The main objectives of this prospective cohort study were a) to describe lameness prevalence at drying off in large high producing New York State herds based on visual locomotion score (VLS) and identify potential cow and herd level risk factors, and b) to develop a model that will predict the probability of a cow developing claw horn disruption lesions (CHDL) in the subsequent lactation using ...

The role of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAb) in polymicrobial infection remains elusive. Having observed the ability of CRAb to shelter other susceptible bacteria from carbapenem killing, we sought to determine the factors contributing to this sheltering effect by transforming different recombinant plasmids into recipient A. baumannii cells. The sheltering effects of CRAb wer...

Multidrug-resistant and difficult-to-treat Acinetobacter baumannii may be responsible for nosocomial infections. The production of carbapenem-hydrolyzing class D β-lactamases (CHDLs) and extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBLs) of the GES type possessing a carbapenemase activity has been increasingly reported worldwide in A. baumannii. The aim of this study was to analyze the resistance mechanisms...

Objective Disease-specific molecular signalling in peripheral blood has the potential to inform on pathophysiological mechanisms of diseases. Here, we aimed investigate blood-based gene expression profiles that reflect disease-specific pathogenic gallstones, such as antioxidant defence, heat-shock responses, DNA damage and repair, ABC pump mechanisms, mucin signals, mitochondrial dysfunction ap...

The semantics of HDL descriptions influences all facets of VLSI design such as synthesis, test, verification, logic simulation and fault simulation. In this paper formal semantics of the intermediate language TREEMOLA, used in the MIMOLA hardware design system MSS, is presented. In particular semantics of module declarations, described at the Register Transfer Level by the CHDL MIMOLA, is defined.

Bergamot juice produces hypolipemic activity in rats though the mechanism remains unclear. Here we investigated on the effect of bergamot extract (BPF) in diet-induced hyperlipemia in Wistar rats and in 237 patients suffering from hyperlipemia either associated or not with hyperglycaemia. BPF, given orally for 30 days to both rats and patients, reduces total and LDL cholesterol levels (an effec...

Objective. To describe in a national sample 1) the mean total cholesterol (TC), HDL-cholesterol (HDLc) and triglyceride (TG) concentrations, 2) the prevalence of the most common lipid abnormalities and 3) the association between obesity and these conditions. Material and Methods. We analyzed the nationally representative, cross-sectional Mexican Health Survey (2000). The final analytic sample u...

Over the past two years, a prototyping infrastructure has grown up around CHDL; a C++ library for designing and simulating hardware, and HARP; a family of instruction set architectures for data parallel computing. Among the fruits of this effort are several processor cores, including a singleinstruction-multiple-thread implementation of HARP called Harmonica and a variety of FPGA and simulation...

. We show how an extended Prolog can be exploited to implement di erent electronic CAD tools. Starting with a computer hardware description language (CHDL) several problems like digital circuit analysis, simulation, test generation and code generation for programmable microprocessors are discussed. For that purpose the MIMOLA (machine independent microprogramming language) system MSS (MIMOLA ha...