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It is confirmed that cats are susceptible to productive SARS-CoV-2 infection, but are unlikely to develop clinical disease, and that cats developed a robust neutralizing antibody response that prevented reinfection following a second viral challenge.

The results showcase the combination of fast quantum control and robustness against errors, which is intrinsic to stabilized macroscopic states, as well as the potential of of these states as resources in quantum information processing.

It is indicated that ~118-150 million cats worldwide serve as definitive hosts of Toxocara, shedding eggs and thus contributing to the public health risk of human infection, and should receive greater attention by health officials and cat owners, particularly in countries where risk factors and prevalence are highest.

A new attention mechanism in Transformer is proposed termed Cross Attention, which alternates attention inner the image patch instead of the whole image to capture local information and apply attention between image patches which are divided from single-channel feature maps to capture global information.

It is concluded that, in general, it is better for veterinarians to treat suspected pain first rather than consider its significance only when the animal does not respond to behavior therapy, which is seriously limiting the recognition of this welfare problem.

Dietary changes, addition of prebiotics, and probiotics, can be beneficial to improve microbial diversity and to normalize metabolite production in diseased dogs.

A unique genotype (ToxoDB genotype #9 or Chinese 1) is widely prevalent in cats in China and it has been epidemiologically linked to outbreaks of clinical toxoplasmosis in pigs and deaths in humans in China; this genotype has rarely been detected in other countries.

By following a scheme for concatenated error correction, it is shown that the availability of bias-preserving CX gates with moderately sized cats improves a rigorous lower bound on the fault-tolerant threshold by a factor of two and decreases the overhead in logical Clifford operations by a factors of five.

Insight is provided into the interplay between enzyme and genome evolution in the origins, loss, and re-emergence of plant chemical diversity in the Nepeta lineage.

The objective of these guidelines is to make the anesthesia period as safe as possible for dogs and cats while providing a practical framework for delivering anesthesia care.

This paper presents an in-depth survey and performance evaluation of cat swarm optimization (CSO) algorithm. CSO is a robust and powerful metaheuristic swarm-based optimization approach that has received very positive feedback since its emergence. It has been tackling many optimization problems, and many variants of it have been introduced. However, the literature lacks a detailed survey or a performance evaluation in this regard. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to review all these works, including its developments and applications, and group them accordingly. In addition, CSO is tested on...

According to quantum mechanics, a physical system can be in any linear superposition of its possible states. Although the validity of this principle is routinely validated for microscopic systems, it is still unclear why we do not observe macroscopic objects to be in superpositions of states that can be distinguished by some classical property. Here we demonstrate the preparation of a mechanical resonator in Schrödinger cat states of motion, where the ∼10 17 constituent atoms are in a superposition of two opposite-phase oscillations. We control the size and phase of the superpositions and inve...

It is demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 has infected cats in Wuhan during the outbreak and serum antibody dynamics in cats are described, providing an important reference for clinical treatment and prevention of COVID-19.

These updated guidelines present a practical and logical approach to the assessment and management of acute and chronic pain in canine and feline patients, and include a tiered decision tree that prioritizes the use of the most efficacious therapeutic modalities for the treatment of chronic pain.

Recommendations for handling fearful animals to minimise aggressive responses are discussed and desensitisation and counterconditioning are highly recommended, both to prevent and address existing negative emotions.

The Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT) is introduced – a powerful suite of tools for brain morphometric analyses with an intuitive graphical user interface, but also usable as a shell script.

The results of this study are critical for the understanding of the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 in a naturally susceptible host species, and for risk assessment of the maintenance of Sars-CoVs in felines and transmission to other animals and humans.

Japan has started cancer genomic medicine (CGM) with comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) tests and established the Center for Cancer Genomics and Advanced Therapeutics (C-CAT), the national datacenter for CGM.

The Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT) is introduced—a powerful suite of tools for brain morphometric analyses with an intuitive graphical user interface but also usable as a shell script, providing a comprehensive set of analysis options, workflows, and integrated pipelines.

The physics of intense laser–matter interactions1,2 is described by treating the light pulses classically, anticipating no need to access optical measurements beyond the classical limit. However, the quantum nature of the electromagnetic fields is always present3. Here we demonstrate that intense laser–atom interactions may lead to the generation of highly non-classical light states. This was achieved by using the process of high-harmonic generation in atoms4,5, in which the photons of a driving laser pulse of infrared frequency are upconverted into photons of higher frequencies in the extreme...

Assessment of the occurrence of zoonotic pathogens and their vectors on 2,381 client-owned dogs and cats living in metropolitan areas of 8 countries in eastern and Southeast Asia during 2017–2018 found overall exposure to ectoparasites was 42.4% in dogs and 31.3% in cats.

This work presents a comprehensive architectural analysis for a fault-tolerant quantum computer based on cat codes concatenated with outer quantum error-correcting codes, and proposes a system of acoustic resonators coupled to superconducting circuits with a two-dimensional layout.

Evidence for the role of nutrition in impacting host health through the microbiome in a variety of disease states is examined and Understanding how nutrition can modulate GI microbiome composition and function may reveal new avenues for enhancing the health and resilience of cats and dogs.

An effective One-way Multimodal Data Augmentation (OMDA) approach via hierarchical contrastive learning at both the point and object levels is proposed, significantly improving the accuracy only by augmenting point-clouds, which is free from complex generation of paired samples of the two modalities.

A classification system based on cardiac structure and function (phenotype) is outlined and a staging system for cardiomyopathy is introduced that includes subdivision of cats with subclinical cardiopathy into those at low risk of life‐threatening complications and those at higher risk.

This study shows that SARS-CoV-2 consensus sequences remain largely unchanged over time within hosts, while dynamic sub-consensus diversity reveals processes of genetic drift and weak purifying selection, and identifies a notable variant at amino acid position 655 in Spike (H655Y), which was previously shown to confer escape from human monoclonal antibodies.

One of the first reports of interspecies transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 that does not involve humans is presented, namely mink‐to‐cat transmission, which should also be considered as a potential risk for spread of the virus.

It is demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 has infected cat population in Wuhan during the outbreak, and specific serum antibodies detected by indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) proved positive for the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the virus.

Adding to research on internet memes and humor, this study examines a set of image macros related to a specific viral media event (i.e., “cash me ousside”). This particular meme is linked to a popular catchphrase uttered by a young teenage girl, who appeared on a 2016 episode of the U.S. television talk show, Dr. Phil. We compiled a dataset of 220 image macros related to this media event from three online platforms. Our analysis focuses on various forms of linguistic humor, which most often rely on multimodal interactions between textual and visual elements. Our findings reveal multiple instan...

This work demonstrates remarkable error-correction performance by concatenating the XZZX surface code with Kerr-cat qubits, and shows that the system is scalable below a threshold gate infidelity of p CX ∼ 6.5% within a physically reasonable parameter regime.

The importance of using local and regional anaesthesia as a component of multimodal analgesia as well as a review of the basic pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of local anaesthetic drugs in general are emphasized.

A large-scale study to assess SARS-CoV-2 infection in 919 companion animals living in northern Italy, sampled at a time of frequent human infection, finds no animals tested PCR positive and dogs from COVID-19 positive households are significantly more likely to test positive than those from CO VID-19 negative households.

This work proposes an approach to remotely prepare magnon even or odd cat states by performing local non-Gaussian operations on the optical mode that is entangled with the magnon mode through pulsed optomagnonic interaction.

The finding of Sars-CoV-2 antibody-positive serum samples in the domestic cat population of Germany, during a period when the incidence of human infection in the country was still rather low, indicates that human-to-cat transmission of SARS-Cov-2 happens, but there is no indication of SAR's coronavirus circulation in cats.

Abstract Free‐ranging domestic cats Felis catus , from owned pets to feral cats, impact biodiversity through predation, fear effects, competition, disease and hybridization. Scientific knowledge regarding these impacts has recently increased, making it timely to assess the role of nature conservation legislation in this connection. We do so with particular regard to the obligations of governments around the world under international wildlife law. First, we provide an overview of current knowledge, based on a literature review, concerning the ways in which domestic cats impact wildlife; the res...

CAT-Net is proposed, an end-to-end fully convolutional neural network including RGB and DCT streams, to learn forensic features of compression artifacts on RGB andDCT domains jointly to localize spliced regions in JPEG or non-JPEG images.

There is currently no evidence that cats can spread COVID‐19 and owners should not abandon their pets or compromise their welfare, but owners should keep an eye on their pets' welfare.

It is found that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but ferrets and cats are permissive to infection and Additionally, cats are susceptible to airborne transmission.

It is found that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but efficiently in ferrets and cats, and that the virus transmits in cats via respiratory droplets.