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The international value of biodiversity scientific disciplines throughout Cina: an understanding.
Commercial fishing is a fragile industry that is exposed to a multitude of stressors. Marine debris is known to be one of these stressors; however, the prevalence and impact is rarely assessed. Therefore, this analysis assessed the perceived encounter frequency and impacts of marine debris on commercial fishing through an end-of-the year survey of registered Mississippi commercial shrimpers. Ninety-eight percent (98%) of shrimpers indicated they encountered marine debris in 2018 with 85% encountering it frequently. The most common debris reported to be encountered was abandoned or derelict fishing gear (93% of shrimpers), primarily crab traps. Most shrimpers reported reduced catch (80%), lost fishing time (82%), and vessel repairs (75%) due to marine debris. Additionally, 93% of shrimpers categorized marine debris as destructive to their operations. These results indicate that marine debris does have significant direct impacts on the commercial shrimping industry in Mississippi and likely other regions.Ultrasonic moulding is a new technology that uses high power ultrasound to melt and mould thermoplastic polymers to produce samples with mini and micro features. The main feature of this technology is the use of ultrasonic energy as the heating source instead of a conventional injection screw. Even if ultrasonic moulding overcomes some of the drawbacks of conventional mini and micro-injection moulding, it still presents two main limitations that are hindering its widespread applicability the lack of stability of the process and the difficulty to obtain samples with good mechanical properties for some materials. This article presents a new configuration, called nodal point ultrasonic moulding (NPUSM), to surmount such limitations. This configuration improves the stability of ultrasonic moulding technology and it is capable of processing materials with good mechanical properties. To prove its efficacy, the nodal point ultrasonic moulding configuration is used to obtain the processing window of a polyoxymethylene material and these results are compared with standard ultrasonic injection and conventional injection moulding. The results obtained show that NPSUM configuration improves the capabilities of ultrasonic moulding technologies.This study evaluates the use of 3D printed phantoms for 3D super-resolution ultrasound imaging (SRI) algorithm calibration. The main benefit of the presented method is the ability to do absolute 3D micro-positioning of sub-wavelength sized ultrasound scatterers in a material having a speed of sound comparable to that of tissue. Stereolithography is used for 3D printing soft material calibration micro-phantoms containing eight randomly placed scatterers of nominal size 205 μm × 205 μm × 200 μm. The backscattered pressure spatial distribution is evaluated to show similar distributions from micro-bubbles as the 3D printed scatterers. The printed structures are found through optical validation to expand linearly in all three dimensions by 2.6% after printing. SRI algorithm calibration is demonstrated by imaging a phantom using a λ/2 pitch 3 MHz 62+62 row-column addressed (RCA) ultrasound probe. The printed scatterers will act as point targets, as their dimensions are below the diffraction limit of the ultrasound system used. Two sets of 640 volumes containing the phantom features are imaged, with an intervolume uni-axial movement of the phantom of 12.5 μm, to emulate a flow velocity of 2 mm/s at a frame rate of 160 Hz. The ultrasound signal is passed to a super-resolution pipeline to localise the positions of the scatterers and track them across the 640 volumes. After compensating for the phantom expansion, a scaling of 0.989 is found between the distance between the eight scatterers calculated from the ultrasound data and the designed distances. The standard deviation of the variation in the scatterer positions along each track is used as an estimate of the precision of the super-resolution algorithm, and is expected to be between the two limiting estimates of (σ̃x,σ̃y,σ̃z) = (22.7 μm, 27.6 μm, 9.7 μm) and (σ̃x,σ̃y,σ̃z) = (18.7 μm, 19.3 μm, 8.9 μm). In conclusion, this study demonstrates the use of 3D printed phantoms for determining the accuracy and precision of volumetric super-resolution algorithms.Objective was to compare estrous response, and first service and breeding season pregnancy rates in Angus cross beef heifers that received four progesterone (CIDR, vaginal insert) -based estrous-synchronization treatment regimens for timed artificial insemination (TAI) with or without short-term natural service (NS). Heifers (n = 1744; 4 locations) were assigned a reproductive tract score (RTS 1 = immature, acyclic to 5 = mature, cyclic), body condition score (BCS 1 = emaciated to 9 = obese) and temperament score (0 = calm to 1 = excitable). Within location, heifers were assigned to either of four treatment regimens. Heifers in Select-Synch + CIDR (C) + short-term NS (SSC + NS) treatment (n = 438) received 100 μg GnRH im + CIDR on Day -7 and CIDR removal + 25 mg PGF2α (im) + estrus-detection patches in the morning of Day 0 and were subjected to NS (bull to heifer ratio, 125) from the morning of Day 2 (48 h from CIDR removal) to evening of Day 8. TBG-MINO Heifers in CO-Synch + C (COSC) +TAI + NS treatment (n = 433) rec following Select-Synch treatment regimen could be implemented as an alternative as these treatment regimens resulted in similar pregnancy rate as progesterone based CO-Synch timed artificial insemination with short-term natural service treatment regimen.Energy homeostasis and accomplishment of maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT), which involves the timed processes of maternal mRNA clearance and zygotic genome activation (ZGA), are essential for mammalian embryogenesis. However, how energy substrates regulate maternal mRNA clearance and the underlying mechanisms have not yet been fully elucidated. Here, we found that mouse embryos were arrested at the 2-cell stage when the pyruvate level was reduced to one-fifth of the control level. Moreover, we observed that the mitochondrial contents and ROS levels were reduced. Interestingly, some maternal mRNA, including transcripts involved in the maternal factor-mediated mRNA decay (M-decay) pathway, was vastly degraded from 1-cell to 2-/4-cell embryos when cultured with control pyruvate levels, but the clearance of these transcripts was hindered when the pyruvate level was reduced. In contrast, some transcripts involved in the zygotic factor-mediated mRNA decay (Z-decay) pathway were vastly downregulated by the reduction in pyruvate.
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