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Open AccessTAN: a temporal-aware attention network with context-rich representation for boosting proposal generation
Temporal action proposal generation in an untrimmed video is very challenging, and comprehensive context exploration is critically important to generate accurate candidates of action instances. This paper prop...
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Open AccessRolapitant treats lung cancer by targeting deubiquitinase OTUD3
Lung cancer is cancer with the highest morbidity and mortality in the world and poses a serious threat to human health. Therefore, discovering new treatments is urgently needed to improve lung cancer prognosis...
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SCA-YOLO: a new small object detection model for UAV images
Object detection from UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) images is a crucial and challenging task in the field of computer vision. The task suffers from the difficulties of small dense objects, low pixel occupation...
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Open AccessEffects of dietary Clostridium butyricum and rumen protected fat on meat quality, oxidative stability, and chemical composition of finishing goats
Clostridium butyricum (CB) is a probiotic that can regulate intestinal microbial composition and improve meat quality. Rumen protected fat (RPF) has been shown to increase the dietary energy density and provide e...
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Open AccessIdentification and characterization of yellow stripe-like genes in maize suggest their roles in the uptake and transport of zinc and iron
Yellow Stripe-Like (YSL) proteins are involved in the uptake and transport of metal ions. They play important roles in maintaining the zinc and iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis, rice (Oryza sativa), and barley (Ho...
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Learning Complementary Instance Representation with Parallel Adaptive Graph-Based Network for Action Detection
Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to find action boundaries in untrimmed videos. Video sequences contain multiple actions with various durations, which brings about great challenges to accurate boundary loc...
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A multilayer human motion prediction perceptron by aggregating repetitive motion
Human motion prediction aims to forecast future human poses given a historical motion. Current state-of-the-art approaches rely on deep learning architectures of arbitrary complexity, such as Recurrent Neural ...
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Hand gesture segmentation against complex background based on improved atrous spatial pyramid pooling
Gesture segmentation is an essential part of gesture detection. The accuracy of gesture detection can be improved by using gesture segmentation to remove the background part un-hand images. However, the inaccu...
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Open AccessEffect of commercial slow-release urea product on in vitro rumen fermentation and ruminal microbial community using RUSITEC technique
The objectives of this study were to determine the effect of commercial slow-release urea (SRU) on in vitro fermentation characteristics, nutrient digestibility, gas production, microbial protein synthesis and...
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Open AccessEffects of brewers’ spent grain protein hydrolysates on gas production, ruminal fermentation characteristics, microbial protein synthesis and microbial community in an artificial rumen fed a high grain diet
Brewers’ spent grain (BSG) typically contains 20% – 29% crude protein (CP) with high concentrations of glutamine, proline and hydrophobic and non-polar amino acid, making it an ideal material for producing val...
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Open AccessFeed nutritional value of brewers’ spent grain residue resulting from protease aided protein removal
This study was conducted to evaluate the feed nutritional value of brewers’ spent grain (BSG) residue resulting from protease aided protein removal. The nutritional value was measured as nutrient content, gas ...
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Open AccessAntibiotic treatment in feedlot cattle: a longitudinal study of the effect of oxytetracycline and tulathromycin on the fecal and nasopharyngeal microbiota
Beef cattle in North America frequently receive an antibiotic injection after feedlot placement to control and manage bovine respiratory disease. The potential collateral effect of these antibiotics on the bov...
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Methane uptake by saline–alkaline soils with varying electrical conductivity in the Hetao Irrigation District of Inner Mongolia, China
Soil salinization adversely affects sustainable land use and limitation of greenhouse gas emission. Methane (CH4) uptake and the specific activity of methanotrophs in three saline–alkaline soils—S1, electrical co...
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Open AccessExploration of serum sensitive biomarkers of fatty liver in dairy cows
Serum proteins are sensitive with diseases in dairy cows, and some of them could be used as biomarkers for fatty liver. This study aimed to explore serum biomarkers for fatty liver in dairy cows. A total of 28...
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AMGE: A Tongue Body Segmentation Assessment Method via Gradient Energy
Tongue body segmentation is essential for the computerized tongue diagnosis. Several segmentation methods have been developed and some evaluation methods have been used for test the segmentation. However, it i...
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Open AccessRepeated inoculation of cattle rumen with bison rumen contents alters the rumen microbiome and improves nitrogen digestibility in cattle
Future growth in demand for meat and milk, and the socioeconomic and environmental challenges that farmers face, represent a “grand challenge for humanity”. Improving the digestibility of crop residues such as...
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Rapid Method for Simultaneous Determination of Inositol Phosphates by IPC-ESI–MS/MS and Its Application in Nutrition and Genetic Research
Inositol phosphates (InsPs) have important biological functions and multiple nutritional effects. Breeding and nutrition studies of InsPs require a simple, rapid, and accurate method for high-throughput quanti...
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A Review of Image Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Network
Image recognition technology is widely used in industry, space military, medicine and agriculture. At present, most of the image recognition methods use artificial feature extraction which is not only laboriou...
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Open AccessAnalysis of weighted co-regulatory networks in maize provides insights into new genes and regulatory mechanisms related to inositol phosphate metabolism
D-myo-inositol phosphates (IPs) are a series of phosphate esters. Myo-inositol hexakisphosphate (phytic acid, IP6) is the most abundant IP and has negative effects on animal and human ...
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Isolation of a maize ZmCI-1B promoter and characterization of its activity in transgenic maize and tobacco
The 2-kb ZmCI - 1B promoter is active in the root and embryo and induced by wounding in maize and the 220-bp 5′-deleted s...
