The obligate parasitic bacterium Streptococcus equi subsp. equi is the causative agent of strangles, a serious disease of the upper respiratory tract in horses. In this study we have, using shotgun phage display, cloned from S. equi subsp. equi and characterized a gene, called sfs, encoding a protein termed SFS, representing a new type of fibronectin (Fn)-binding protein. The sfs gene was found...

This paper deals with the problem of existence of Berge and Berge–Nash equilibria. Abalo and Kostreva have proved existence theorems of Berge and Berge–Nash equilibria for S-equi-well-posed and (S, σ)equi-well-posed games, namely, Theorems 3.2–3.3 [Abalo, K.Y., Kostreva, M.M., 1996. Fixed Points, Nash Games and their Organization. Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis 8, 205–215.]. In this ...

Present study was undertaken to study the prevalence of β-haemolytic streptococci in equine of northern temperate region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. One hundred and forty one samples were collected in duplicate from nasopharyngeal tract of diseased (53) and apparently healthy equine (88) for isolation and direct PCR. A total of 77 isolates of streptococci were recovered from 141 samples with a...

Geophysicists typically produce a single model, without addressing the issue of model variability. By adding random noise to the model regularization goal, multiple equiprobable models can be generated that honor some a priori estimate of the model’s second-order statistics. By adding random noise to the data, colored by the data’s covariance, equi-probable models can be generated that give an ...

Abstract We consider locally o-minimal structures possessing tame topological properties shared by models of DCTC and uniformly expansions the second kind densely linearly ordered abelian groups. derive basic dimension a set definable in including addition property, which is equality for maps whose fibers are equi-dimensional. A decomposition theorem into quasi-special submanifolds also demonst...

In this study, we propose a novel approach to analyze a dynamic correlation network of highly volatile financial asset returns by using a network clustering algorithm to deal with high dimensionality issues. We analyze the dynamic correlation network of selected Japanese stock returns as an empirical study of the correlation dynamics at the market level by applying the proposed method. Two type...

Background: Disease prevalence is rarely explicitly considered in the early stages of the development of novel prognostic tests. Rather, researchers use the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) as the key metric to gauge and report predictive performance ability. Because this statistic does not account for disease prevalence, proposed tests may not appropriately address clin...

There is currently no licensed vaccine that protects foals against Rhodococcus equi-induced pneumonia. Oral administration of live, virulent R. equi to neonatal foals has been demonstrated to protect against subsequent intrabronchial challenge with virulent R. equi. Electron beam (eBeam)-inactivated R. equi are structurally intact and have been demonstrated to be immunogenic when administered o...