an experiment was conducted to study the effects of soybean, linseed and sunflower oil (various sources of fatty acids) with and without l-carnitine supplements (0 and 50 mg kg-1) on performance, blood biochemical parameters and carcass traits of japanese quail. one hundred and ninety-two of 7-day old female japanese quail were randomly assigned to 6 dietary treatments with 4 replicates and fed...

We report a severe case of imported Japanese encephalitis (JE) in a healthy young Spanish traveller who developed symptoms after spending three weeks in a touristic area of Thailand. The patient was diagnosed in Thailand and subsequently transferred to Barcelona, Spain, where the Thai laboratory results were confirmed based on IgM serology. Although JE is a rare disease in travellers, this case...

Robotics appears to be a very lively and fruitful field of research in Japan. Some of the research topics cannot be found elsewhere at all, and some are significantly advanced. Discussing this impression, a collection of laboratories is introduced with their most outstanding topics. This report is based on the notes of trips through Japanese laboratories in February, September 1997, and January...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a seasonal epidemic disease with a 50-year recorded history in China. Its characteristics can be summarized as follows: (i) it is a seasonal epidemic disease; approximately 90% of cases are recorded in July, August, and September each year. The peak of JE onset is 1 month earlier in South China than in the north of the country; (ii) the disease is highly sporadic. ...

This paper describes the construction of a lexicon representing abstract concepts. This lexicon is written by an object-oriented language, CTALK, and forms a dynamic network system controlled by object-oriented mechanisms. The content of the lexicon is constructed using a Japanese dictionary. First, entry words and their definition parts are derived from the dictionary. Second, syntactic and se...

UVOD: Cilj ovog rada je pregled metodoloških načela o korištenju najčešće korištenih analiza razlika u znanstvenom istraživanju u fi zioterapiji. Razrada: U skladu s ciljem, t-test i ANOVA, oboje za nezavisne uzorke i za ponovljene mjere, opisani su i istaknuti iz aspekta prakse fi zioterapije. Prikladnost i ograničenja metode su dati i objasniti. Zaključak: U radu je data preporuka za odgovara...

1 Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America, 2 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea, 3 Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, ...

It is very difficult for the overseas students to learn Japanese polite expression (JPE) during their course of learning the Japanese language. In this paper, in order to support the foreigners learning JPEs anywhere anytime, we propose a ubiquitous language-learning environment which works without any input of the context information. In the traditional Japanese class, learners only learn the ...

Live attenuated SA-14-14-2 vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) was introduced in the routine immunization under Universal Immunization Program in the 181 endemic districts of India. Recently, the Government of India has announced the introduction of one dose of JE vaccine for adults in endemic districts. The policy to mass vaccinate adults has raised several concerns that are discussed i...