We demonstrated that Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus replicated in and adapted rapidly to human diploid cell strain WI-38. Peak titers of approximately 10(9.8) mouse intracerebral 50% lethal doses were obtained at low passage levels in Eagles basal medium supplemented with calf serum. VEE virus replicated poorly in serum-free medium. Propagation of VEE virus was accompanied by t...

This project aims to develop linguistic resources to support computational NLP research on the Igbo language. The starting point for this project is the development of a new part-of-speech tagging scheme based on the EAGLES tagset guidelines, adapted to incorporate additional language internal features. The tags are currently being used in a part-of-speech annotation task for the development of...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems often encounter a problem called partial shading condition (PSC), which causes significant decrease in the system’s output power. To address this issue, meta-heuristic algorithms (MHAs) can be used to perform maximum power point tracking (MPPT) on multiple-peak P-V curves due PSCs. Particle swarm optimization was one of first MHA methods implemented for MPPT. How...

JOURNAL OF PESTICIDE REFORM / WINTER 1991 / VOL. 11, NO. 4 Caroline Cox is JPR’s editor. pearance of peregrine falcons (see article beginning on p.), bald and golden eagles, ospreys, kestrels, and other predatory birds were recorded. DDT’s history certainly paints a frightening picture. But what about the many other pesticides in use today? How do they impact birds? This article is a brief over...

In this paper we first discuss the wide variety of possible scenarios in which an evaluation may be carried out. On this basis, an attempt is made to pick out some general characteristics relevant to the design of evaluations and the search for a general framework for evaluation methodologies is motivated. Some resources for use in data collection for evaluation purposes are briefly described a...

The Scottish Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists conducted a survey of members and fellows in 2003 on recruitment and retention within psychiatry. Responses relating to retirement intentions of consultants have been published previously (Eagles et al, 2005). Respondents were asked to give views about improving recruitment, and by far the most common suggestion was that this could be ...

When annotating non-standard languages, descriptively incomplete language phenomena (EAGLES, 1996) are often encountered. In this paper, we present examples of ambiguous forms taken from a historical corpus and offer a classification of such descriptively incomplete language phenomena and its rationale. We then discuss various approaches to the annotation of these phenomena, arguing that multip...