BACKGROUND Despite the paucity of data available, stall-side serum amyloid (SAA) assays are commonly used to make diagnostic and treatment decisions in foals with bronchopneumonia. HYPOTHESIS Measurement of SAA concentrations can accurately differentiate pneumonic from healthy foals. ANIMALS Fifty-four pneumonic foals between 3 weeks and 5 months of age were compared to 44 healthy controls....

asymmetric information in iran’s insurance market: case study for automobile insurance in iran insurance companythis research aims to test the presence of asymmetric information by using the dynamic information of automobile policyholders in the iran insurance company (iic). the conditional independence test is conducted by bivariate probit model, the dynamic properties which are presented for ...

Virulent Rhodococcus equi causes pyogranulomatous bronchopneumonia in foals. The route of infection of foals has been considered to be inhalation of aerosolized bacteria from soil that is contaminated with equine feces. Thus, disease caused by R. equi has been regarded as an opportunistic infection of environmental origin and not a contagious disease. In this study, we report the exhalation of ...

This paper presents a new scheduling algorithm RAD, and shows that RAD efficiently schedules batched parallel jobs on multiprocessors. An early result by Deng et al. shows that Dynamic Equi-partitioning is 4-competitive for mean response time when the number of jobs is not more than the number of processors. Then, in STOC 97, Edmonds et al. show that the mean response time obtained by Equi-part...

Acceptance Sampling models have been widely applied in companies for the inspection and testing the raw material as well as the final products. A number of lots of the items are produced in a day in the industries so it may be impossible to inspect/test each item in a lot. The acceptance sampling models only provide the guarantee for the producer and consumer that the items in the lots are acco...

Rhodococcus equi is an intracellular pathogen of macrophages that causes rhodococcal pneumonia in foals and immunocompromised people. Evidence exists that neutrophils play a vital role in resistance to infection with R. equi; however, the means by which neutrophils exert their effects have not been clearly defined. In addition to directly killing bacteria, neutrophils also may exert a protectiv...