Type III Radio Bursts Observations on 20th August 2017 and 9th September 2017 with LOFAR Bałdy Telescope

Editorial, Issue: September 2017

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Background: BVD and IBR are contagious viral diseases highly prevalent in Irish cattle. Despite their significant reproductive and economic impact very little is known about the BVD and IBR status of stock bulls (a bull used for breeding purposes). There are still a high proportion of dairy farms in Ireland that rely on the use of a bull for breeding cattle and ensuring the fertility of the bul...

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As many European countries are currently engaged in infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) control programmes, it is widely believed that an Irish IBR eradication scheme will be realised in the very near future. In fact, a growing movement across the EU to eradicate IBR could be a barrier to trade for Irish livestock as, under EU legislation, Member States who have compulsory disease eradicati...

Report from the 9th International Symposium on Auriculotherapy Held in Singapore, 10–12 August 2017 †

To explore domestic auricular point therapy for insomnia in recent 10 years. The keywords retrieving clinical research papers include auricular point, insomnia, auricular point pressing therapy, auricular acupuncture therapy, auricular bloodletting method, needle-embedding method, auricular therapeutic apparatus. The databases are CNKI, WANGFANG, and VIP. Eighty-nine target theses were collecte...

LOFAR, a new low frequency radio telescope

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting of approximately 100 soccer-field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate at frequencies from ∼ 10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at 240 MHz of better than an arcsecond. Its superb sensitivity will allow for studies of a broad range of astrophysical topics, including reionisation, tra...