Benesi F.J., Teixeira C.M.C., Leal M.L.R., Lisboa J.A.N., Mirandola R.M.S., Shecaira C.L. & Gomes V. 2012. Leukograms of healthy Holstein calves within the irst month of life. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 32(4):352-356. Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Professor Doutor Orlando Marques de Paiva 87, Cidade Universitár...

In the human body, white blood cells (WBCs) are crucial immune that help in early detection of a variety illnesses. Determination number WBCs can be used to diagnose conditions such as hematological, immunological, and autoimmune diseases, well AIDS leukemia. However, conventional method classifying counting is time-consuming, laborious, potentially erroneous. Therefore, this paper presents com...

In mobile robotics, pure geometric representations may not be well suited for navigation in large scale environments. New models combine topological and metrical information to give compact and eecient representations. In this paper, we brieey remind the outlines of the construction of our Vorono-like graph and give further details about its implementation in a real environment. Several trials ...

By electrically segmenting, and series-connecting an InP ridge laser, we have demonstrated 12-stage lasers with 409% differential efficiency and 2.6mA threshold, as well as 3-stage lasers with 51ohm input impedance and 126% differential efficiency.

Organic conductors exhibit unusual physical properties due to the critical nature of valence electrons fluctuating under localizing and delocalizing regime. Recently, we discovered that an organic superconductor, α-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 [BEDTTTF: bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene], induces optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) along with charge-ordering driven by the repulsive electron-electron ...

A new noninvasive method for determining the surface electrostatic potential and surface charge density of microscopic particles using second harmonic generation (SHG) is described. The surface electrostatic properties of 1.05 μm polystyrene sulfate spheres in aqueous solution and that of 0.22 μm oil droplets in aqueous emulsions are obtained. Comparisons of the surface potentials obtained from...

Background: During the initial phase of an infection, there is an upregulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase in the macrophages for the production of nitric oxide. This is followed by the recruitment of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (neutrophils) which release arginase. Arginase competes with inducible nitric oxide synthase for a common substrate L-arginine. Objective: To investigate whethe...

We study the effective second-harmonic generation (SHG) susceptibility in graded metallic films by invoking the local field effects exactly, and further numerically demonstrate that the graded metallic films can serve as a novel optical material for producing a broad structure in both the linear and SHG response and an enhancement in the SHG signal. ocis: 160.4330, 310.6860, 160.4670, 160.4760.

This study constructs a panel threshold regression model to explore the price impact of foreign institutional herding of firms listed in the Taiwan Stock Exchange during January 2000 to June 2008. Our panel threshold model is constructed to explore the price impact of foreign institutional investors’ herding in the Taiwan stock market after controlling the firm size. By examining the presence o...

Contrary to previous empirical studies that find a linear link between economic conditions and presidential approval, this study argues for and finds a nonlinear relationship. A threshold regression is used to assess potential nonlinear relationships between macroeconomic variables and presidential popularity. A quarterly data analysis for the 1960Q1–2012Q2 time period reveals that domestic fac...