The aim of the present work was to evaluate the prevalence and efficacy of IBR control measures in selected cattle herds in Lithuania. Serological investigations in 1997 2007 years (34600 blood sera samples tested) showed that BHV-1 infection mostly detected in cows (33.86%), less in heifers (8.77%) and in bulls group (1.69%). In majority of the cases seropositive bulls were detected in quarant...

The growing need to evaluate the quality of aquatic ecosystems led to the development of numerous monitoring tools. Among them, the development of biomarker-based procedures, that combine precocity and relevance, is recommended. However, multi-biomarker approaches are often hard to interpret, and produce results that are not easy to integrate in the environmental policies framework. Integrative...

365 sera samples were collected during 1997 from two groups of camels in Sharkia governorate, Egypt. The first group: 190 sera samples collected from slaughtered camels at Belbas abattoir, while the second group: 175 sera samples collected from individual camels which were in contact with cattle herds. Sera samples were tested by serum neutralization test for the presence of antibodies against ...

Concurrent team strategy is widely employed by firms in large projects. This research investigates the design of incentives and the role of collaboration for concurrent teams. Proposing and studying two types of reward policies: individual-based reward (IBR) and group-based reward (GBR), we characterize the structure of incentives, and demonstrate that firms can achieve maximal profits with col...

Twelve slow-growing virus isolates propagated in tissue culture from cattle with epididymitis and vaginitis were identified as herpes viruses by virtue of their biological, physicochemical and morphological characteristics. None of the 12 virus strains proved to be serologically related to the infectious pustular vulvo-vaginitis-infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IPV-IBR) virus, but a further 3...

BACKGROUND Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has been administered since the 1990s and is now one of the major treatments for breast cancer. It can achieve extremely positive results in some patients. Whether NAC affects immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) using an expander, however, remains unclear. METHODS A retrospective study was performed at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) hosp...

Chemiluminescent reactions of metastable Mg*(Pj) atoms with F2, Cl2, Br2, I2, IC1, IBr molecules were studied in a beam-gas experiment. For all homonuclear targets the MgX(A FI X X) emission was observed, but for IC1 and IBr reactants the Mgl(A-X) emission was absent and only MgCl(A-X) or MgBr(A-X) spectra were found. In addition, for the I2, IBr, IC1, Br2 reactions, broad pseudocontinua extend...

Location-scale invariant Bickel-Rosenblatt goodness-of-fit tests (IBR tests) are considered in this paper to test the hypothesis that f , the common density function of the observed independent d-dimensional random vectors, belongs to a null location-scale family of density functions. The asymptotic behaviour of the test procedures for fixed and non-fixed bandwidths is studied by using an unify...

We have been developing a system named “mutual tele-existence” which allows for face-to-face communication between remote users [14]. Although imagebased rendering (IBR) is suitable for rendering human figures with a complex geometry, conventional IBR techniques cannot readily be applied to our system. Because most IBR techniques include timeconsuming processes, they cannot capture the source i...

Power systems are rapidly transitioning towards having an increasing proportion of electricity from inverter-based resources (IBR) such as wind and solar. An inevitable consequence a power system transition 100% IBR is the loss synchronous generators with their associated inertia, frequency, voltage control mechanisms. To ensure future grid needs can be met, source services to meet these must c...