BACKGROUND The study objective was to investigate the effect of bare concrete slats (Control), two types of mats [(Easyfix mats (mat 1) and Irish Custom Extruder mats (mat 2)] fitted on top of concrete slats, and wood-chip to simulate deep bedding (wood-chip placed on top of a plastic membrane overlying the concrete slats) on performance, physiological and behavioral responses of finishing beef...

Three nuclear localization signals (NLS), including an unusual Mat alpha 2-like NLS from maize (Zea mays) R, were found to compete for binding to plant nuclei. In addition, the authentic yeast Mat alpha 2 NLS, which does not function in mammals, was shown to function in plants in vivo. Our results indicate that plants possess a site at the nuclear pore complex that recognizes the three known cl...

The residual serological reactivity observed in patients cured of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) represents the major factor underlying the low efficiency of most anti-Leishmania serological approaches to assess posttherapeutic cure in VL. Herein, we have described a detuned flow cytometry-based methodology to detect anti-live (FC-ALPA-immunoglobulin G [IgG]) and anti-fixed (FC-AFPA-IgG) L. chagas...

background: neospora caninum , an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite, is recognized as a major cause of abortion in cattle, while limited information is presently available on the seropreva­lence of neospora antibodies in horses' worldwide .the aim of the present study was to de­termine serologic prevalence of neospora infection in horses in iran. methods: sera from 150 horses from mashh...

Leptospirosis is worldwide zoonotic disease that is serious problem in south Indian states and now emerging in North India. The focus these days is to develop recombinant outer membrane protein based Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for seroprevalence of leptospirosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate indirect ELISA based on recombinant LipL41, Loa22, LipL21, LipL32 and OmpL1 prot...

OBJECTIVES Increasing bilateral gluteus medius co-activation has been identified as one of the most important factors in developing low back pain due to prolonged standing in healthy people. This study aims to investigate the impact of an anti-fatigue mat on the bilateral gluteus medius co-activation pattern and to report the low back pain subjectively in 2 different standing positions on the n...

leptospirosis in cattle is a worldwide problem associated with abortion, agalactia, still birth and infertility resulting in major economic losses to dairy industry. there is lack of data regarding seroprevalence of bovine leptospirosis in eastern india. so, with the aim to investigate the prevalence of the disease in odisha and west bengal state of eastern india, a total of 350 cattle serum sa...

Mobile Agent Template (MAT) is a mobile agent system that is under study and development at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and sponsored by the University of Wollongong, Australia. MAT is not an alternative to other mobile agent systems, but is an agent system that can provide the autonomy to mobile agents. MAT tries to support new Web applications, such as t...

This paper describes a novel approach to generating a multi-block decomposition of 2-D domains into high quality quad sub-regions using the medial axis transform (MAT). Bunin's continuum theory for unstructured mesh generation [1] is used as a means of understanding how the information contained in the MAT can be used to find effective positions for mesh dislocations.

Two mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been isolated from normal haploid MAT alpha strains and characterized as having temperature-sensitive, pleiotropic phenotypes for functions associated with mating. At the permissive temperature, 23 degrees C, they were found to behave as normal MAT alpha haploids with respect to mating efficiency, sporulation in diploids formed with MAT a strains, se...