Evaluation of the biochemical responses of catfish (<i>Clarias gariepinus</i> Burchell, 1822) after replacing fish oil with plant-based oils in their diets by Mmandu U Effiong, Anthony W Akpan

“…These oils were incorporated at 7% level to produce five isonitrogenous (41.03% protein) diets.The sixth diet contained fish oil and served as control experiment. Feeding trial was conducted in floating hapa  (1m3) system for 12 weeks. …”
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Statistical learning of distractor locations is dependent on task context by Jasper de Waard, Dirk van Moorselaar, Louisa Bogaerts, Jan Theeuwes

“…Crucially, a different high-probability distractor location was assigned to each task context in the training blocks, and all distractor locations were made equiprobable in the testing blocks. In a control experiment, participants only performed a compound search task such that the contexts were made indistinguishable, but the high-probability locations changed in exactly the same way as in the main experiment. …”
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FONDUE: A Framework for Node Disambiguation and Deduplication Using Network Embeddings by Ahmad Mel, Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt, Tijl De Bie

“…Given an undirected and unweighted network, FONDUE-NDA identifies nodes that appear to correspond to multiple entities for subsequent splitting and suggests how to split them (node disambiguation), whereas FONDUE-NDD identifies nodes that appear to correspond to same entity for merging (node deduplication), using only the network topology. From controlled experiments on benchmark networks, we find that FONDUE-NDA is substantially and consistently more accurate with lower computational cost in identifying ambiguous nodes, and that FONDUE-NDD is a competitive alternative for node deduplication, when compared to state-of-the-art alternatives.…”
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Impacts of Surface Characteristics and Dew Point on the Blue-Light (BL₄₀₅) Inactivation of Viruses by Castine Bernardy, James Malley

“…The effects of the dew point were significant for all surfaces and the control experiments. The high-dew-point conditions (18 °C) yielded higher levels of BL₄₀₅ inactivation and viral degradation for the experiments and controls, respectively.…”
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TLS Guard for TLS 1.3 zero round-trip time (0-RTT) in a distributed environment by M.E. Abdelhafez, Sureswaran Ramadass, Mustafa Abdelwahab

“…We evaluated a prototype TLS Guard implementation in controlled experiments and showed that its effect comes at the cost of some CPU overhead. …”
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Strategies for Assimilating High-Density Atmospheric Motion Vectors into a Regional Tropical Cyclone Forecast Model (HWRF) by William E. Lewis, Christopher S. Velden, David Stettner

“…It is demonstrated that enhanced vortex-scale GOES-16 AMVs contribute to notable improvements in HWRF track forecast error compared to a baseline control experiment that does not incorporate the high-density AMVs. …”
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Contact fatigue : life prediction and palliatives by Conner, Brett P. (Brett Page), 1975-

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Myth Buster: Do Engineers Trust Parametric Models Over Their Own Intuition? by Valerdi, Ricardo

“…The approach to answering these questions is similar to that of the popular television show MythBusters which aims to separate truth from urban legend using controlled experiments. In MythBusters, methods for testing myths and urban legends are usually planned and executed in a manner to produce the most visually dramatic results possible, which generally involves explosions, fires, or vehicle crashes. …”
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Growth and kinetic studies of emergent plants in the presence of phosphate. by Sai, Tu Jian.

“…All the plants displayed zero-order kinetics for phosphate uptake, and significant reduction in phosphate level when compared to the control experiment. P. oleracea exhibited the highest growth rate of 6.7 ± 1.07 % day-1 and 9.8 ± 2.25 % day-1 based on fresh mass and dry mass respectively. …”
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An insect-computer hybrid walking robot by Cao, Feng

“…Anatomy of a beetle (Mecynorrhina torquata) was first done by the author to locate target muscles for motion control. Experiments were done by the author to confirm the magnitude, wave form, and frequency of the stimulation signal required to elicit desired leg motions. …”
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Synchronization in climate dynamics and other extended systems by Read, P, Castrejón-Pita, A

“…The use of laboratory analogues may therefore have an important role to play in the study of natural systems that can only be observed and for which controlled experiments are impossible. We go on to demonstrate that synchronization can be observed in the laboratory, even in weakly coupled fluid dynamical systems that may serve as direct analogues of the behaviour of major components of the Earth's climate system. …”

Organization of action sequences and the role of the pre-SMA. by Kennerley, S, Sakai, K, Rushworth, M

“…In conjunction, the results suggest that for overlearned sequences the pre-SMA is primarily concerned with the initiation of a sequence or sequence chunk and the role of the pre-SMA in sequence initiation is only discerned when subjects must retrieve the sequence from memory as a superordinate set of movements without the aid of a visuomotor association. Control experiments revealed such effects were not present when rTMS was applied over the left dorsal premotor cortex.…”

Task-irrelevant financial losses inhibit the removal of information from working memory by Fallon, S, Dolfen, N, Parolo, F, Zokaei, N, Husain, M

“…Specifically, task-irrelevant financial losses presented before the retrocue caused a systematic breakdown in binding (misbinding), whereby the features of cued and non-cued memoranda became confused, i.e., the features that made up relevant memoranda were displaced by those of non-cued (irrelevant) items. A control experiment, in which outcomes but no cues were presented, failed to produce the same effects, indicating that the inclusion of retrocues were necessary for generating this effect. …”

Immunological instability of persistent adenovirus vectors in the brain: peripheral exposure to vector leads to renewed inflammation, reduced gene expression, and demyelination. by Byrnes, A, Maclaren, R, Charlton, H

“…Interestingly, intense microglial activation and numerous lymphocytes and monocytes were also seen in brain areas containing neurons capable of retrogradely transporting the adenovirus vector from the caudate. Control experiments established that this inflammation in distant brain areas was not a nonspecific consequence of degeneration. …”

Effect of magnetic fields on cryptochrome-dependent responses in Arabidopsis thaliana by Harris, S, Henbest, K, Maeda, K, Pannell, J, Timmel, C, Hore, P, Okamoto, H

“…With experimental conditions chosen to match those of the original study, we have measured hypocotyl lengths and anthocyanin accumulation for <em>Arabidopsis</em> seedlings grown in a 500 μT magnetic field, with simultaneous control experiments at 50 μT, 1 mT and approximately 100 mT magnetic fields (with zero-field controls), measured gene (CHS, HY5 and GST) expression levels, investigated blue-light intensity effects and explored the influence of sucrose in the growth medium. …”

Bilateral field advantage in visual enumeration. by Delvenne, J, Castronovo, J, Demeyere, N, Humphreys, G

“…We found that enumerating large number (&gt;4 items), but not small number (&lt;4 items), exhibited the bilateral field advantage: enumeration was more accurate when the visual items were split between the left and right hemifields than when they were all presented within the same hemifield. Control experiments further showed that this effect could not be attributed to a horizontal alignment advantage of the items in the visual field, or to a retinal stimulation difference between the unilateral and bilateral displays. …”

The proline-histidine-rich CDK2/CDK4 interaction region of C/EBPalpha is dispensable for C/EBPalpha-mediated growth regulation in vivo. by Porse, B, Pedersen, T, Hasemann, MS, Schuster, M, Kirstetter, P, Luedde, T, Damgaard, I, Kurz, E, Schjerling, C, Nerlov, C

“…These in vivo data demonstrate that any C/EBPalpha-mediated growth repression via the PHR as well as the basic region is dispensable for proper embryonic development of, and cell cycle control in, the liver. Surprisingly, control experiments performed in C/EBPalpha null fetal livers yielded similar results.…”

A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird by Packmor, F, Kishkinev, D, Bittermann, F, Kofler, B, Machowetz, C, Zechmeister, T, Zawadzki, LC, Guilford, T, Holland, RA

“…For studies on magnetic compass orientation and navigation performance in small bird species, controlled experiments with orientation cages inside an electromagnetic coil system are the most prominent methodological paradigm. …”

DNA hybridization based on Trichoderma harzianum gene probe immobilization on self-assembled monolayers on a modified gold electrode. by Siddiquee, Shafiquzzaman, Yusof, Nor Azah, Salleh, Abu Bakar, Tan, Soon Guan, Abu Bakar, Fatimah, Lee, Yook Heng

“…Peak currents were found to increase in the order of hybrid-modified-AuE > probe-modified-AuE > non-harzianum > non-complementary DNA. Control experiments with the non-complementary oligonucleotides were performed to assess whether the DNA biosensor responded selectively, via hybridization, to the target. …”

Electrochemical DNA biosensor for the detection of specific gene related to Trichoderma harzianum species. by Siddiquee, Shafiquzzaman, Yusof, Nor Azah, Salleh, Abu Bakar, Abu Bakar, Fatimah, Lee, Yook Heng

“…Peak currents were found to increase in the following order: hybrid-modified AuE and the probe-modified AuE which localized to the affinity of MB. Control experiments with the non-complementary oligonucleotides were performed to assess whether the DNA biosensor responds selectively, via hybridization, to the target. …”