Animal welfare expert reports may support court decisions when animal abuse or maltreatment is suspected.The objective of this work is to adapt animal welfare assessment protocols to identify companion animal abuse.The proposed protocol includes four indicator categories: nutritional, comfort, health and behavioral.To reach the overall conclusion r
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) provide accurate positioning and timing services in a large gamut of sectors, including financial institutions, Industry 4.0, and Internet of things (IoT).Any industrial system involving multiple devices interacting and/or coordinating their functionalities needs accurate, dependable, and trustworthy time
Tongue diagnosis is a unique aspect of traditional Chinese medicine for diagnosing diseases before determining proper means of treatment, but it also has the disadvantage of relying on the subjective experience of medical practitioners and lack objective basis.The purpose of this article is to elucidate tongue-coating microbiota and metabolic diffe
Scrub typhus is an acute, and sometimes fatal, human febrile illness, typically successfully treated using chloramphenicol or one of the tetracyclines.Over the past several years, descriptions of strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi with reduced susceptibility to antibiotics have appeared.Because case-fatality ratios approached 50% during the pre-anti