In recent years, delegates to the OIE have voiced concern about the situation of many Official Veterinary Services (OVS). They emphasized the need to make these services responsive to present and future requirements of the animal industry, both in developed countries (with either market or planned economies) and in developing countries. There is broad agreement on the obsolescence of many OVS i...

The critical reactions of Bentler (2009, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9100-1), Green and Yang (2009a, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9098-4; 2009b, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9099-3), and Revelle and Zinbarg (2009, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9102-z) to Sijtsma's (2009, doi:10.1007/s11336-008-9101-0) paper on Cronbach's alpha are addressed. The dissemination of psychometric knowledge among substantive researchers is ...

Tailoring steps are often important for the activity of mature antibiotics. Here, we report that novel decarboxylated FR-008/candicidin derivatives were obtained from the P450 monooxygenase gene fscP mutant of Streptomyces sp. strain FR-008. The toxicity of decarboxylated FR-008/candicidin derivatives has been shown to be greatly reduced compared to that of wild-type FR-008/candicidin.

Abstract We report an inconsistent way of plotting in a figure Furuchi R, Nakano H, Todoroki N and Sakai T (2021 J. Phys. Commun. 5 125 008) present consistent figure. This replacement does not change the main conclusions 008).

We construct a Z8 model for leptons where all Yukawa couplings are of order unity, but known lepton masses are generated radiatively, order by order. The seed is provided by fourth generation leptons E and N , which receive (Dirac) mass in usual way. Two additional Higgs doublets with nontrivial Z8 charge are introduced to give nearest neighbor Yukawa couplings. Hence, nonstandard Higgs bosons ...

Anthocyanins, which are responsible for a variety of bright colors (including red, blue, and purple) in fruits, vegetables, and flowers, are consumed as dietary polyphenols. Anthocyanin-containing fruits are thought to decrease coronary heart disease and are used in anti-diabetic preparations. Diabetes is associated with a variety of cardiovascular complications that may be mediated by endothel...

For e.g when we consider the word bug, we have many words that semantically mean the same like insect, beetle etc. However the word bug may also mean error, glitch, problem and so on. Each of these words are lexically similar to the word bug, however they may not be similar to each other. For instance, error and insect do not mean the same. So different senses of a word may not be lexically sim...