Requirements of dietary chloride (dCl) and chloride salts were determined by using 4×2 factorial arrangement under four phase feeding program. Four levels (0.31, 0.45, 0.59 and 0.73%) and two sources (NH4Cl and CaCl2) of the dCl were allocated to 1,472 chicks in eight dietary treatments in which each treatment was replicated four times with 46 birds per replicate. The four phase feeding program...

Seroepidemiological studies of cutaneous leishmaniasis were carried out in 169 individuals in a rural area of the Campeche state of México. Fifty showed cutaneous lesions suggestive of leishmaniasis, 70% were parasite positive and 96% skin test positive. An overall 40% positivity to skin test with Montenegro's antigen was found. Most of the affected individuals were males from 11 to 30 years-ol...

The paper deals with delivery and vehicle unloading time importance for local distribution problems within practicable conditions. It is necessary to optimize both vehicle’s driving time and unloading time to organize local circular route in optimal way. The paper’s author recommends registering vehicle unloading time for the each object within the particular route. It is also recommended to di...

A rigid loop is a for-loop with a counter not accessible to the loop body or any other part of a program. Special instructions for rigid loops are introduced on top of the syntax of the program algebra PGA. Two different semantic projections are provided and proven equivalent. One of these is taken to have definitional status on the basis of two criteria: ‘normative semantic adequacy’ and ‘indi...

The role of RNA silencing as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi was examined by testing the effect of dicer gene disruptions on mycovirus infection of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. C. parasitica dicer-like genes dcl-1 and dcl-2 were cloned and shown to share a high level of predicted amino acid sequence identity with the corresponding dicer-like genes from Neurospora...

Deep neural networks are playing an important role in state-of-the-art visual recognition. To represent high-level visual concepts, modern networks are equipped with large convolutional layers, which use a large number of filters and contribute significantly to model complexity. For example, more than half of the weights of AlexNet are stored in the first fully-connected layer (4,096 filters). ...

The H/D + HCl/DCl (v(0) = 0, j(0) = 0) reactions were investigated in the gas phase using the reactant coordinate based time-dependent wave packet method on the BW2 PES [W. Bian and H.-J. Werner, J. Chem. Phys. 112, 220 (2000)]. The total and state-to-state integral and differential cross sections of both the abstraction and the exchange channels were reported over the energy range from thresho...

Severe mucocutaneous (MCL) and diffuse (DCL) forms of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) are infrequent in Venezuela. Chemotherapy produces only transitory remission in DCL, and occasional treatment failures are observed in MCL. We have evaluated therapy with an experimental vaccine in patients with severe leishmaniasis. Four patients with MCL and 3 with early DCL were treated with monthly ...

Introducción: La posibilidad de reversión del Deterioro Cognitivo Leve (DCL) ha generado diversas investigaciones en búsqueda tratamiento, entre ellas la estimulación cognitiva a través realidad virtual (RV). No obstante su uso, no existe aún evidencia acerca las modalidades y efectos personas con DCL.

We prove some consistency results about b(λ) and d(λ), which are natural generalisations of the cardinal invariants of the continuum b and d. We also define invariants bcl(λ) and dcl(λ), and prove that almost always b(λ) = bcl(λ) and d(λ) = dcl(λ)