After the establishment of the first quarantine station in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) in 1377, the states and principalities of Italy developed a sophisticated system of defensive quarantine in an attempt to protect themselves from the ravages of plague. Using largely unknown and unseen historical maps, this paper reconstructs the extent and operation of the system used. It i...

Four crossbred cows with mummified fetus were utilized for the study. The cows were subjected to gynecological examination and based on the findings the cases were diagnosed as mummified fetus. The cows were treated with 2 mg estradiol valerate and 500 µg cloprostenol and were examined every 12 hr after 24 hr of the treatment for cervical dilatation and other signs related to fetal expulsion. T...

Different methods have been designed to calculate the air quality index in form of mathematical formula. But the formula designed by Central Pollution Control Board in 2014 is more robust to find out the air quality category. The index has been calculated based upon four parameters like particulate matters (PM10, PM2.5), sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide. The study area has affected by different ...

Geomagnetic field observations over southern Africa, including countries like South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana, were conducted during October and November 2005 as part of a collaborative project, called COMPASS (COmprehensive Magnetic Processes under the African Southern Sub-continent) between the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory (HMO) in South Africa and the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) ...

Locating events in Southern California is quite simple since we have about 500 stations, with a large fraction broadband (TriNet). We locate and identify within minutes. Thus, we have an opportunity to test hybrid methods against the full array estimate. Here we report on three projects addressing these issues; (1) locating events using one calibrated station with waveform data plus a few other...

Field tests of four different bait supplements were conducted in City Park, New Orleans, LA. The four bait supplements tested included two different formulations of decayed material, a sports drink, and the combination of an application of an aqueous solution of Summon Preferred Food Source disks with the disk itself. Although all the bait supplements in this study resulted in a slightly greate...

We present a molecular dynamics study of the low-temperature polymorph silver closo-borate ?-Ag2B12H12, which is promising ionic conductor. By means 1H and 11B nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we identified two dynamic processes in system that involve movements B12H122– cages: fast rotations with an activation energy 308 meV tumbling cages at lower temperatures 67 meV. Fast are known to...