Neospora caninum is an Apicomplexan parasite which may cause abortion in cattle. This study investigated occurrences of antibodies against N. caninum in Iranian native cattle. From September 2010 to September 2011, blood samples (n=768) of native cows were collected randomly from different rural regions of Hamedan (n=400) and Kurdistan provinces (n=368) located to the western part of Iran. All ...

A compact mesh architecture for supporting the relation collection step of the number field sieve is described. Differing from TWIRL, only isolated chips without inter-chip communication are used. According to a preliminary analysis for 768-bit numbers, with a 0.13 μm process one mesh-based device fits on a single chip of ≈(4.9 cm)—the largest proposed chips in the TWIRL cluster for 768-bit occ...

The productivity gain that an industry experiences by engaging in B2B ecommerce gets transmitted to other industries through input-output linkages. This paper considers a multi-industry equilibrium model that explicitly incorporates input-output structure to examine the propagation of productivity gain across industries and to provide a framework to quantitatively evaluate the overall impact of...

Volumetric 3D displays are frequently purported to lack the ability to reconstruct scenes with viewer-position-dependent effects such as occlusion. To counter these claims, a swept-screen 198-view horizontal-parallax-only 3D display is reported here that is capable of viewer-position-dependent effects. A digital projector illuminates a rotating vertical diffuser with a series of multiperspectiv...

766 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE PSC SUSCEPTIBILITY VARIANT IN THE MST1 LOCUS AND CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA RISK: CASE-CONTROL ANALYSIS OF A LARGE EUROPEAN COHORT M. Krawczyk, A. Höblinger, F. Mihalache, M. Acalovschi, F. Lammert, V. Zimmer. Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Department of Medicine III, ...

This paper presents an experimental characterization of liquid nitrogen (LN2) flow boiling in additively manufactured minichannels. There is a pressing need concerted efforts from the space exploration and thermal transport communities to design high-performance rocket engine cooling channels. A close observation literature gaps warrants systematic cryogenic asymmetrically heated small (<3 m...