This study examined the histological properties of Semimembranosus and Triceps brachii muscle in two different bovine breeds, Maremmana (Ma) (an autochthonous breed from Tuscany, Italy) and Limousine (Lm). The animals were grazed in two adjoining pastures, received the same feed supplementation, and were weighed monthly. The experimental period lasted from weaning (6 months old) to slaughter (1...

IMPORTANCE Laryngomalacia (LM) classically presents with stridor in early infancy but can present atypically with snoring and/or sleep-disordered breathing (S-SDB) or swallowing dysfunction (SwD). The epidemiology of these atypical presentations has not been established in the literature. OBJECTIVE To document the primary modes of presentation for LM in a consecutive series of children and to...

Domain language model (LM) adaptation consists in re-estimating probabilities of a baseline LM to better match the peculiarities of a given broad topic of interest. To do so, a yet common strategy consists in retrieving adaptation texts from the Web based on a given domain representative seed text. In this report, we extensively study this process by analyzing the impact of numerous parameters....

The management of patients with leptomeningeal metastases (LM) is multifaceted and complex. Even with an aggressive approach, therapeutic outcomes are uniformly disappointing. This is because of the relentless growth of the central nervous system (CNS) and/or the systemic cancers, or their lethal complications. Advances in the understanding of the homing of cancer cells to the CNS, and of cance...

Accurate estimation of streamflow is crucial for water resources planning, design and management, determining flood drought management strategies, minimizing their adverse effects. In this study, the usability Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models to estimate monthly was investigated. For purpose, data two stations located in Seyhan Basin south Turkey were used. The Sarız River-Şarköy observat...

BACKGROUND Accurate assessment of renal function is important in the management of patients with kidney disease yet is often difficult to obtain. Formulae, designed for clinical use, have been developed to predict glomerular filtration rate (GFR) utilizing serum creatinine (Scr). Additional parameters are included in these formulae to account for variations in Scr due to differences in total bo...

White organic light emitting diodes (white-OLEDs) have shown the potential to replace commercial sources for lighting applications because of their high effi ciency and superior color quality. The most conventional architectures used to maximize the performances of such devices consist in the employment of three kinds of emitting phosphorescent or fl uorescent molecules and modifi ed glass subs...

Introduction Lentigo Maligna (LM) typically presents at sun-exposed sites in elderly patients as an asymmetric, slow-growing, irregularly pigmented macule with an irregular indented border. With changes in sun exposure behaviour LM is becoming more prevalent in middle-aged and younger adults.1 The risk of melanoma developing in LM increases with duration of the disease and therefore age,2 and i...

In heuristic search and especially in optimal classical planning the computation of accurate heuristic values can take up the majority of runtime. In many cases, the heuristic computations for a search node and its successors are very similar, leading to significant duplication of effort. For example most landmarks of a node that are computed by the LM-cut algorithm are also landmarks for the n...