The present epidemiological status of African horse sickness in Saudi Arabia, as shown by seroconversion, virus isolation and clinical observation of sentinel horses is described. No African horse sickness virus activity was detected throughout the duration of the study (from November 1992 to March 1995). These findings support previous reports that African horse sickness is not endemic in Saud...

Background Currently, it has increased people who practice horse riding, maintaining direct contact with horses. In some cities, horses are within the city as a form of transportation or tourism. Horses have allergens sources, like their dander and saliva. Allergy to horse is a frequent cause of rhinitis, asthma or contact urticaria.The prevalence of sensitization to horse allergens is not well...

Malicious hardware is a fairly new research topic that has attracted the interest of the scientific community. Therefore, numerous approaches have been proposed in the last years to counter the threat of so-called hardware Trojans. This chapter describes malicious hardware in the context of the security of hardware infrastructure components. Network infrastructure plays a vital role in our ever...

The phylogenetic relationship between Equus przewalskii and E. caballus is often a matter of debate. Although these taxa have different chromosome numbers, they do not form monophyletic clades in a phylogenetic tree based on mtDNA sequences. Here we report sequence variation from five newly identified Y chromosome regions of the horse. Two fixed nucleotide differences on the Y chromosome clearl...

Two horsemen are on a forest path chatting about something. A passerby M , the mischief maker, comes along and having plenty of time and a desire for amusement, suggests that they race against each other to a tree a short distance away and he will give a prize of $100. However, there is an interesting twist. He will give the $100 to the owner of the slower horse. Let us call the two horsemen Bi...