The objective of this study was to compare the presence on goats and cattle of adult ticks that usually infest cattle. To this end ticks collected from sets of five goats were compared with those collected from sets of five cattle at 72 communal dip-tanks in the eastern region of the Eastern Cape Province. Amblyomma hebraeum was present on goats at 25 and on cattle at 39 dip-tanks, and a total ...

RATIONALE We have developed a novel oxygen adherence monitor that objectively measures patient use of long-term oxygen therapy. The monitor attaches to the oxygen source and detects whether or not the patient is wearing the nasal cannula. OBJECTIVE The study's purpose was to validate the monitor's performance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease during wakefulness and sleep....

this article is an attempt to depict how cross-dressing, as a theatrical affairm is able to challenge signs which are stabilized by ideology. for this goal cross-dressing has been understudied in azerbaijani oral literature. firstly, in order to use a relevant method and a basic theory, althusser’s concept of ideology and the process of naturalization have been adopted as useful guides. the wri...

A bowl-shaped nitrogen-doped nanographene composed of a pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole core substituted with six arene rings circularly bonded one another undergoes bowl-to-bowl inversion low barrier. This resembles that an umbrella flipped by the strong wind. The transition state is not planar, but possesses rather twisted, S-shaped conformation Ci symmetry. bowl-inversion mechanism follows quadruple-w...

Infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopic analysis of eight structural isomers of C20 carbon nanostructures, i.e. ring, tadpole, bow-tie, dumb-bell, spiro, propellane, bowl and cage, were performed at different levels of theory including semi-empirical (AM1 and PM3), Hartree-Fock (HF/6-31++G, 6-31++G**) and density functional theory (B3LYP/6-31++G, 6-31++G**). A broad range of IR spectra...