s of Presentations Linda Langley, North Dakota State University “Aging and the Role of Inhibition and in Visual Search” The goal of this project is to determine the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to adult age differences in visual search, focusing on inhibitory mechanisms. Inhibition of return (IOR), a phenomenon of attentional orienting that is indexed by slower response times to targets...

The GX1002 strain is a highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (HP-PRRSV) characterized by a continuous 2-nucleotide deletion at positions 119 and 120 in the 5' untranslated region. This differs from prevalent HP-PRRSVs in China, which have a deletion of only 1 nucleotide at position 119. Here we report the complete genome sequence of the GX1002 strain.

BACKGROUND As there is little data on vector-borne diseases of cats in the Caribbean region and even around the world, we tested feral cats from St Kitts by PCR to detect infections with Babesia, Ehrlichia and spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR) and surveyed them for antibodies to Rickettsia rickettsii and Ehrlichia canis. RESULTS Whole blood was collected from apparently healthy feral cats...

Background: Recently we have upgraded our Varian Clinac 2100CD with a 6MV FFF beam, this upgrade being the first of its kind in our country. Even though the dosimetric characteristics of FFF beams have been reported both in experimental and Monte Carlo studies, application in planning and delivery is complex. The aim of this study was to validate the commissioning of upgraded FFF beams dosimetr...

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This note analyzes the distribution of fixed-weight vectors obtained by the following procedure: generate a sequence of uniform random integers with a moderate number of bits; force the bottom bits of the sequence to be a standard fixed-weight vector; sort the sequence; and extract the bottom bits. This note shows, for example, that this procedure with 32-bit integers produces any particular we...