Aim: The trials were designed on 30 lambs of age below 2 weeks exhibiting the symptoms of colibacillosis. Materials and Methods: Isolation of organism and identification of pathogenic Escherichia coli was confirmed by standard cultural, microbiological, serological, and biochemical tests. Venous blood was collected aseptically for hematological studies. Result: Bacteriological examinations of f...

A roentgenographic scoring system was developed to help orthopaedic surgeons and bone banks estimate the quality of bone stock in proximal femoral allografts intended to use in revision arthroplasty. This system scores a standardized anteroposterior roentgenograph of the proximal femur using four indices representing morphological features of cancellous and cortical bone known to be clinically ...

(PURPOSE). Recently, several reports showed that immunohistochemistry using MIB-1 antibody, which recognizes Ki-67 antigen, is one of the useful methods to determine the proliferative activity in various cancer. To evaluate the prognostic usefulness of the MIB-1, antibody we assessed the cell proliferation immunohistochemically in urothelial cancer. (METHODS). The proliferative activity of thir...

Fifteen compounds reported to be inhibitors of gelation or sickling were studied by standard methods. These tests included (1) the determination of the solubility of deoxyhemoglobin S or Csat, (2) evaluation of sickling in whole SS blood at various pO2s, (3) measurement of the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin and blood, and (4) examination of red cell indices and morphology. Among the 4 noncovalen...

Sunspots are solar features located in active regions of the Sun, whose number is an indicator of the Sun’s magnetic activity. Therefore accurate detection and classification of sunspots are fundamental for the elaboration of solar activity indices such as the Wolf number. However, irregularities in the shape of the sunspots and their variable intensity and contrast with the surroundings, make ...

A high prevalence of iron deficiency was found in apparently healthy Asian immigrant children in Harrow. After excluding children with overtly abnormal red cell indices, Asian and European children had identical haemoglobin values, but Asian children had much lower mean cell volume and mean corpuscular haemoglobin values and higher red blood cell values.

OBJECTIVE Many state trauma registries contain work-related information but are underutilized for occupational injury research/surveillance. We assessed three methods of identifying work-related injuries in the Washington State Trauma Registry (WTR). METHODS State-designated trauma facilities report traumatic injuries meeting specific inclusion criteria to the WTR. The WTR reports from 1998 t...

OBJECTIVES To explore injured patients' experiences of trauma care to identify areas for improvement in service delivery. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Qualitative study using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, conducted from 1 April 2011 to 31 January 2012, with 120 trauma patients registered by the Victorian State Trauma Registry and the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry ...

Managers of the nearly 0.5 million ha of public lands in North and South Dakota, USA rely heavily on manual measurements of canopy height in autumn to ensure conservation of grassland structure for wildlife and forage for livestock. However, more comprehensive assessment of vegetation structure could be achieved for mixed-grass prairie by integrating field survey, topographic position (summit, ...

Highway work zones interrupt regular traffic flows and create safety problems. Improving safety without sacrificing the main function of highways is a challenging task that traffic engineers and researchers have to confront. In this study, the concept of using crash severity index (CSI) for work zone safety evaluation was proposed and a set of CSI models were developed through the modeling of w...