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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38256783/germination-behavior-and-geographical-information-system-based-phenotyping-of-root-hairs-to-evaluate-the-effects-of-different-sources-of-black-soldier-fly-hermetia-illucens-larval-frass-on-herbaceous-crops
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rosanna Labella, Rocco Bochicchio, Rosangela Addesso, Donato Labella, Antonio Franco, Patrizia Falabella, Mariana Amato
Insect larval frass has been proposed as a fertilizer and amendment, but methods for testing its effects on plants are poorly developed and need standardization. We obtained different types of black soldier fly ( Hermetia illucens) frass via the factorial combination of (a) two insect diets, as follows: G (Gainesville = 50% wheat bran, 30% alfalfa meal, 20% maize meal) and W (43% sheep whey + 57% seeds); (b) two frass thermal treatments: NT = untreated and T = treated at 70 °C for 1 h. We tested the effects on the germination of cress ( Lepidium sativum L...
January 14, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38246603/survey-of-information-acquisition-and-satisfaction-after-bariatric-surgery-at-a-tertiary-hospital-in-korea
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
JoonYoung Yoon, Won Ju Park, Hee Kyung Kim, Ho-Cheol Kang, Cheol-Kyu Park, Wonsuk Choi
BACKGROUND: Recent lifestyle changes have increased the prevalence of dyslipidemia in Korea. Young men are known to have a low awareness of dyslipidemia and a lack of motivation to maintain their weight. However, the association between weight change and dyslipidemia in young adults has not been thoroughly examined. METHODS: Data from the Armed Forces Medical Command Defense Medical Information System database were used. In this study, 15,068 soldiers who underwent private and corporal health examinations between May 2020 and April 2022 were included...
January 22, 2024: Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38241264/insect-based-fish-feed-in-decoupled-aquaponic-systems-effect-on-lettuce-production-and-resource-use
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Pinho, Margarida Meneses Leal, Christopher Shaw, Daniela Baganz, Gösta Baganz, Georg Staaks, Werner Kloas, Oliver Körner, Hendrik Monsees
The utilisation of insect meal-based fish feed as a substitute for conventional fish meal-based fish feed is considered as a promising innovative alternative to boost circularity in aquaculture and aquaponics. Basic research on its use in aquaponics is limited. So far, no reports on the effects of fish waste water, derived from a recirculating aquaculture system using Black Soldier Fly (BSF) meal-based diets, were available on the growth performance of lettuce. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effect of reusing fish waste water from tilapia culture (as a base for the nutrient solution) fed with a fish meal-based diet (FM) and a BSF meal-based diet on resource use and lettuce growth in decoupled aquaponic systems...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38200988/psychophysiological-responses-in-soldiers-during-close-combat-implications-for-occupational-health-and-fitness-in-tactical-populations
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maria Stergiou, José Juan Robles-Pérez, Jorge Rey-Mota, José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez
This study explores the psychophysiological responses and subjective exertion experiences of soldiers in simulated hand-to-hand combat, aligning these findings with established physiological benchmarks. Active military personnel were monitored for heart rate, blood lactate levels, subjective exertion, cortical arousal, and muscle strength during combat scenarios. The results showed significant increases in heart rate and blood lactate, indicating intense cardiovascular demands and a reliance on anaerobic energy systems...
December 29, 2023: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38195179/physical-fitness-tests-in-the-army-legitimate-diversity-or-randomness
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrzej Tomczak
In this article, I present my views on the diversified approaches to assess the physical fitness of soldiers within selected armies worldwide. I discussed the related common features and paradoxes associated with these approaches. For the comparative analysis, national diversity was taken into account and subjective selection of the physical fitness tests conducted in the armies of the United States, Finland, Germany, India, China, Israel, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Poland was done...
January 9, 2024: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38156672/big-opportunities-for-tiny-bugs-rush-to-boost-laying-hen-performance-using-black-soldier-fly-larvae-meal
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Linus K Wamai, Leonard M Munga, Isaac M Osuga, Jonathan M Munguti, Sevgan Subramanian, Michael K Kidoido, Janice C Ghemoh, Charles M Mwendia, Chrysantus M Tanga
Rising feed cost challenges due to expensive conventional protein sources continue to make headlines in Africa causing drops in profit margins. We assessed the impact of insect (Hermetia illucens Linnaeus larvae meal, HILM) protein as a substitute for soybean meal and sunflower seed cake on layer chicken performance and profitability. Our results showed that apart from the growers, chicks (12.37 g/bird) and layer hens (2.02 g/bird) fed diets with 75% HILM inclusion levels had significantly higher average daily weight gain...
December 29, 2023: Journal of Economic Entomology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38151703/trem2-igf1-mediated-glucometabolic-enhancement-underlies-microglial-neuroprotective-properties-during-ischemic-stroke
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sheng Yang, Chuan Qin, Man Chen, Yun-Hui Chu, Yue Tang, Luo-Qi Zhou, Hang Zhang, Ming-Hao Dong, Xiao-Wei Pang, Lian Chen, Long-Jun Wu, Dai-Shi Tian, Wei Wang
Microglia, the major resident immune cells in the central nervous system, serve as the frontline soldiers against cerebral ischemic injuries, possibly along with metabolic alterations. However, signaling pathways involved in the regulation of microglial immunometabolism in ischemic stroke remain to be further elucidated. In this study, using single-nuclei RNA sequencing, a microglial subcluster up-regulated in ischemic brain tissues is identified, with high expression of Igf1 and Trem2, neuroprotective transcriptional signature and enhanced oxidative phosphorylation...
December 27, 2023: Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38144639/determining-the-effect-of-climate-and-profession-on-dry-eye-disease-a-prevalence-study-among-young-males-in-north-north-west-and-central-india
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
P K Chaturvedi, Jaya Kaushik, Vijay Mathur, Pradeep Kumar, Neha Chauhan
BACKGROUND: Ocular tear film and the ocular surface together represent a dynamic playground of various protective factors against environmental influencers. Surrounding environment and geoclimatic milieu are the pertinent and continuous influencing factors. Prevalence study of Dry eye disease (DED) in various climatic conditions and professions provides an insight into this peculiar aspect of DED and human geography. METHODS: This was a hospital based, cross-sectional, comparative, analytical observational study...
December 2023: Medical Journal, Armed Forces India
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38074256/health-care-workers-concerns-during-covid-19-times
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Harish Gupta
Ground -level health care workers provide us a unique perspective of immunization programs. While our official data may be too rosy to be true, a casual / unscheduled /anonymous conversation with such foot- soldiers may bring us face -to- face with reality through another angle If we want our programs to be robust having a wide coverage, Mantra of success lies not only in making good policy while sitting in ivory -towers but also in folding our sleeves up, sweating under the tropical hot Sun, going to hinterlands and initiating a dialogue with those humble low- level workers who sometimes are invisible to us otherwise, not listened to and with whom sometimes promises are not kept...
October 2023: Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38062882/clinician-approaches-to-new-spine-pain-cases-in-primary-care-balance-of-opioid-prescribing-and-early-linkage-to-exercise-therapy-and-spinal-manipulation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mark R Bauer, Patrick Richard, Grant Ritter, Jangho Yoon, Mary Jo Larson
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Spine pain (SP) is common and often disabling. Clinical practice guidelines discourage opioid treatment and outline the value of varied nonpharmacologic therapies (NPTs). This study elucidates the amount of variability in primary-care clinicians' (PCPs') prescribing of opioids and in their cases' receipt of the two most common NPTs (exercise therapy and spinal manipulation). METHOD: The design was a retrospective cohort study examining variation in the treatment of PCPs' new SP cases, classified by receipt of (a) prescription of an opioid at the initial visit; (b) exercise therapy and/or spinal manipulation within 30 days of initial visit...
December 7, 2023: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38024257/zoonoses-research-in-somalia-a-scoping-review-using-a-one-health-approach
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Farah I Mumin, Andy Fenton, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, Siobhan M Mor
Zoonoses are likely to cause a substantial burden on both human and animal health systems in Somalia, given the close proximity between the pastoralist majority and their livestock. However, decades of instability leading to weak disease surveillance have meant that data on the burden of zoonoses is lacking. The aim of this scoping review was to assess and synthesize the available literature on the presence and burden of zoonoses in Somalia. We used keywords to search Web of Science for relevant publications...
December 2023: One Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38015994/optimism-sociability-and%C3%A2-the-risk-of%C3%A2-future-suicide-attempt-among-u-s-army-soldiers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
James A Naifeh, Robert J Ursano, Murray B Stein, Holly B Herberman Mash, Pablo A Aliaga, Carol S Fullerton, Rachel Shor, Tzu-Cheg Kao, Nancy A Sampson, Ronald C Kessler
INTRODUCTION: Most research on suicide attempts among U.S. service members has been focused on risk factors that occur during service. There is an important gap in our understanding of premilitary factors, such as personality characteristics, that may be associated with future suicide attempt risk during service. Of particular importance is identifying risk factors for the 1/3 of suicide attempters who never receive a mental health diagnosis (MH-Dx)-and therefore are not identified as having a mental health problem in the military healthcare system-prior to their suicide attempt...
November 28, 2023: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37969323/proximate-content-monitoring-of-black-soldier-fly-larval-hermetia-illucens-dry-matter-for-feed-material-using-short-wave-infrared-hyperspectral-imaging
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Juntae Kim, Hary Kurniawan, Mohammad Akbar Faqeerzada, Geonwoo Kim, Hoonsoo Lee, Moon Sung Kim, Insuck Baek, Byoung-Kwan Cho
Edible insects are gaining popularity as a potential future food source because of their high protein content and efficient use of space. Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) are noteworthy because they can be used as feed for various animals including reptiles, dogs, fish, chickens, and pigs. However, if the edible insect industry is to advance, we should use automation to reduce labor and increase production. Consequently, there is a growing demand for sensing technologies that can automate the evaluation of insect quality...
November 2023: Food science of animal resources
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37966545/a-modeling-framework-for-adaptive-collective-defense-crisis-response-in-social-insect-colonies
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
M Gabriela Navas-Zuloaga, Kaitlin M Baudier, Jennifer H Fewell, Noam Ben-Asher, Theodore P Pavlic, Yun Kang
Living systems, from cells to superorganismic insect colonies, have an organizational boundary between inside and outside and allocate resources to defend it. Whereas the micro-scale dynamics of cell walls can be difficult to study, the adaptive allocation of workers to defense in social-insect colonies is more conspicuous. This is particularly the case for Tetragonisca angustula stingless bees, which combine different defensive mechanisms found across other colonial animals: (1) morphological specialization (distinct soldiers (majors) are produced over weeks); (2) age-based polyethism (young majors transition to guarding tasks over days); and (3) task switching (small workers (minors) replace soldiers within minutes under crisis)...
November 15, 2023: Journal of Mathematical Biology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37948281/preliminary-head-supported-mass-performance-guidance-for%C3%A2-dismounted-soldier-environments
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adrienne M Madison, M Reid Holderfield, Ardyn V Olszko, Brian Novotny, Shannon M McGovern, Frederick T Brozoski, Bethany L Shivers, Valeta Carol Chancey
INTRODUCTION: The helmet is an ideal platform to mount technology that gives U.S. Soldiers an advantage over the enemy; the total system is recognized quantitatively as head-supported mass (HSM). The stress placed on the head and neck is magnified by adding mass and increasing the center of mass offset away from the atlanto-occipital complex, the head's pivot point on the spine. Previous research has focused on HSM-related spinal degeneration and performance decrement in mounted environments...
November 8, 2023: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37948280/increasing-hearing-readiness-using-boothless-audiometry
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Benjamin Sheffield, Devon Kulinski, Jaclyn Schurman, LaGuinn Sherlock, Victoria Bugtong, Michele Spencer, Christopher Caldwell, Douglas Brungart, John Merkley, Amy Blank
INTRODUCTION: U.S. Army regulations require all soldiers to undergo annual audiometric testing to maintain hearing readiness. The standard method of monitoring hearing in the DoD is via multi-person testing in sound-treated booths using the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System-Hearing Conservation. COVID-19 significantly hindered the standard method, resulting in alarming declines in hearing readiness. In response, the Army Hearing Program initiated a pilot program to use boothless audiometers to supplement standard methods to increase hearing readiness...
November 8, 2023: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37948278/cohesion-assessment-team-a-multidisciplinary-unit-assessment-grounded-in%C3%A2-army-doctrine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Coleen L Crouch, Lisa A Teegarden, Jason Davis, Amanda L Adrian, Susannah K Knust
INTRODUCTION: The Cohesion Assessment Team (CAT) provides battalion and brigade command teams with actionable insight into the climate of their unit and the presence of certain harmful behaviors. This assessment, initiated by the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army and initially managed by the Headquarters Department of the Army's People First Task Force, employs a framework from the Center for Army Professional Leadership to structure data and findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This manuscript describes how to conduct a CAT assessment...
November 8, 2023: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37948234/cognitive-task-analysis-of-escharotomy
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hanna Lee, Fnu Rahul, Basiel Makled, Conner Parsey, Jack Norfleet, Suvranu De
INTRODUCTION: With the Army's emerging doctrine of prolonged field care, and with burns being a common injury among soldiers, non-expert providers must be trained to perform escharotomy when indicated. However, the existing physical simulators and training protocols are not sufficient for training non-experts for performing effective escharotomy. Hence, to provide guidance in developing realistic escharotomy simulators and effective training protocols suitable for prolonged field care, a cognitive task analysis (CTA) is needed...
November 8, 2023: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37937929/-organization-of-maxillofacial-and-dental-care-for-the-wounded-of-the-voronezh-front-july-1942-july-1943
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yu A Ippolitov, S V Markova
The article is devoted to the history of the formation of the system of assistance to maxillofacial wounded soldiers of the Voronezh Front during the battles for Voronezh in 1942-1943. The difficulties and achievements in the implementation of phased assistance to the wounded in the face, as well as the improvement of the organizational structure of surgical and dental care for soldiers and officers of the front are reflected.
2023: Stomatologii︠a︡
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37930764/more-than-a-bruise-two-cases-of%C3%A2-morel-lavall%C3%A3-e-lesions-in%C3%A2-active-duty-soldiers
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David K Rodgers, Philip Castañeda, Cecil J Simmons, Brandon M Carius
Soft tissue injuries are common in the military, generally producing simple hematomas without the need for intensive evaluation and management. In certain situations, a shearing effect between fascial planes whereby a disruption of the vasculature and lymphatic systems creates a "closed degloving injury" is more generally referred to as a Morel-Lavallée Lesion (MLL). With a consistent pool of blood, lymph, and pieces of soft tissue, an M7LL can cause significant poor cosmesis, chronic pain, and risk secondary infection if left undetected and untreated...
October 31, 2023: Military Medicine
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