In the United States, more than 90% of chicken meat is produced in the southeastern states, and most egg production resides in the eastern half of the country and Texas. Several molecular epidemiological studies have indicated that most infectious bronchitis (IB) virus (IBV) isolates obtained from outbreaks of respiratory disease in these regions correspond to Ark-type IBV in spite of extensive...

PURPOSE To investigate the anti-urolithiatic effect of cow urine ark (medicinal distilled cow urine) on ethylene glycol (EG) induced renal calculi. MATERIALS AND METHODS 36 male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 6 equal groups. Group I animals served as vehicle control and received distilled water for 28 days. Group II to VI animals received 1% v/v EG in distilled water for 28 days. Grou...

As part of the Ark Encounter Project at Answers in Genesis, a research effort has been initiated to provide information necessary for the best possible reconstruction of the animal kinds preserved on the Ark. This initial paper outlines the basic rationale that will be used and the underlying justification for it. The biblical text provides strong evidence for each kind being a reproductive uni...

Abstracts from the Amphibian Ark Biobanking Advisory Committee Workshop Towards a Biobanking Strategy for Amphibian Conservations from the Amphibian Ark Biobanking Advisory Committee Workshop Towards a Biobanking Strategy for Amphibian Conservation

PURPOSE To investigate morphologic alterations in the limbal palisades of Vogt in a progressive form of limbal stem cell deficiency. METHODS Twenty Norwegian subjects (40 eyes) with congenital aniridia and 9 healthy family members (18 eyes) without aniridia were examined. Clinical grade of aniridia-related keratopathy (ARK) was assessed by slit-lamp biomicroscopy, and tear production and qual...

The molecular mechanisms of apoptosis are highly conserved throughout evolution. The homologs of genes essential for apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster have been shown to be important for apoptosis in mammalian systems. Although a homologue for CED-4/apoptotic protease-activating factor (Apaf)-1 has been described in Drosophila, its exact function and the role of th...

Ark is an implementation of a consensus algorithm similar to Paxos[7] and Raft[11], designed as an improvement over the existing consensus algorithm used by MongoDB R © and TokuMX. Ark was designed from first principles, improving on the election algorithm used by TokuMX, to fix deficiencies in MongoDB’s consensus algorithms that can cause data loss. It ultimately has many similarities with Raf...

The prevalence of pneumoconiosis varies from 15–30% in various parts of India (1). Occupational asthma may account for about 10% of adult asthma (2). Asthma associated with work is being recognized with increased f requency in carpenters , saw mi l l workers and furn i tu re makers . The cause for occupa t iona l as thma i s wood/saw dus t . Ear l ie r s tud ies have documented increased incide...

We present preliminary results of the long-term spectral monitoring of two active galactic nuclei with different broad line shapes: Ark 564 and Arp 102B. Ark 564 is a bright nearby narrow-line Syfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy with relatively narrow permitted optical emission lines and a high Fe II/Hβ ratio, while Arp 102B is a nearby broad-line radio galaxy with broad double-peaked Balmer emission lines....