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Performance of Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) larvae reared on organic waste diets and pupal chitin and chitosan yield
Recently, much research has been oriented towards the influence of different food wastes and agricultural by-products on the final larval biomass and chemical composition of the insect species Hermetia illucens L...
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Open AccessEvaluation of ruminal methane and ammonia formation and microbiota composition as affected by supplements based on mixtures of tannins and essential oils using Rusitec
Dietary supplements based on tannin extracts or essential oil compounds (EOC) have been repeatedly reported as a promising feeding strategy to reduce the environmental impact of ruminant husbandry. A previous ...
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Open AccessSquamata reptiles as a potential source of helminth infections when preyed on by companion animals
Squamate reptiles cohabiting with companion animals may represent a source of helminth infections, especially through predation by dogs and cats with an outdoor lifestyle.
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A Prototype NIRS Device to Increase Safety of Diving
A simple prototype device that may become part of the standard divers’ safety equipment is designed, constructed, and tested in order to prove the practicability of the underlying idea. The device is based on ...
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15-year-change of phenotype and prognosis in non-dialysis CKD patients referred to a nephrology clinic
Changes over time of phenotype and prognosis in CKD patients starting nephrology care are undefined. This information is critical to correctly plan and optimize healthcare resources and clinical management in ...
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Measurable Disturbance Decoupling for Impulsive Switching Linear Systems
This work deals with the problem of annihilating the effect of a disturbance accessible for measurement on the output of an impulsive switching linear system—i.e., a hybrid system whose state is affected by di...
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Hydrogen storage performance of methyl-substituted mesoporous silica with tailored textural characteristics
The present study reports a systematic analysis of morphology and hydrogen sorption capacity of mesoporous organic-inorganic silica prepared by varying the silica synthesis parameters. Cationic surfactants of ...
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Open AccessSeropositivity to canine tick-borne pathogens in a population of sick dogs in Italy
Canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs) associated to ticks are among the most important health issues affecting dogs. In Italy, Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma spp., Rickettsia conorii and Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) ha...
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Use of multivariate factor analysis of detailed milk fatty acid profile to perform a genome-wide association study in Italian Simmental and Italian Holstein
Milk fatty acid (FA) profile is a clear example of complex and multiple correlated traits whose genetic basis is difficult to assess. Although genome-wide association (GWA) studies have been successful in the ...
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The smell of longevity: a combination of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can discriminate centenarians and their offspring from age-matched subjects and young controls
Aging is characterized by dynamic changes at metabolic level that lead to modifications in the composition of the metabolome. Since the identification of biomarkers that can discriminate people of different ag...
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Sodium toxicity in peritoneal dialysis: mechanisms and “solutions”
The major trials in peritoneal dialysis (PD) have demonstrated that increasing peritoneal clearance of small solutes is not associated with any advantage on survival, whereas sodium and fluid overload heralds ...
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Unknown-Input State Observers for Hybrid Dynamical Structures
This chapter investigates the unknown-input state problem for hybrid dynamical systems with state jumps. The problem considered is that of deriving an asymptotic of a linear function of the state of a give...
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Incremental dialysis in ESRD: systematic review and meta-analysis
Incremental dialysis may preserve residual renal function and improve survival in comparison with full-dose dialysis; however, available evidence is limited. We therefore compared all-cause mortality and resid...
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Generalizability of SPRINT-CKD cohort to CKD patients referred to renal clinics
The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial-CKD substudy (SPRINT-CKD) has suggested a lower blood pressure (BP) target in CKD patients. However, it is questionable whether the SPRINT-CKD results may be gene...
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Sodium removal by peritoneal dialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Achievement of sodium and fluid balance is considered a major determinant of dialysis adequacy in peritoneal dialysis (PD). However, the contribution of different PD modalities to dialytic sodium removal (DSR)...
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Managing the vine mealybug, Planococcus ficus, through pheromone-mediated mating disruption
The vine mealybug (VMB), Planococcus ficus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), is a key insect pest of vineyards. While pheromone-based mating disruption (MD) has been successfully tested against a wide range of insect ...
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From the Control Systems Theory to Intelligent Manufacturing and Services: Challenges and Future Perspectives
Control Science has played over time and still continues to have a key role for the development of human society such that, in the XX century, it has been recognized as an independent discipline. During the ‘5...
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Development and Experimental Tests of a ROS Multi-agent Structure for Autonomous Surface Vehicles
Robotic structures that couple autonomous surface vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles in integrated systems with various levels of cooperation provide interesting solutions to the problem of develo** e...
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Open AccessThe Cost of Patients with Chronic Kidney Failure Before Dialysis: Results from the IRIDE Observational Study
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important public health problem. Most of the evidence on its costs relates to patients receiving dialysis or kidney transplants, which shows that, in these phases, CKD poses ...
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Disrupting mating of Lobesia botrana using sex pheromone aerosol devices
Pheromone-mediated mating disruption (MD) is widely used as a control tool to manage the European grapevine moth (EGVM), Lobesia botrana. Most of the MD formulations are “passive” reservoir dispensers, which need...
