An old world fruit bat Pteropus giganteus, held in captivity and suffering from necrosis of its wing digits, failed to respond to antibiotic therapy and succumbed to the infection. Samples submitted to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease were tested for viral infection. Vero E6 cells exhibited minor but unique cytopathic effects on second blind passage, and full CPE by passage four. ...

Writing a college-application essay has become rite of passage for high-school seniors in the United States, one whose importance expanded over time due to an increasingly competitive admissions process. Various commentators have noted disturbing evolution these essays years, with ever-greater emphasis placed on obstacles overcome and traumas survived. How we gotten point where are all too freq...

Abstract We present an analysis of the work Religious Sisters in Assam, India. They are involved anti-slavery/anti-human trafficking work, as well driving fundamentally feminist, economic equality, and human rights agendas within wider communities which they live. Their resembles that Non-Governmental Organisations, but unlike most ngo s, tend not to: produce annual reports, carry out evaluatio...

AbstractOcean liners in Canadian literature This article explores the idea of ocean liner literary imagination, asking how it has transformed from a functional machine into powerful symbol, and become focus for dreams terrors. The research encompasses English French novels poems which represent passenger experience on liner. Beginning with narratives emigration, discussion moves to travel writi...

At our second participation in NTCIR RITE, we developed a twostage knowledge-based textual inference recognition system for both BC and MC subtasks in Chinese. Two main recognition systems, which are based on named entities, Chinese tokens, word dependency, and sentence length, were implemented to identify the entailment and contradiction between sentences. The evaluation result showed that our...

the present survey covers a number of 91 iranian repatriated war prisoners who, six months after their freedom, approached three psychiatric clinics in tehran during 1989 and spring 1990. of these, 34 persons (37.4%) who showed higher symptoms of disorders were hospitalized and 57 (62.6%) who showed milder signs of disorders were carefully diagnosed mentally and psychologically as outpatients. ...

In this paper, we describe the IMTKU (Information Management at TamKang University) textual entailment system for recognizing inference in text at NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL (Recognizing Inference in Text). We proposed a textual entailment system using statistics approach that integrate semantic features and machine learning techniques for recognizing inference in text at NTCIR-11 RITEVAL task. We submi...

Hideaki Iida1,∗), Takumi Doi2, Noriyoshi Ishii3, Hideo Suganuma4 and Kyosuke Tsumura5 1YITP, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 2 Dept. of Phys. & Astr., University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506, USA 3CCS, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan 4Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 5Analysis Technology Center, Fujifilm Corporation,...