background brucellosis is a zoonotic disease involving several organs with different presentations. it is primarily a disease of animals. human infection is usually acquired by close contact with infected animals or consumption of unpasteurized dairy products. the major reservoirs include goat, sheep, swine and cattle. human to human transmission of brucellosis is a rare entity, especially peri...

The mechanisms leading to El Niño onset and termination in the ECHAM4/OPA coupled GCM are assessed and compared to observations and existing ENSO paradigms. At the equator as well as off equator, the patterns and timing of modeled El Niño composites are in good agreement with those observed. Heat content of the west Pacific is confirmed as a precursor to ENSO phase change, and the present work ...

The well-known electro-mechanical analogy that equates current, voltage, resistance, inductance and capacitance to force, velocity, damping, spring constant and mass has a shortcoming in that mass can only be used to simulate a capacitor which has one terminal connected to ground. A new model that was previously proposed by the authors that combines a mass with a pulley (MP) is shown to simulat...

Abstract The structural design of a mechanical temperature-driven shut-off valve used in the water and steam sampling device power plant is designed using Iventor drawing software. A NiTi shape memory alloy with high temperature-sensitivity as driven spring to control opening closing valve. In addition structures common parts valve, calculation parameter-design are also carried out. unimpeded c...

The preparation of a mechanical oscillator driven by quantum back-action is a fundamental requirement to reach the standard quantum limit (SQL) for force measurement, in optomechanical systems. However, thermal fluctuating force generally dominates a disturbance on the oscillator. In the macroscopic scale, an optical linear cavity including a suspended mirror has been used for the weak force me...

The air–sea ice CO2 flux was measured over landfast sea ice in the Chukchi Sea, off Barrow, Alaska in late May 2008 with a chamber technique. The ice cover transitioned from a cold early spring to a warm late spring state, with an increase in air temperature and incipient surface melt. During melt, brine salinity and brine dissolved inorganic carbon concentration (DIC) decreased from 67.3 to 18...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE There are two species of pilot whales in the Western Atlantic — the Atlantic or long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas, and the short-finned pilot whale, G. macrorhynchus. These species are difficult to identify to the species level at sea; therefore, some of the descriptive material below refers to Globicephala sp., and is identified as such. The spec...

Epidemiological population studies indicate that the nutrition of women at reproductive age and during pregnancy exerts an eff ect not only on the term of delivery, development of the foetus and birth weight, but also on the susceptibility of off spring to civilization diseases in adulthood, according to the hypothesis of Developmental Origin of Heath and Diseases (DOHaD). The author analyses t...

‘l.THEFOLLOWING describes a relatively simple amid inexpensive modification of the Beckman No. 2980 fluorescence attachment for the Beckman DIT spectrophotometer which permits rapid and easy imiterchange of both primary and secondary filters and increases the flexibility and adaptability of this instrument in fluorimetric analysis. The filter plate assembly for the secondary filters as original...

The deterioration in credit quality of General Motors (GM) & Ford to junk status in the spring of 2005 caused a wide-spread sell-off in their corporate bonds. Using a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for marketmakers, as evidenced by a significant imbalance in their quotes towards sales. We find that simultaneously there was a su...