While a brief or lightly-articulated nasal consonant has long been reported after word-final nasal vowels in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), little is known about its place of articulation or factors contributing to its occurrence. The results of an electropalatographic (EPG) study indicate that the consonant’s emergence is most likely tied to the tongue position of the nasal vowel and that its plac...

We answer some of the questions raised by Golumbic, Lipshteyn and Stern regarding edge intersection graphs of paths on a grid (EPG graphs). We prove that for any d ≥ 4, in order to represent all n vertex graphs with maximum degree d as edge intersection graphs of n paths, a grid of area Θ(n2) is needed. A bend is a turn of a path at a grid point. Let Bk be the class of graphs that have an EPG r...

Effectively communicating the software process model to the software engineers is essential in enabling them to understand the overall process as well as specific areas of focus. To satisfy the objective of helping students learn the software processes, an Electronic Process Guide (EPG) for the Incremental Commitment Model (ICM) has been developed by the University of Southern California (USC) ...

In tropical and subtropical countries, the husbandry practices and the environment is ideal for parasite infestation and subsequent reduced productivity in cattle. The most important parasites are liver flukes, schistosomes, amphistomes, cestodes and GI tract nematodes. Oxfendazole is the sulphoxide metabolite of fenbendazole and responsible for that efficacy spectrum of fenbendazole. Oxfendazo...

The aim of this work was to study the epidemiology and harmful effects of gastrointestinal nematodes (GINs) on dairy goats maintained in an intensive system. Two groups of goats were studied: untreated group (UG) (subdivided into UGjun goats that kidded in June, and UGjul goats that kidded in July) and treated group (TG) (with no subgroups, treated with monepantel: 3.75 mg/kg, orally, monthly)....

Background: It is necessary to identify phenotypic traits related to natural resistance against gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) in order to know the host immunity status in productive ewes. Objetive: To determine haematological and immunological parameters (IgA and IgG) during pregnancy and lactation in Blackbelly ewes naturally infected with GIN. Methods: The number of eggs per gram (EPG), pa...

More sensitive methodologies are necessary to improve strongyloidiasis diagnosis. This study compared the sensitivities of the McMaster modified technique and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays, both performed in faecal samples. Lewis rats were subcutaneously infected with 4,000, 400 or 40 infective third-stage larvae, considered as high, moderate or low infection, respectively. Seven days ...

Hookworms infect more than 10% of the world's population, but current diagnostic tools have drawbacks. Our objective was to compare the diagnostic performance of three methods (Kato-Katz, ether concentration and FLOTAC techniques) for hookworm diagnosis. Stool samples were obtained from 102 schoolchildren in Côte d'Ivoire. First, a duplicate 41.7mg Kato-Katz thick smear was prepared. Next, a sm...

background: schistosomiasis is one of the major communicable diseases of public health and socioeconomic importance in developing countries. this study assessed the situation of schistosomiasis among villagers of the new halfa agricultural scheme, sudan. methods: an epidemiological survey was carried out in three randomly selected residential sites: village 19, village 26 and talat shagrat camp...