Animal social behaviour can have important effects on the long-term dynamics of diseases. In particular, preferential spatial relationships between individuals can lead to differences in the rates of disease spread within a population. We examined the concurrent influence of genetic relatedness, sex, age, home range overlap, time of year, and prion disease status on proximal associations of adu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Invasive and non-invasive techniques are used to diagnose H. pylori infection. Some factors influence the choice of a diagnostic test, such as the sensitivity and specificity of the tests, the clinical circumstances and the cost-effectiveness of the testing strategy. The aim of this study was to reveal the relationship between different H. pylori infection diagnosis me...

BACKGROUND The presence of low complexity and repeated regions in genomes often results in difficulties to assemble sequencing data into full chromosomes. However, the availability of full genome scaffolds is essential to several investigations, regarding for instance the evolution of entire clades, the analysis of chromosome rearrangements, and is pivotal to sexual crossing studies. In non-con...

conclusions the homemade kit, compared with the imported kit and biopsy-proven tests may be a valid and reliable method for determining the presence of h. pylori infection in iran. background current diagnosis of helicobacter pylori infection by biopsy-based tests requires invasive sampling. non-invasive methods such as the h. pylori stool-antigen (hpsa) test may be the best alternative for dia...

conclusions the prevalence of pud is more common in asymptomatic males than females. regarding the high prevalence of pud and h. pylori in the population under study and according to other studies, life style change and healthy nutrition are considered as effective factors in pud prevention. according to the results of this study, the patients with upper gi symptoms should be suspect to pud and...

Road networks are major infrastructures that support the economic development in both developed and developing countries. Bottom ash (BA) is a by-product from coal-fired powerplants, which composed of lipophilic molecule with effective reactivity to bituminous binder. BA was adopted this research, as green fine aggregate, improve mechanistic performance asphalt concretes research. The effect BA...

Pavement maintenance and repair is a crucial part of pavement management systems. Accurate reliable performance prediction the prerequisite for making reasonable decisions selecting suitable schemes. Rutting deformation, as one most common forms asphalt failures, key index evaluating performance. To ensure accuracy commonly used models, input parameters models need to be understood, coefficient...

This paper focuses on serving twofold benefits for the environment by providing not only recycling of a waste material but also improving rutting performance sand subgrade under cyclic traffic loads. In this context, series laboratory experiments have been conducted to benchmark commercially manufactured geotextile and palm tree pruning (PTPW) as soil improvement agents. Experimental results st...