A scheme for recognizi ng 3D objects f romsi ngle 2D images i s i ntroduced. The scheme proceeds i n two stages. In the rst stage, the categorizat i on st age, the image i s compared to prototype obj ects. For each prototype, the vi ew that most resembl es the image i s recovered, and, i f the vi ew i s f ound to be simi l ar to the image, the cl ass i denti ty of the obj ect i s determi ned. I...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the gastrointestinal parasites present in feral cats on Christmas Island, with particular interest in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. PROCEDURE Faecal and serum samples were collected from 28 and 25 cats respectively that were trapped as part of an ongoing eradication program being run on Christmas Island by the Department of Environment and Conservation. Fa...

Intestinal parasites of dogs and cats are cosmopolitan pathogens with zoonotic potential for humans. Our investigation considered their diffusion in dogs and cats from northern Italy areas, specifically the metropolitan area of Milan and two micropolitan areas of neighboring provinces. It included the study of the level of awareness in pet owners of the zoonotic potential from these parasites. ...

Alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) are an important element of sustainable development and electromobility. Even though the analysis consumers’ preferences towards AFV has already been done in various countries, point view consumers from country representing Central Eastern Europe was missing. Within our complex, two stages survey (CATI CAWI) we used conjoint method to compare balance factors res...

Feuer and Kessler (1989) generalized the McNemar test (1947) to a two sample situation where the hypothesis of interest is that the marginal changes in each of two independent sample's tables are equal. We show two refinements of this test for complex survey data, which require different estimates of variance. In particular, we present these tests along with applications from the Current Popula...

The aim of this study was to describe parasites of three lynx living in an enclosure of Western Pomeranian Nature Society in Jablonowo. During analysis of 3 gram faecal samples eggs of Toxascaris leonina, Toxocara cati, Ancylostoma sp. and oocysts of Cystoisospora felis were found. To our knowledge this is the first report of C. felis infection in lynx from Poland. Presented research show that ...

To determine the prevalence of helminth eggs in public places and children's playgrounds, 112 soil samples were collected in 26 sites in Shiraz, southern Islamic Republic of Iran, during September 2002-September 2003. Toxocara cati ova were found in 7 (6.3%) samples, 2 had Ascaris lumbricoides ova, 3 had larvae morphologically similar to Strongyloides stercoralis. Coccidia oocysts were also obs...

Abstract The freshwater swampland is one alternative as a source of food production in Indonesia because it quite fertile and vast about 25.20 million ha. Several limitations this area includes unpredictable water regime, floods the rainy season, drought dry season. objective study to evaluate new high yielding varieties planting system swampland. experiments were carried out Alabio polder area...

Bu çalışma Konya ilinde 2-6 aylık 121 adet yavru sokak köpeğinin gastro-intestinal helmint ve protozoon enfeksiyonlarının yaygınlığını belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. amaçla toplanan gaita örnekleri Fulleborn flotasyon sedimantasyon yöntemleri ile incelenmiştir. Mikroskobik muayenede tespit edilen yumurtası kist, ookist sporokistleri ilgilili teratürler yardımıyla teşhis edilmiştir. Toplamda n...

In 2003, the NSW Department of Health, in conjunction with the 17 area health services, completed the second year of the NSW Continuous Health Survey, an ongoing survey of the health of people in NSW using computerassisted telephone interviewing (CATI). The main aims of the NSW Continuous Health Survey are to provide detailed information on the health of the people of NSW, and to support the pl...