Aim: To develop a simple mathematical model to assess the losses due to peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in small ruminants in India. Materials and Methods: The study was based on cases and deaths in goats and sheep due to PPR from the average combined data on ovine/caprine as published by Government of India for the last 5 years (2008-2012). All possible direct and indirect losses due to the d...

A possible association between use of snus (Swedish moist snuff) and hand eczema was studied. 27,466 individuals responded to questions regarding hand eczema, tobacco use and other life style factors in a Swedish Public Health Survey in 2006, response rate 58%. Of these persons, 12.2% reported daily snus use (men 22.0%, women 4.3%), 15.5% daily smoking (men 14.4%, women 16.5%). Of snus users 7....

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are both highly contagious diseases of small domestic and wild ruminants caused by the PPR virus (PPRV) and the FMD virus (FMDV). In this study, a recombinant PPRV expressing the FMDV VP1 gene (rPPRV/VP1) was generated and FMDV VP1 expression did not impair replication of the recombinant virus in vitro and immunogenicity in induc...

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an economically important viral disease of goats and sheep. It is endemic in Nigeria and was first described in West Africa in the 1940s. Clinically, PPR can be confused with other infections such as pasteurellosis or contagious ecthyma and mild strain of rinderpest in small ruminants. Effective implementation of control measures for PPR requires that a prope...

This article describes a pipeline that receives as input a sequence of images acquired by a calibrated stereo rig and outputs the camera motion and a Piecewise-Planar Reconstruction (PPR) of the scene. It firstly detects the 3D planes viewed by each stereo pair from semi-dense depth estimation. This is followed by estimating the pose between consecutive views using a new closed-form minimal alg...

This study represents the first survey for serum antibodies against peste des petits ruminants (PPR) and rinderpest (RP) viruses, in sheep and goats in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study involved the Eastern region of the country. A total of 1035 serum samples were examined (750 sheep and 285 goats). In order to obtain a genuine insight into the activity of the two viruses as reflected by s...

Personalized PageRank (PPR) is a well-known proximity measure in graphs. To meet the need for dynamic PPR maintenance, recent works have proposed a local update scheme to support incremental computation. Nevertheless, sequential execution of the scheme is still too slow for highspeed stream processing. Therefore, we are motivated to design a parallel approach for dynamic PPR computation. First,...

With the abundance of conversations happening everywhere, dialogue summarization plays an increasingly important role in real world. However, dialogues inevitably involve many personal pronouns, which hinder performance existing models. This work proposes a framework named WHORU to inject external pronoun resolution (PPR) information into abstractive A simple and effective PPR method for domain...

Most chloroplast mRNAs are processed from larger precursors. Several mechanisms have been proposed to mediate these processing events, including site-specific cleavage and the stalling of exonucleases by RNA structures. A protein barrier mechanism was proposed based on analysis of the pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein PPR10: PPR10 binds two intercistronic regions and impedes 5'- and 3'-exo...

Finding the k nearest neighbors (k-nns) of a given vertex in a graph has many applications such as link prediction, keyword search, and image tagging. One robust measure of vertex-proximity in graphs is the Personalized Page Rank (ppr) score based on random walk with restarts. Since ppr scores have long-range correlations, computing them accurately and efficiently is challenging when the graph ...