The attenuated Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) strain SA14-14-2 has been successfully utilized to prevent JEV infection; however, the attenuation determinants have not been fully elucidated. The envelope (E) protein of the attenuated JEV SA14-14-2 strain differs from that of the virulent parental SA14 strain at eight amino acid positions (E107, E138, E176, E177, E264, E279, E315, and E439). H...

BACKGROUND Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the leading cause of viral encephalitis across Asia with approximately 70,000 cases a year and 10,000 to 15,000 deaths. Because JE incidence varies widely over time, partly due to inter-annual climate variability effects on mosquito vector abundance, it becomes more complex to assess the effects of a vaccination programme since more or less climatically ...

Japanese encephalitis (JE), commonly affects children and is a major cause of acute childhood encephalopathy. Growth of population, intensified rice farming, pig rearing and lack of surveillance are the key factors for transmission of the disease. Although various hospital and laboratory based studies have been conducted on epidemiology of JE in various parts of India including West Bengal, sti...

BACKGROUND Sporadic Japanese encephalitis (JE) cases still have been reported in Zhejiang Province in recent years, and concerns about vaccine cross-protection and population-level immunity have been raised off and on within the public health sphere. Genotype I (GI) has replaced GIII as the dominant genotype in Asian countries during the past few decades, which caused considerable concerns abou...

the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of three levels of threonine (100, 95 and 90% of nrc requirements) with or without of multi strains probiotic (primalac) on performance, carcass characteristics and blood metabolites of japanese quails. a total of 180 one-day-old male japanese quails were randomly allocated to six treatments with three replicates and 10 birds per each. ...

Former Census Bureau Director Charles Louis Kincannon adds very useful commentary on the general issue of statistical confidentiality. He eloquently describes how statistical confidentiality is essential to the issues of trust, data quality, and usability of official statistics. We strongly endorse his statements in this regard. We also applaud the explicit acknowledgment (footnote 1) that ther...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a mosquito borne zoonotic disease caused by JE virus (JEV). JE has been endemic in Terai region, the lowland plains of Nepal bordering India, since 1978. However, in recent years cases of JE has been continuously reported from high altitude zones of hills and mountains. Irrigated rice farming system, expanded pig husbandry practices, inadequate vaccine coverage, lo...

Precocial avian hatchlings are typically highly social and show strong species-typical preferences for the maternal calls of their own species. The influence of social contingencies on the acquisition of species-specific preferences has, however, largely been neglected. We found that exposing bobwhite (BW) quail chicks to a Japanese quail (JQ) call contingent on their own vocalizations for 5 mi...

Defining all words in a Japanese dictionary by using a limited number of words (defining vocabulary) is helpful for Japanese children and second-language learners of Japanese. Although some English dictionaries have their own defining vocabulary, no Japanese dictionary has such vocabulary as of yet. As the first step toward building a Japanese defining vocabulary, we ranked Japanese words based...

Kanji dictionaries, which need to present a large number of complex characters in an order that makes them accessible by users, traditionally use several indexing techniques that are particularly suited to the printed medium. Electronic dictionary technology provides the opportunity of both introducing new indexing techniques that are not feasible with printed dictionaries, and also allowing a ...