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  • Sustainable Paris Olympics vs. health concerns over plastic bottles: effective marketing communications to promote the use of canned beverages

    Sustainable Paris Olympics vs. health concerns over plastic bottles: effective marketing communications to promote the use of canned beverages

    Results

    As presented in Fig. 5, in the control group (Group 1), the percentage of people who believed the product was attractive was roughly equal between cans (33.6%) and plastic bottles (32.4%). The chi-square test results were p = 0.959 and…

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  • Impacts of propolis and Spirulina platensis supplementation on growth, nutrient digestibility, and gut microbiota of Japanese quails under heat stress

    Impacts of propolis and Spirulina platensis supplementation on growth, nutrient digestibility, and gut microbiota of Japanese quails under heat stress

  • Sumanu, V. O., Naidoo, V., Oosthuizen, M. C. & Chamunorwa, J. P. Adverse effects of heat stress during summer on broiler chickens production and antioxidant mitigating effects. Int. J. Biometeorol. 66(12), 2379–2393.

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  • Frequency-specific neural abnormalities in congenital prosopagnosia revealed by magnetoencephalography during face perception

    Frequency-specific neural abnormalities in congenital prosopagnosia revealed by magnetoencephalography during face perception

    Subjects

    Seventeen healthy controls (HCs) (eleven women; mean age: 28.95 years; range: 19–48 years) and three individuals with congenital prosopagnosia (CP) (one woman; mean age: 26.3 years; range: 22–31 years) participated in this study….

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  • Spatiotemporal patterns and propagation of meteorological and hydrological drought in a humid basin of Southeast China

    Spatiotemporal patterns and propagation of meteorological and hydrological drought in a humid basin of Southeast China

    Evolution characteristics and influencing factors of drought in the MRB

    From 1975 to 2020, the MRB exhibited largely consistent trends in MD and HD, reflecting a typical drought response pattern in humid regions under global warming. This aligns…

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  • Clinical study on the effect of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound on healing of proximal sesamoid bone fractures in Yili horses

    Clinical study on the effect of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound on healing of proximal sesamoid bone fractures in Yili horses

    Study design

    A randomized controlled animal trial.

    Time and location

    The experiment was conducted from August 2023 to December 2024 at the Military Horse Farm in Zhaosu County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,…

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  • This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings

    This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings

    Paralvinella hessleri accumulates microscopic particles of arsenic on its outer skin, which reacts with sulfide to form a microscopic armour of yellow orpiment.Credit: Wang et al./PLoS Biol (CC BY 4.0)

    A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea…

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  • A cost effective real time rail track monitoring system leveraging multi sensor fusion and multi objective optimization

    A cost effective real time rail track monitoring system leveraging multi sensor fusion and multi objective optimization

    In the following section, we outline a proposed architecture for the rail track sensory system, aligning with the framework outlined in26 and27. Figure 2 depicts the simplified representation of the proposed model. We strategically deploy sensors…

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  • Levels and health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in grilled meat in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

    Levels and health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in grilled meat in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

    Concentrations of PAHs in kebab samples

    The levels of PAHs found in the grilled beef, kebab, and grilled chicken samples sold in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region of Iraq, are presented in Table 3. The mean concentrations of Acy, Ace, Flu, Flt, Pyr,…

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