Over 5 years (2000-2004), populations of small mammals from a rural landscape in southern Moravia (Czech Republic) were investigated for the presence of Tula virus (TULV) antigen using the ELISA set Hantagnost. In total, 1566 individuals from 10 species were examined. The prevalence in the common vole (Microtus arvalis Pallas 1778), the main reservoir of TULV, was 10% (n = 871). The prevalence ...

These difficult questions, now much diseussed, are in fact very old, indeed as old as the beginnings of Western medieine. According to an ancient Greek myth, the goddess Athena procured two powerful drugs in the form of blood taken from the Gorgon Medusa, the blood drawn from her left side providing protection against death, that from her right side a deadly poison. According to one version of ...

Three years of continuous measurements of aerosol optical properties and simultaneous aerosol number size distribution measurements at Pallas GAW station, a remote subarctic site in the northern border of the boreal forest zone, have been analysed. The scattering coefficient at 550 nm varied from 0.2 to 94.4 Mm−1 with an average of 7.1±8.6 Mm−1. Both the scattering and backscattering coefficien...

A new set of ephemerides for 15 of the largest asteroids has been produced for use in the Astronomical Almanac. The ephemerides cover the period from 1800 through 2100. The internal uncertainty in the mean longitude at epoch, 1997 December 18, ranges from for 7 Iris through for 65 Cybele, and 0A.05 0A.22 the uncertainty in the mean motion varies from per century for 4 Vesta to per century for 5...

Numerical relativity is central to the investigation of astrophysical sources in dynamical and strong-field gravity regime, such as binary black hole neutron star coalescences. Current challenges set by gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy call for highly performant scalable codes on modern massively-parallel architectures. We present GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic, high-order, ver...

Dynamic Programming Dimitri P. Bertsekas Massachusetts Institute of Technology WWW site for book information and orders http://www.athenasc.com Athena Scientific, Belmont, Massachusetts

BACKGROUND Flow-based, multiplex bead arrays (MBA) have been developed for a variety of applications including the detection of antibodies to extractable nuclear antigens (ENA). It offers a rapid and sensitive method to assess multiple analyses in a single tube/well. PURPOSE To evaluate the Athena Multi-Lyte ANA Test System utilizes Luminex Corporation's MBA technology for the detection of an...

We propose a new efficient automatic verification technique, Athena, for security protocol analysis. It uses a new efficient representation — our extension to the Strand Space Model, and utilizes techniques from both model checking and theorem proving approaches. Athena is fully automatic and is able to prove the correctness of many security protocols with arbitrary number of concurrent runs. T...

Music information retrieval (MIR) as a nascent discipline is blessed with a multi-disciplinary group of people endeavoring to bring their respective knowledge-bases and research paradigms to bear on MIR problems. Communication difficulties across disciplinary boundaries, however, threaten to impede the maturation of MIR into a full-fledge discipline. The principal causes of the communications b...