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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of Mycoplasma isolates from various body sites in dairy cattle with Mycoplasma mastitis.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether Mycoplasma strains typically associated with mastitis in dairy cattle can be isolated from body sites other than the mammary gland. DESIGN Prospective clinical trial. ANIMALS 7 Holstein cows in various stages of lactation with intramammary Mycoplasma infection. PROCEDURE Milk samples, antemortem swab specimens from various body sites, and postmortem swab and tissue specimens were submitted for Mycoplasma culture. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was performed on chromosomal digests of all Mycoplasma isolates. Isolates with the same number and size of chromosomal digest bands were considered to be of the same type. RESULTS For each cow, all isolates obtained from milk, mammary gland parenchyma, and supramammary lymph nodes had the same PFGE pattern. All cows had at least 1 isolate from nonmammary system tissues that had the same PFGE pattern as isolates from the mammary system. Overall, 44 of the 70 (63%) Mycoplasma isolates obtained from body sites other than mammary system sites had the same PFGE pattern as did mammary system isolates. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Results confirmed our hypothesis that Mycoplasma strains isolated from the milk of dairy cattle with Mycoplasma mastitis frequently have PFGE patterns identical to those for strains isolated from other body sites, suggesting that there is at least a potential for internal transmission of Mycoplasma organisms.
IRCE at the NTCIR-12 IMine-2 Task

The IRCE team participated in the IMine-2 task at the NTCIR-12 workshop. We submitted one Chinese language run and five Japanese language runs for the Query Understanding subtask. Our methods exploited online text corpora BaiduPedia for the Chinese language run and Japanese Wikipedia for the Japanese language runs. The approaches employed in the Chinese and Japanese language topics are differed. This paper discusses our approaches to the Query Understanding subtask of the NTCIR-12 IMine-2 task.
Protein Phosphatases Decrease Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Content by Stimulating Calcium Release in Cardiac Myocytes

Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of Ca2+ transport proteins by cellular kinases and phosphatases plays an important role in regulation of cardiac excitation−contraction coupling; furthermore abnormal protein kinase and phosphatase activities have been implicated in heart failure. However, the precise mechanisms of action of these enzymes on intracellular Ca2+ handling in normal and diseased hearts remains poorly understood. We have investigated the effects of protein phosphatases PP1 and PP2A on spontaneous Ca2+ sparks and SR Ca2+ load in myocytes permeabilized with saponin. Exposure of myocytes to PP1 or PP2A caused a dramatic increase in frequency of Ca2+ sparks followed by a nearly complete disappearance of events. These effects were accompanied by depletion of the SR Ca2+ stores, as determined by application of caffeine. These changes in Ca2+ release and SR Ca2+ load could be prevented by the inhibitors of PP1 and PP2A phosphatase activities okadaic acid and calyculin A. At the single channel level, PP1 increased the open probability of RyRs incorporated into lipid bilayers. PP1‐medited RyR dephosphorylation in our permeabilized myocytes preparations was confirmed biochemically by quantitative immunoblotting using a phosphospecific anti‐RyR antibody. Our results suggest that increased intracellular phosphatase activity stimulates RyR‐mediated SR Ca2+ release leading to depleted SR Ca2+ stores in cardiac myocytes.
Subversive sites: rave culture, spatial politics and the internet in Sydney, Australia

Summary ‘Rave’ subcultures have emerged over the last ten years in Sydney, mobilizing spatial practices and dance styles that originated in Europe and North America. As these dance cultures diversify and fragment, the internet is increasingly being used as a means of organizing rave activities, publishing information about artists, DJs and record labels, and, in more radicalized fragments of the scene, is imbued with meaning—as a ‘web’ to support illegal appropriations of urban space for dance venues. Hakim Bey's ‘Temporary Autonomous Zone’, a left-anarchist spatial philosophy, underlies this rhetorical use of new computer technology, and is central to debates about youth subcultures, music and space, which I examine throughout this paper.
Exposure of Children and Teenagers to Internet Pornography in South Western Nigeria: Concerns, Trends & Implications

In this article we investigated the level of consumption of Internet pornography among children and teenagers of primary and secondary school age in Southwestern Nigeria. Two research instruments titled “Children/Teenagers Internet Pornography Profile in Southwestern Nigeria and an adapted Pornography Addiction Test questionnaire were employed to solicit responses from children and teens. Findings from the analysis of collected data using chi square analysis, regression and other descriptive measures showed that teenagers are more exposed to Internet pornography than children. A positive relationship exists between age, parental income and level of exposure to Internet pornography, which implies that as children advance in age, the level of exposure will definitely increase. Children of medium and high-income earners also exhibit above average level of addiction to Internet pornography. Recommendations were made based on our findings.
Effect of Hypothermia on Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emission Findings in Children Undergoing Congenital Open Heart Surgery

Objective; The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of extreme hypothermia on distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) generated from the OHC of the organ of Corti. Temperature is controlled (within certain rigid limits) in warm-blooded animals including human beings. To investigate extreme hypothermia in our study we selected patients undergoing congenital open heart surgery where body temperature can be lowered over a large temperature interval. To monitor inner ear functions, we measured distortion product otoacoustic emissions that can be applied repeatedly in a cardiovascular operating room that is electrically and acoustically noisy. Study Design; Prospective clinical trial. Materials & Methods; Twenty-four pediatric patients (median age, 24 months) with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) were involved in the study. The same anesthetic, surgical, and CPB protocols were used in all patients. Distortion product otoacoustic emission measurements were performed preoperatively, several times intraoperatively, and postoperatively. Results; Inner ear functions diminished with the degree of hypothermia and returned to normal with warming (P<05). Other parameters such as presence of cyanotic disease, cross-clamping, and duration of CPB did not significantly affect distortion product otoacoustic emission measurements.
Pathological gambling in Parkinson disease is reduced by amantadine

To investigate the possible efficacy of amantadine in the control of pathological gambling (PG) associated with Parkinson disease (PD), 17 PD patients with PG were randomly selected for a double‐blind crossover study with amantadine 200mg/day versus placebo and an open follow‐up. Assessments included PG‐specific scales (Yale‐Brown Obsessive‐Compulsive Scale for PG, Gambling‐Symptom Assessment Scale, South Oaks Gambling Screen) and assessment of expenditures and time spent gambling. Amantadine abolished or reduced PG in all treated patients, as confirmed by scale score and daily expenditure reduction. Amantadine might be useful to treat PG. The effect of amantadine, acting as an antiglutamatergic agent, also opens new insights into the pathogenesis of PG. ANN NEUROL 2010
Chemical control of ticks on cattle and the resistance of these parasites to acaricides

Toward the end of the nineteenth century a complex of problems related to ticks and tick-borne diseases of cattle created a demand for methods to control ticks and reduce losses of cattle. The discovery and use of arsenical solutions in dipping vats for treating cattle to protect them against ticks revolutionized tick and tick-borne disease control programmes. Arsenic dips for cattle were used for about 40 years before the evolution of resistance of ticks to the chemical, and the development and marketing of synthetic organic acaricides after World War II provided superior alternative products. Most of the major groups of organic pesticides are represented on the list of chemicals used to control ticks on cattle. Unfortunately, the successive evolution of resistance of ticks to acaricides in each chemical group with the concomitant reduction in the usefulness of a group of acaricides is a major reason for the diversity of acaricides. Whether a producer chooses a traditional method for treating cattle with an acaricide or uses a new method, he must recognize the benefits, limitations and potential problems with each application method and product. Simulation models and research were the basis of recommendations for tick control strategies advocating approaches that reduced reliance on acaricides. These recommendations for controlling ticks on cattle are in harmony with recommendations for reducing the rate of selection for acaricide resistance. There is a need to transfer knowledge about tick control and resistance mitigation strategies to cattle producers.
Failed back surgery syndrome: review and new hypotheses

Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a term used to define an unsatisfactory outcome of a patient who underwent spinal surgery, irrespective of type or intervention area, with persistent pain in the lumbosacral region with or without it radiating to the leg. The possible reasons and risk factors that would lead to FBSS can be found in distinct phases: in problems already present in the patient before a surgical approach, such as spinal instability, during surgery (for example, from a mistake by the surgeon), or in the postintervention phase in relation to infections or biomechanical alterations. This article reviews the current literature on FBSS and tries to give a new hypothesis to understand the reasons for this clinical problem. The dysfunction of the diaphragm muscle is a component that is not taken into account when trying to understand the reasons for this syndrome, as there is no existing literature on the subject. The diaphragm is involved in chronic lower back and sacroiliac pain and plays an important role in the management of pain perception.
Formatting: a class act

When I was a student, Simula was one of the languages taught in introductory programming language courses and I vividly remember a sticker one of our instructors had attached to the door of his office, saying “Simula does it with class”. I guess the same holds for Haskell except that Haskell replaces classes by type classes.
INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM ALERT CORRELATION WITH OPERATING SYSTEM LEVEL LOGS

Internet is a global public network. More and more people are getting connected to the Internet every day to take advantage of the Internetwork connectivity. It also brings in a lot of risk on the Internet because there are both harmless and harmful users on the Internet. While an organization makes its information system available to harmless Internet users, at the same time the information is available to the malicious users as well. Most organizations deploy firewalls to protect their private network from the public network. But, no network can be hundred percent secured. This is because; the connectivity requires some kind of access to be granted on the internal systems to Internet users. The firewall provides security by allowing only specific services through it. The firewall implements defined rules to each packet reaching to its network interface. The IDS complements the firewall security by detected if someone tries to break in through the firewall or manages to break in the firewall security and tried to have access on any system in the trusted site and alerted the system administrator in case there is a breach in security. However, at present, IDSs suffer from several limitations. To address these limitations and learn network security threats, it is necessary to perform alert correlation. Alert correlation focuses on discovering various relationships between individual alerts. Intrusion alert correlation techniques correlate alerts into meaningful groups or attack scenarios for ease to understand by human analysts. In order to be sure about the alert correlation working properly, this thesis proposed to use attack scenarios by correlating alerts on the basis of prerequisites and consequences of intrusions. The architecture of the experimental environment based on the prerequisites and consequences of different types of attacks, the proposed approach correlates alerts by matching the consequence of some previous alerts and the prerequisite of some later ones with OS-level logs. As a result, the accuracy of the proposed method and its advantage demonstrated to focus on building IDS alert correlation with OS-level logs in information security systems. kayıtları ile korelasyonu sonucunda gösterilmiştir.
The Role of Air Pollutants in Initiating Liver Disease

Recent episodes of severe air pollution in eastern Asia have been reported in the scientific literature and news media. Therefore, there is growing concern about the systemic effects of air pollution on human health. Along with the other well-known harmful effects of air pollution, recently, several animal models have provided strong evidence that air pollutants can induce liver toxicity and act to accelerate liver inflammation and steatosis. This review briefly describes examples where exposure to air pollutants was involved in liver toxicity, focusing on how particulate matter (PM) or carbon black (CB) may be translocated from lung to liver and what liver diseases are closely associated with these air pollutants.
Cloning and In Situ Expression Studies of the Hydrogenobaculum Arsenite Oxidase Genes

ABSTRACT Novel arsenite [As(III)] oxidase structural genes (aoxAB) were cloned from Hydrogenobaculum bacteria isolated from an acidic geothermal spring. Reverse transcriptase PCR demonstrated expression throughout the outflow channel, and the aoxB cDNA clones exhibited distribution patterns relative to the physicochemical gradients in the spring. Microelectrode analyses provided evidence of quantitative As(III) transformation within the microbial mat.
PROGRESS TOWARDS COUNTING D5 QUINTIC FIELDS

(under any archimedean valuation),where the implied constant depends only on n. In particular, if K is a primitiveextension of Q, then K = Q( ), so the characteristic polynomial of will de-termine K. One can use this to give an upper bound on N(n;G;X) (at least inthe case where Kis primitive), since every pair (K; ) as above gives a Z-point ofSpecQ[x
Detecting events with date and place information in unstructured text

Digital libraries of historical documents provide a wealth of information about past events, often in unstructured form. Once dates and place names are identified and disambiguated, using methods that can differ by genre, we examine collocations to detect events. Collocations can be ranked by several measures, which vary in effectiveness according to type of events, but the log-likelihood measure (-2 log λ) offers a reasonable balance between frequently and infrequently mentioned events and between larger and smaller spatial and temporal ranges. Significant date-place collocations can be displayed on timelines and maps as an interface to digital libraries. More detailed displays can highlight key names and phrases associated with a given event.
Sources of stress and coping mechanisms among under-twenty high school athletes: a study conducted at the Zimbabwe National Youth Games (ZNYG) Manicaland 2013 Chapter.

The world today is replete with stressful situations whether at home or in away-from home situations. To live meaningful lives, people should learn to cope with the stress which has become part of everyday life. Without adequate coping strategies there is threat to health which may even lead to premature death. The aim of the study was establishing sources of stress and coping strategies among high school athletes. A population of 183 Zimbabwe National Youth Games Manicaland Chapter was available for this study. Fifty athletes actually took part in this study . Data collection was by a structured questionnaire. Findings revealed the most stressful factors among high school athletes to be injury and illness, pressure of competition, the referee and conflict with the coach. The least perceived stress originated from spectators. The athletes identified almost the same extent of the use of the approach and avoidant styles as stress coping strategies. The findings also recorded a good number of respondents who were not able to specify whether they were using approach or avoidance techniques in handling stress in sports. The findings in this study were generally consistent with the finding of researchers in other countries. The study recommends the need for sports psychologist to man ZNYG athletes to help them develop stress coping mechanisms. It would also be helpful if coaches and trainers in high schools were also exposed to skills that would enable them to assist the young athletes with any necessary stress-coping mechanisms.
Hormone receptors in breast cancer.

tactics summed up by Stevenson in his book Ethics and Language. ' Teachers may resort to emotive techniques in order to change the attitudes of children towards various methods of behaviour. It is my opinion, however, that any attempt at crude emotivism will fail. We should present the children with the medical facts against a background of caring, now about their parents, later about their dependants.
CASPER: an integrated energy-driven approach for task graph scheduling on distributed embedded systems

For multiprocessor embedded systems, the dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) technique can be applied to scheduled applications for energy reduction. DVS utilizes slack in the schedule to slow down processes and save energy. Therefore, it is generally believed that the maximal energy saving is achieved on a schedule with the minimum makespan (maximal slack). Most current approaches treat task assignment, scheduling, and DVS separately. In this paper, we present a framework called CASPER (combined assignment, scheduling, and power-management) that challenges this common belief by integrating task scheduling and DVS under a single iterative optimization loop via genetic algorithm. We have conducted extensive experiments to validate the energy efficiency of CASPER. For homogeneous multiprocessor systems (in which all processors are of the same type), we consider a recently proposed slack distribution algorithm (PDP-SPM) by S. Hua and G. Qu (2005): applying PDP-SPM on the schedule with the minimal makespan gives an average of 53.8% energy saving; CASPER finds schedules with slightly larger makespan but a 57.3% energy saving, a 7.8% improvement. For heterogeneous systems, we consider the power variation DVS (PV-DVS) algorithm by Schmitz et al. (2004), CASPER improves its energy efficiency by 8.2%. Finally, our results also show that the proposed single loop CASPER framework saves 23.3% more energy over GMA+EE-GLSA by Schmitz et al. (2002), the only other known integrated approach with a nested loop that combines scheduling and power management in the inner loop but leaves assignment in the outer loop.
Robust Saliency Detection via Fusing Foreground and Background Priors

Automatic Salient object detection has received tremendous attention from research community and has been an increasingly important tool in many computer vision tasks. This paper proposes a novel bottom-up salient object detection framework which considers both foreground and background cues. First, A series of background and foreground seeds are selected from an image reliably, and then used for calculation of saliency map separately. Next, a combination of foreground and background saliency map is performed. Last, a refinement step based on geodesic distance is utilized to enhance salient regions, thus deriving the final saliency map. Particularly we provide a robust scheme for seeds selection which contributes a lot to accuracy improvement in saliency detection. Extensive experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method against other outstanding methods.
Orthogonal learning particle swarm optimization with variable relocation for dynamic optimization

Many real-world optimization problems encounter the presence of uncertainties. Dynamic optimization is a class of problems whose fitness functions vary through time. For these problems, evolutionary algorithm is expected to adapt to the changing environments immediately and find the best solution accurately. Besides, most of the environmental changes may not be too drastic in real-world applications, which indicates the evolutionary information in the past may be helpful for finding the optimum solution in the new environment. As a result, effective reuse of historical evolutionary information is necessary, since it leads a faster convergence after a change has occurred. This paper develops an orthogonal learning particle swarm optimization (OLPSO) with the variable relocation strategy (VRS) to solve the dynamic optimization problem (DOP). The proposed OLPSO-VRS algorithm has two advantages as follows. First and foremost, the orthogonal learning strategy guides particles to fly in better directions by constructing a much promising and efficient exemplar, which can achieve a balance between fast convergence and population diversity. Furthermore, the VRS collects historical information in the stable search stage and then reuse such information to guide the particle variable relocation once the search environment has changed. This operation enables the algorithm to quickly shift to the new promising regions in the changing fitness landscape. We evaluated OLPSO-VRS on several dynamic benchmark problems and compared with several state-of-the-art dynamic algorithms. The results show that OLPSO-VRS obtains very competitive results and enjoys a statistically superior performance on most problems.
Applicators for local microwave hyperthermia based on metamaterial technology

In this paper we would like to demonstrate that a principle based on zero-order resonant (ZOR) metamaterial (MTM) structure can be used for the development of a novel class of applicators for microwave thermotherapy - e.g. for hyperthermia in cancer treatment or for physiotherapy. The main idea of creating such an applicator is to generate and radiate a plane electromagnetic (EM) wave into the treated biological tissue, at least in a certain extent. The main aim of this paper is to investigate, whether an EM wave generated by an MTM ZOR structure and emitted into the biological tissue can produce a homogeneous SAR distribution in the planes parallel to the applicator aperture. Electromagnetic field and temperature distribution inside a virtual phantom of the treated region generated by the applicator that is based on the proposed MTM ZOR principle, as well as the reflection coefficient of such applicator, are investigated using a well-proven full-wave commercial simulation tool.