Does the Use of the Yeast Probiotic Actisaf Sc 47 Reduce the Environmental Impacts of Beef Cattle? A Study Based on Life Cycle Assessment.

Increasing animal protein, especially from beef, is necessary to satisfy the requirements of the growing global population. However, this is becoming increasingly challenging due to stakeholders prioritizing sustainable systems with low environmental impacts. To answer these challenges, the use of feed additives such as yeast probiotics seems to be an effective route for improvements in feed efficiency and growth performance.

Validation of the French version of the Body Awareness Questionnaire: toward a way to assess alexisomia.

Background: Awareness of one's own states is a particularly important part of cognition and emotion regulation. Recently, the concept of alexisomia has been used to refer to lack of awareness and expression of somatic sensations. Developing self-reported questionnaires to evaluate alexisomia represents a challenge for clinical psychology and medicine.

Quantification of the Environmental Impact of Feeding Yeast Probiotic Actisaf Sc 47 in Dairy Cow: A Life Cycle Assessment Approach.

Today, one of the major challenges of dairy farmers is to reduce their environmental footprint to establish more effective, efficient, and sustainable production systems. Feed additives such as yeast probiotics could potentially allow them to achieve these objectives through the improvement of milk production, feed efficiency, and ration valorization, hence mitigating the environmental impacts of milk production. In this study, the life cycle assessment (LCA) principle was performed to estimate the environmental impact of the production and supplementation of a commercial yeast probiotic (Actisaf Sc 47) in three trials performed in three different countries that are representative for around 50% of the milk production in Europe: France (French trial), United Kingdom (UK trial), and Germany (German trial).

3D Observation of Pelvic Organs with Dynamic MRI Segmentation: A Bridge Toward Patient-Specific Models.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Female pelvic organ prolapses are common, but their treatment is challenging. Notably, diagnosis and understanding of these troubles remain incomplete. Tridimensional observations of displacement and deformation of the pelvic organs during a strain could support a better understanding and help to develop comprehensive tools for preoperative planning.

Acute diverticulitis with extraluminal air: is conservative treatment sufficient? A single-center retrospective study.

Background: Acute diverticulitis with extraluminal air constitutes a heterogeneous condition whose management is controversial. The aims of this study are to report the failure rate of conservative treatment for diverticulitis with extraluminal air and to report risk factors of conservative treatment failure.

Methods: A retrospective study was performed from an institutional review board-approved database of patients admitted with acute diverticulitis with extraluminal air from 2015 to 2021 at a tertiary referral center.