Soil aggregation and aggregate associated organic carbon and total nitrogen under long-term contrasting soil management regimes in loess soil by Jun-yu XIE, Ming-gang XU, Qiangjiu Ciren, Yang YANG, Shu-lan ZHANG, Ben-hua SUN, Xue-yun YANG

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Effects of Feed Supplemented with Fermented Pine Needles (<i>Pinus ponderosa</i>) on Carcass Quality, Meat Quality, and Antioxidant Capacity of Growing–Finishing Pigs by Wenfeng Ma, Zhuo Ma, Pei Mao, Xiaoli Zhang, Xiaohong Wu, Mengmeng Gao, Qiujue Wu

“…In total, 80 Duroc × (Landrace × Large white) crossbred pigs of approximately 4 months of age, with an initial body weight of 60.5 ± 2.5 kg, were randomly assigned to four experimental treatments, which were then denoted as the control treatment (basal diet), the fermented pine needle (FR) 1 treatment, the FR2 treatment, and the FR3 treatment (the pigs were fed the basal diet supplemented with 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0% fermented pine needles, respectively) for 55 d. …”
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Synergistic Effects of a Rotating Magnetic Field and Pulsed Light on Key Quality Characteristics of Refrigerated Pork: A Novel Approach to Shaping Food Quality by Paulina Duma-Kocan, Mariusz Rudy, Marian Gil, Renata Stanisławczyk, Anna Krajewska, Dariusz Dziki, Bogdan Saletnik

“…A significant (<i>p</i> < 0.05) reduction in total microbial count was observed in treated samples compared to the control group throughout all storage periods. …”
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Comparison of proximal gastrectomy and total gastrectomy in proximal gastric cancer: a meta-analysis of postoperative health condition using the PGSAS-45 by Xiangyu Yang, Zhili Zeng, Ziyue Liao, Caiyu Zhu, Hongyang Wang, Haijuan Wu, Shu Cao, Weizheng Liang, Xiushen Li

“…Abstract Purpose Proximal gastrectomy (PG) offers advantages over total gastrectomy (TG) in enhancing the postoperative nutritional status of patients with proximal gastric cancer (PGC), yet its effect on long-term quality of life is still debated. …”
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Cruciate-Retaining Implants Do Not Provide a More Natural Joint Feeling Than Cruciate-Substituting Implants in Total Knee Arthroplasty by Yashar Khani, MD, Amir Mehrvar, MD, Sadra Mohebbi, Mohammadhossein Hefzosseheh, Mahya Aliakbari, Fateme Mansouri Rad, Mohammad Poursalehian, MD

“…The findings should be interpreted with caution due to study heterogeneity and limitations in study design. Further high-quality randomized controlled trials are necessary to confirm these results.…”
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Lateralization and distalization shoulder angles may not predict clinical outcomes in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Serkan Surucu, MD, Ahmet E. Okutan, MD, Michael S. Lee, BA, James S. MacLeod, BS, Jacob D. Kodra, BA, Scott Fong, BA, Jay Moran, MD, Kenneth Donohue, MD, Alexander R. Graf, MD, Andrew E. Jimenez, MD

“…PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Scopus were queried on February 18, 2024. …”
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IoT-Based Water Quality Monitoring System for Koi Fish Quarantine by Rizki Novan Andiyansyah, Onny Setyawati, Fakhriy Hario Partiansyah

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Power Quality Management of Inverter Based on Gradient Descent Optimization by Changbin Hu, Haiyang Huang, Sai Zhang, Linshu Cheng, Shanna Luo, Gaowei Wang

“…The experimental results show that the proposed improved control strategy can effectively improve the disturbance’s fast compensation performance, robustness to inverter parameter perturbation, and the power quality.…”
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Effect of Waste Fermented Carrot Powder Addition on Quality of Biscuits by Hande Baltacıoğlu, Cem Baltacıoğlu, Hasan Tangüler

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Related health burden with the improvement of air quality across China by Huaiyue Xu, Qing Wang, Huanhuan Zhu, Yayi Zhang, Runmei Ma, Jie Ban, Yiting Liu, Chen Chen, Tiantian Li, Jing Ni, Xuehong Zhang

“…From 2005 to 2017, the total premature mortality was decreasing with the air quality improvement, but the economic burden was increasing along with the economic growth. …”
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Impact of the Antioxidant Hydroxytyrosol on the Quality of Post-Thawed Stallion Semen by Yousef M. Alharbi, Mohamed Ali, Mohammed S. Alharbi

“…The HF-20 extender was a basic extender and was used for the control group. The post-thawed semen exhibited significantly higher total motility in the 2.5 HT and 10 HT treatment groups than the control group. …”
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Productivity and postharvest quality of ‘Crimson Sweet’ watermelon using Lithothamnium by Allinny Luzia Alves Cavalcante, Andreia Mitsa Paiva Negreiros, Naama Jéssica de Assis Melo, Edicleide Macedo da Silva, Rui Sales Júnior

“…Additionally, all Lithothamnium treatments resulted in thicker peels (1.74 to 2.10 cm), firmer pulps (10.78 N), and higher SS/TA ratios (46.00 to 73.25%) compared with the control treatment. Therefore, Lithothamnium emerges as a viable alternative to synthetic calcium and magnesium inputs, enhancing fruit postharvest quality.…”
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The Quality of Functional Movements and the Back Squat in Amateur and Professional Bodybuilders by VERONIKA ILJINAITĖ, LAIMONAS ŠIUPŠINSKAS, KRISTINA BERŠKIENĖ

“…The Functional Movement Screen&trade; (FMS&trade;) was used to assess the seven included fundamental patterns that evaluate an individual's neuromuscular control, mobility, balance, and stability. The BSA was used to assess the quality of movement, dysfunction, deficit, or compensation during the squat exercise. …”
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Enhancement of Tomato Fruit Quality Through Moderate Water Deficit by Yongmei He, Junwen Wang, Jiaojiao Yang, Peng Bai, Junfang Feng, Yue Wu, Jihua Yu, Linli Hu, Weibiao Liao

“…The moderate water deficit treatment significantly increased the contents of tartaric acid, malic acid, shikimic acid, alpha ketoglutaric acid, succinic acid, and ascorbic acid, and decreased the contents of oxalic acid and citric acid compared to the control. The contents of total soluble sugar and total organic acid and the sugar–acid ratio were significantly increased by 48.69%, 3.71%, and 43.09%, respectively, compared with the control at the ripening stage. …”
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Determination of Some Quality Criteria of the Kefir Produced with Molasses and Plum by Tuğba Kök Taş, Erkut İlay, Ayla Öker

“…At the first day of storage, the total antioxidant contents of the control group kefir, plum- added kefir and molasses-added kefir samples were determined as 13.30; 16.80 and 17.35 µmol ml-1; and the total phenolic contents as 945.70; 2535.8 and 2357.6 mg ml-1, respectively. …”
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Effect of the Addition of Kefir on the Quality of Carrot Fermented with Lactiplantibacillus plantarum by JU Zixuan, QU Hengxian, QIAN Yi, LI Kangning, LI Wenjing, GU Ruixia

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Equipment Quality Data Integration and Cleaning Based on Multiterminal Collaboration by Cui-Bin Ji, Gui-Jiang Duan, Jun-Yan Zhou, Wei-Jie Xuan

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Machine Learning-based Water Quality Forecasting for Shenzhen Bay by XIONG Jianzhi, XIONG Rui, LU Haiyan, ZHENG Yi

“…Based on high-frequency monitoring data collected by the buoy online monitoring system in Shenzhen Bay, machine learning methods including artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector regression (SVR), and random forest (RF) are employed to conduct short-term forecasting of water quality parameters such as dissolved oxygen (DO), chlorophyll-a (Chl.a), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP). …”
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Quality Characteristics of Noodle Including Ground Yellow Poppy Seed by Seda Yalçın, Besim Maden

“…After production, quality characteristics, total phenolic content and color values of noodle samples were analyzed. …”
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Effects of strigolactone treatment on the components, quality and antioxidant activities of blueberries by Zhuo Min, Liang Zhao, Lu Jiang, Xinye Wang, Qing Liu, Yang Zhang

“…The results showed that, compared with the control, GR24 treatment significantly inhibited the increase in weight-loss rate, decay incidence, malondialdehyde (MDA) content and H2O2 content of blueberries during storage; delayed the decrease in fruit firmness; effectively maintained the contents of soluble solids, titratable acids, ascorbic acid, total phenols and total anthocyanins; and improved the activities of antioxidant enzymes in the fruit. …”
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