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Lymphocytic-Plasmacytic Enteritis as a Cause of Long-Lasting Weight Loss and Recurrent Colic in an Elderly Horse

Lymphocytic-Plasmacytic Enteritis (LPE) is an uncommon cause of chronic inflammatory bowel disease in horses. The proliferative inflammatory cell infiltrate results in diffuse mucosal inflammation and impaired nutrients absorption, leading to chronic weight loss, recurrent abdominal pain and hypoproteinemia. This article reports the case of a 25-year-old horse with LPE causing long-lasting severe cachexia and recurrent colic episodes. A positive response to diet changes and medical treatment with corticosteroids was observed during a short period of time. However, relapse of recurrent colic episodes refractory to medical treatment determined the euthanasia of the horse. Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease; EPE: Equine Proliferative Enteritis; LPE: Lymphocytic Plasmacytic Enteritis; MEED: Multisystemic Eosinophilic Epitheliotrophic Disease; OGTT: Oral Glucose Tolerance Test Lymphocytic-Plasmacytic Enteritis as a Cause of Long-Lasting Weight Loss and Recurrent Colic in an Elderly Horse. idiopathic and lymphocytic-plasmacytic
Teachers’ Knowledge Regarding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Systematic Review

The increasing number of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in mainstream education environments require teachers to know how to identify their needs, being capable to adapt their education processes and make their inclusion easier. The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review about teachers’ knowledge of ASD, including teachers from any stage and specialization. The research has been conducted from four databases (Web of Science, Scopus, PsycInfo and Google Scholar) during the period of 2015–2020. In total, 25 articles were analyzed. The results show that, in general, teachers’ knowledge of ASD is poor. It depends on the education stage (being higher in early childhood teachers and in university professors), prior training and possible prior contact with students with ASD.
Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Fisika Berbasis Android Menggunakan Appypie dan Videoscribe pada Materi Momentum dan Impuls

Konsep fisika pada momentum dan impuls yang banyak menampilkan persamaan fisika dan abstrak memungkinkan ditampilkan secara visual degan media pembelajaran fisika berbasis android. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kelayakan media pembelajaran fisika berbais android dengan menggunakan appypie dan videoscribe. Kami mengadopsi model pengembangan ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, dan Evaluation) dalam studi ini. Lembar angket validasi media pembelajaran dan uji respon siswa digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data. Temuan studi ini menunjukkan bahwa media pembelajaran fisika berbasis android dinyatakan sangat layak untuk digunakan dalam pembelajaran dengan nilai rata-rata total validasi sebesar 84,41 % dan uji coba respon siswa sebesar 75,33%. Media pembelajaran fisika berbasis android ini merupakan solusi alternatif pembelajaran fisika sehingga siswa dapat mengakses materi pembelajaran kapanpun dan di manapun.
Bacteria associated with the intestinal tract of three predators of Dactylopius opuntiae (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae)

Insects depend on gut bacteria for many metabolic functions including detoxification. Dactylopius (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae) species (e.g. D. opuntiae and D. coccus) produce carminic acid possibly acting as part of their immune response to predation; thus predators of Dactylopius species may require intestinal symbionts to metabolize carminic acid acquired from their prey. The average content of carminic acid in D. opuntiae and D. coccus is 3–5% and 19–25% respectively; the predators Leucopina bellula and Hyperaspis trifurcata are specialists on D. opuntiae while Laetilia coccidivora feeds on both D. opuntiae and D. coccus. We determined the diversity of bacteria associated with the gut of these predators to test the hypothesis that it would vary significantly depending on the level of prey specialism. Bacteria were isolated from the intestine of Le. bellula, L. coccidivora and H. trifurcata larvae and also adults of H. trifurcata. Bacteria were identified morphologically and by partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The greatest bacterial diversity was found in L. coccidivora and H. trifurcata adults, followed by H. trifurcata larvae. The lowest diversity was found in Le. bellula. Sequencing revealed the presence of Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus gallinarum and E. casseliflavus in L. coccidivora larvae; Enterobacter sp. in larvae of H. trifurcata; Lactococcus lactis in adults of H. trifurcate; and Staphylococcus sp. in larvae and adults of H. trifurcate. Bacillus pumilus was only found in Le. bellula. The possible role of these bacteria in the ability of predators to feed on D. opuntiae and D. coccus is discussed.
Crop Yield Prediction Using Random Forest Algorithm for Major Cities in Maharashtra State

-Maharashtra is a leading State in agriculture. Agriculture is the one that plays important role in the economy of India. India is an agricultural country and its economy largely based upon crop production. Hence one must say that agriculture is often the backbone of all businesses in the a-part-of-us country. Basically paper focuses on predicting the yield of the crop by using a different machine learning algorithm. The application (Smart Farm) developed in this research helps users to predict the crop yield using different climatic parameters. Different methods of predicting crop yield are developed within several years with different outcomes of success, but many of them do not take into consideration the climate. Machine Learning is the best technique which gives a better practical solution to crop yield problem. So the Random Forest algorithm which we decided to used to train our model to give high accuracy and best prediction. , we chose 5 climatic parameters to train the model. Agriculture inputs such as pesticides, fertilizers, chemicals, soil quality, etc. were not used as it depends upon the type of field. The model is trained and designed using 20 decision trees build the random forest algorithm which gives better accuracy of the model. 10-fold cross-validation technique used to improve the accuracy of the model. The predicted accuracy of the model is analyzed 87%.
An Urban Lagrangian Stochastic Dispersion Model for Simulating Traffic Particulate-Matter Concentration Fields

The accumulated particulate matter concentration at a given vertical column due to traffic sources in urban area has many important consequences. This task, however, imposes a major challenge, since the problem of realistic pollutant dispersion in an urban environment is a very demanding task, both theoretically and computationally. This is mainly due to the highly inhomogeneous three dimensional turbulent flow regime in the urban canopy roughness sublayer, which is far from “local equilibrium” between shear production and dissipation. We present here a mass-consistent urban Lagrangian stochastic model for pollutants dispersion, where the flow field is modeled using a hybrid approach by which we model the surface layer based on the typical turbulent scales, both of the canopy and in the surface layer inertial sub-layer. In particular it relies on representing the canopy aerodynamically as a porous medium by spatial averaging the equations of motion, with the assumption that the canopy is laterally uniform on a scale much larger than the buildings but smaller than the urban block/neighbourhood, i.e., at the sub-urban-block scale. Choosing the spatial representative averaging volume allows the averaged variables to reflect the characteristic vertical heterogeneity of the canopy but to smooth out smaller scale spatial fluctuations caused as air flows in between the buildings. This modeling approach serves as the base for a realistic and efficient methodology for the calculation of the accumulated concentration from multiple traffic sources for any vertical column in the urban area. The existence of multiple traffic sources impose further difficulty since the computational effort required is very demanding for practical uses. Therefore, footprint analysis screening was introduced to identify the relevant part of the urban area which contributes to the chosen column. All the traffic sources in this footprint area where merged into several areal sources, further used for the evaluation of the concentration profile. This methodology was implemented for four cases in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area based on several selected summer climatological scenarios. We present different typical behaviors, demonstrating combination of source structure, urban morphology, flow characteristics, and the resultant dispersion pattern in each case.
Analysing Vehicular Mobility Structure Under a Temporal Perspective

In recent years, Vehicular Networks have received much attention because they can contribute to solving several problems of urban scenarios. An interesting perspective to characterize these urban problems is to study vehicles' mobility records to increase our knowledge about them. Thus, an alternative is to model these records as graphs enabling us to apply algorithms and graph theory to design new solutions for vehicular networks. This work explores three different strategies to model vehicular networks and analyzes two real well-known traces from Rome and San Francisco. We perform a study on the network aspect, measuring metrics that portray some network characteristics and proprieties. We highlight the advantages and limitations of each approach evaluated. Also, we present some applications and future directions for the knowledge extracted with this analysis.
SEMICONDUCTOR SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES: PROGRESSES AND APPLICATIONS

Single photons are the cornerstones of many applications in quantum technologies, from quantum computing to quantum networks. A new technology for the generation of single-photons has recently emerged, allowing a ten-time increase in efficiency with near-unity quantum purity. These single-photon sources are based on semiconductor quantum dots in optical microcavities.
Incremental Minimum Flow Algorithms

There are various situations in which real-world problems can be modeled and solved as minimum flow problems. Sometimes, in these situations, minor data changes may occur, leading to corresponding changes of the networks in which the practical problems are modeled as flow problems, such as slight variations in capacity or lower bound. For instance, the capacity or the lower bound of an arc may increase or decrease in time, leaving one with no other choice than finding the new minimum network flow. Given both the various ways in which the networks can be changed and the high frequency of these changes, it is desirable to find as fast a computation method for minimum flow as possible. This paper is focused on the cases that concern increasing and decreasing the capacity or the lower bound of an arc. For these cases, both the minimum flow algorithms and the dynamic minimum flow algorithms that are already known are inefficient. Our incremental algorithms for determining minimum flow in the modified network are more efficient than both the above-mentioned types of algorithms. The proposed method starts from the initial network minimum flow and solves the minimum flow problem in a significantly faster way than recalculating the new network minimum flow starting from scratch.
What Role Can Community-Based Tourism Have in Sustainable Development?

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development states that its goals are to make sustainable improvements. One of the sustainable improvements is through the independence of the village community. A tourism village is one of the concepts in achieving sustainable developments goals. Community based tourism (CBT) has an impact on local communities in developing countries. This study aims to examine the role of CBT in reaching these goals. Using a case study approach that focuses on the sustainability of economic, social and cultural life, on protecting the environment, and on maintaining the quality of community life, this research is based on interviews conducted with village leaders, managers of designated Tourist Villages, and the local village communities. The results of this study indicate that the existence of CBT is able to contribute to the sustainability of the economic, social, cultural, and environmental aspects of the community as well contribute to local people’s satisfaction with their community life. Thus, CBT plays a role in the achievement of the goals of sustainable development. Keywords—community based tourism, sustainable development
Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Properties of Interlayer Expanded Aluminosilicate IEZ-PLS-3

An interlayer expanded zeolite IEZ-PLS-3 was postsynthesized from the lamellar precursor of PLS-3 aluminosilicate by interlayer silylation with diethoxydimethylsilane (DEDMS) in HCl–EtOH solution at 443 K for 20 h. The resulting material was characterized by various techniques such as XRD, SEM, adsorption of N2, water, and benzene, and IR and NMR spectroscopies, and its catalytic properties were investigated by comparison to those of other zeolites with similar Si/Al ratios in m-xylene isomerization/disproportionation, Friedel–Crafts alkylation of anisole with benzyl alcohol, and acylation of anisole with acetic anhydride. The interlayer expansion created new 12 × 10-membered ring (MR) pores in IEZ-PLS-3. IEZ-PLS-3 showed a larger adsorption capacity of benzene than conventional PLS-3 with 10 × 8-MR channels. In the m-xylene isomerization/disproportionation reaction, IEZ-PLS-3 showed a higher conversion than PLS-3 and gave an isomerization to disproportionation ratio close to that of Beta zeolite, charact.
Speciation of Magnesium in Aerosols Using X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure Related to Its Contribution to Neutralization Reactions in the Atmosphere

Aerosols, including mineral dust, are transported from China and Mongolia to Japan, particularly in spring. It has been recognized that calcium (Ca) carbonate is the main Ca species in aerosols, which reacts with acidic species such as sulfuric and nitric acids at the surface of mineral dust during its long-range transport, related to mitigation of acid depositions. The similar assumption that magnesium (Mg) originally takes the form of carbonate and contributes to the neutralization reaction and buffering effect on the acidity of aerosols has been suggested in various studies. However, few studies have confirmed this process by measuring actual Mg species in aerosols quantitatively. In this study, X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy was employed to determine Mg species in size-fractionated aerosol samples, including mineral dust. The results showed that (i) most Mg in the mineral dust did not take the form of carbonate and its reacted species (e.g., sulfate and nitrate) produced by the neutralization reaction, but (ii) Mg was mainly found as Mg in the octahedral layer in phyllosilicates. Given that the reactivity of such Mg in phyllosilicates is much lower than those in carbonate minerals, the contribution of Mg to the neutralization reactions in the atmosphere must be lower than previously expected.
Are we ready to change? A case study of Management Accounting Change (MAC) in an Italian Co-operative

Over the last 30 years, research on Management Accounting Change as a way to understand the circumstances, forces and consequences related to the development and implementation of new techniques has grown in popularity. Accounting practices are context-dependent, as are changes to such practices. They require settingspecific studies that pay attention to the complexity of their enactment and to the elements that shape these practices. This paper presents a retrospective longitudinal case study of a management accounting change project undertaken by a co-operative firm, and includes descriptive and explanatory aims. The factors potentially influencing the firm’s decision to invest in management accounting change were related to a requirement for managerial efficiency, the need to legitimize the company to its external stakeholders, and the behavioral aptitude of individual employees in the accounting and management sections. Against proponents’ expectations, the project proved difficult to implement because of different forms of resistance and opposition, some explicit, others less obvious, encountered during implementation. The study provides insights into the role played by management control systems in creating and fostering trust in innovation and change.
Environmental variability during the last three millennia in the rain shadows of central Mexico

The last three millennia have been characterized by global temperature oscillations of around one Celsius degree, and high frequency variability on precipitation. Two main temperature anomalies have been reported worldwide, the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA), characterized by higher and lower than average temperatures, respectively. Precipitation variability has been mostly associated with El Niño anomalies in the Equatorial Pacific. These global variability modes have been modulated by regional factors such as sea surface temperatures and their interaction with continental landmasses. Understanding regional responses to these anomalies would shed light on ecosystem response to environmental variability, a paramount tool for conservation purposes on the light of modern climate change. Here we present a 3,000-year sedimentary record from Lake Metztitlán, located in a Biosphere Reserve under the rain shadow of the Sierra Madre Oriental. Cladoceran and geochemical analyses were used to reconstruct lacustrine dynamics through the time period encompassed by the record. Our record points to highly dynamic lacustrine systems, coupled with global and regional climatic variability. In Metztitlán, the MWP was associated with low lake levels and a high torrentiality of the precipitation reflected in high-frequency peaks of detrital material. The LIA was associated with an enlarged water body, probably as a result of lower evapotranspiration. Overall, global climatic variability resulted in high variability of regional precipitation and detrital input in the Metztitlán region, in turn associated with changes in lake morphometry and depth. Our record highlights the vulnerability of the area to changes in sea surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico, and to changes in the frequency of El Niño events. Although the effects of global climate change in the region are inescapable, our results emphasize the importance of controlling anthropogenic activities as an additional source of pressure on the regional ecosystems.
Screening Non-Saccharomyces Yeasts as Low Ethanol Producing Starter Cultures

Non-Saccharomyces yeasts are known for their low fermentation rate in comparison to Saccharomycescerevisiae. In this study, non-Saccharomyces yeasts were inoculated into Chenin blanc grape must andfermented under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Saccharomycodes ludwigii displayed a straindependentfermentation rate, which yielded between 5.2% and 9.9% ethanol concentration under bothconditions, albeit with residual sugar. Aerobic conditions favoured the production of reduced ethanolwhich was between 5.8% and 9.7% for non-Saccharomyces yeasts in comparison to S. cerevisiae (10%). This trend was observed for Wickerhamomyces anomalus, Stamerella bacillaris (Candida zemplinina),Metshnikowia pulcherrima, Cyberlindnera saturnus, Wickerhamomyces subpelliculosus and Cyberlindnerajadinii. The laboratory-scale wines prepared with the aforementioned yeasts yielded ripe fruit and floralaroma attributes while other non-Saccharomyces yeasts resulted in wines with spicy, acidic and solventaroma notes.
Leadership Development in Health Care: The Role of Clinical Leaders

Aim: This paper presents evidence on the impact of leadership development programmes on developing key competencies of clinical leaders in the European Health Sector. Methods: An International Leadership Development Programme has been used as a pilot to assess effectiveness on skills development and leadership styles. A longitudinal pre and post-test design was used, with a sample of clinical professionals attending the programme within three years. A control group provided a method of isolating the impact of the programme. Results: We found that participation in health leadership programmes has a positive impact on health professionals’ leadership potential; leadership styles and talent management. However, leadership qualities are also influenced by other factors such as national and organisational culture, structure and team dynamics. Conclusion: The European cases presented in this paper reveal that the higher the contribution of clinicians in management roles, governance, and administration is, the more efficient and productive their healthcare systems become.
Development of a Design Strategy for Playful Products of Older Adults

Abstract To support developing new playful product for older adults, this paper briefly reviewed a range of existing playful products, and describes how they could be strategically deconstructed and refactored from the perspective of the five interaction elements (person, purpose, means, contexts, and actions). A design framework combining case analogies and persona methods was proposed. The formalized design strategy of persona and case-based interaction elements analysis system that mainly considers two parts in the design process which are called ‘inspiration cases’ and ‘typical users’ in this paper. The strategy can be applied to the process of re-designing a specific class of playful products, such as tangible toys or digital games, for particular older adults.
Reperfusion failure despite recanalization in stroke: New translational evidence

Current treatment for acute ischemic stroke aims at recanalizing the occluded blood vessel to reperfuse ischemic brain tissue. Clot removal can be achieved pharmacologically with a thrombolytic drug, such as recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, or with mechanical thrombectomy. However, reopening the occluded vessel does not guarantee full tissue reperfusion, which has been referred to as reperfusion failure. When it occurs, reperfusion failure significantly attenuates the beneficial effect of recanalization therapy and severely affects functional recovery of stroke patients. The mechanisms of reperfusion failure are somewhat complex and not fully understood. Briefly, after stroke, capillaries show stalls, constriction and luminal narrowing, being crowded with neutrophils, and fibrin–platelet deposits. Furthermore, after recanalization in stroke patients, a primary clot can break, dislodge, and occlude distal arterial branches further downstream. In this review, we highlight a rodent model that allows studying the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying reperfusion failure after stroke. We also describe the vascular and intravascular changes involved in reperfusion, which may provide relevant therapeutic targets for improving treatment of stroke patients.