BACKGROUND Feline calicivirus (FCV) is a common virus, found worldwide, mainly responsible for chronic ulceroproliferative faucitis and periodontitis. This virus has a high mutation rate, leading to the presence of numerous FCV strains in the field. The objectives of this study was to evaluate and compare the efficacy of two vaccines (Leucofeligen™ FeLV/RCP and Purevax™ RCP FeLV), which differ ...

This paper addresses the design of a Reprogrammable Combinatorial Processor (RCP) on the basis of reconfigurable circuits such as FPGA. The RCP is intended to be used for solving different combinatorial problems formulated over discrete matrices. From a structural point of view the RCP is a composition of a Reconfigurable Control Unit (RCU) and a Reconfigurable Function Unit (RFU). Each unit co...

18 The formation and rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes (SGL) influences the mass balance and 19 dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). Although SGLs are expected to spread inland 20 during the 21 century due to atmospheric warming, less is known about their future spatial 21 distribution and volume. We use GrIS surface elevation model and regional climate model 22 outputs to show that a...

OBJECTIVE Asthma control has not been formally evaluated in the Caribbean. This study evaluated disease control on The Asthma Control Test (ACT), The Royal College of Physicians "Three questions" for Assessing Asthma Control (RCP), peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) and patients' self-assessment of control. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Asthma control was examined in a cross-section of 205 asthmatics ab...

Given a dataset S of points in R, the range closest-pair (RCP) problem aims to preprocess S into a data structure such that when a query range X is specified, the closest-pair in S ∩ X can be reported efficiently. The RCP problem can be viewed as a range-search version of the classical closestpair problem, and finds applications in many areas. Due to its non-decomposability, the RCP problem is ...

We generalize and unify some aspects of the work of I. Daubechies, J.C. Lagarias [Linear Algebra Appl. 162 (1992) 227–263] on a set R of matrices with right-convergent-products (RCPs). We show that most properties of an RCP set R pass on to its compactification R (i.e., its closure in the matrix space). Results on finite RCP sets generally hold for compact RCP sets, among which is the existence...

Rhesus rhadinovirus (RRV) is currently the closest known, fully sequenced homolog of human Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Both these viruses encode complement inhibitors as follows: Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-complement control protein (KCP) and RRV-complement control protein (RCP). Previously we characterized in detail the functional properties of KCP as a complement inhibit...

Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) with retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) under high central venous pressure (CVP) is often used in aortic arch surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We hypothesized that DHCA with RCP under high CVP causes cerebral vascular compression because of increased perivascular pressure due to extravasation of fluid into intracranial tissue. In a retrospe...