Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is an immunosuppressive, acute and highly contagious illness of growing-poultry stock infected with infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). It is common in Pakistan, causing potential economic losses throughout the year. The objective of the study is to propose a rapid, sensitive and specific diagnostic tool, and compare it with existing commonly used reverse tra...

Abstract. In this paper we study the shape of least-energy solutions to the quasilinear problem ε∆mu−u + f (u) = 0 with homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. We use an intrinsic variation method to show that as ε → 0, the global maximum point Pε of least-energy solutions goes to a point on the boundary ∂Ω at the rate of o(ε) and this point on the boundary approaches to a point where the mean ...

The ability to identify similarities between narratives has been argued to be central in human interactions. Previous work that sought to formalize this task has hypothesized that narrative similarity can be equated to the existence of a common summary between the narratives involved. We offer tangible psychological evidence in support of this hypothesis. Human participants in our empirical stu...

Abstract Codonopsis Radix (CR) is recorded as the roots of pilosula , C. var. modesta and tangshen . It difficult to evaluate quality CR because existence many original plants. In this paper, a strategy integrating chromatographic analysis chemometrics for control proposed. Systematic chemical composition was achieved through high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) fingerprinting. Based o...