feline herpesvirus 1 (fehv-1) and feline calicivirus (fcv), associated with upper respiratory tract disease, are highly prevalent in cats worldwide. with the aim of investigating the importance of fehv-1 in a population of cats, samples were taken in a hospital in ahvaz, south-west iran, between june 2007 and june 2008. oropharyngeal, nasal and ocular swabs were collected from 65 domestic cats,...

in this study, we performed a bacteriological investigation on bovine respiratory infections. additionally, the study evaluates the efficacy of florfenicol 30 µg produced by rooyan darou company (test group) as compared to a similar drug produced by aboraihan company (control group). sampling was carried out on 30 calves at two farms with 30-55% incidence rate of respiratory disorders. nasophar...

background: pulmonary rehabilitation is an evidence-based, multidisciplinary, comprehensive intervention for patients with chronic respiratory diseases who are symptomatic and whose daily living activities are often restricted. pulmonary rehabilitation programs are designed to improve the physical and emotional condition of people with chronic respiratory disease and to promote long-term adhere...

results fifty-seven patients were enrolled; 35 patients (62.5 %) were male. the mean of etco2 and paco2 of patients were 41.49 ± 9.80 and 64.74 ± 9.76, respectively. the mean of paco2 was significantly more than the means of etco2 in patients with copd. the association between arterial bicarbonate and etco2 was weak and not significant (p = 0.136 and r = 0.04). conclusions capnography can be us...

One of the air pollutant indices includes particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 10 μg/m3 (PM10). Particulate matter has extensive effects on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Dissemination of such particles for a longer period can lead to increased mortality and hospitalization. In this study, the data of PM10 pollutant wer...

On June 2005, a respiratory disease was observed in the chickens of a large broiler farm in Kermanshahprovince, west of Iran. Relatively severe respiratory signs started with sneezing at 27 days of age. Thedisease lasted up to the end of fattening period and accompanied by increased mortality (13.6%). At postmortemexamination, tracheitis, airsacculitis and pneumonia were obvious. Serologic exam...

In multicausal abductive tasks a person must explain some findings by assembling a composite hypothesis that consists of one or more elementary hypotheses. If there are n elementary hypotheses, there can be up to 2 composite hypotheses. To constrain the search for hypotheses to explain a new observation, people sometimes use their current explanation—the previous evidence and their present comp...

Multicausal abductive tasks appear to have deliberate and implicit components: people generate and modify explanations using a series of recognizable steps, but these steps appear to be guided by an implicit hypothesis evaluation process. This paper proposes a hybrid symbolic-connectionist learning architecture for multicausal abduction. The architecture tightly integrates a symbolic Soar model...