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Container lashers are at a significant risk of developing musculoskeletal diseases (MSDs) when working at port facilities. Repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) to the back, shoulders, wrists, and hands, in particular, are widespread. This work investigates the ability of a closed-loop vibrotactile motion guidance (VMG) system to teach an ergonomics-focused approach. The taught technique was developed for tensioning and loosening turnbuckles, an ...

Selective proteolysis remains a significant challenge with relevance to industrial and pharmaceutical applications, motivating development of chemical strategies emulating the specificity of natural proteases. Here, we report that the discrete Zr-oxo nanocluster-based solid, [Zr17O8(OH)24(OH2)12(HCO2)12(SO4)8] · 6 HCl · 30 H2O (Zr17) serves as an efficient, recyclable heterogeneous catalyst for site-selective proteolysis with tunable fragment ...

Profile data abound in a broad range of research settings. Often it is of considerable theoretical importance to address specific structural questions with regard to the major pattern as included in such data. A key challenge in this regard pertains to identifying which type of interaction (double ordinal, mixed ordinal/disordinal, double disordinal) most adequately fits the major pattern in a profile data set at hand. In the present article a ...

In recent years, outbreaks characterised by fever, tachypnea, milk drop, increased nasal discharge and occasionally redness of the nasal plane and edema of lower limbs or teats, were reported in pastured cattle. The objective of this field study was to investigate the etiology of these outbreaks. Ten acutely affected animals and ten control animals were sampled on eleven affected farms. For all animals, coprology (lungworm), standard hematology ...

Crude protein (CP), crude fat (CFA) and crude fiber (CFI) are key indicators for evaluation of the quality and feeding value of pasture. Hence, identification of these biological contents is an essential practice for animal husbandry. As current approaches to pasture quality estimation are time-consuming and costly, and even generate hazardous waste, a real-time and non-destructive method is therefore developed in this study using pasture canopy ...

Rapid measurement of milk properties and discrimination of milk origin is essential for quality control of milk products. Visible (Vis) and near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a proven technology to provide intensive, cost effective and fast analysis with high accuracy for many materials. This study was undertaken to explore the potential of Vis-NIR spectroscopy to measure ash, density, fat, freezing point, lactose, non-fat in dry matter, pH and ...

Grassland is the primary land use in China but has experienced severe degradation in recent decades due to overgrazing and conversion to agricultural production. Here, we conducted a field experiment in northeastern Inner Mongolia to test the effectiveness of sown pastures in lowering the grazing pressure on grasslands and raising the quality of marginal soils. Alfalfa and smooth bromegrass monocultures and mixture were sown in a marginal ...

Recent studies suggest that carbon (C) is stored in the topsoil of pastures established after deforestation. However, little is known about the long-term capacity of tropical pastures to sequester C in different soil layers after deforestation. Deep soil layers are generally not taken into consideration or are underestimated when C storage is calculated. Here we show that in French Guiana, the C stored in the deep soil layers contributes ...

Introduction: Grasslands are the most important land use in China and have experienced extensive degradation in the past few decades due to overgrazing. However, regionally viable solutions to grazing intensity alleviation remained elusive to date. Methods: Here, we evaluated the grazing intensity effects of sown alfalfa pastures in northern China using an experiment-modeling combined approach that involved six sites in field experiments and ...