The role of cattle in the epidemiology of bluetongue (BT) as well as the distribution of different vector species throughout South Africa is not well understood. Mnisi, a rural area located in Mpumalanga, South Africa, was selected for an epidemiological study. The prevalence of Culicoides species associated with this area as well as whether bluetongue virus (BTV) is circulating in the area is ...

Trust Management (TM) is a novel flexible approach to access control in distributed systems, where the access control decisions are based on the policy statements, called credentials, made by different principals and stored in a distributed manner. In this chapter we present an introduction to TM focusing on the role-based trust-management framework RT. In particular, we focus on RT0, the simpl...

infectious bronchitis virus (ibv) is an acute and contagious viral disease of poultry that affects different systems, including the respiratory tract in particular. ibv causes major economic losses in the poultry industry globally. due to antigenic variation of the causative agent, control of the disease is difficult. to control the disease, many vaccines that belong to different serotypes are ...

successful disease management requires a rapid and sensitive diagnosis method that can recognize early infection even before the manifestation of its clinical signs. the only available field diagnostic tests for foot-and-mouth disease (fmd) are lateral flow devices, commonly known as chromatographic strips. low sensitivity and inability to detect fmd virus (fmdv) at the serotype level are limit...

abstract the pvyntn strain induces potato tuber necrotic ringspot disease ptnrd . pvyntn strain is sub group of tobacco necrosis veinal pvyn strain . pvyntn strain is a recombinant between pvyn and pvyo strains . symptoms are often totally symptomless or undetectable by visual inspections at harvest , usually are apparent during post harvest in storage conditions and induce to decrease quality ...

Suppose that N inputs to a linear, time-invariant channel are designed to maximize the minimum L , distance between channel outputs. It is assumed that all inputs are zero outside the finite time window [ T , TI and are constrained in energy. The jointly optimal inputs and channel frequency response H(f) for which the minimum distance is maximized is studied, subject to the constraint that the ...

We outline a new multiple trace theory of temporal preparation (MTP), which accounts for behavior in reaction time (RT) tasks in which the participant is presented with a warning stimulus (S1) followed by a target stimulus (S2) that requires a speeded response. The theory assumes that during the foreperiod (FP; the S1-S2 interval) inhibition is applied to prevent premature response, while a wav...