The aim of the present study was to determine the presence of Helicobacter species in different parts of gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary system and pancreas of stray cats. Six different sites at the level of genus, gastric (H. heilmannii and H. felis) and enterohepatic species of Helicobacter were investigated in six cats using species-specific primers by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). ...

Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) provides information about the dynamic shaping of the vocal tract during speech production [1]. We develop a dynamical system in the framework of Task Dynamics [2] which controls vocal tract constrictions and induces deformation of the air-tissue boundary. The system parameterizes the air-tissue boundary through factor analysis of rtMRI videos and ch...

: Urinary tract infection is the second most common bacterial and themost disease that affects urinary system.

fungal agents, especially yeasts, are resident in digestive system as microflora and they can invade the mucosal tract in animals with predisposing factors. the prevalence of the resident fungal flora in the digestive tract of healthy broilers and layers during april to september 2008 was investigated. the samples were taken from the preventriculus, jejunum and cecum contents of 120 birds and c...

In this paper, we address the issue of speaker-specific emotion detection (neutral vs emotion) from speech signals with models for neutral speech as reference. As emotional speech is produced by the human speech production mechanism, the emotion information is expected to lie in the features of both excitation source and the vocal tract system. Linear Prediction residual is used as the excitati...