Publications by authors named "A De Cuyper"
Amino acids are essential for the growth, development, and reproduction of carnivores. This literature review summarizes the amino acid patterns of different raw diets including whole prey, body tissue and muscle for felids under human care. In general, natural prey (and its parts) meet the minimum essential amino acid requirements outlined by the National Research Council for adult cats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study evaluated the protein quality of small mammalian prey and its body organs by analyzing amino acid (AA) composition and digestibility of wild adult rats and their body organs (skin/fur, bone, muscle, intestine, liver, kidney, spleen, brain, heart, and lung) utilizing an in vitro digestion method. The average dry matter (DM) digestibility of whole rats was 89.9%.
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- - Mental health issues are significant among college students, showing different patterns between genders; females tend to experience more depression, while males often face alcohol abuse issues.
- - A study using data from 26 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic found that female students reported higher levels of depression, while male students had increased alcohol consumption.
- - The research indicates that government restrictions during the pandemic contributed to more depressive feelings in female students, underscoring the importance of considering gender differences in mental health studies.
Cone-beam computed tomography-guided online-adaptive radiotherapy for inoperable right colon cancer: First in human.
Tech Innov Patient Support Radiat Oncol
December 2023
We report the case of a medically inoperable patient with localised colon cancer. Due to symptomatic bleeding, definitive radiotherapy (5 daily fractions of 5 Gy) has been performed using cone-beam computed tomography-based online-adaptive radiotherapy (ART). Online-ART enables compensation of interfraction motion of abdominal organs by performing daily delineation of organs at risk (OARs) and target volumes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffective management of invasive species requires accurate predictions of their invasion potential in different environments. By considering species' physiological tolerances and requirements, biophysical mechanistic models can potentially deliver accurate predictions of where introduced species are likely to establish. Here, we evaluate biophysical model predictions of energy use by comparing them to experimentally obtained energy expenditure (EE) and thermoneutral zones (TNZs) for the common waxbill , a small-bodied avian invader.
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