Swine Day 2015 Supplements

Student Krylov Day 2015

Krylov subspace methods have been applied successfully to solve various problems in Numerical Linear Algebra. The Netherlands have been a pioneer country in the development of Krylov methods over the past years. Methods like the Conjugate Gradient Squared (CGS), Bi-Conjugate Gradient Stabilized (BiCGSTAB), Nested GMRES (GMRESR), and the Induced Dimension Reduction method (IDR) are examples of K...

FARAH-Day 2015 - Proceedings

Day Saturday , September 19 , 2015

Genome editing is a useful tool for the characterization of gene function as well as the creation of disease-related mutations. Through the use of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), we have successfully induced mutations in zebrafish for the study of four genes known to cause Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in humans. The use of genome editing to affect the ...

African Swine Fever Epidemic, Poland, 2014–2015

In Poland, African swine fever (ASF) emerged in February 2014; by August 2015, the virus had been detected in >130 wild boar and in pigs in 3 backyard holdings. We evaluated ASF spread in Poland during these 18 months. Phylogenetic analysis indicated repeated incursions of genetically distinct ASF viruses of genotype II; the number of cases positively correlated wild boar density; and disease s...

World Hepatitis Day — July 28, 2015

July 28, 2015, marks the fifth annual World Hepatitis Day, established in 2010 by the World Health Organization to increase awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis. Millions of acute hepatitis infections occur each year, and approximately 400 million persons are living with chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C (1). An estimated 1.4 million persons die each year from the various forms of vi...