The time-activity budget is a key indicator of animal welfare. This meta-analysis integrates data from 14 studies (1979-2020), involving 364 horses across various management conditions (wild, natural-living, and stabled) to evaluate feeding, resting, standing, and locomotion behaviours. Fixed and random effects models, forest plots, and ANOVA were used to assess the influence of management system, sociality, sex, age, body size, and feeding type.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ALICE Collaboration reports measurements of the large relative transverse momentum (k_{T}) component of jet substructure in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV. Enhancement in the yield of such large-k_{T} emissions in head-on Pb-Pb collisions is predicted to arise from partonic scattering with quasiparticles of the quark-gluon plasma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study investigates the application of ChatGPT-4 in extracting and classifying behavioral data from scientific literature, focusing on the daily time-activity budget of dairy cows. Accurate analysis of time-activity budgets is crucial for understanding dairy cow welfare and productivity. Traditional methods are time-intensive and prone to bias.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this Letter, the first evidence of the _{Λ[over ¯]}^{4}He[over ¯] antihypernucleus is presented, along with the first measurement at the LHC of the production of (anti)hypernuclei with mass number A=4, specifically (anti)_{Λ}^{4}H and (anti)_{Λ}^{4}He. In addition, the antiparticle-to-particle ratios for both hypernuclei (_{Λ[over ¯]}^{4}H[over ¯]/_{Λ}^{4}H and _{Λ[over ¯]}^{4}He[over ¯]/_{Λ}^{4}He) are shown, which are sensitive to the baryochemical potential of the strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions. The results are obtained from a data sample of central Pb-Pb collisions, collected during the 2018 LHC data taking at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFG Ital Cardiol (Rome)
April 2025
Background: Numerous speculations have been made in recent years about the future of cardiac surgery, seen by some as an "obsolete" discipline and reserved for complex/emerging cases.
Methods: From the central database of the private-affiliated group GVM Care & Research with the National Health System, data from 2014 to 2023 relating to elective cardiac surgery (57 736 patients) were extracted from 12 cardiac surgery centers located throughout the country, with specific reference to isolated coronary and valvular surgery.
Results: The number of elective interventions performed from 2014 to 2023 has progressively increased with a slowdown in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.