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Chula Researchers Develop Synthetic Boar Scent Mimicking Natural Pheromones to Reduce Disease Outbreak Risks in Pig Farms

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BANGKOK, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Researchers from Chulalongkorn University‘s Faculty of Veterinary Science have developed synthetic boar scent mimicking natural pheromones, providing a safer way to stimulate reproduction while reducing the risk of disease transmission associated with direct contact between breeding animals.

Preparing young female pigs (gilts) for breeding is a critical step in pig production. Gilts that fail to enter estrus within the appropriate age range are typically removed from the breeding herd and diverted to meat production, resulting in economic losses for farmers.

The standard method used worldwide to stimulate estrus is boar contact, in which a mature boar is introduced to gilts. While effective, the practice requires handling large animals and carries the risk of spreading diseases such as African swine fever (ASF), for which no vaccine or treatment currently exists.

Seeking a safer alternative, the Chulalongkorn research team investigated the chemical signals responsible for stimulating estrus. Led by Prof. Dr. Padet Tummaruk, D.V.M., with Dr. Isaya Thaveesangsakulthai, Ph.D., an expert in chemical communication, the team analyzed scent samples collected from mature boars using gas chromatography (GC). They identified 23 key odor compounds and used them to formulate the synthetic boar scent.

In comparative trials, exposure to a live boar induced estrus behavior in approximately 75% of gilts, while the synthetic scent achieved a response rate of about 50%, compared with only 18% in the unstimulated control group. Although live boars remain more effective, the synthetic scent offers important advantages in safety, ease of use, and reducing disease risks.

The plant-based formulation is non-irritating, safe for people to handle, and designed for practical farm use. Farmers simply spray the scent onto a pad attached to a rod and present it to the gilt to sniff. Several large pig farms have already expressed interest in testing the prototype.

The research, published in a Tier 1 international scientific journal in early 2026, has also led to a petty patent application. Looking ahead, the team plans to study the scent of gilts in hopes of developing scent-based diagnostic tools that could further improve reproductive management in pig farming.

“Our goal is to develop a product made in Thailand, affordable for Thai farmers, and free from reliance on imported products,” Prof. Dr. Padet concluded.

Read the full article at https://www.chula.ac.th/en/highlight/418665/

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CNTE Supplies 50.94MW/101.592MWh Energy Storage Solution for BESS Krumpa I in Germany

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BRAUNSBEDRA, Germany, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CNTE has supplied a 50.94MW/101.592MWh battery energy storage system solution for the BESS Krumpa I project in Braunsbedra, Germany.

The system is designed to support photovoltaic integration. It can store electricity generated by the PV system and discharge when needed, helping improve solar energy utilization and enhance power system flexibility.

The project was commissioned in January 2026 and successfully connected to the grid in April 2026. With a rated power of 50.94MW and a storage capacity of 101.592MWh, the system can provide flexible charging and discharging according to PV generation and grid requirements. CNTE’s energy storage solution integrates battery equipment, power conversion and intelligent energy management to support efficient system operation.

The project reflects the growing deployment of large-scale battery energy storage in Germany as solar power capacity continues to expand. BESS technology can help manage fluctuations in PV generation, improve solar energy utilization and provide greater flexibility to the electricity system.

The BESS Krumpa I project also adds to CNTE’s growing portfolio of large-scale energy storage projects in Europe, supporting the integration of solar power and the development of a more flexible energy system.

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HUAWEI WATCH D3 Makes Early Debut at ESC Congress 2026: A New Era in Wrist-Based Blood Pressure Management

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MUNICH, Aug. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The European Society of Cardiology Congress (ESC Congress 2026), one of the world’s most influential academic gatherings in cardiovascular medicine, officially kicked off today in Munich, Germany. Huawei showcased its latest innovations in health and fitness, offering an exclusive sneak peek at its next-generation ambulatory blood pressure monitor, the HUAWEI WATCH D3, ahead of its official launch at the Huawei Innovative Product Launch in Munich on 2 September. Bridging cutting-edge academic research with everyday consumer technology, Huawei continues to demonstrate its commitment to open collaboration, connecting pioneering research with products that reshape people’s daily lives.

A Legacy of Persistence, A Leap Forward

Huawei’s journey in blood pressure monitoring technology traces back to 2014, when the company first ventured into the sports and health domain. Over the past decade, Huawei has steadily advanced wearable health monitoring technologies to drive the evolution of the industry, from dynamic heart rate monitoring and SpO₂ tracking to ECG collection, and ultimately to blood pressure measurement.

In 2021, Huawei launched its first wrist-based ambulatory blood pressure recorder, the HUAWEI WATCH D. This device brought medical-grade blood pressure measurement capabilities to people’s wrists for the first time, securing medical device certification in multiple countries and regions, including China and the European Union. In 2024, the HUAWEI WATCH D2 was officially released, introducing 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and redefining blood pressure management.

In 2026, Huawei is set to unveil its latest achievement in blood pressure health—the next-generation HUAWEI WATCH D series. As the latest wrist-based ambulatory blood pressure recorder, the HUAWEI WATCH D3 achieves further breakthroughs across more blood pressure measurement scenarios while delivering more comprehensive health protection.

Lightweight Design, Professionalism Meets Style

To enhance comfort during extended wear, the HUAWEI WATCH D3 features further refinements in device thickness and strap weight. It will be available in three fashionable colour options inspired by “nature’s healing”—designed not only for comfort but also as a stylish everyday accessory, seamlessly blending in with diverse lifestyles and sports scenarios.

Broader Scenarios, Richer Health Insights

The HUAWEI WATCH D3 ensures accurate blood pressure measurement at elevated heart rates. It accurately records blood pressure data before and after exercise, provides recommendations on appropriate exercise intensity, and helps users develop good fitness habits. Furthermore, the HUAWEI WATCH D3 has been certified by CE MDR in the European Union, with its certification scope covering single blood pressure measurements, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and pre- and post-exercise blood pressure measurements. Newly added features include blood pressure measurement reminders for high-altitude environments and sudden temperature changes, ensuring users never miss a critical monitoring check.

Beyond its core blood pressure monitoring capabilities, the HUAWEI WATCH D3 also offers richer Health Glance metrics and health studies, alongside continuous improvements in sleep and emotional wellbeing tracking[1]. Further details on specific applications will be announced in due course.

Stay tuned to Huawei’s official channels for information on the official launch date, pricing, and full specifications of the HUAWEI WATCH D3.

[1] The data collected by Health Glance features and health studies is for reference only, and should not be used for diagnosis or treatment.

 

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SpeedyIndex Brings AI Agents to Link Building: Donor Domains to Be Scored by Long-Term Indexing Health

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An AI Consultant in the SpeedyIndex dashboard handled 57% of support requests in its first week. Next up, in Q4 2026: AI agents that rate donor domains by how Google has indexed them over months, quarters and years

VANTAA, Finland and HELSINKI, Aug. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — SpeedyIndex, an indexing service for Google and Yandex, today announced the first stage of its plan to integrate AI agents into the product. An AI Consultant now operates in the SpeedyIndex dashboard and on the website, answering questions about plans, link submission, refunds and reports immediately, without a ticket or a waiting period. In its first week the consultant handled 57% of customer requests without involving the support team, with an average response time of 2.3 seconds (SpeedyIndex internal data, August 2026).

How a domain gets indexed is the most honest signal of its health you can get. It is Google’s own behavior, not a model of it.” — Linda Bjorkvin, SpeedyIndex

The second stage is already in development. SpeedyIndex is integrating AI agents into its indexing infrastructure, where they will analyze years of indexing records to assess donor domains for link building. The first release is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026.

Stage one: an AI Consultant instead of a support queue

Before the launch, SpeedyIndex analyzed its support history and found that about 80% of customer requests concerned the same topics: pricing, submission formats, refund timing and the meaning of report fields (internal support statistics, 2026). None of these questions required a specialist. The support team typically responded within 12 hours, an unreasonably long time for a pricing question, so the company decided to remove the wait for this category of requests.

The consultant is based on the SpeedyIndex knowledge base. Asked about the cost of Google indexing, it explains the two pricing models: Pay per Indexed, at 100 tokens per link with an automatic refund if the link is not indexed by day 7, and Pay per Submission, at 30 tokens per link. It also explains the optional “already indexed” check and ends each answer with a link to the relevant task screen, so the user can create a task immediately. Requests that require account access or a technical investigation are still handled by the support team.

“We did not build the consultant to reduce contact with customers. We built it because the most common questions already had exact answers in our documentation, and a support queue was not the right place for them,” said Linda Bjorkvin, Project Manager at SpeedyIndex. “The first week confirmed two things: the knowledge base is in good shape, and an AI agent can operate inside our product without inventing facts. Only after that did we start work on the agents that handle indexing data.”

Stage two: judging a donor domain by how Google indexes it

Link builders usually assess a donor domain by authority scores, traffic estimates and spam metrics. SpeedyIndex believes one signal is missing from that set: how Google actually treats new pages on the domain. If new pages and links on a site are indexed consistently, Google crawls the site regularly and trusts it. If the indexing rate declines, the site has developed quality or reputation problems, and indexing usually reflects them earlier than third-party metrics do.

SpeedyIndex has the data for this kind of assessment. The service indexes third-party URLs, including backlinks, guest posts, PBN pages and Tier-2 links, without Search Console or Yandex Webmaster verification, and verifies the result for every URL on day 7 for Google or day 15 for Yandex. Over years of operation, every domain that has passed through the system has accumulated its own indexing profile.

The agents will assess donors on the basis of these profiles. The plan covers five areas:

Indexing history instead of a single check. A one-off check reflects only the current moment. The agents will analyze each domain’s indexing rate by month, quarter, half-year and year, so a link builder can see whether a donor is stable, improving or declining, and whether a good result today is a pattern or an exception.A multi-stage quality filter. Domains pass through several checks in sequence. Each stage adds other domain metrics to the indexing history and flags the likely reasons Google does not index pages on that domain.A baseline for each domain. A domain’s full indexing history in the SpeedyIndex system becomes the reference for predicting how new URLs on that domain will be indexed.Personalized client analytics. Clients will see which donor domains and link types in their own tasks are indexed consistently and which regularly fail, measured against their own history rather than a service-wide average.Recommendations, not actions. The agents provide recommendations. They do not modify submissions, remove URLs or spend tokens on their own.

The new features complement the checks SpeedyIndex already performs without AI: the pre-submission check that filters out 404, 410 and 451 pages, URLs blocked by robots.txt or noindex, and media files, and the Google index checker that excludes URLs already present in the index, so clients do not pay to index them a second time.

“For a link builder, how a domain is indexed is the most reliable signal of its condition, because it is Google’s own behavior rather than a model of it,” Bjorkvin noted. “But indexing is volatile from one day to the next. You have to look at a month, a quarter, a year, and compare it with other metrics, before you can understand the real state of a donor. We have been recording this data for every URL and every domain for years. The agents’ task is to turn it into an assessment a link builder can use before spending budget on a link. Google and Yandex still decide what is indexed. What we can do is make the pattern visible.”

SpeedyIndex reiterates that no indexing service can guarantee that a page will enter a search index. The company guarantees the process: submission, verification on day 7 or day 15, and an automatic token refund for every URL that is not indexed under the Pay per Indexed model. It does not guarantee the result.

Availability

The AI Consultant is available to all users in the SpeedyIndex dashboard at no additional cost. New users receive 200 free tokens to test the service. SpeedyIndex also provides a Telegram bot, a Chrome extension and a developer API. The first donor analytics features are scheduled for Q4 2026 and will be announced in a separate release.

Quick facts

What launched: an AI Consultant in the SpeedyIndex dashboard and website. It answers questions on plans, indexing, refunds and reports and links to the task screen.First-week results: 57% of requests handled without a support ticket; average response time of 2.3 seconds (internal data).What is next: AI agents in the indexing infrastructure that assess donor domains by indexing history over month, quarter, half-year and year windows, combined with other domain metrics. First release in Q4 2026.Why it matters: how consistently Google indexes a domain’s pages reflects the domain’s condition and Google’s trust in it in a way that authority and traffic metrics do not.Pricing models: Pay per Indexed, 100 tokens per link, refunded automatically if the link is not indexed by day 7 (Google) or day 15 (Yandex); Pay per Submission, 30 tokens per link.No verification required: SpeedyIndex accepts third-party URLs without Search Console or Yandex Webmaster access.Free trial: 200 tokens for new users.

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What is the SpeedyIndex AI Consultant? An AI assistant built into the SpeedyIndex dashboard and website. It answers questions about SpeedyIndex plans, link submission, refunds and reports within seconds, based on the service’s knowledge base, and provides a link to the relevant task screen.

Does the AI Consultant replace human support? No. It handles the recurring questions that previously accounted for about 80% of support volume. Technical cases and account issues are still handled by the support team through a ticket.

What will the AI agents in SpeedyIndex’s infrastructure do? They will assess donor domains for link building by analyzing how Google has indexed pages on each domain over time, in monthly, quarterly, half-year and yearly windows, combined with other domain metrics in a multi-stage filter. They will also show clients which donor domains and link types in their own tasks are indexed consistently and which are not. The agents only provide recommendations and do not perform actions on tasks.

Why measure a donor domain by indexing rather than by authority metrics? Indexing is Google’s own behavior toward a domain. If new pages are indexed consistently, Google crawls the site and trusts it. If the indexing rate falls, that is an early signal of quality or trust problems. Authority and traffic scores are estimates produced by third-party services; indexing history is factual data.

Why look at indexing over a month, quarter or year instead of one check? A single check reflects one moment and can be misleading. Longer periods make it possible to distinguish a stable donor from one whose performance is deteriorating, or from one that happened to show a good result in a single check.

Will the AI agents guarantee that links get indexed? No. Indexing decisions are made by Google and Yandex. SpeedyIndex guarantees the process and refunds tokens for non-indexed URLs under Pay per Indexed. The agents improve the quality of analysis but do not influence the search engine’s decision.

When will the donor analytics be available? The first release is scheduled for Q4 2026 and will be announced separately.

About SpeedyIndex

SpeedyIndex is a Helsinki-based indexing service for Google and Yandex. It helps SEO specialists, link builders and site owners get pages and backlinks into search indexes faster. The service accepts any third-party URLs without Search Console verification, operates on a Pay-per-Result model with automatic token refunds for links that are not indexed, and provides free tools for sitemap URL extraction and for redirect, noindex, 404 and 5xx checks, along with bulk index checking for Google, Bing and Yandex and a backlink checker. Learn more at en.speedyindex.com.

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Linda Bjorkvin, SpeedyIndex, 358 442855212, lindabjorkvin@gmail.com, https://en.speedyindex.com

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