To investigate the influence of genetic differences in the MHC on susceptibility to avian coccidiosis, M5.1 and M15.2 B-haplotype-disparate Fayoumi chickens were orally infected with live Eimeria maxima oocysts, and BW gain, fecal oocyst production, and expression of 14 immune-related genes were determined as parameters of protective immunity. Weight loss was reduced and fecal parasite numbers ...

Spirulina maxima, a microalga containing high levels of protein and many polyphenols, including chlorophyll a and C-phycocyanin, has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory therapeutic effects. However, the mechanisms where by Spirulina maxima ameliorates cognitive disorders induced by amyloid-β 1-42 (Aβ1-42) are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated whether a 70% ethanol extract of Sp...

In the characterization of multivariate extreme indices of multivariate stationary processes, multivariate maxima of moving maxima processes, or M4 processes for short, have been introduced by Smith and Weissman. Central to the introduction of M4 processes is that the extreme observations of multivariate stationary processes may be characterized in terms of a limiting max-stable process under q...

It is common knowledge that the EM algorithm can be trapped at local maxima and consequently fails to reach global maxima. We empirically investigate the severity of this problem in the context of hierarchical latent class (HLC) models. Our experiments were run on HLC models where dependency between neighboring variables is strong. (The reason for focusing on this class of models will be made c...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate antihyperglycemic activity of methanol extract of Citrus maxima leaf (MECM) in streptozotocin (STZ; 65 mg/kg b.w.) induced diabetic rats. Three days after STZ induction, diabetic rats received MECM orally at a dose of 200 and 400 mg kg-1 body weight daily for 15 days. Glibenclamide (0.5 mg kg-1 p.o.) was used as a reference drug. Blood glucose levels...

• Circular Economy models are not able to change consumers’ practices of consumption. Consumption corridors a new formula social practices. define minima and maxima resources consumption levels. The space defined by is place where humanity have good lives.

The assumption that the elements of cost matrix in classical assignment problem are drawn independently from a standard Gaussian distribution motivates study particular field indexed by symmetric permutation group. correlation structure is determined Hamming distance between two permutations. expectation maximum shown to go infinity same way as if all variables were independent. However, varian...

Objective(s) This study planned to assess antidepressant like activity of aqueous extract from leaves of Citrus maxima Merr. (Rutaceae). Materials and Methods Boiling was used for aqueous extraction. Acute toxicity study was performed in mice. Antidepressant activity was studied using locomotor activity test, modified forced swimming test (FST) and tail suspension test (TST). Three doses 100...