The Alpaca Melanocortin 1 Receptor: Gene Mutations, Transcripts, and Relative Levels of Expression in Ventral Skin Biopsies [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2015 The objectives of the present study were to characterize the MC1R gene, its transcripts and the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with coat color in alpaca. Full length cDNA amplification revealed the presence of two transcripts, named as
BATHRACHALAM, CHANDRAMOHAN +3 more
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Animals, 2021 Although alpacas are not used for milk production a detailed knowledge on the composition of the colostrum and milk is needed for development of colostrum and milk replacers.
Maria Mößler +4 more
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Ultrasound-guided psoas compartment and sciatic nerve blocks for pain management of hind limb procedures in the alpaca (Vicugna pacos) [PDF]
Open Veterinary Journal, 2020 Background: Loco-regional anaesthetic techniques are considered important in the multimodal approach to analgesia in both human and veterinary medicine. No such techniques are described in the alpaca, bar the use of epidural.
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Influence of Ultraviolet Irradiation and Protease on Scale Structure of Alpaca Wool Fibers
AUTEX Research Journal, 2020 The present research aimed to explore the influence of different felt-proofing methods on alpaca fibers’ scale structure. Dyed alpaca fibers were exposed to a particular wavelength of ultraviolet (UV) light for different periods and treated with protease
Wang Hua +2 more
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Efficient and Effective Text Encoding for Chinese LLaMA and Alpaca [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, have dramatically transformed natural language processing research and shown promising strides towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Yiming Cui, Ziqing Yang, Xin Yao
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Interpretability at Scale: Identifying Causal Mechanisms in Alpaca [PDF]
Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023 Obtaining human-interpretable explanations of large, general-purpose language models is an urgent goal for AI safety. However, it is just as important that our interpretability methods are faithful to the causal dynamics underlying model behavior and ...
Zhengxuan Wu +3 more
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Monolingual or Multilingual Instruction Tuning: Which Makes a Better Alpaca [PDF]
Findings, 2023 Foundational large language models (LLMs) can be instruction-tuned to perform open-domain question answering, facilitating applications like chat assistants.
Pinzhen Chen +4 more
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ALPACA: A new semi-analytic model for metal absorption lines emerging from clumpy galactic environments [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 We present a new semi-analytic formalism for modeling metal absorption lines that emerge from a clumpy galactic environment, ALPACA. We predict the “down-the-barrel” (DTB) metal absorption line profiles and the equivalent width (EW) of absorption at ...
Zhihui Li, M. Gronke, C. Steidel
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Horizonte Médico, 2022 El cáncer colorrectal (CCR) es la segunda causa de muerte por cáncer en los Estados Unidos y Europa; en el Perú alcanza el cuarto lugar, tanto en incidencia como en mortalidad.
Hugo Alpaca
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Survey of current UK alpaca husbandry practices: Vaccination, treatment and supplementation.
The Veterinary Record, 2023 BACKGROUND The popularity of alpacas in the UK is increasing, with the British Alpaca Society (BAS) estimating that there are currently 45,000 registered alpacas and a further 15,000 unregistered alpacas.
Abby Middleton +3 more
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