The objective of this study is to investigate the seroprevalence of equine piroplasmosis in China. A total of 1990 sera were collected from clinically healthy horses in various districts located in ten different provinces of China and examined by using indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) with recombinant Theileria equi (T. equi) merozoite antigen 2 (rEMA-2) and Babesia caballi ...

Rare earth-modified adsorbents (REMAs) have been widely used to remove oxyanion pollutants from water, including arsenic (As). However, the molecular-level structural information and reactions at the liquid/solid interface are still murky, which limits the design of applicable REMAs. Herein, a lanthanum-impregnated activated alumina (LAA) was synthesized as a representative REMA, and its As upt...

This paper examines the impact of exchange rates and import prices on domestic PPI and CPI in selected industrialized economies. The empirical model is a VAR incorporating a distribution chain of pricing. Impulse responses and variance decompositions indicate that these external factors have a modest e¤ect on domestic price in‡ation over the post-Bretton Woods era. The pass-through is somewhat ...

This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel way. Studying banks in India, I …nd that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is signi…cant cross-sectional targeting, with large increas...

Our purpose was to determine the anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis activity of the metabolites produced by the endophitic fungus Phomopsis stipata (Lib.) B. Sutton, (Diaporthaceae), cultivated in different media. The antimycobacterial activity was assessed through the Resazurin Microtiter Assay (REMA) and the cytotoxicity test performed on macrophage cell line. The extracts derived from fungi gro...

Abstract. The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is one of the widely studied polar regions because its sensitivity to climate change and potential contribution glaciers global sea level rise. Precise digital elevation models (DEMs) at a high spatial resolution are much demanded for investigating complex glacier system AP fine scales. However, two most recent circum-Antarctic DEMs, 12 m TanDEM-X DEM (TDM...

BACKGROUND The role of anesthesia as an elicitor of mast cell (MC) mediator release symptoms in mastocytosis is poorly investigated. OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and type of MC mediator release symptoms during anesthetic procedures in mastocytosis patients. METHODS Medical records were reviewed regarding the anesthetic techniques for 501 mastocytosis patients (459 adults and 42 chil...

India has a multitude of environmental regulations but a history of poor enforcement. Between 1996 and 2004, India’s Supreme Court required 17 cities to enact Action Plans to reduce air pollution through a variety of command-and-control (CAC) environmental regulations. We compare the impacts of these regulations with the impact of changes in coal prices on establishment-level pollution abatemen...