Highlights • Parasitic bronchitis (Husk) frequently diagnosed in cattle • Two outbreaks of botulism in cattle and one in sheep investigated • Bovine Babesiosis incidents in North Wales, The South West and Scottish borders • Parasitic gastroenteritis continuing to cause losses in sheep • Cases of acute fasciolosis in sheep provide an early warning of a high risk of disease • Histomoniasis (black...

An 18-vertical level primitive equation general circulation model was developed from previous models of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in order to study t,he lower stratosphere in detail. The altitude range covered was from the surface to 4 mb. (37.5 km.), the vertical resolution being optimized in the tropopause region to permit a more accurate calculation of the vertical transport ...

SINCE 1946 a meeting has been held monthly in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, during the months September to June. It has been attended by the staff of both maternity hospitals and by representatives from the Department of Pathology, the Ministry of Health, and the City Borough Healthi Department. At this meeting the monthly statistical reports for the Jubilee Maternity Hospital and the ...

In this paper we explore the relationship between monthly random breath testing (RBT) rates (per 1000 licensed drivers) and alcohol-related traffic crash (ARTC) rates over time, across two Australian states: Queensland and Western Australia. We analyse the RBT, ARTC and licensed driver rates across 12 years; however, due to administrative restrictions, we model ARTC rates against RBT rates for ...

emphasisedl the difficulties which hadl to be met in producinig such a report. Ihc recommen(latioins of the Royal College of Obstetricians and(l Gyvncologists had been a help in this respect. anld tilc report tolloWe(l thc plal suggested by their committee. The speaker sumnmiiarised the mainl features ol the} report, and compared them wvith similar reports fromii teni other hospitals in Great 1...

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In the last in our three-part series on myopia, Catherine Viner considers the assessment and correction of myopia in practice. Module C15569, one general point for optometrists and DOs Part 3: Assessment and correction T he predominant symptom in uncorrected (or undercorrected) myopia is blurred distance vision.1-3 It is suggested that because this symptom is so readily apparent, myopes account...