Introduction: This Study has was  carried out to measure and detect the natural occurred radionuclide content including 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in the  Nile River sediments at various locations in Upper Egypt, from Aswan to El-Minya. Additionally, we determine the absorbed dose rate, the annual effective dose equivalent, and excess lifetime cancer risk also has been calculated. Material and Metho...

The goal of the Nile project is to manage distributed computing resources, making an arbitrarily large cluster of commodity computers appear to the user as a seamless uniprocessor environment. This paper describes Nile's software architecture. 1 The Nile Project The Nile project 2,4] is building a distributed computing solution for CLEO III 3]. The goal is to provide a self-managing, fault-tole...

West Nile virus (Flaviviridae: Flavivirus) is a serious infectious disease that recently spread across the North America continent. A spatial analysis tool was developed on the ArcMap 9.x platform to estimate potential West Nile virus activity using a spatially explicit degree-day model. The model identifies when the virus Extrinsic Incubation Period (EIP) is completed within the vector longevi...

West Nile virus ecology has yet to be rigorously investigated in the Caribbean Basin. We identified a transmission focus in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, and established systematic monitoring of avian abundance and infection, seroconversions in domestic poultry, and viral infections in mosquitoes. West Nile virus transmission was detected annually between May and October from 2005 to 2008. High te...

BACKGROUND The spread of West Nile virus across North America and evidence of transmission by transfusion prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to encourage the development of methods to screen the blood supply. OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-effectiveness of nucleic acid amplification testing for West Nile virus in the U.S. blood supply. DESIGN Markov cohort simulation. DATA SOURC...

IMPORTANCE After progressive declines over recent years, in 2012 West Nile virus epidemics resurged nationwide, with the greatest number of cases centered in Dallas County, Texas. OBJECTIVE To analyze the epidemiologic, meteorologic, and geospatial features of the 2012 Dallas West Nile virus epidemic to guide future prevention efforts. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Public health surveillanc...

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We report a molecular modeling study, coupled with spectroscopy experiments, on the behavior of two well known organic dyes, nile blue and nile red, when interacting with B-DNA. In particular, we evidence the presence of two competitive binding modes, for both drugs. However their subsequent photophysical behavior is different and only nile blue is able to induce DNA photosensitization via an e...

body weight is influenced by both food intake and energy expenditure. acylated ghrelin enhances appetite, and its circulating level is suppressed by growth hormone. data on the acylated ghrelin responses to exercise of different intensities in obese individuals are currently not available. this study examined the effects of an intermittent exercise protocol on acylated ghrelin levels and hunger...

Cranial nerve involvement has been reported with West Nile Virus infection. We report a case of diplopia secondary to West Nile Virus meningitis.