Ticks may transmit pathogens to ruminants worldwide, creating diseases such as anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and theileriosis. In Europe, the most important tick vector is Ixodes ricinus and the most widespread tick-borne infection in animals is Anaplasma phagocytophilum. This infection causes tick-borne fever (TBF) in ruminants, a disease which may not only cause suboptimal growth, bu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether or not P-wave dispersion (PWD) can be used as a good indicator of effective hemodialysis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study included 35 patients (20 males, 15 females, mean age 61 +/- 10 years) who regularly received hemodialysis treatment for chronic renal failure. Following hemodialysis, the patients whose hemodynamic parameters were preserved and who reached d...

Trajectory Based Forwarding (TBF) is a new approach to routing in ad hoc wireless networks. It exploits node position information and, similarly to source routing, requires the source node to encode a trajectory into the packet header. The routing process does not require to specify forwarding nodes. As a matter of fact, forwarding nodes are dynamically selected while packets cross the network ...

Consistent with their emphasis on emotional goals, older adults often exhibit a positivity bias in attention and memory relative to their young counterparts (i.e., a positivity effect). The current study sought to determine how this age-related positivity effect would impact intentional forgetting of emotional words, a process critical to efficient operation of memory. Using an item-based direc...

PURPOSE Primary tinnitus has a severe negative influence on the quality of life of a significant portion of the general population. Acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation is designed to induce a long-lasting reduction of tinnitus symptoms. To test acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation as a treatment for chronic, tonal tinnitus under real life conditions, an outpatient study "RESET Real...

Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RA) intron 2 86 bp repeat and interleukin-4 (IL4) intron 3 70 bp repeat are variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) that have been associated with various diseases, but their role in obesity is elusive. The objective of this study was to investigate the association of IL1RA and IL4 VNTRs with obesity and adiposity in 315 Malaysian subjects (128 M/187 F; 23 M...

The Schelling segregation model attempts to explain possible causes of racial segregation in cities. Schelling considered residents of two types, where everyone prefers that the majority of his or her neighbors are of the same type. He showed through simulations that even mild preferences of this type can lead to segregation if residents move whenever they are not happy with their local environ...

Termination of transcription not only allows polymerases that have completed RNA synthesis to recycle, but it also has important functions in transcriptional regulation and in preventing promoter interference. The molecular basis for termination by RNA polymerase II (pol II) is unclear, however. We have identified a termination site in the promoter region of the c-myc gene, whose function corre...