The protozoon Giardia duodenalis is a common gastrointestinal parasite of cats. While most Giardia-infected cats are asymptomatic, acute small bowel diarrhea, occasionally with concomitant weight loss, may occur. Giardia poses a diagnostic challenge, but newer tests, including a commercially available ELISA kit, have improved clinicians' ability to obtain an accurate diagnosis. Several treatmen...

in this paper we present a new method for tool-path generation and adaptive interpolation for a three-axis cnc milling machine. this method satisfied the force and / or the error conditions by using a variable-direction variable-feedrate strategy based on maximum feedrate map. the proposed adaptive interpolator modifies the cutting path and the moving direction according to the actual instantan...

Twelve cats were binocularly deprived of pattern vision from the time of eye opening by rearing in masks. Six cats were raised in masks for 5 to 7 months until an acute experiment (group D) and 6 others were additionally trained in visual pattern discrimination for 2 to 5 months following the initial deprivation period (group DV). In all cats the receptive fields (RFs) of neurons in lateral gen...

Methods have been proposed to re-design a clinical trial at an interim stage in order to increase power. In order to preserve the type I error rate, methods for unplanned design-change have to be defined in terms of non-sufficient statistics and this calls into question their efficiency and the credibility of conclusions reached. We evaluate schemes for adaptive re-design, extending the theoret...

A novel diagnostic test for feline leukemia virus (FeLV) RNA in saliva from naturally infected cats is described in this study. We evaluated different diagnostic tests and compared them with the widely used enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of p27 in the diagnosis of FeLV. Blood samples from 445 cats were tested for the presence of provirus by real-time PCR and plasma ...

Adaptive item generation may be the next innovation in intelligence testing. In adaptive item generation, the optimally informative item is developed anew for the examinee during the test. Reminiscent of computer versus person chess games, the computer generates the next item based on the previous pattern of the examinee's responses. Adaptive item generation requires the merger of two lines of ...

BACKGROUND Remission occurs in 10-50% of cats with diabetes mellitus (DM). It is assumed that intensive treatment improves β-cell function and increases remission rates. HYPOTHESIS Initial intravenous infusion of insulin that achieves tight glycemic control decreases subsequent insulin requirements and increases remission rate in diabetic cats. ANIMALS Thirty cats with newly diagnosed DM. ...

Fipronil is a phenylpyrazole insecticide that widely used as pesticide and veterinary drug, although studies suggest it could be toxic to mammals. The objectives of this study were examine the pharmacokinetic profile fipronil in mice, dogs, cats, evaluate its effects on emotional cognitive behaviors dogs cats using data obtained from mice. assessment vivo kinetics was conducted mice dogs. We al...

Both humans and their most important domestic animals harbor IgE and a similar IgE receptor repertoire and expression pattern. The same cell types are also involved in the triggering or regulation of allergies, such as mast cells, eosinophils or T-regulatory cells. Translational clinical studies in domestic animals could therefore help cure animal allergies and at the same time gather knowledge...