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Background: Shaft fractures of the femur are commonly treated with intramedullary nailing, which can release bone marrow emboli into the bloodstream. Emboli can travel to the lungs, impairing gas exchange and causing inflammation. Occasionally, emboli traverse from the pulmonary to the systemic circulation, hindering perfusion and resulting in injuries such as heart and brain infarctions, known as .

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In a recent article, we presented evidence demonstrating the existence of hidden y-stories within the genomes of humans and canines. These stories were found not only in the non-protein-coding regions but also within the genetic regions and the sequence of exons. Consequently, we are now exploring whether these discoveries are unique to humans and dogs or if they are more widely distributed throughout the cellular world.

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We have until now focused solely on the non-coding, more precisely the non-protein-coding (npc), part of DNA of man and dog in the search for hidden y-texts written by means of y-words - spelled by nucleotides A, C, G, and T and delimited by stop-codons. In this paper we use the same methods to analyse the whole human and canine genome, but we divide the genome into the genetic part, the naturally occurring sequence of exons, and the non-protein-coding genome according to definitions. By use of the y-text-finder we determine the number of zipf-qualified and a-qualified texts hidden in each of these parts.

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This paper is a top-down analysis of the non-protein-coding, canine genome. We demonstrate by use of the y-text-finder method, that the non-protein-coding genome contains lots of hidden y-texts, both short and long, proving that the non-protein-coding genome is the opposite of junk. They are written by means of a y-language of about 28 million y-words separated by stop codons and spelled by nucleotide letters A, C, G, and T.

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This article is about the discovery of thousands of narrative-like structures, like human corpus-texts, but written by y-words which are nucleotide strings delimited by stop codons in the non-coding part of the human genome. In a previous article these strings were shown to behave like human words. We use a text-finder to search for texts composed of the y-words, forming what we call y-narratives, and demonstrate that the non-coding human genome behaves like a multilayer structure due to the way the text-finder works.

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In this article we do a top-down analysis of the non-protein-coding human genome using well-defined parameters, resulting in what we call ?-strings. We show that there are altogether 45,371,328 different ?-strings in the human non-protein-coding genome. We explore statistical properties of the y-strings and demonstrate that they have many characteristics in common with human words.

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Sero-prevalence of brucellosis among slaughterhouse workers in Bahr el Ghazal region, South Sudan.

BMC Infect Dis

May 2019

Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystems &Veterinary Public Health (BEP). College of Vet. Animal Resources & Biosecurity (COVAB), Makerere University, P.O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.

Background: Brucellosis is an infectious zoonotic disease and is common especially among pastoral communities in most low and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to determine sero-prevalence, and risk factors of Brucella infection among Slaughterhouse workers, in Bahr el Ghazal region, South Sudan.

Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among Slaughterhouse workers in Bahr el Ghazal region, South Sudan from December 2015 to May 2016.

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Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is a disease of animal and public health importance in developing countries. In rural Ethiopia, there is potential for a shift in the epidemiologic of this disease driven by transformation of dairy industry. This includes gradual change from the traditional mixed crop-livestock husbandry practice to a semi-intensification system.

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  • - The study investigates the genetic factors contributing to harness racing success in Norwegian-Swedish Coldblooded Trotters using a large genomic dataset.
  • - Researchers found nine significant genetic markers linked to career earnings, while only suggestive markers were identified for other performance traits like gallops and best km time.
  • - The findings suggest that not only physical traits but also cognitive abilities, such as learning and memory, play a crucial role in a horse's racing success.
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This paper is about how fractal connections between words can be identified and hidden fractal word-networks uncovered in corpus texts. The basis for this 'search-and-find' procedure is the hypothesis Complexity Connections in Corpuses (CCIC) consisting of four separate sub-hypotheses, each the basis of a procedure for uncovering a special part of such networks. The validity and applicability of CCIC are demonstrated by showing that each sub-hypothesis holds good for twenty-four masterpieces, selected from the world's great library of novels and treatises.

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The use of silver nanomaterials in everyday products, such as cosmetics, textiles, certain types of packaging, etc. is increasing, leading to their release into the environment, including aquatic ecosystems. This last point initiated this investigation on the toxicological effects of Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) in the aquatic model organism Danio rerio.

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Apoptosis is an integral element of development that may also be initiated by environmental contaminants. The aim of the present study was to assess potential changes in the regulation of apoptotic genes in zebrafish embryos following parental exposure to two natural mixtures of persistent organic pollutants (POP). The mixture from Lake Mjøsa contained exceptionally high concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), as well as relatively high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT).

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Bovine Staphylococcus aureus: Subtyping, evolution, and zoonotic transfer.

J Dairy Sci

January 2016

Agroscope, Institute for Food Sciences (IFS), Schwarzenburgstrasse 161, 3003 Berne, Switzerland. Electronic address:

Staphylococcus aureus is globally one of the most important pathogens causing contagious mastitis in cattle. Previous studies using ribosomal spacer (RS)-PCR, however, demonstrated in Swiss cows that Staph. aureus isolated from bovine intramammary infections are genetically heterogeneous, with Staph.

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Staphylococcus aureus is globally one of the most important pathogens causing contagious mastitis in cattle. Previous studies, however, have demonstrated in Swiss cows that Staph. aureus isolated from bovine intramammary infection is genetically heterogeneous, with Staph.

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Listeria monocytogenes has been reported to cause various infectious diseases in both humans and animals. More rarely, ocular infections have been reported. To our knowledge, only two cases of Listeria keratitis have been described in horses.

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Background: Infants are exposed to persistent environmental contaminants through breast milk, yet studies assessing the health effects of postnatal exposure are lacking. Existing postnatal exposure assessment is either too simple (lactation exposure model, LEM) or requires complex physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models.

Objectives: We present equations for postnatal exposure calculations.

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A quantitative survey of Saprolegnia spp. in the water systems of Norwegian salmon hatcheries was performed. Water samples from 14 salmon hatcheries distributed along the Norwegian coastline were collected during final incubation in the hatcheries.

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In 2005, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health established a web-based outbreak rapid alert system called Vesuv. The system is used for mandatory outbreak alerts from municipal medical officers, healthcare institutions, and food safety authorities. As of 2013, 1426 outbreaks have been reported, involving 32913 cases.

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As a top predator in the Arctic food chain, polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are exposed to high levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Because several of these compounds have been reported to alter endocrine pathways, such as the steroidogenesis, potential disruption of the sex steroid synthesis by POPs may cause implications for reproduction by interfering with ovulation, implantation and fertility. Blood samples were collected from 15 female polar bears in Svalbard (Norway) in April 2008.

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Biotransformation of zearalenone and zearalenols to their major glucuronide metabolites reduces estrogenic activity.

Toxicol In Vitro

April 2015

Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Electronic address:

Zearalenone (ZEN) is a mycotoxin produced by Fusarium fungi. Once ingested, ZEN may be absorbed and metabolised to α- and β-zearalenol (α-ZOL, β-ZOL), and to a lesser extent α- and β-zearalanol (α-ZAL, β-ZAL). Further biotransformation to glucuronide conjugates also occurs to facilitate the elimination of these toxins from the body.

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Evidence that some of the fungal metabolites present in food and feed may act as potential endocrine disruptors is increasing. Enniatin B (ENN B) is among the emerging Fusarium mycotoxins known to contaminate cereals. In this study, the H295R and neonatal porcine Leydig cell (LC) models, and reporter gene assays (RGAs) have been used to investigate the endocrine disrupting activity of ENN B.

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Human health risk associated with brominated flame-retardants (BFRs).

Environ Int

January 2015

Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, P.O. Box 8146 Dep., N-0033 Oslo, Norway.

The purposes of this review are to assess the human exposure and human and experimental evidence for adverse effects of brominated flame-retardants (BFRs) with specific focus on intake from seafood. The leakage of BFRs from consumer products leads to exposure of humans from fetal life to adulthood. Fish and fish products contain the highest levels of BFRs and dominate the dietary intake of frequent fish eaters in Europe, while meat, followed by seafood and dairy products accounted for the highest US dietary intake.

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Osteochondrosis arises as a result of focal failure of the blood supply to growth cartilage. The current aim was to examine the pathogenesis of pseudocysts and true cysts in subchondral bone following failure of the blood supply to the articular-epiphyseal cartilage complex in horses. Cases were recruited based on identification of lesions (n = 17) that were considered likely to progress to or to represent pseudocysts or true cysts in epiphyseal bone in histological sections and included 10 horses ranging in age from 48 days to 5 years old.

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The mycotoxin alternariol (AOH) is an important contaminant of fruits and cereal products. The current study sought to address the effect of a non-toxic AOH concentration on the proteome of the steroidogenic H295R cell model. Quantitative proteomics based on stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) coupled to 1D-SDS-PAGE-LC-MS/MS was applied to subcellular-enriched protein samples.

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