BACKGROUND The present study aimed to direct detect Mycobacterium bovis in milk (n = 401) and blood (n = 401) samples collected from 401 dairy cows of 20 properties located in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) targeting the region of difference 4 (RD4). Risk factors possibly associated with bovine tuberculosis (BTB) were also evaluated. RESULTS Of the 802 s...

This paper presents a technique for creating a smooth, closed surface from a set of 2D contours, which have been extracted from a 3D scan. The technique interprets the pixels that make up the contours as points in ℝ(3) and employs Multi-level Partition of Unity (MPU) implicit models to create a surface that approximately fits to the 3D points. Since MPU implicit models additionally require surf...

physical properties of four common iranian varieties of canola seeds (hyola, okapi, orient and slm) were evaluated as a function of their moisture contents. the average seed length and thousand seed mass varied linearly from 1.925 to 2.262 mm and from 3.06 to 4.84 g, respectively. the average diameter, geometric mean diameter, and sphericity varied non-linearly from 1.475 to 1.911 mm, 1.625 to ...

VOLUME 16, NUMBER 4400 401 BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:401–404 Providing access to scholarly scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge. Authors need to be aware of the barriers facing the timely and widespread distribution of their scientific findings. After all, the dissemination of their findings and their subsequent impact on society ar...

When company stock is one of the options in a 401(k) plan then even more serious diversification problems can occur. As the recent Enron experience has highlighted, employees with large company stock holdings in their 401(k) plan can discover that they have lost much of their retirement wealth at the very time that they are also losing their job. Even in less drastic circumstances, concentratin...

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.7759/cureus.401.].

The surface reconstruction problem for three-dimensional (3D) scattered point data derived from 3D range scanners has been investigated in fields such as computer graphics (CG) and computer-aided design (CAD) [1, 2]. By using an implicit function-based method, the surface reconstruction problem can be solved. However, it must be noted here that, for generation of an implicit function in general...

This paper presents two algorithms as extensions to the basic Resolution Principle of logic programs which exploit parallelism retaining the full semantics of Prolog. The first algorithm, called SPU, allows parallel execution of unifications belonging to deterministic paths of the proof tree, giving in effect AND-parallel execution. The second algorithm, called MPU, retains the benefits of SPU ...

We previously constructed telomerase-dependent, replication-selective adenoviruses OBP-301 (Telomelysin) and OBP-401 [Telomelysin-green fluorescent protein (GFP); TelomeScan], the replication of which is regulated by the human telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter. By intratumoral injection, these viruses could replicate within the primary tumor and subsequent lymph node metastasis. The aim...