colibacillosis caused by avian pathogenic escherichia coli (apec) is an economic threat to the poultry industry throughout the world. some of the virulence genes may enhance the ability of e. coli isolates to grow in the tissues of broilers. the apec strains are assigned to a few distinct phylogenetic groups. the purpose of the present study was to detect the virulence genes and phylogenetic gr...

This paper presents an empirical study on the difficulties in learning Chinese as a second language based on learners’ corpora written by native English speakers and native Japanese speakers at CEFR-based A2 and B1 levels. The first part of this paper will discuss the procedures for how to collect learners’ corpora, proofread, establish an error tag system and annotate errors. Later it will foc...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the additional effects of two ground medicinal herbs oat bran (OB) and dill seed (DS) on serum lipids, carcass characteristics and growth performance in Japanese quails. A total of 240-twenty one day of age male Japanese quails were allocated randomly to 3 treatments with 4 replicates of 20 birds per cage. Birds during the 22-49 days on trial received 3 d...

It might seem that nothing more remains to be said on the subject of Japanese firms’ transfer of HRM practices to their overseas affiliates. Before Japan’s economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japanese-style HRM was widely regarded as a key source of the nation’s competitive strength. This assumption was seized upon by a plethora of researchers who produced a library of research on ‘global...

Cultural differences and similarities in socialization during two contrasting laboratory tasks were examined in 30 Japanese mothers and their preschoolers, both temporarily residing in the United States, and 30 U.S. mothers and their preschoolers (age: M = 55.8 months, SD = 4.9). Mother and child actions, speech, emotion, and attention were coded from videotaped observations during a free play ...

Japan is not renowned for the muscle oexed by its feminist movement. Although legal protections for women do exist, the stereotype of the subservient geisha dominates Japanese women’s international image, and fringe feminist activity has been sporadic at best. In fact, the Japanese media has a history of mocking the more radical women’s movements. Despite the absence of a conventional feminist ...

Chinese: there is a significant interaction between toneidentification and tone contexts:(FT1(1,7)=12.37, p<0.05; FT2(1,7)=13.51, p<0.05; FT3(1,7)=48.02, p<0.05; FT4(1,7)=17.34, p<0.05), together with a gradient fromeasy-to-difficult pattern among Chinese:T3+X>X+T3 >T2+X>T1+X>T4+X. They perceive the test contours in these three contexts (+T1, +T2, +T4) as T3(*) from the fifth contour; perceive ...

In this study parasitic infection of bobwhite and Japanese quails were clarified in farms of Garmsar city in province of Semnan. Forty quails from two breeds randomly were selected and they examined to identify all internal and external parasites .Finding was shown that five percent of the quails examined harbored one or more species of helminthes. Two cestodes, Raillietina echinobothrida and R...

A long history of research has considered the role of iconicity in language and the existence and role of non-arbitrary properties in language and the use of language. Previous studies with Japanese-speaking children whose language defines a large grammatical class of words with clear sound symbolism suggest that iconicity properties in Japanese may aid early verb learning, and a recent extende...