Publications by authors named "L Vass"

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  • Farmers are being asked to use fewer antibiotics on their sheep to help fight the problem of germs becoming resistant to medicine.
  • This study looked at 22 sheep farms in Wales to find out if different types of farms had different levels of antibiotic use and health practices.
  • It found that farms that didn't follow good practices for treating lame sheep had more health problems and used more antibiotics than farms that did follow the best practices.
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Introduction: The objective of our study was to examine, in addition to using the TOCA Football System tool and training method, the effect of a 10-week intervention on elite youth athletes in terms of their sport-specific motor skills and anthropometric variables.

Methods: The study covered a group of 32 young players practicing football (U14) (13.45 ± 0.

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Purpose: Despite a rise in clinical use of radiopharmaceutical therapies, the biological effects of radionuclides and their relationship with absorbed radiation dose are poorly understood. Here, we set out to define this relationship for Auger electron emitters [Tc]TcO and [I]I and βparticle emitter [Re]ReO. Studies were carried out using genetically modified cells that permitted direct radionuclide comparisons.

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Unlabelled: Control measures are being introduced globally to reduce the prevalence of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in bacteria on farms. However, little is known about the current prevalence and molecular ecology of ABR in bacterial species with the potential to be key opportunistic human pathogens, such as on South American farms. Working with 30 dairy cattle farms and 40 pig farms across two provinces in central-eastern Argentina, we report a comprehensive genomic analysis of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant (3GC-R) , which were recovered from 34.

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Resolution recovery (RR) techniques in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging aim to mitigate spatial resolution losses and related inaccuracies in quantification by using a model of the system's point spread function (PSF) during reconstruction or post-processing. However, including PSF modeling in fully 3-D image reconstruction is far from trivial as access to the scanner-specific forward and back-projectors is required, along with access to the 3-D sinogram data. Hence, post-reconstruction RR methods, such as the Richardson-Lucy (RL) algorithm, can be more practical.

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