedness to endure extended periods of physical and cognitive activity, with unpredictable recovery, in all environments. Nutrition provides the foundation for health and performance. Militaries have not maximised the strategic and financial value that considering nutrition as a military capability could deliver.

Optimizing care of patients undergoing cardiac surgery using a digital platform and a multidisciplinary team approach.

Objective: Restrictions to care access during the pandemic along with the increasing complexity of patients awaiting cardiac surgery provides unique challenges for care delivery. The University of Ottawa Heart Institute has developed a novel multidisciplinary digital platform, the Prehab Automated Follow-Up (AFU) Program, which delivers patient/caregiver teaching regarding risk factor mitigation, tracks patient symptoms, and screens for optimization using best practice guidelines. This study was conducted to quantify patient outcomes following initiation of the AFU Program.

Presence of β -agonist growth promoters in human urine samples: GC-MS/MS evaluation of the excretion profiles of ractopamine administered in microdoses.

β -adrenergic agonists having the potential to be misused to enhance performance for their thermogenic and anabolic properties are prohibited in sports. Clenbuterol, ractopamine and zilpaterol are utilised legally or illegally as growth promoters of animals raised for their meat. No withdrawal times are imposed for ractopamine prior to slaughter; residues are detected in meat of treated animals, which constitutes a risk of inadvertent consumption.

Effects of eight neuropsychiatric copy number variants on human brain structure.

Many copy number variants (CNVs) confer risk for the same range of neurodevelopmental symptoms and psychiatric conditions including autism and schizophrenia. Yet, to date neuroimaging studies have typically been carried out one mutation at a time, showing that CNVs have large effects on brain anatomy. Here, we aimed to characterize and quantify the distinct brain morphometry effects and latent dimensions across 8 neuropsychiatric CNVs.

Nicoletella semolina in the airways of healthy horses and horses with severe asthma.

Background: Nicoletella semolina was identified in the airways of horses and its low prevalence could be because of its difficult differentiation from other Pasteurellaceae.

Objectives: To develop a molecular method for the identification of N. semolina and to evaluate its prevalence in the mouth and the airways of healthy and severe asthmatic horses.