Correlation between White Globe Appearance and Clinicopathologic Characteristics in Early Gastric Cancer.

Background/aims: Magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (ME-NBI) enables the visualization of detailed microsurface (MS) and microvascular (MV) structures in the gastrointestinal tract. White globe appearance (WGA) is a small whitish lesion with a globular shape identified during ME-NBI for early gastric cancer (EGC). This study aimed to investigate the associations between WGA, clinicopathological characteristics, and other ME-NBI findings in patients with EGC.

Generation of double knockout cattle via CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) electroporation.

Background: Genome editing has been considered as powerful tool in agricultural fields. However, genome editing progress in cattle has not been fast as in other mammal species, for some disadvantages including long gestational periods, single pregnancy, and high raising cost. Furthermore, technically demanding methods such as microinjection and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) are needed for gene editing in cattle.

Multi-Object Tracking on SWIR Images for City Surveillance in an Edge-Computing Environment.

Although Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) sensors have advantages in terms of robustness in bad weather and low-light conditions, the SWIR images have not been well studied for automated object detection and tracking systems. The majority of previous multi-object tracking studies have focused on pedestrian tracking in visible-spectrum images, but tracking different types of vehicles is also important in city-surveillance scenarios. In addition, the previous studies were based on high-computing-power environments such as GPU workstations or servers, but edge computing should be considered to reduce network bandwidth usage and privacy concerns in city-surveillance scenarios.

Germline transmission of MSTN knockout cattle via CRISPR-Cas9.

Although the production of several founder animals (F0) for gene editing in livestock has been reported in cattle, very few studies have assessed germline transmission to the next generation due to the long sexual maturation and gestation periods. The present study aimed to assess the germline transmission of MSTN mutations (-12bps deletion) in MSTN mutant F0 male and female cattle. For this purpose, oocytes and semen were collected after the sexual maturation of MSTN cattle, and embryos produced by in vitro fertilization were analyzed.

Effect of glycerol addition time on the cryopreserved Korean native brindle cattle (Chikso) sperm quality.

Although cryopreservation is an efficient method for maintaining the biological and genetic resources of sperm, the sperm damage during the cryopreservation process cannot be ignored. It should be possible to obtain the most effective cryopreservation performance by accurately grasping the effects of various factors on the cryopreservation of sperm. The previous study demonstrated that a suitable standard protocol for cryopreservation of Korean native brindled cattle (Chikso) does not exist, based on the methods for semen cryopreservation of Chikso differ in each research center.

Production of MSTN-mutated cattle without exogenous gene integration using CRISPR-Cas9.

Many genome-edited animals have been produced using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 technology to edit specific genes. However, there are few guidelines for the application of this technique to cattle. The goal of this study was to produce trait-improved cattle using the genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9.

Robust Channel Allocation with Heterogeneous Requirements for Wireless Mesh Backbone Networks.

When multiple mobile sensors and actuators share a common wireless mesh backbone network of defence systems, the channel allocation mechanism must guarantee the heterogeneous link requirements under conditions of uncertainty. In this paper, a robust channel allocation mechanism is proposed by exploiting partially overlapped channels for directional multi-channel wireless mesh networks. The approach relies on a chance-constrained optimization problem, in which the objective is to minimize the spectrum usage of the network, and the constraints are the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio requirements of links with uncertainty.

Effects of Kaolinite (Macsumsuk) and Herb Mixtures on the Quality and Physicochemical Properties of Pork.

The current study was conducted to identify technology for the production of high quality pork, based on the meat consumption habits of consumers. Macsumsuk, a type of kaolinite (a clay mineral), and/or a mixture of herbs (Mori Folium, Sophorae Radix, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Citri Leiocarpae Exocarpium, and Pogostemi Herba) were added to the diets of fattening pigs. Sixty barrow pigs (4 kinds of treatment × 5 pigs/treatment × 3 replicates) were randomly assigned to either the Control (no additives), T1 (3% Macsumsuk), T2 (3% Herb mixtures), or T3 (3% Macsumsuk + 3% Herb mixtures) groups, and were fed the diets for 60 d.

Spinal cord herniation after multilevel anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion for ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine.

The authors report the case of a 52-year-old man who had undergone resection of an ossified posterior longitudinal ligament via the anterior approach. The patient experienced postoperative neurological deterioration that may have been caused by a massive cord herniation associated with a dural defect at the corpectomy site. Spinal cord herniation may develop as a complication of anterior cervical decompression.