mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. there are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and west nile virus infection. in this articl...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a serious arboviral disease caused by a virus of the genus Flavivirus. Japanese encephalitis is the most common vaccine-preventable virus causing encephalitis in Asia, affecting more than 50,000 persons and leading to 15,000 fatalities per year in endemic countries. For most travelers to Asia, the risk of Japanese encephalitis infection is extremely low and depends...

Steven D. Spitz, is a Prosthodontist and has just celebrated his 12-year anniversary as owner and practitioner of Smileboston Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry. He received his undergraduate degree at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, attended a general practice residency in Miami in the Jackson Memorial Hospital/VA program and received his prosthodontic training in the Harvard School of...

Recently, it has been shown that the activation of the Drosophila EGF receptor (DER) by its natural ligand Spitz is inhibited by Argos [Schweitzer, R., et al. (1995) Nature 376, 699-702]. Argos and Spitz both have an EGF-like domain which in the case of Argos differs from that of Spitz and other EGF receptor agonists in that it has an extended B-loop of 20 amino acids instead of 10 amino acids ...

Jan Rendek, Bart Lamiroy, Karl Tombre. A Few Steps Towards On-the-Fly Symbol Recognition with Relevance Feedback. Horst Bunke and Larry Spitz. 7th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS 2006, Feb 2006, Nelson/New Zealand, Springer-Verlag GmbH, 3872, pp.604 615, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Document Analysis Systems VII: 7th International Workshop, DAS 2006, Nelson, New Zeala...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of sesame meal (sm) on performance and carcass characteristics of japanese quail. one hundred sixty day-old japanese quail chick were equally distributed into 16 cage pens and reared form 10 to 42 days of age. the treatments consisted of sm0, sm50, sm100 and sm150. the diet for sm0 treatment had no sm (control), while those ...

the effects of feeding diets containing salbutamol (0, 1, 3, 5 and 7 mg/kg diet) from 21 to 49 days of ageon growth performance and carcass characteristics in 180 male and 180 female japanese quails (coturnixjaponica) were studied using a factorial arrangement based on completely randomized design. gender hadsignificant effect on weight gain (pwere not statistically significant (p>0.05). salbut...