Neospora caninum is an intracellular parasite which causes abortion in cattle worldwide. This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted during 2009 to investigate the sero-prevalence of Neospora Caninum infection among Cattle from three climate zones of Iran. Female animals that had abortion history were sampled. Totally, 226 serum samples were collected from cattle herds living in Ardeb...

During the early and mid-Pliocene, the period from 5 to 3 million years ago, approximately, the Earth is believed to have been significantly warmer than it is today, but the reasons for the higher temperatures are unclear. This paper explores the impact of recent findings that suggest that, at that time, cold surface waters were absent from the tropical and subtropical oceanic upwelling zones. ...

China accounts for approximately 30% of the CO2 emissions—one of the largest proportions from a single nation. Therefore, reducing the CO2 emissions in China will play a decisive role in global CO2 emissions reduction. This paper is a proposal of optimum insulation thickness (OIT) for the exterior walls of buildings in 32 regions of China to save energy and reduce CO2 emissions. The determinati...

We describe X-ray production in the atmospheres of hot, early-type stars in the framework of a “stochastic shock model”. The extended envelope of a star is assumed to possess numerous X-ray emitting “hot” zones that are produced by shocks and embedded in the ambient “cold” medium in dynamical equilibrium. It is shown that the apparent lack of X-ray variability on short (∼ hours) timescales do n...

An Al-1.08 vol.%Si alloy was cold rolled to a reduction of 98% (vM = 4.5) and then annealed at different temperatures up to 210C (0.52 Tm) for different times. The deformed structure is characterized by a nanoscale lamellar structure with the presence of Si particles of coarse (> 1m), medium (100 nm – 1 m) and fine (< 100 nm) sizes in the microstructure. Deformation zones are formed around ...

Because of the urban heat island (UHI) effect a metropolitan area is typically warmer than its surrounding rural area. This has led to a growing concern that the use of standard (mostly rural) weather data leads to inadequate decision-making with regard to the energy efficiency of buildings in metropolitan areas. This paper conducts a series of computational studies that explore the UHI effect ...

The Karazhanbas Field (KBM) is a giant shallow heavy oil field in western Kazakhstan, less than 460 m depth. It contains heavy oil (μ ~400 cP) in seven reservoir zones from several to 40 m thick in unconsolidated sands with porosities 28-32%, permeabilities of ~0.5 D, and an arkosic lithology with angular grains. There is no free gas cap, and the structure is divided into fault-controlled block...

Arid and semi-arid zones account for one third of the earth's surface land area and cover most parts of the developing nations in the world including Latin America, Africa, and parts of India and South East Asia. Nevertheless, these ecosystems are not exclusive of developing countries because they also exist in developed nations such as United States of America, Spain, Australia, and Israel, am...

Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), injury to late-season apple cultivars was measured at harvest in 2011 and 2012 in commercial orchards in four mid-Atlantic states. In each orchard block, a border zone (adjacent to woods), an interior zone (near orchard center), and an intermediate zone (between border and interior zones) comprised 1-3 tree rows per zone, depending on block ...

Aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Piliostigma reticulatum, a herb widely used for the treatment of diarrhea in southwest Nigeria, was challenged with clinical isolates of Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The ethanol extract exhibited the highest activity against the test organisms with zones of inhibition ranging f...