The objective of the present study was to evaluate the interaction of two kinds of external stimuli (long-term tactile stimulation and underwater trauma) on the exploratory behavior of malnourished rats in an elevated plus maze (EPM). The results showed that tactile stimulation partially recovered body weight deficits produced by malnutrition and decreased EPM exploration. Malnutrition increase...

Chen et al. in 2004 proposed a new hierarchy structure, called the enhanced pyramid network (EPM, for short), by replacing each mesh in a pyramid network (PM, for short) with a torus. Recently, some topological properties and communication on the EPMs have been investigated or derived. Their results have revealed that an EPM is an attractive alternative to a PM. This study investigates the node...

In this paper, we propose an evolutionary emergency model of home network environment (EEMHNE). This model not only can do self-tuning to fit the home network environment but also detect the emergency event automatically. There are three modules in this model, namely, emergency process module (EPM), emergency knowledge base (EKB), and knowledge base evolution module (KBEM). EKB includes three c...

After prolonged treatment in horses for equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), cerebrospinal fluid antibodies to Sarcocystic neurona may persist. The albumin quotient did not change and the IgG index decreased in horses with EPM after repeated spinal taps 2–3 months apart. A decrease in IgG index, a measure of intrathecal antibody production, may indicate a favorable response to treatment fo...

Several variables, including age, are known to influence anxiety. Previous exposure to the elevated-plus maze (EPM) is known to modify emotional behaviour as retesting in the EPM at a standard age of 3 months increases open-arm avoidance and attenuates the effects of anxiolytic drugs. This study analysed whether similar results are obtained when older animals are subjected to these experimental...

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is a serious neurological disease of horses in the Americas. The protozoan most commonly associated with EPM is Sarcocystis neurona. The complete life cycle of S. neurona is unknown, including its natural intermediate host that harbors its sarcocyst. Opossums (Didelphis virginiana, Didelphis albiventris) are its definitive hosts. Horses are considered it...

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) has been widely described in the veterinary literature. Even in appropriately treated horses it can be a progressive, debilitating neurological disease. Either of the known causative agents, Sarcocystis neurona (common) and Neospora hughesi (rare), can produce signs of focal or multifocal central nervous system disease. Although spinal ataxia and weaknes...

Diels-Alder chemistry has been used for the thermoreversible cross-linking of furan-functionalized ethylene/propylene (EPM) and ethylene/vinyl acetate (EVM) rubbers. Both furan-functionalized elastomers were successfully cross-linked with bismaleimide to yield products with a similar cross-link density. NMR relaxometry and SAXS measurements both show that the apolar EPM-g-furan precursor contai...

In this research we present Bidirectional exact pattern matching algorithm [20] in detail. Bidirectional (BD) exact pattern matching (EPM) introduced a new idea to compare pattern with Selected Text Window (STW) of text string by using two pointers (right and left) simultaneously in searching phase. In preprocessing phase Bidirectional EPM algorithm improved the shift decision by comparing righ...

Chen et al. in 2004 proposed a new hierarchy structure, called the enhanced pyramid network (EPM, for short), by replacing each mesh in a pyramid network (PM, for short) with a torus. Recently, some topological properties and communication on the EPMs have been investigated or derived. Their results have revealed that an EPM is an attractive alternative to a PM. This study investigates the node...