The necessity to investigate suitable alternatives to conventional fossil fuels has increased interest in several renewable energy resources, especially in biomasses that are widely available and make it possible to reach environmental and socio-economic improvements.Among solutions for bioenergy production, anaerobic digestion technology allows bi
A multilevel programming problem is an optimization problem that involves multiple decision makers, whose decisions are made in a sequential (or hierarchical) order.If all objective functions and constraints are linear and some decision variables in any level are restricted to take on integral or discrete values, then the problem is called a multil
BackgroundSimple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) are short tandem repeats of nucleotide sequences.It has been shown that SSRs are associated with human diseases and are of medical relevance.Accordingly, a variety of computational methods have been proposed to mine SSRs from genomes.Conventional methods rely on a high-quality complete genome to identify SSR
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing is a recent commercial endeavor that allows the general public to access personal genomic data.The growing availability of personal genomic data has in turn stimulated the development of non-commercial tools for DTC data analysis.Despite this new wealth of public resources, no systematic research has been ca
Abstract Background The primary objective of this cross-sectional study, conducted in Québec and Bristish Columbia (copyright) between February 2021 and January 2022, was to measure the prevalence of viral RNA in oronasal and rectal swabs and serum antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) amongst cats living in ho