Objective: To assess speech alterations in mouth-breathing children, and to correlate them with the respiratory type, etiology, gender, and age.Method: A total of 439 mouth-breathers were evaluated, aged between 4 and 12 years.The Body Brushes presence of speech alterations in children older than 5 years was considered delayed speech development.Th
The application of quantitative PCR (qPCR) as a routine method to detect and enumerate Paenibacillus larvae in honey and hive debris could greatly speed up the estimation of prevalence and outbreak risk of the American foulbrood (AFB) disease of Apis mellifera.However, none of the qPCR tests described so far has been officially proposed as a standa
Large Language Models (LLMs) have found increasing application in tasks requiring multi-step reasoning, yet challenges such as hallucinations and inconsistencies in the generated responses persist.This study presents an innovative methodology to enhance the reasoning capabilities of LLMs by brokering and integrating multiple expert LLMs within a re
This study aimed to assess the bioremediation of soils polluted with fuel oil 6 (FO6) using diffuse reflectance (DR) spectroscopy in the visible and near infrared (Vis-NIR) electromagnetic spectrum.To achieve our goal, we determined the spectral signature of fuel oil 6 (FO6), developed a calibration model to quantify the total petroleum hydrocarbon