Surveys were distributed to the beef producers in Ontario, in the fall of 1999, to establish use patterns and perceptions about antibiotics. Most of the 587 respondents thought that antibiotic use needed to be reduced, but as many as half of the respondents may not have known the difference between antibiotics and other injectable products. The results indicate that any guidelines should explai...

Confronted with an increasing phenomenon of piracy and the floss competition, which strategy has to adopt an editor of software? In this paper we show that editor can develop a momentary strategy called tolerant piracy in order to face the illegal copy phenomenon. But also in order to face the substitution risk of Floss software. On the one hand it appears that tolerant piracy strategy durably ...

poster session) Detection of KPC carbapenemase with the EasyQ Kpc system, using NASBA technology A. Mazzariol*, G. Lo Cascio, G. Savarino, R. Fontana (Verona, IT) Objectives: 55 Klebsiella pneumoniae from a collection of clinical isolates, with different level of resistance to carbapanems and well characterized mechanism, were analysed with the new EasyQ® KPC system (BioMeriux) and compared wit...

the main goal in carrying out this paper was to investigate the impacts of government’s support policies on income risk of egg producers in iran during years 1989-2008. index ccv, was employed to assess the variation in income of the producers. the results revealed that, market price support along with the overall support policies lead to a lowering of the percentage variations in income risk o...

abstract- agricultural extension agents should provide dry land producers with appropriate education to make them more interested in learning about water use optimization. therefore, it is recommended to accompany education with art. in this regard, a study, using the randomized experimental research design, was carried out among dry land grape producers in herayjan village, southwest iran, usi...

The uropathogens possess a wide array of virulence factors which help them in pathogenesis. The present study investigated the virulence factors produced by uropathogens and also determine the antimicrobial activity of drugs against the pathogens. E. coli was documented to be the most prevalent uropathogen. 60% of uropathogens were found to be siderophore producers. 73% isolates were found to b...

This paper addresses the possibility of capacity withholding by energy producers, who seek to increase the market price and their own profits. The energy market is simulated as an iterative game, where each state game corresponds to an hourly energy auction with uniform pricing mechanism. The producers are modeled as agents that interact with their environment through reinforcement learning (RL...