Impact of environmental enrichment on growth, behavior, and welfare of weanling piglets from pre-weaning to 6 weeks of age.

The experiment was carried out to study the effect of environmental enrichment before and after weaning on the growth, behaviours, and welfare of weaning pigs. A total of 360 weaning pigs (average initial body weight 6.32 ± 0.

Response to environmental enrichment of weanling pigs on growth, behaviour and welfare after weaning.

The experiment was carried out to examine the growth, behaviour, and welfare response of weaning pigs to environmental enrichment from d 1 to d 28 after weaning. A total of 240 weaning pigs with average initial body weight (BW) 6.56 ± 0.

Bioactive Compounds of Sea Mustard () Waste Affected by Drying Methods.

Sea mustard () is a brown macroalga extensively cultivated and consumed in South Korea. However, the high volume of seaweed production in the country results in substantial waste generation. To mitigate this issue, the bioactive compounds of sea mustard waste parts (sporophyll, root, and stem) were assessed under different drying conditions (freeze, oven, and microwave drying) to evaluate their potential as functional ingredients.

Analyzing to discover origins of CNNs and ViT architectures in medical images.

In this paper, we introduce in-depth the analysis of CNNs and ViT architectures in medical images, with the goal of providing insights into subsequent research direction. In particular, the origins of deep neural networks should be explainable for medical images, but there has been a paucity of studies on such explainability in the aspect of deep neural network architectures. Therefore, we investigate the origin of model performance, which is the clue to explaining deep neural networks, focusing on the two most relevant architectures, such as CNNs and ViT.

Lateral facial thread lifting procedure with temporal anchoring in deep temporal fascia: Anatomical perspectives of superficial temporal artery.

Introduction: Thread lifting is a non-surgical cosmetic procedure that utilizes threads to lift and tighten sagging skin on the face. In Lateral face lifting with anchoring technique, the threads are inserted into the skin and anchored in place to provide support to the skin at artery free zone. This technique utilizes a long cog thread, allowing for stronger fixation points.

Deep learning using computed tomography to identify high-risk patients for acute small bowel obstruction: development and validation of a prediction model : a retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To build a novel classifier using an optimized 3D-convolutional neural network for predicting high-grade small bowel obstruction (HGSBO).

Summary Background Data: Acute SBO is one of the most common acute abdominal diseases requiring urgent surgery. While artificial intelligence and abdominal computed tomography (CT) have been used to determine surgical treatment, differentiating normal cases, HGSBO requiring emergency surgery, and low-grade SBO (LGSBO) or paralytic ileus is difficult.

A Pilot Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Markers of Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Psoriasis.

Background: Recent studies have reported that psoriasis is associated with the development of metabolic syndrome. Genome-wide association studies have been used to discover gene variant markers that occur frequently in case group in relation to specific diseases.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the variants of specific genes involved in metabolic syndrome associated with psoriasis.

Multiple Precaching Vehicle Selection Scheme Based on Set Ranking in Intermittently Connected Vehicular Networks.

In vehicular networks, vehicles download vehicular information for various applications, including safety, convenience, entertainment, and social interaction, from the corresponding content servers via stationary roadside units. Since sufficient RSUs might be difficult to deploy due to rough geographical conditions or high deployment costs, vehicular networks can feature uncovered outage zones between two neighboring RSUs. In these outage zones, vehicles cannot download content, and thus the vehicle networks are defined as intermittently connected vehicular networks.

Enhanced Cycling Performance of a Li-Excess LiCuO Cathode Additive by Cosubstitution Nanoarchitectonics of Ni and Mn for Lithium-Ion Batteries.

The adoption of LiCuO has drawn interest as a Li-excess cathode additive for compensating irreversible Li loss in anodes during cycling, which would move forward high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). LiCuO provides a high irreversible capacity (>200 mAh g) in the first cycle and an operating voltage comparable with commercial cathode materials, but its practical use is still restricted by the structural instability and spontaneous oxygen (O) evolution, resulting in poor overall cycling performance. It is thus crucial to reinforce the structure of LiCuO to make it more reliable as a cathode additive for charge compensation.

An analysis of shapes and location of anterior hairline in Asian men.

An individual's first impression can be influenced by a number of esthetic factors, one of which is a natural hairline. The anterior hairline can be affected by various factors, such as race, age, forehead shape, and hair loss progression, similar to androgenetic alopecia. Information on the shape, hairline location on the forehead, and race are required to classify the anterior hairline.

Proposal of facial pigmentary unit and facial hyperpigmentation type for Fitzpatrick skin types II-IV.

Background: Studies on facial hyperpigmentation across different facial units are limiting. We aimed to analyze melanin pigmentation images to observe facial pigmentary demarcation lines (FPDLs) and suggest facial hyperpigmentation types for normal individuals.

Materials And Methods: 3D facial melanin pigmentation images of 173 volunteers were obtained and analyzed for the presence of FPDLs.

Optimized Distributed Proactive Caching Based on Movement Probability of Vehicles in Content-Centric Vehicular Networks.

Content-centric vehicular networks (CCVNs) have considered distributed proactive caching as an attractive approach for the timely provision of emerging services. The naïve caching schemes cache all of the contents to only one selected roadside unit (RSU) for requested vehicles to decrease the data acquisition delay between the data source and the vehicles. Due to the high deployment cost for RSUs and their limited capacity of caching, the vehicular networks could support only a limited number of vehicles and a limited amount of content and thus decrease the cache hit ratio.

K-Means Clustering-Based Safety System in Large-Scale Industrial Site Using Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks.

A large number of workers and heavy equipment are used in most industrial sizes, and the prevention of safety accidents is one of the most important issues. Therefore, although a number of systems have been proposed to prevent accidents, existing studies assume that workers are gathered in some areas. These assumptions are not suitable for large-scale industrial sites in which workers form as a group and work in a large area.

Metabolic Responses of Dietary Fiber during Heat Stress: Effects on Reproductive Performance and Stress Level of Gestating Sows.

Heat stress is an important issue, and the addition of fiber to the diet is an option in modifying intestinal health. This study evaluated the effect of acid detergent fiber (ADF) levels on reproductive performance, intestinal integrity, and metabolism of gestating sows, and its carry-over effect on the lactation period during heat stress. The diets included 4.

Homogenizing Silicon Domains in SiO Anode during Cycling and Enhancing Battery Performance via Magnesium Doping.

SiO ( ≈ 1) is one of the most promising anode materials for application in secondary lithium-ion batteries because of its high theoretical capacity. Despite this merit, SiO has a poor initial Coulombic efficiency, which impedes its widespread use. To overcome this limitation, in this work, we successfully demonstrate a novel synthesis of Mg-doped SiO via a mass-producible physical vapor deposition method.

Energy-Efficient and Reliable Face-Routing Scheme in Wireless Networks.

Face-routing is one of the reliable recovery schemes when geographic routing fails to transmit data packets. Although studies on face-routing can overcome the failure of the data transmission, they lead to much energy consumption due to frequent data transmissions between adjacent nodes for carrying out the rule of face-routing. To avoid the frequent data transmissions, several face-routing schemes have been recently proposed to transmit data packets to the farthest-neighbor node.

Study on Human Activity Recognition Using Semi-Supervised Active Transfer Learning.

In recent years, various studies have begun to use deep learning models to conduct research in the field of human activity recognition (HAR). However, there has been a severe lag in the absolute development of such models since training deep learning models require a lot of labeled data. In fields such as HAR, it is difficult to collect data and there are high costs and efforts involved in manual labeling.

Cation-Anion and Anion-CO Interactions in Triethyl(octyl)phosphonium Ionic Liquids with Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions (AHAs).

Ionic liquids with aprotic heterocyclic anions (AHAs) have been developed for postcombustion CO capture applications. The anions of AHA ILs play a significant role in tuning anion-CO complexation. In addition, AHAs are able to trigger the abstraction of acidic protons located at the α position of phosphonium cations by forming hydrogen bonds between cations and anions, eventually leading to cation-driven CO complexation.

Impact of an anti-Salmonella. Typhimurium Bacteriophage on intestinal microbiota and immunity status of laying hens.

Typhoid is a distinct gastrointestinal disease that largely affects the public by consumption of inadequately or partially cooked eggs from contaminated laying hen farms. This has led the research on laying hens to focus on controlling the contamination by an effective anti-Salmonella spp. agent in the intestine.

Cation-Anion Interactions in 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids with Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions (AHAs).

Ionic liquids with aprotic heterocyclic anions (AHAs) have been developed for CO capture but have been considered for other applications as well. Previously, we have shown that AHA ILs, where the only site for reaction with CO is the anion, the CO capacity correlates with anion basicity. Moreover, we have shown that 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ([Emim])AHA ILs can react with CO in two ways.

Generation of an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line from a 42-year-old adult cerebral type X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) patient.

X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is a neuro-metabolic disorder that is caused by malfunction of a peroxisomal transporter protein, adenosine ATP-binding cassette transporter superfamily D member 1 (ABCD1). We established an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line from a 42-year-old male X-ALD patient-derived dermal fibroblasts with Sendai virus-mediated reprogramming. Established iPSCs stably expanded, expressed genes of pluripotency, and maintained normal karyotype.