How does live streaming affect tourists' intention - a psychology theory perspective.

As a novel experiential approach, live streaming at tourist destinations has garnered significant attention and profoundly impacts tourists' travel decisions. This study aims to validate the effects of usefulness, authenticity, and interactivity of destination live streams on the decision-making process of tourists. Grounded in stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, this research identifies the usefulness, authenticity, and interactivity of destination live streams as the "stimulus," while telepresence and trust as the "organism," with tourists' travel decisions as the "response.

An Image Histogram Equalization Acceleration Method for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Based on a Two-Dimensional Configurable Pipeline.

New artificial intelligence scenarios, such as high-precision online industrial detection, unmanned driving, etc., are constantly emerging and have resulted in an increasing demand for real-time image processing with high frame rates and low power consumption. Histogram equalization (HE) is a very effective and commonly used image preprocessing algorithm designed to improve the quality of image processing results.

Lithium-ion diffusion in the grain boundary of polycrystalline solid electrolyte LiLaZrTaO (LLZTO): a computer simulation and theoretical study.

Lithium-ion diffusion ability in solid electrolytes is crucial for the performance and safety of lithium-ion batteries. However, the lithium-ion diffusion coefficient of LiLaZrTaO (LLZTO) measured experimentally is much lower than that simulated theoretically because LLZTO exists widely in the polycrystalline form rather than in the single-crystal form. Herein, we focus on the construction of grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials to address this key issue.

Deep Multilabel Multilingual Document Learning for Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval.

Cross-lingual document retrieval, which aims to take a query in one language to retrieve relevant documents in another, has attracted strong research interest in the last decades. Most studies on this task start with cross-lingual comparisons at the word level and then represent documents via word embeddings, which leads to insufficient structure information. In this work, the cross-lingual comparison at the document level is achieved through the cross-lingual semantic space.

Coarse-Grained Pruning of Neural Network Models Based on Blocky Sparse Structure.

Deep neural networks may achieve excellent performance in many research fields. However, many deep neural network models are over-parameterized. The computation of weight matrices often consumes a lot of time, which requires plenty of computing resources.

Formation of different shell structures in lithium-rich layered oxides and their influence on electrochemical properties.

A lithium-rich layered oxide with different shell structures was synthesized by a simple wet-chemical surface deposition method. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and other techniques were applied to characterize the crystal structure, morphology, and micro-structure of the samples. The surface of the lithium-rich layered oxide can successively produce island-like spinel, ultra-thin spinel, and thick two-phase (spinel and amorphous manganese oxides) separation shell layers with an increase in the coating amount.

Decreased IgA+ B cells population and IgA, IgG, IgM contents of the cecal tonsil induced by dietary high fluorine in broilers.

Fluoride is an environmental and industrial pollutant that affects various organs in humans and animals. The cecal tonsil is an important component of the mucosal immune system and performs important and unique immune functions. In the present study, we investigated the effects of dietary high fluorine on the quantities of IgA+ B cells in the cecal tonsil by immunohistochemistry, and the immunoglobulin A (IgA), immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) contents in the cecal tonsil by ELISA.

Dietary high fluorine induces apoptosis and alters Bcl-2, Bax, and caspase-3 protein expression in the cecal tonsil lymphocytes of broilers.

Long-term excessive fluoride intake is known to be toxic and can lead to fluorosis and bone pathologies. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying sodium fluoride-induced cytotoxicity in the cecal tonsil lymphocytes are not well understood. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of high dietary fluorine on apoptosis and the expression of the Bcl-2, Bax, and caspase-3 in the cecal tonsil lymphocytes of broilers.

Effect of dietary vanadium on intestinal microbiota in broiler.

The purpose of this 42-day study was to examine the effect of dietary vanadium on intestinal microorganism diversity in the duodenum, ileum, cecum, and rectum segments of broilers by the plate count and polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE). A total of 420 1-day-old avian broilers were divided into six groups and fed on a control diet or the same diet supplemented with vanadium at the doses of 5, 15, 30, 45, and 60 mg/kg in the form of ammonium metavanadate. In comparison with control group, the dietary vanadium at the doses of 45 and 60 mg/kg could decrease the counts of Bifidobacterium spp.

Changes of IgA+ cells and cytokines in the cecal tonsil of broilers fed on diets supplemented with vanadium.

The cecal tonsil of broiler is known as a secondary lymphoid tissue, which is involved in antigen-specific humoral immune responses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary vanadium on the tissue distribution and quantity of immunoglobulin A-positive (IgA(+)) cell in the cecal tonsil by immunohistochemistry. Simultaneously, the changes in interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-10 (IL-10), interferon gamma (IFN-γ) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) contents in the cecal tonsil were also quantified by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

Effect of dietary vanadium on the ileac T cells and contents of cytokines in broilers.

The purpose of this 42-day study was to examine the effect of dietary vanadium on the ileac T cells and contents of cytokines including interleukin-2 (IL-2), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) in broilers by flow cytometry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. A total of 420 one-day-old avian broilers were divided into six groups (seven replicates in each group and ten broilers in each replicate) and fed on control diet or the same diet supplemented with 5, 15, 30, 45, and 60 mg/kg vanadium in the form of ammonium metavanadate. The results showed that the percentages of CD3(+), CD3(+)CD4(+), and CD3(+)CD8(+) T cells in both ileac lamina propria lymphocytes (LPLs) and intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) were significantly lower (P < 0.

Dietary high vanadium causes oxidative damage-induced renal and hepatic toxicity in broilers.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the renal and hepatic oxidative damage and toxicity caused by dietary high vanadium in broilers. A total of 420 one-day-old avian broilers were divided into six groups and fed on a corn-soybean basal diet as control diet (vanadium 0.073 mg/kg), and five high vanadium diets (vanadium 5 mg/kg, high vanadium group I; 15 mg/kg, high vanadium group II; 30 mg/kg, high vanadium group III; 45 mg/kg, high vanadium group IV; and 60 mg/kg, high vanadium group V) throughout the experimental period of 42 days.

Dietary vanadium induces oxidative stress in the intestine of broilers.

The purpose of this study was to examine oxidative stress induced by dietary vanadium in the mucosa of different parts of intestine including duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and cecal tonsil. A total of 420 1-day-old avian broilers were divided into six groups and fed on a corn-soybean basal diet as control diet or the same basal diet supplemented with 5, 15, 30, 45, and 60 mg/kg vanadium as ammonium metavanadate. During the experimental period of 42 days, oxidative stress parameters were determined for both control and experimental groups.

Effect of dietary vanadium on cecal tonsil T cell subsets and IL-2 contents in broilers.

The purpose of this 42-day study was to investigate the effects of dietary excess vanadium on intestinal immune function by histopathological observation of cecal tonsil and changes of the cecal tonsil T cell subsets by method of flow cytometry. Four hundred twenty 1-day-old avian broilers were divided into six groups and fed on a corn-soybean basal diet as control diet or the same diet amended to contain 5, 15, 30, 45, and 60 mg/kg vanadium supplied as ammonium metavanadate. In comparison with those of control group, lymphocytes in the lymphatic nodule of cecal tonsil were apparently decreased in 45 and 60 mg/kg groups.