Hog confinement workers are at high risk to develop chronic bronchitis as a result of their exposure to organic dust. Chronic bronchitis is characterized by inflammatory changes of the airway epithelium. A key mediator in inflammation is Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). We investigated the role of TLR2 in pulmonary inflammation induced by hog confinement dust. Normal human bronchial epithelial cell...

BACKGROUND The histidine kinase (HK) MoHik1p within the high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway is known to be the target of the fungicide fludioxonil. Treatment of the fungus with fludioxonil causes an uncontrolled hyperactivation of the pathway and cell death. In this study, we used a target-based in vivo test system with mutant strains of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae to search for...

Representation Search FPS Description ASLA [1] Sparse PF 1.4 Adaptive structural local sparse appearance model, CVPR’12 CSK [2] PI, GK DS 400 Single-channel Kernelized Correlation Filter, ECCV’12 DCF [3] HOG DS 457 Dual Correlation Filter PAMI’15 DSST [4] PCA-HOG, I DS 35.3 Accurate Scale Estimation (Winner VOT2014) IVT [5] PCA PF 11.0 Incremental Learning, IJCVIP’08 KCF [3] HOG, GK DS 296 Mult...

The study was carried out to detect and describe the outbreaks of Hog Cholera (HC) or Classical Swine Fever (CSF) in different parts of NorthEastern region of India by histopathological techniques in post mortem samples. Histopathological alterations in different lymphoid and non-lymphoid organs provides clue to confirm hog cholera disease. Pigs died of suspected swine fever (hog cholera) virus...

Histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) is an efficient feature extraction scheme, and HOG descriptors are feature descriptors which is widely used in computer vision and image processing for the purpose of biometrics, target tracking, automatic target detection(ATD) and automatic target recognition(ATR) etc. However, computation of HOG feature extraction is unsuitable for hardware implementation ...

Hunter harvest data suggest that feral hog (Sus scrofa) populations in western Louisiana are increasing, and population control in this region is complicated by the mixing of feral and domestic free-ranged hogs. Aggressive management may be warranted as feral and domestic hogs appear to be having unexpected effects on their ecosystem. We present the results of 3 recent investigations of genetic...

China’s hog production is undergoing a great transformation due to the soaring demand and changing raising system. Regarding the essential role of pork in Chinese diet, a systematic analysis on the productivity and efficiency of hog production can provide significant implications for policy makers. This paper investigates the productivity and efficiency of hog production and determinants of tec...

1. Heat killed organisms of the MS (OH), MR (ØH), NS (O) or NR (Ø) forms of hog cholera bacilli failed to confer immunity, at least to any considerable degree, in hamsters or rabbits against virulent hog cholera bacilli. 2. Hamsters and rabbits were successfully immunized against virulent MS bacilli by vaccination with living MR (ØH) and NR (Ø) forms. 3. Hamsters were immunized against MS hog c...

In order to improve pedestrian detection accuracy, histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) feature is widely used in many applications. Although HOG feature can provide high detection accuracy, fast detection time is hardly achieved due to its computational complexity. Therefore, this paper describes a novel algorithm for fast calculation of HOG feature. In the proposed algorithm, HOG feature is c...