No Brasil, existe a atração turística de interagir com cavalos-marinhos, que ocorre por meio passeios jangada, durante os quais animais são capturados e expostos em recipientes vidro para serem fotografados filmados pelos turistas. Foram monitoradas duas unidades conservação marinhas federais onde essa atividade ocorre, o Parque Nacional Jericoacoara (área monitorada 600 m2), no estado do Ceará...

background: it is noted that oral contraceptive pills increase the risk of abnormal pap smear but results have been inconsistent across the populations. objective: this study aimed to evaluate the association between oral contraceptive pill (ocp) consumption and abnormal pap smear in women who referred to shahid sadoughi and madar hospitals in yazd. materials and methods: a cross sectional desc...

Background and purpose The COVID-19 emergency may cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with regard to people MS (pwMS) chronic exposure a wide range of challenging life events has been shown be correlated worsening neurological symptoms, increased lesion burden on brain magnetic resonance imaging relapses. aim was investigate perceived stress, depression, social support, habits behaviou...

The advance rate (AR) of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) under hard rock conditions is key parameter in the successful implementation tunneling engineering. In this study, we improved accuracy prediction models by employing hybrid model extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) with Bayesian optimization (BO) to TBM AR. To develop proposed models, 1286 sets data were collected from Peng Selangor Raw Wa...

Abstract Cardiovascular diseases are not only the leading causes of mortality in Hungary but also rate is twice as high European Union average, so screening programmes identifying subjects with elevated blood pressure (BP) utmost importance. May Measurement Month (MMM) an annual global initiative that began 2017 aimed at raising awareness BP. joined 3rd campaign MMM 2019 and overview results pr...

A study was conducted to compare the growth performance and carcass characteristics of guinea fowl (GF) with Horro (HR) Tilili (TL) local chickens, Potchefstroom Koekoek (PK) exotic chicken. Seventy-five-day-old chicks from each genotype were used in 3 replications a completely randomized design. Commercial starter grower feed fed ad libitum during 20 weeks study. Daily dry matter intake g/bird...