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No good vaccination quality without good control: the positive impact of a hatchery vaccination service program
(2020)
Vaccination is currently one of the most relevant control strategies in poultry production to reduce infectious disease–induced economic losses and decrease antimicrobial use. Besides intrinsic vaccine efficacy, a proper ...
Influence of lined pipe fabrication on liner wrinkling
(2019)
An economical method to protect offshore pipelines against corrosive ingredients of hydrocarbons is a double-walled (also called “lined” or “bi-metallic”) pipe, in which a thick-walled low-alloy carbon steel (“outer pipe”) ...
A service-based approach for the uniform access of wireless sensor networks and custom application tasks running on sensor nodes
(2018)
For reasons of convenience and interoperability, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically accessed by remote client applications through well-defined service-oriented interfaces. In addition, significant flexibility ...
Multi-RAT spectrum reallocation including carrier aggregation for 5G networks
(2018)
Towards the 5G vision of massive access exploding the growth in data traffic, spectrum refarming and reallocation are considered key enabling technologies. Using spectrum reallocation (SR) with the spectrum originally ...
High-efficiency agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transgenic tairy root induction of lens culinaris
(2020)
Previous efforts to transform lentil have been considerably hampered by the crop's recalcitrant nature, giving rise to particularly low transformation and regeneration frequencies. This study aimed at optimizing an ...
Choosing Peace Instead of War. A Lesson from Athenian Democracy
(2016)
The present essay discusses how a society can make decisions on specific issues according to how flexible or rigid it is in accepting new ideas and trends. Then, it explains how Athenian society abandoned war in favor of ...
Preface to the special issue on “applications of fuzzy optimization and fuzzy decision making”
(2021)
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A meta-analysis evaluating the role of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a fourth treatment modality for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer
(2022)
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) on patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Methods: A literature search was performed in PubMed, Scopus and Cochrane ...
Assessment of remediation of soils, moderately contaminated by potentially toxic metals, using different forms of carbon (charcoal, biochar, activated carbon). Impacts on contamination, metals availability and soil indices
(2022)
The present study aims to assess the effect of three forms of carbon, i.e., charcoal, biochar and activated carbon using as soil amendments (or soil conditioners) in two soils, an acid and alkaline one. For this purpose, ...
Study of the Spatiotemporal Variability of Oceanographic Parameters and Their Relationship to Holothuria Species Abundance in a Marine Protected Area of the Mediterranean Using Satellite Imagery
(2022)
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are designated to protect marine ecosystems and, among other things, to monitor climate variability, which in turn affects aquatic species. The aim of this study is to examine the contribution ...