Effects of day of mixing sows after breeding were measured for reproduction and welfare on a commercial research farm. Sows (n = 1,436) were weaned into stalls for breeding, and groups of sows were assigned to 1) no mixing and housed in individual stalls (STL), 2) mixed on d 3 to 7 after breeding (D3), 3) mixed on d 13 to 17 after breeding (D14), or 4) mixed 35 d after breeding (D35). Mixed sow...

The aim of this article was to describe the process designing and manufacturing 3D TPAs discuss some clinical cases in which were used. Digital models acquired by scanning casts, PVS impressions or dentitions directly. data a common STL format used for computer design that follows. Then, instructions sent printer fabrication. Finally, manual polishing should be performed. Seven assist orthodont...

In activity recognition, it is often expensive and time-consuming to acquire sufficient activity labels. To solve this problem, transfer learning leverages the labeled samples from the source domain to annotate the target domain which has few or none labels. Existing approaches typically consider learning a global domain shift while ignoring the intra-affinity between classes, which will hinder...

Background: The effects of reduced radiation dose CT for the generation of maxillofacial bone STL models for 3D printing is currently unknown. Images of two full-face transplantation patients scanned with non-contrast 320-detector row CT were reconstructed at fractions of the acquisition radiation dose using noise simulation software and both filtered back-projection (FBP) and Adaptive Iterativ...

Abstract A novel algorithm is presented and employed for the fast generation of meshless node distributions over arbitrary 3D domains defined by using stereolithography (STL) file format. The based on node-repel approach where nodes move according to mutual repulsion neighboring nodes. iterative coupled with an octree-based technique efficient projection external surface in order constrain dist...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Concurrent chemoradiotherapy is the gold-standard nonsurgical organ-preservation treatment for advanced laryngeal carcinoma. Total laryngectomy (TL) is increasingly reserved for surgical salvage. Salvage surgery is associated with more complications than primary surgery. A systematic review and meta-analysis was undertaken to establish the impact of organ preservation prot...

Transfer of phage-related pathogenicity islands of Staphylococcus aureus (SaPI-s) was recently reported to be activated by helper phage dUTPases. This is a novel function for dUTPases otherwise involved in preservation of genomic integrity by sanitizing the dNTP pool. Here we investigated the molecular mechanism of the dUTPase-induced gene expression control using direct techniques. The express...

Security-typed languages (STLs) are powerful tools for provably implementing policy in applications. The programmer maps policy onto programs by annotating types with information flow labels, and the STL compiler guarantees that data always obeys its label as it flows within an application. As data flows into or out of an application, however, a runtime system is needed to mediate between the i...

Targeting conserved and essential processes is a successful strategy to combat enemies. Remarkably, the clinically important Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands (SaPIs) use this tactic to spread in nature. SaPIs reside passively in the host chromosome, under the control of the SaPI-encoded master repressor, Stl. It has been assumed that SaPI de-repression is effected by specific phage p...

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a formalism for reasoning about temporal properties of continuous-time traces of hybrid systems. Previous work on this subject mostly focuses on robust satisfaction of an STL formula for a particular trace. In contrast, we present a method solving the problem of formally verifying an STL formula for continuous and hybrid system models, which exhibit uncountably ma...