Toxoplasma gondii infections in zoo animals are of interest because many captive animals die of clinical toxoplasmosis and because of the potential risk of exposure of children and elderly to T. gondii oocysts excreted by cats in the zoos. Seroprevalence of T. gondii antibodies in wild zoo felids, highly susceptible zoo species, and feral cats from 8 zoos of the midwestern United States was det...

O trabalho propõe realizar uma reflexão sobre o projeto Pantera Negra: Representatividade Negra e Práticas Educativas, implementado nas escolas municipais pela prefeitura de Belo Horizonte no ano 2018. tem como objetivo fomentar a inserção da Lei 10.639/2003 debate representatividade negra, sobremaneira negra feminina. filme Negra, produção americana, lançado em 2018 Brasil, destaque integrar u...

carnivores play great ecological roles in ecosystems because of placing on top of the food pyramid. food habits of large carnivores are associated with important ecological features such as spatial pattern, movement, habitat selection, social structure, geographical distribution and reproductive success. accordingly, in this study was used scat analysis to determine the diet of persian leopards...

ancylostoma tubaeforme was originally described as a separate species parasitizing the cat. the adults of a. tubaeforme are 7 to 12 mm long. a. tubaeforme can be differentiated from the adults of a. braziliense and a. ceylanicum by the presence of three teeth. here we describe the first re­port of a. tubaeforme in a persian young female leopard, 2-3 years old, with head and trunk length 120 cen...

Livestock is represented in big cat diets throughout the world. Husbandry approaches aim to reduce depredation, which may influence patterns of prey choice, but whether felids have a preference for livestock or not often remains unclear as most studies ignore livestock availability. We assessed prey choice of the endangered Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in Golestan National Park, ...

Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is critical in any contemporary society, particularly if its digital existence is to be extensively crucial; therefore, it is essential to inquiry whether or not there is a credible and reliable FOSS-related Techno-Social Policy, in a particular context, as in Turkey. The study focuses on Pardus which is a FOSS-based Linux Operating System (OS), particularly arg...

To address concerns of late and very late stent thrombosis associated with first generation drug-eluting stent technology, novel approaches are being tested including stents with bioabsorbable polymers (including Biomatrix FlexTM, NoboriTM and SynergyTM), polymer-free drug delivery systems (including BiofreedomTM and Yukon®) and drug-eluting balloons (including Sequent PleaseTM, Dior® II and Pa...