Brucella ceti is an emerging zoonotic pathogen that has been recovered from several species of cetaceans in the world's oceans over the past 20 yr. We report the recovery of B. ceti from a Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoploden bidens) and a long-finned pilot whale (Globicehala melas). Recovery from the testis of a long-finned pilot whale provides further evidence of potential for B. ceti infection...

We apply methods of quantum mechanics for mathematical modeling of price dynamics at financial market. We propose to describe behavioral financial factors (e.g., expectations of traders) by using the pilot wave (Bohmian) model of quantum mechanics. Our Bohmian model is a quantum-like model for the financial market, cf. with works of W. Segal, I. E. Segal, E. Haven. Our model expresses complexit...

Several situations, in which an empty wave causes an observable effect, are reviewed. They include an experiment showing “surrealistic trajectories” proposed by Englert et al. and protective measurement of the density of the quantum state. Conditions for observable effects due to empty waves are derived. The possibility (in spite of the existence of these examples) of minimalistic interpretatio...

OBJECTIVE South Africa has a shortage of facilities and psychiatrists to assess adjudicative competence of prisoners awaiting assessment under sections 77 to 79 of the Criminal Procedures Act of 1977. Various solutions have been proposed by the Department of Health. The recent linking of a Magistrate's court and a prison by videoconferencing offers the opportunity to implement a forensic teleps...

In the construction process of smart grid, an assessment on primary equipments intelligent transformation is an urgent content in the first batch of intelligent substation pilot project. Wide investigation of intelligent substation pilot projects was conducted seriously in several regional power grids in China. An mathematical model was established to assess the substation primary equipments in...

Oxidative stress and inflammation are implicated in the initiation and development of obesity and diabetes .This study investigated the comparison of important oxidative stress parameters between diabetic and obese patients and it is significantly (p < 0.05) showed that the level of oxidative stress is more in obese. Level of Hs-CRP also has been increased in the obese patients. It is revealed ...

A visual survey of cetaceans was carried out during a voyage from Singapore to Sri Lanka, through the Straits of Malacca, Andaman Sea and across the Bay of Bengal in the northern Indian Ocean in November/December 2012. Forty sightings of 11 cetacean species were recorded in 19 days of observation. Two mixed-species associations of interest were recorded. One of these contained four species of o...

Abstract In this paper, a zero-delay channel estimation scheme based on both pilot and traffic channels is proposed for next generation direct sequence codedivision multiple-access (DS/CDMA) systems. This scheme has no channel estimation delay, and is found to perform significantly better than a zero-delay channel estimation scheme based on only pilot channel. The elimination of channel estimat...

One of the key elements of the NHS information strategy of 1998 was the development of electronic patient records. These were expected to be developed within organisations and to be capable of being linked into a patient focused electronic health record, which would form a lifetime record of health and health care for each patient within the NHS. This vision has been modified slightly by update...