Diseases caused by capripox viruses affects around 650 million sheep & goats (pox diseases) and 250 million cattle (lumpy skin disease). This constitutes a massive economic burden for many resourcepoor farmers in Africa, damaging their livelihoods and ability to increase their income. The current vaccines are expensive and difficult to deliver as they need a sophisticated cold chain. The purpos...

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The adoption and abandonment of first names through time is a fascinating phenomenon that may shed light on social dynamics and the forces that determine cultural taste in general. Here we show that baby name dynamics is governed almost solely by deterministic forces, even though the emerging abundance statistics resembles the one obtained from a pure drift model. Exogenous events are shown to ...

1. Labelled thoracic-duct lymph was collected from rats and rabbits after test meals containing [(14)C]cholesterol and [2-(3)H]glyceryl trioleate. 2. The metabolism of labelled cholesterol and triglyceride was studied in normally fed and cholesterol-fed rats and rabbits injected with radioactive lymph from the same species. 3. In normally fed animals of both species, 10min after intravenous adm...

By James Irving, M.D., Surgeon-General for Bengal. The Report which chronicles the annual transactions, of the large and important hospitals and dispensaries of Calcutta and its suburbs, is always an interesting one, and the report for 1878 is in many respects specially so. The year was one of much distress and sickness in the city and its surroundings ; prices of food staples ruled high; fever...

This paper studies optimal dynamic tax policy under the threat of political reform. A policy will be reformed ex post if a large enough political coalition supports reform; thus, sustainable policies are those that will continue to attract enough political support in the future. We find that optimal marginal capital taxes are either progressive or U-shaped, so that savings are subsidized for th...

OBJECTIVE This study reviewed the news media coverage of statins, seeking to identify specific trends or differences in viewpoint between media outlets and examine common themes. DESIGN The study is a content analysis of the frequency and content of the reporting of statins in a selection of the British newsprint media. It involved an assessment of the number, timing and thematic content of a...

THE subject which I have chosen for this afternoon, "Some recent work on acute infectious diseases," naturally covers a very wide field, and in the time at my disposal I shall be able to discuss only a few aspects of the question, and these mainly from the clinical standpoint. I propose therefore to deal with the following diseases which I have ranged in alphabetical order, not in the order of ...