Brucellosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by Brucella spp., a gram-negative facultative intracellular pathogen that affects humans and animals, leading to significant impact on public health and animal industry. Human brucellosis is considered the most prevalent bacterial zoonosis in the world and is characterized by fever, weight loss, depression, hepato/splenomegaly, osteoarticular, ...

AI research at JPL started in 1972 when design and construction of an experimental “Mars Rover” began. Early in that effort, it was recognized that rover planning capabilities were inadequate. Research in planning was begun in 1975, and work on a succession of AI expert systems of steadily increasing power has continued to the present. Within the group, we have concentrated our efforts on exper...

Medical Research in the Clinic and Laboratory: DR. Special Articles: SIMON FLEXNER ...........................................1 X-Ray Studies of Very Complex Mixtures of Long The Story of Isotopes: DR. F. W. ASTON ...............5 Chain Compounds: DR. EMIL OTT and D. A. Scientific Events: WILSON. Mucification of the Vaginal Epithelium New Building for the Departnent of Zoology of Immature Mice ...

Graham Kendall*, Ruibin Bai, Jacek Błazewicz, Patrick De Causmaecker, Michel Gendreau, Robert John, Jiawei Li, Barry McCollum, Erwin Pesch, Rong Qu, Nasser Sabar, Greet Vanden Berghe and Angelina Yee University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih, Malaysia; University of Nottingham Ningbo, Ningbo, China; Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Pola...

Many biomedical research studies use captive animals to model human health and disease. However, a surprising number of studies show that the biological systems of animals living in standard laboratory housing are abnormal. To make animal studies more relevant to human health, research animals should live in the wild or be able to roam free in captive environments that offer a natural range of ...

Cooperation and Planning in a Multiactor System. The ViewGen project investigates theoretical issues in the area of belief systems that pertain to human-compute r interaction (communication and cooperative planning). We are using the results to implement a system that reasons and interacts with people in a limited but real domain and incorporates the first perspicuous default algorithm for beli...

PERSPIRATION of the stump while a prosthesis is being worn has always been a problem to a sizable segment of the amputee population. As a rule, amputees perspire at a greater rate than is normal even without the prosthesis. The newer, total-contact sockets as designed and introduced offer no provision for ventilation. Although in the case of some patients who sweat profusely during the initial ...

Quality assurance implies making certain, guaranteeing the attainment of quality. Do laboratories actually guarantee the quality of testing services today? If not, what is the purpose of quality assurance plans, programs, and practices? Have laboratories even defined the quality to be achieved for each test? If not, how can quality be guaranteed? Do current efforts in assessing quality provide ...

This chapter surveys laboratory experiments addressing macroeconomic phenomena. The first part focuses on experimental tests of the micro-foundations of macroeconomic models discussing laboratory studies of intertemporal consumption/savings decisions, time (in)consistency of preferences and rational expectations. Part two explores coordination problems of interest to macroeconomists and mechani...