This paper studies the issue of conceptually indexing the blogosphere through the whole hierarchy of Wikipedia entries. About 300,000 Wikipedia entries are used for representing a hierarchy of topics. Based on the results of judging whether each blog feed is relevant to a given Wikipedia entry, this paper proposes how to judge whether there exist blog feeds to be linked from the given entry. In...

Supervisor’s feedback is both a naysaying and a puzzling concern that has always tormented academics in higher education. Particularly, written feedback on pre-final or final versions of a submitted doctoral dissertation is indisputably the most significant step toward granting a doctoral student supervisee the right to defend his/her research project. It also constitutes a rich source on how s...

A questionnaire was sent to the 167 Member Countries of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in 2004 and 2005. The organisation and functioning of national Veterinary Services were analysed based on the responses from 85 of these countries. Leaving aside variations between countries, Veterinary Services are very involved in animal health and food safety controls at farm level (includi...

Basic and applied research on microbial cellulases, hemicellulases and pectinases has not only generated significant scientific knowledge but has also revealed their enormous potential in biotechnology. At present, cellulases and related enzymes are used in food, brewery and wine, animal feed, textile and laundry, pulp and paper industries, as well as in agriculture and for research purposes. I...

UNLABELLED Hemorrhoid is protrusion of plexus or blood vessels in the anal canal. The hemorrhoid may cause symptoms that are: bleeding, pain, prolaps, itching, soilage of feces, and psychologic discomfort. There are many methods for treatment of hemorrhoid like, medical therapy, cryo-therapy, rubber band ligation, sclerotherapy, laser, and surgery. All methods have some complication in postoper...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a single surgeon's experience with transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) with regard to incidence of complications, recurrence rate of benign and malignant lesions, and impact on the treatment of rectal cancer. DESIGN Prospective tumor registry. SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS Seventy-three patients undergoing TEM between January 1991 and Novemb...

a trial was conducted to evaluate the performance of broiler birds which supplemented with a commercial inactivated probiotic. four hundred and fifty day old broiler chickens were allocated into 3 treatments with 6 replicates each. each replicate was placed on clean wood shavings in floor pens receiving feed and water ad libitum. in treatment 1, feed was supplemented with 500 g/ton of a heat-in...

feed restriction strategies are proven to be effective in increasing the growth performance and carcass parameters of broiler chickens. the objective of the present experiment was to evaluate the effects of feedremoval for three hour time periodon growth performance and carcass parameters of relatively older male broiler chickens. twenty days old male broiler chickens (n=80) were allocated into...

soilage, the presence of an associated colonic pathology, the stability of the patient, and the overall underlying condition of the patient. Many studies have emphasized that prompt diagnosis is one of the most important prognostic factors after colonoscopic perforation because the severity of peritoneal contamination depends on the duration of contamination, as well as the size of perforation....