The introduction of the Community Care (Delayed Discharge) Act 2003 in England led to a reduction in the mean and median length of stay of patients admitted to geriatric medicine (GM) units despite an increase in the number of admissions (Shah, 2007) because it imposed financial penalties on local authorities for delays in the discharge of patients. However, mean and median length of stay of pa...

Coccidiosis is a challenging disease of wild and domestic rabbits both, caused by Eimeria and thereby leads enormous economic losses at rabbit farms. The present study carried out to survey the prevalence and intensity of coccidial infection among the rabbits in Sichuan Province, southwest China. A total of 110 faecal samples were collected from 11 farms situated in eight main rabbits rearing a...

This is the first report to purify and characterize POX in shoots of buckwheat species. POX was partially purified from Tartary buckwheat shoots by 48.0 fold with a final yield of 9.07%. During ion-exchange and gel filtration chromatography, only one peak corresponding to POX activity was found. The molecular weight of POX was determined to be 37.5 kDa using gel filtration chromatography. The o...

1. Rabbits, vaccinated by repeated intravenous injections of suspensions of heat-killed R pneumococci, acquire a marked degree of active immunity to infection with the virulent S forms of Pneumococcus Types I and II. Previously (1) it was shown that the immunization of rabbits with R cells induces active resistance to Type III infection. This immunity is effective when the infecting organisms a...

In several areas with a high density of animal production, manure is no longer exclusively considered as a fertiliser. In order to limit the production or a more environmental friendly use, efforts are done to reduce the mineral excretion. In such a context, both from governmental side as for the producer a reliable calculation of the on farm production is useful. Based on the input (feed) outp...

The evolution of disease requires a firm understanding of heterogeneity among pathogen strains and hosts with regard to the processes of transmission, movement, recovery, and pathobiology. In this chapter, we build on the basic methodologies outlined in the previous chapter to address the question of how to model the invasion and spread of diseases in heterogeneous environments, without making ...

J.S. Bell’s work has convinced many that correlations in violation of CHSH inequalities show that the world itself is non-local, and that there is an apparently essential conflict between any sharp formulation of quantum theory and relativity. Against this consensus, this paper argues that there is no conflict between quantum theory and relativity. Quantum theory itself helps us explain such (o...

A fifty (56) six day feeding trial was conducted with a view to assess the performance of growing rabbits fed graded levels of Senna occidentalis seedmeal(SOSM).Five experimental diets were compounded to contain Senna occidentalis seedmeal at concentration of 0, 2.5, 5 7.5 and 10% respectively. Twenty (20) growing rabbits of mixed sexes were randomly allotted to five dietary treatments in a ran...

In December, 1932, a disease presenting many of the characteristic features of small pox in man appeared in a colony of rabbits maintained for the study of problems of constitution and quickly assumed epidemic proportions with a high mortality in certain classes of animals. The nature of the disease and the origin of the outbreak were obscure, but the picture presented indicated that the diseas...

Introduction. It is the purpose of this paper to give some weaker analogues for polyhedral manifolds of well-known properties of combinatorial manifolds. This is now possible primarily because of the recent work of Mazur [3 ; 4] and M. Brown [l ]. A crucial issue in this area is the extent to which these analogues may be improved for arbitrary triangulated manifolds. We shall prove a theorem wh...