Ehrlichiosis is a zoonotic disease which has been reported from some regions of Iran. This study was aimed to determine the presence and prevalence of ehrlichiosis in suspected dogs referred to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Blood samples were collected from 98 suspected dogs with at least one of the five following find...

* Corresponding Author: Maryam Moini, MD Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Telefax: + 98 711 6473236 Email: [email protected] Received: 10 Jan. 2013 Accepted: 11 Mar. 2013 A 50-year-old lady presented with bloody vomiting and melena since four days prior to admission. Her medical history was significant only for hypertension wh...

during the study of parasitoids of leafminer flies, some parasitoid wasps belonging to the family eulophidae, including cirrospilus variegatus (masi), diglyphus isaea (walker) and hemiptarsenus zilahisebessi erdã¶s were collected and identified, of which c. variegatus is a new report for iran. the latter species was reared from liriomyza sativa blanchard (diptera: agromyzidae) on cucumber in th...

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The University of Melbourne carried out experiments in the Terabyte and Web tracks of TREC 2004. We applied a further variant of our impact-based retrieval approach by integrating evidence from text content, anchor text, URL depth, and link structure into the process of ranking documents, working toward a retrieval system that handles equally well all of the four query types employed in these t...

We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Web, Terabyte, and Question Answering tracks. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approaches to these tasks, report on our results, and give a summary of our findings so far.

We describe the official runs of our team for the CLEF 2004 ad hoc tasks. We took part in the monolingual task (for Finnish, French, Portuguese, and Russian), in the bilingual task (for Amharic to English, and English to Portuguese), and, finally, in the multilingual task.

This year we participated in the Novelty track. To find the relevant sentences, we combine sentence salience features that are inherited from text summarization domain with other heuristic features based on topic statements. We propose a novel method to extract the new sentences based on the graph-based ranking of the similarity relation between the sentences. 1. Overview The University of Mich...