OBJECTIVE To estimate cat population size, management, and outside fecal deposition and evaluate attitudes of cat owners and nonowners to stray animal control, water pollution, and wildlife protection. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SAMPLE POPULATION 294 adult residents of Cayucos, Los Osos, and Morro Bay, Calif. PROCEDURES Telephone survey. RESULTS The region's cat population was estim...

Accumulation of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) and low catalase (CAT) activity have been demonstrated in the epidermis of vitiligo patients. We investigated a possible association between the CAT exon 9 (Asp-389) gene and vitiligo susceptibility in the Turkish population. Thirty-four patients with vitiligo and 49 gender, age and ethnic matched controls were enrolled in the study. Genotyping...

This paper deals with testing the mean of a log-normal population. We apply a newly developed Computational Approach Test (CAT), which is essentially a parametric bootstrap method. An advantage of the CAT is that it does not require the explicit knowledge of the sampling distribution of the test statistic. The CAT is then compared with three accepted testsCox method, modified Cox method and gen...

In this article, a recent metaheuristic method, cat swarm optimization, is introduced to find the proper clustering of data sets. Two clustering approaches based on cat swarm optimization called Cat Swarm Optimization Clustering (CSOC) and K-harmonic means Cat Swarm Optimization Clustering (KCSOC) are proposed. In the proposed methods, seeking mode and tracing mode are adopted to exploit and ex...

Introduction Part one: Scientific context: from parasitism to mathematical models Chapter I Influence of parasitism (short review) Chapter II Domestic cat (short review) Chapter III Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (short review) Chapter IV Use of mathematical models in epidemiology (short review) Part two: Modelling Chapter V Population dynamics of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus within cat populat...

In Alzheimer's disease brains, more than 90% of pyramidal neurons in lamina V and 70% in lamina III displayed 2- to 5-fold elevated levels of cathepsin D (Cat D) mRNA by in situ hybridization compared with neurologically normal controls. Most of these cells appeared histologically normal. The less vulnerable nonpyramidal neuron population in lamina IV had relatively normal message levels. Neuro...

Healthcare providers often care for patients who use complementary and alternative therapy (CAT). Despite recent advances in cross-cultural research, little is known about how Hispanic/Latino women being treated for breast cancer use CAT to manage the disease and the side effects of treatment. A woman's cultural heritage, education, healthcare beliefs, degree of acculturation, and socioeconomic...

Catalase (CAT), one antioxidant enzyme, may provide resistance against many diseases. Many previous studies reported predictive and prognostic values of CAT C262T polymorphism in cancers, with divergent results. This study aimed to summarize the overall relationships between CAT C262T polymorphism and cancer risk or survival. A total of 27 eligible publications were included in susceptibility a...