BACKGROUND The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota has a strong impact on the health of cats and these populations can be altered in GI disease. Little research has been done to associate improvement in diarrhea with changes in GI microbiota. OBJECTIVE To evaluate GI microbiota changes associated with diet change and related improvement in diarrhea in cats with chronic naturally occurring diarrh...

This paper proposes an analytical method to detect adulteration of diesel/biodiesel blends based on near infrared (NIR) spectrometry and supervised pattern recognition methods. For this purpose, partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) coupled with the successive projections algorithm (SPA) have been employed to build screening models using thr...

background: unwanted pregnancy not intended by at least one of the parents has undesirable consequences for the family and the society. in the present study, three classification models were used and compared to predict unwanted pregnancies in an urban population.   methods : in this cross-sectional study, 887 pregnant mothers referring to health centers in khorramabad, iran, in 2012 were selec...

Different geographical origins and species of Paris obtained from southwestern China were discriminated by near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with multivariate analysis. The NIR parameter settings were scanning (64 times), resolution (4 cm(-1)), scanning range (10,000 cm(-1)∼4000 cm(-1)) and parallel collection (3 times). NIR spectrum was...

classical lbp such as complexity and high dimensions of feature vectors that make it necessary to apply dimension reduction processes. in this paper, we introduce an improved lbp algorithm to solve these problems that utilizes fast pca algorithm for reduction of vector dimensions of extracted features. in other words, proffer method (fast pca+lbp) is an improved lbp algorithm that is extracted ...

rapid exploratory field survey, to identify indigenous chicken ecotypes was conducted in north gondar zone of ethiopia. chicken ecotypes including necked neck, gasgie and gugut from quara, alefa and tache armacheho districts were identified, respectively. morphological variations among the three study populations and nine measurable traits were evaluated. general linear model, canonical discrim...