Paratuberculosis or JOHNE ́s disease is one of the most important diseases in ruminants today. Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP), the cause of paratuberculosis, has a broad host range. Although mainly considered a disease of cattle, sheep and goats, all ruminants, including a large number of wild and exotic species of ruminants, are susceptible. The reported prevalence of inf...

In this paper a simple model of a three story building with inclined first-story columns has presented. The stories are supposed to be rigid and are connected to axially rigid mass less columns by elasto-plastic rotational springs and linear rotational dampers. The considered model is subjected to horizontal component of fault normal pulse with different magnitudes and the governed nonlinear di...

1. introduction the shahnameh opens with a preface which probably did not exist prior to ferdowsi. even if such a thing existed, it must have been different from the present introduction. putting this aside, the rest of the shahnameh has a clear beginning and ending. this has helped critics to determine the structure of the work as a whole by its content. however, we believe the shahnameh inclu...