Introduction: High adolescent self-esteem protects them against high-risk behaviour and physical mental problems. The present cross-sectional study aimed to understand the of school-going children in Mumbai its association with selected demographic variables BMI. Method: Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale a questionnaire were administered 334 (214 boys 120 girls), between ages 10 15 years studying...

We have previously demonstrated a high incidence of chickens with persistent viremia even in the presence of neutralizing antibodies (V+A+) against the inoculated parental virus in commercial meat-type chickens inoculated at hatch with subgroup J avian leukosis virus (ALV J) field isolates. In this study, we used an ALV J molecular clone, ADOL pR5-4, to determine the role of neutralizing antibo...

The background of this thesis is algorithmic differentiation (AD) [GW08] of in practice very computationally expensive vector functions F : R ⊇ D → R given as computer programs. Traditionally, most AD software1 provide forward and reverse modes of AD for calculating the Jacobian matrix ∇F (x) accurately at a given point x on some kind of internal representation of F kept on memory or hard disk....

In Experiment 1, a monoclonal antibody against the envelope glycoprotein (gp85) of subgroup J avian leukosis virus (ALV-J) was used to study the distribution of ALV-J in various tissues of White Leghorn chickens inoculated as embryos with the strain ADOL-Hcl of ALV-J. At 2 and 6 wk of age, various tissues from infected and control uninfected chickens were tested for the presence of ALV-J gp85 b...

Chicken endogenous viruses, ALVE (Avian Leukosis Virus subgroup E), are inherited as LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposons, which are negatively correlated with disease resistance, and any changes in DNA methylation may contribute to the susceptibility to neoplastic disease. The relationship between ALVE methylation status and neoplastic disease in the chicken is undefined. White Leghorn ...

BACKGROUND Marek's disease (MD), a T cell lymphoma induced by the highly oncogenic α-herpesvirus Marek's disease virus (MDV), is the main chronic infectious disease concern threatening the poultry industry. Enhancing genetic resistance to MD in commercial poultry is an attractive method to augment MD vaccines, which is currently the control method of choice. In order to optimally implement this...

This research demonstrated the microbial treatment of concentrated phenol wastes using a two-phase partitioning bioreactor (TPPB). TPPBs are characterized by a cell-containing aqueous phase and an immiscible and biocompatible organic phase that partitions toxic substrates to the cells on the basis of their metabolic demand and the thermodynamic equilibrium of the system. Process limitations imp...

The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), which can be generated by object oriented modelling languages, is often the most natural way of representing and manipulating a dynamic optimization problem. With this representation, it is possible to step-by-step reformulate an (infinite dimensional) dynamic optimization problem into a (finite dimensional) non-linear program (NLP) by parametrizing the state a...

Algorithmic Differentiation Through Automatic Graph Elimination Ordering (ADTAGEO) is based on the principle of Instant Elimination: Instead of storing a representation of the complete Computational Graph (tape-based approach of ADOL-C [1]) during the execution of the code to be differentiated and applying some elimination sequence afterwards, we dynamically maintain a DAG representing only act...