The objective of this study was to identify herd-level colostrum management factors associated with the adequate transfer passive immunity (TPI; defined as serum Brix refractance ≥8.4% in first week life). A total 59 commercial Holstein dairy farms were included observational cross-sectional study. In every participating herd, a minimum 14 calves sampled measure their TPI using digital refracto...

Two–Party Immediate Response Disputes (TPI-disputes) are a dialogue game formalism providing a sound and complete proof scheme for credulous reasoning in argument systems. In earlier work it has been shown that this dialogue protocol can be interpreted as a proof calculus with which to establish unsatisfiability of propositional formula presented in CNF, and that viewed thus, the number of ‘mov...

This paper presents the TPI-model, which is based on current state-of-the-art test process improvement practices. The model gives practical guidelines for assessing the maturity level of testing in an organisation and for step by step improvement of the process. The purpose of such improvement could be reaching CMM level 3. The model consists of 20 key areas, each with different levels of matur...

Urban congestion has become a global problem with urbanization and motorization. The analysis of time-varying traffic patterns is necessary to formulate effective management strategies. existing studies have focused on flow developed by the volume, speed density road sections in limited district, while long-time macro network at city level inadequate. This paper aims recognize urban based perfo...

Introduction Radial acquisition schemes are used in dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) [1] due to superior motion insensitivity achieved by a repeated sampling of the k-space center each repetition time (TR). This also enables the use of k-space weighted image contrast (KWIC) [1] or sliding window reconstruction [2]. One disadvantage of radial acquisition schemes, especially in 3D imaging,...

The purpose of this study was to compare the success rates of Class II subdivision malocclusion patients treated with either symmetric or asymmetric extractions. The sample consisted of 51 patients with Class II subdivision malocclusion. The patients were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 included 28 patients who were treated with 4 premolar extractions. The 23 patients in group 2 were treated wit...

Giardia duodenalis (also known as G. intestinalis) is a flagellated protozoan that parasitizes the small intestine and is a common causal agent of zoonotic infections in humans and animals. To assess the genetic diversity and zoonotic transmission potential of G. duodenalis in stray dogs, 159 fecal specimens were collected from dogs in Chengdu, Yaan, and Leshan in Sichuan province, China. Of th...

Threa new foci" of TBE virus were found in Lower Austria. In studies eiraed at interrupting the virus cycle in nature Gardens^ was very effective against ticks. Effect of the snail maromal control program in Carinthia ia not yet clear. Attachment of TBE virus to its ruceptor (TPI) is a twostep reaction consisting first of a loose electrostatic and later a stronger binding. TPI inhibits the infe...