during the journey to India. I have now received specimens of the serum on two occasions, and find that they possess a well-marked power of neutralising cobra venom, the last received specimens being especially active. I do not propose on the present occasion to go into the details of my experiments. I may, however, briefly mention a semi-practical application that I have been able to make of P...

background: coccidiosis is a serious protozoal disease of poultry. the iden-tification of eimeria species has important implications for diagnosis and con-trol as well as for epidemiology. the molecular characterization of eimeria spe-cies infecting egyptian baladi chickens was investigated. methods: eimeria species oocysts were harvested from intestines of naturally infected egyptian baldi chi...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce Cobra, an econometric software package designed for CO-BReaking Analysis. Cobra is programmed in Ox, see Doornik (2002), and consists of three modules: Firstly, the CobraDgp module is a class derived from the Database class and enables the user to generate a multivariate time series that is subject to multiple breaks in its intercept as well as linear t...

The neutralizing capacity of antivenom prepared against Thai cobra (Naja kaouthia) venom was compared in mice using the homologous venom and that of spitting cobra (Naja siamensis). The amounts of antivenoms neutralizing a dose of 4 LD50 of the test venom were determined. Four antivenom preparations were used: three purified antivenoms and a crude antivenom, which were made using N. kaouthia ve...

Initial reports about the new COBRA premium subsidy program for recently laid-off workers indicate that enrollment in COBRA continuation coverage has increased substantially, with a healthier mix of individuals enrolling than before. Moreover, implementation has gone smoothly, and most eligible people have heard about the subsidy. Still, many of those who are eligible cannot afford to purchase ...

Building smart meeting rooms requires the support of a computing system architecture. In this paper, we describe the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA), a broker-centric agent architecture for pervasive contextaware systems. CoBrA exploits the Web Ontology Language OWL for supporting knowledge sharing and data fusion, uses logic inferences for resolving and detecting inconsistent context knowl...

Modern real-world optimization problems are often high dimensional and subject to many constraints. These problems are typically expensive in terms of cost and computational time. In order to optimize such problems, conventional constraintbased solvers require a high number of function evaluations which are not affordable in practice. Employment of fast surrogate models to approximate objective...

The enzyme L-Amino Acid Oxidase (LAAO) is widely distributed in snake venoms, contributes a reasonable toxicity to the venoms. However LAAO from Indian cobra (Naja naja ) snake venom has not yet isolated previously. In the present study LAAO from Indian cobra (Naja naja ) snake venom was purified by sequential steps of cation exchange chromatography (CM-Sephadex C-25; CM-52 cellulose), followed...