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Autonomous animal heating and cooling system for temperature-regulated MR experiments [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Temperature is a hallmark parameter influencing almost all magnetic resonance properties (e.g., T\textsubscript{1}, T\textsubscript{2}, proton density, diffusion and more). In the pre-clinical setting, temperature has a large influence on animal physiology (e.g., respiration rate, heart rate, metabolism, cellular stress, and more) and needs to be ...
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Space nutrition: the key role of nutrition in human space flight [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
From the basic impact of nutrient intake on health maintenance to the psychosocial benefits of mealtime, great advancements in nutritional sciences for support of human space travel have occurred over the past 60 years. Nutrition in space has many areas of impact, including provision of required nutrients and maintenance of endocrine, immune, and ...
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Machine learning can guide experimental approaches for protein digestibility estimations [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Food protein digestibility and bioavailability are critical aspects in addressing human nutritional demands, particularly when seeking sustainable alternatives to animal-based proteins. In this study, we propose a machine learning approach to predict the true ileal digestibility coefficient of food items. The model makes use of a unique curated dataset
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The Emergence of Animal Social Complexity: theoretical and biobehavioral evidence [PDF]

arXiv, 2013
This paper will introduce a theory of emergent animal social complexity using various results from computational models and empirical results. These results will be organized into a vertical model of social complexity. This will support the perspective that social complexity is in essence an emergent phenomenon while helping to answer two interrelated ...
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Allometric scaling law and ergodicity breaking in the vascular system [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Allometry or the quantitative study of the relationship of body size to living organism physiology is an important area of biophysical scaling research. The West-Brown-Enquist (WBE) model of fractal branching in a vascular network explains the empirical allometric Kleiber law (the 3/4 scaling exponent for metabolic rates as a function of animal's mass).
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Development of knowledge Base Expert System for Natural treatment of Diabetes disease [PDF]

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)Volume 3 Issue 3 March 2012 Published, 2012
The development of expert system for treatment of Diabetes disease by using natural methods is new information technology derived from Artificial Intelligent research using ESTA (Expert System Text Animation) System. The proposed expert system contains knowledge about various methods of natural treatment methods (Massage, Herbal/Proper Nutrition ...
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IUMENTA: A generic framework for animal digital twins within the Open Digital Twin Platform [PDF]

arXiv
IUMENTA (Latin for livestock) is an innovative software framework designed to construct and simulate digital twins of animals. By leveraging the powerful capability of the Open Digital Twin Platform (ODTP) alongside advanced software sensors, IUMENTA offers researchers a user-friendly tool to seamlessly develop adaptive digital replicas of animal-based
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Environmental impacts, nutritional profiles, and retail prices of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries: an observational study [PDF]

arXiv
Affordability is often seen as a barrier to consuming sustainable diets. This study provides the first worldwide test of how retail food prices relate to empirically estimated environmental impacts and nutritional profile scores between and within food groups.
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Properties of Hagen-Poiseuille flows in channel networks [PDF]

arXiv
We derive the main properties of adaptive Hagen-Poiseuille flows in elastic microchannel networks akin to biological veins in organisms. We show that adaptive Hagen-Poiseuille flows successfully simulate key features of \textit{Physarum polycephalum} networks, replicating physiological out-of-equilibrium phenomena like peristalsis and shuttle streaming,
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Meat-Free Day Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions but Poses Challenges for Customer Retention and Adherence to Dietary Guidelines [PDF]

arXiv
Reducing meat consumption is crucial for achieving global environmental and nutritional targets. Meat-Free Day (MFD) is a widely adopted strategy to address this challenge by encouraging plant-based diets through the removal of animal-based meals. We assessed the environmental, behavioral, and nutritional impacts of MFD by implementing 67 MFDs over 18 ...
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