The earliest members of genus Homo were surely bedeviled by blood-feeding arthropods, some of which doubtless carried zoonotic pathogens. However, the phenomenon of vectorborne human epidemic disease began only after humans began building settlements 15,000 years ago. Settlements offered pathogens not only host density but also opportunities for their vertebrate reservoirs and arthropod vectors...

Despite its doubtless success, Constraint Programming (CP) has to face two main challenges to develop its success: solving harder and harder problems, and being accessible to users with little to no CP expertise. To address these challenges, we are exploring the use of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to solve problems expressed in a regular CP Solver: ILOG Solver. Basically, ants iteratively buil...

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For the neutralization of the virus of poliomyelitis by antibodies, active complement is not required. In carrying out immunity tests it is imperative to choose a virus of established grade of virulence and to make adequate control observations. The neutralizing substances pass from the blood of actively immune monkeys into the cerebrospinal fluid when the permeability of the meningeal-choroida...

Doubtless, the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging in all aspects. However, rather than looking at exclusively as a catastrophic event, which generated insecurity, anxiety, panic and helplessness, I suggest investigating this insecurity anxiety through prism of existential philosophy. Drawing, particular, on work Søren Kierkegaard literature existentialist international relations, ...

The identification of plants according to the Linnaean system taxonomy is a cornerstone ethnobotany, allowing discipline be comparative science. To accomplish plant identification, ethnobotanists have long relied on collection voucher specimens and their deposition in herbaria. Here we critically analyze role botanical collecting ethnobotany bring attention range issues that can complicate, som...

Aside from the streptococci, micrococci have been the next most frequent group of organisms isolated from inflamed udders. They produce various types of disease. Some give rise to only a mild catarrh of the larger milk ducts and cystern, while others produce more or less severe parenchymatous inflammation. On the whole, the prognosis is more favorable with micrococcic infection than with that a...

Osteopontin (OPN) is an extracellular structural protein that is secreted by osteoblasts and hematopoietic cells. It suppresses the proliferation of hematopoietic stem and also plays an important role in promoting survival and drug resistance in leukemic stem cells (LSCs). Since the role of OPN isoforms in AML angiogenesis are remaining controversial, in the present study, we aimed to evaluate ...


 This contribution discusses two relief depictions, which follow the works of Greek master Lysippus. One partially preserved reliefs, depicting a youth in motion, characterised by lock hair on front has been hitherto literature differently interpreted; Josip Korošec explained it as Kairos. The depictions that deity share above front, nakedness, posture, and scales, attached to cords could...