375 Increased cardiac and stroke death risk in the first year after discontinuation of postmenopausal hormone therapy Minttu Venetkoski, MD, Hanna Savolainen-Peltonen, MD, PhD, Päivi Rahkola-Soisalo, MD, PhD, Fabian Hoti, MSc, Pia Vattulainen, MSc, Mika Gissler, PhD, Olavi Ylikorkala, MD, PhD, and Tomi S. Mikkola, MD, PhD Discontinuation of postmenopausal hormone therapy is associated with incr...

Late Preclassic (300 BC-AD 100) turkey remains identified at the archaeological site of El Mirador (Petén, Guatemala) represent the earliest evidence of the Mexican turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) in the ancient Maya world. Archaeological, zooarchaeological, and ancient DNA evidence combine to confirm the identification and context. The natural pre-Hispanic range of the Mexican turkey does not ext...

Rahman, S. 2012. Suitability of sunflower-hulls-based turkey litter for on-farm turkey carcass composting. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada 54: 6.1-6.8. Environmentally safe disposal of turkey carcasses is vital to a farm’s bio security and prevention of disease outbreak. Carcass disposal by on-farm composting is considered a viable mortality management option....

Abstract: Inflation targeting (IT) has recently become a popular monetary policy tool to fight inflation in advanced as well as emerging market economies. IT is assumed to curtail inflationary expectations; aiding monetary authorities implement disinflationary policies. The evidence toward IT’s role in anchoring expectations in practice can be at best described as mixed, if not confusing. In th...

Active serologic surveillance is necessary to control the spread of the avian influenza virus (AIV). In this study, we evaluated a commercially-available cELISA in terms of its ability to detect AIV antibodies in the sera of 3,358 animals from twelve species. cELISA detected antibodies against reference H1- through H15-subtype AIV strains without cross reactivity. Furthermore, the cELISA was ab...

Escherichia coli O157:H7, predominantly originated from beef, is a significant pathogen to the public health and thus, needs to be vigorously surveyed in meat samples. Three (6%) of 50 ground beef samples were found to be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, but it was not detected any of 50 chicken drumsticks. This contamination rate of ground beef samples indicated that unhygienic practices pre...

1 Helsinki University of Technology, Software Business and Engineering Institute, P.O. Box 9210, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland. Email: {Timo.Asikainen, Tomi.Mannisto, Timo.Soininen }@hut.fi Abstract. We study the possibility of applying configuration techniques developed for mechanical and electronics products to software. We analyse and compare the underlying concepts of three feature modelling metho...

In this work, we examine the effect of the 2016 Turkish coup on social media censorship, both by the government ordering Twitter to conduct censorship and as well by people removing their own tweets. We compared 5.5M tweets collected from Turkey pre-coup to 8.5M tweets collected post-coup. Although self-censorship of the press is not a novel practice following past military coups in Turkey, in ...

BACKGROUND Listeriosis, a life-threatening foodborne illness caused by Listeria monocytogenes, affects approximately 2500 Americans annually. Between July and October 2002, an uncommon strain of L. monocytogenes caused an outbreak of listeriosis in 9 states. METHODS We conducted case finding, a case-control study, and traceback and microbiological investigations to determine the extent and so...