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26; 95% confidence interval, 1.58-6.75); however, only 43% (108) had received dietary support from the health care team. DEG-77 Of the respondents, 68% (171) said they would like to receive additional dietary support. The effect of the condition on diet was highlighted in the theme "Impact of diagnosis and treatments on dietary choices." Self-management of disease was influenced by personal resources, social resources, comorbidities and disabilities, influence of work, regaining normality, and barriers to dietary changes.

Lack of routine provision of nutritional care to patients after a cancer diagnosis and patient interest in this area highlighted unmet needs in managing diet-related problems and leading a healthy future lifestyle.

Lack of routine provision of nutritional care to patients after a cancer diagnosis and patient interest in this area highlighted unmet needs in managing diet-related problems and leading a healthy future lifestyle.Policy search reinforcement learning has been drawing much attention as a method of learning a robot control policy. In particular, policy search using such non-parametric policies as Gaussian process regression can learn optimal actions with high-dimensional and redundant sensors as input. However, previous methods implicitly assume that the optimal action becomes unique for each state. This assumption can severely limit such practical applications as robot manipulations since designing a reward function that appears in only one optimal action for complex tasks is difficult. The previous methods might have caused critical performance deterioration because the typical non-parametric policies cannot capture the optimal actions due to their unimodality. We propose novel approaches in non-parametric policy searches with multiple optimal actions and offer two different algorithms commonly based on a sparse Gaussian process prior and variational Bayesian inference. The following are the key ideas (1) multimodality for capturing multiple optimal actions and (2) mode-seeking for capturing one optimal action by ignoring the others. First, we propose a multimodal sparse Gaussian process policy search that uses multiple overlapped GPs as a prior. Second, we propose a mode-seeking sparse Gaussian process policy search that uses the student-t distribution for a likelihood function. The effectiveness of those algorithms is demonstrated through applications to object manipulation tasks with multiple optimal actions in simulations.The adaptive neural network asymptotic tracking control issue of nonstrict feedback stochastic nonlinear systems is studied in our article by adopting backstepping algorithm. Compared with the existing research, the hypothesis about unknown virtual control coefficients (UVCC) is overcome in the control design. By using the bound estimation scheme and some smooth functions, associating with approximation-based neural network, the asymptotic tracking controller is recursively constructed. With the aid of Lyapunov function and beneficial inequalities, the asymptotic convergence character and stability with stochastic disturbance and unknown UVCC can be ensured. Finally, the theoretical finding is verified via a simulation example.This paper investigates the exponential passivity of discrete-time switched neural networks (DSNNs) with transmission delays via an event-triggered sliding mode control (SMC). Firstly, a novel discrete-time switched SMC scheme is constructed on the basis of sliding mode control method and event-triggered mechanism. Next, a state observer with transmission delays is designed to estimate the system state. Moreover, some new weighted summation inequalities are further proposed to effectively evaluate the exponential passivity criteria for the closed-loop system. Finally, the effectiveness of theoretical results is showed through a simulative analysis on a multi-area power system.Considering the importance of soil organic carbon (SOC) and the scarcity of data on how soil management influences its storage in the region, this study assessed the long-term impact of different soil management systems on SOC in southern Ethiopia using the DAYCENT model. The conservation management systems considered were minimum tillage, crop residue (CR) retention, fertilization and their combinations. We parameterized the model with data from studies in the literature. We then modeled conventional cropping system for smallholding farms over a 30-year period (1991-2020) as the business as usual scenario (BAU). Then we assessed the impact of alternative conservation management scenarios compared with the BAU scenario. Our results indicated that the conservation management scenarios increased SOC at 0-20 cm depth in the range 0.34-9.71 Mg C ha-1 over 30 years when compared to BAU practices. The individual effect of fertilization, CR retention or minimum tillage management practices on SOC stock were lower than the response of the combined conservation management practices. The combined 50%-75% CR retention, no-tillage (NT), and 32 kg N ha-1 fertilization provided the highest SOC sequestration. These combinations, increased SOC in the range 8.10-9.71 Mg C ha-1 over 30 years equivalent to rates of 0.27-0.32 Mg C ha-1 yr-1. While long-term empirical data from field experiments are lacking, model results suggest that the combined 50-75% CR retention, NT, and increased N fertilization have a potential to increase SOC sequestration in resource-limited smallholding croplands. The results may be useful for researchers, policy maker and other stakeholders.Mycoplasma synoviae is a common pathogen affecting poultry and has important economic significance. Infectious synovitis is the most common clinical effect. Since 2010, the incidence of M. synoviae infection in China has rapidly risen, causing significant economic losses to the chicken industry; however, the cause of the disease outbreak remains unclear. Phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of field strains will help unravel the mystery. The multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) method is typically utilized to conduct genotyping and traceability analysis of microorganisms. MLST of M. synoviae has previously been established and shown strong discriminatory power. In this study, 54 Chinese M. synoviae strains isolated from 2016 to 2020 were genotyped by MLST based on seven housekeeping genes. This study aimed to investigate the dominant genotypes of M. synoviae in China and reveal the genetic and evolutionary relationships of these isolates. All 54 isolates were found to have new allelic sequences, which may indicate new sequence types.