OBJECTIVE Heat stress (HS) triggers oxidative stress and respiratory alkalosis in pigs. The objective of this experiment was to study whether a short-term supranutritional amount of dietary vitamin E (VE) can mitigate oxidative stress and respiratory alkalosis in heat-stressed pigs. METHODS A total of 24 pigs were given either a control diet (17 IU/kg VE) or a high VE (200 IU/kg VE; HiVE) die...

Central nervous system dysfunction is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and acquired immunodeficiency virus syndrome (AIDS). Patients with AIDS are usually affected by HIV-associated encephalitis (HIVE) with viral replication limited to cells of monocyte origin. To examine the molecular mechanisms underlying HIVE...

To achieve high reliability and scalability, most large-scale data warehouse systems have adopted the clusterbased architecture. In this context, MapReduce has emerged as a promising architecture for large scale data warehousing and data analytics on commodity clusters. The MapReduce framework offers several lucrative features such as high fault-tolerance, scalability and use of a variety of ha...

Behavorial research in the study of the organisational structure and communication forms in social insects like the ants and bees has garnered tremendous impetus in recent years [1][2]. Usually, when such an experiment to study these insects is setup, the insects in an observation hive are videotaped. The hours of videotape is then manually studied and hand-labelled. This task of manually track...

BACKGROUND The Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) can manifest neurologically in both adults and children. Early invasion of the central nervous system by the virus, affecting the developing brain, is believed to result in the most common primary HIV-related neurological complication, HIV Encephalopathy (HIVE). In countries such as South Africa where many children have not been initiated on an...