ABsTRAcr. Neospora c'aninum is a recognized protozoan parasite of a wjde range of marnmalian hosts, and was reported for the first time in 1988. The isolation f its oocysts in deg's faeces in 1998 led to its establishment as a parasitic species undergoing typical coccidian life cycle, Infection with N, caninum causes paralysis and death in young liyestock and companion animals, and is associate...

Aim Precipitation controls the production of semi-arid plants through various mechanisms that operate at a range of time-scales. Short-term variation in precipitation affects vegetation through adjustments in plant physiology and leaf phenology, whereas long-term effects are mediated by plant establishment and mortality, community composition and disturbance regimes. Our goal is to use remote s...

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase lipid products and the Rho GTPases play a central role in transmitting information from chemotactic receptors to the effectors of cell polarity, and recent advances in the field have allowed us to understand these roles more clearly. Emergent properties of positive and negative regulation of these molecules may account for the establishment of cell polarity during ...

This minireview focuses on recent studies implicating class V myosins in organelle and macromolecule transport within neurons. These studies reveal that class V myosins play important roles in a wide range of fundamental processes occurring within neurons, including the transport into dendritic spines of organelles that support synaptic plasticity, the establishment of neuronal shape, the speci...

A new class of attacks against authentication and authenticated key establishment protocols is described, which we call parsing ambiguity attacks. If appropriate precautions are not deployed, these attacks apply to a very wide range of such protocols, including those specified in a number of international standards. Three example attacks are described in detail, and possible generalisations are...

An overview of the Digital Curation Centre since its establishment in 2004, including accomplishments of Phase One, aims and objectives of Phase Two, and how DCC relates to JISC strategy. The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. ISSN: 1746-8256 ...

background : ige is an antibody class that regarded as an important factor in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases, asthma, im­mune responses to parasitic infection and it could be responsible for the late- phase allergic response. the objective of this study was to evaluate total ige in healthy iranian adults, establishment of reference range of total ige and assess helpful­ness of this value...

the effects of range management plans (rmp) on soil and vegetationcharacteristics were studied in eshtehard rangelands at alborz province. the parameters ofyield, canopy cover, range condition and trend, bulk density, organic matter (om%),nitrogen (n), phosphorous (p) and potassium (k) were estimated on soil samples in sitesof ghenzel cheshmeh as rmp and sanctum of rahmanyeh village. the data w...