Raccoons are an important vector of rabies and other pathogens. The degree to which these pathogens can spread through a raccoon population should be closely linked to association rates between individual raccoons. Most studies of raccoon sociality have found patterns consistent with low levels of social connectivity within populations, thus the likelihood of direct pathogen transmission betwee...

roasting has considerable effects on the quality of cream made of nuts. in this study, the roasting conditions of walnut kernels were optimized based on the stability parameters of the produced cream. temperatures of 100-150°c for 10-30 minutes were used to roast walnut kernels. the amount of oil separation, peroxide, acidity and thiobarbituric acid values of the cream, as well as color paramet...

the present study aimed to evaluate the antibiotic resistance pattern of escherichia coli strains isolatedfrom animals to ascertain the levels of antibiotic resistance pervasiveness. a total of 28 e. coli strains wereisolated from faecal samples and the antibiotic resistance pattern of e. coli strains was determined by meansof disc diffusion assay. the resistance pattern determined for all stra...

Indoor localization of persons and objects poses a great engineering challenge. Previously developed localization systems demonstrate the use of wideband techniques in ultrasound ranging systems. Direct sequence and frequency hopping spread spectrum ultrasound signals have been proven to achieve a high level of accuracy. A novel ranging method using the frequency hopping spread spectrum with fi...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES A large number of cases of undiagnosed fever and joint pain were reported from different parts of the State of Orissa since February 2006. Epidemiological and laboratory investigation were carried out to confirm the cause of emerging illness, which was provisionally suspected as Chikungunya (CHIK) fever. METHODS Upon getting the reports of suspected CHIK like illness i...

We consider a class of spin systems on Z with vector valued spins (Sx) that interact via the pair-potentials Jx,y Sx ·Sy . The interactions are generally spreadout in the sense that the Jx,y’s exhibit either exponential or power-law fall-off. Under the technical condition of reflection positivity and for sufficiently spread out interactions, we prove that the model exhibits a first-order phase ...

We consider spread-out models of self-avoiding walk, bond percolation, lattice trees and bond lattice animals on Zd, having long finite-range connections, above their upper critical dimensions d = 4 (self-avoiding walk), d = 6 (percolation) and d = 8 (trees and animals). The two-point functions for these models are respectively the generating function for selfavoiding walks from the origin to x...