Seasonal prevalence of members of the Culex vishnui subgroup, the major vectors of Japanese encephalitis virus (JE) in an endemic district of Andhra Pradesh, was investigated. Approximately 15,500 mosquitoes belonging to 2 genera and 5 species were collected by indoor-resting collections. The predominant species were found to be from the Cx. vishnui subgroup, which comprised 42.6% of the total ...

BACKGROUND Although a previous study predicted that Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) originated in the Malaysia/Indonesia region, the virus is known to circulate mainly on the Asian continent. However, there are no reported systematic studies that adequately define how JEV then dispersed throughout Asia. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In order to understand the mode of JEV dispersal througho...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of Anopheles subpictus Grassi as a vector of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) transmission in Cuddalore, an area of Tamil Nadu endemic for the disease. METHOD We collected 98 pools (4,900 specimens) of wild adult male An. subpictus mosquitoes outdoors during dusk hours and screened them for JEV antigen by antigen-capture Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay. Ad...

Japanese encephalitis (JE), once a major public health problem in South Korea, has declined since the 1980s, as a result of improved living conditions, a mosquito eradication program, and a national JE vaccination program, which includes annual booster vaccine for all children less than or equal to 15 years of age. Increased immunity has greatly reduced illness and death; however, vaccine adver...

In this paper we describe the creation of the Japanese SemCor (JSEMCOR) sensetagged corpus of Japanese. The corpus is a translation of the English SEMCOR, with senses projected across from English. The final corpus consists of 14,169 sentences with 150,555 content words of which 58,265 are sense tagged. The corpus is one of the corpora used to provide sense frequency data for the Japanese Wordnet.

Phylogenetic analysis of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) was conducted using core-premembrane and envelope gene sequence data of two strains from Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, in 1993 and five from Okinawa, Japan, in 2002 and 2003, and previously published strains. The two Vientiane strains designated as LaVS56 and LaVS145 belonged to genotype 1 (G1) and the same subcluster of ...

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) (Flaviviridae, Flavivirus) is an arthropod-borne flavivirus transmitted by Culex species mosquitoes. We report here the complete genome of the JEV genotype I strain JEV_CNS769_Laos_2009 isolated from an infected patient in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) (Laos).

Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decr. (Japanese knotweed) is considered to be one of the most serious invasive exotic weeds in Europe, causing significant damage to native ecosystems. However, with the exception of competitive exclusion of native vegetation, its suggested ecological impact is poorly supported by experimental studies. In 2004, we started to investigate the ecological impact of ...

This study examined the perception of short and long vowels in Arabic and Japanese by native Japanese (NJ) and nonnative learners of Japanese (NNJ). Ten Japanese vowels (5 short, 5 long) were given as response categories. As expected, the NJ listeners categorized the Japanese vowels more accurately than did the NNJ listeners (91 vs. 83%). Further, the NJ listeners tended to identify Japanese lo...

Praktická aplikácia číslicového regulátora neceločíselného rádu na riadenie teploty Príspevok sa zaoberá praktickým návrhom a aplikáciou číslicového regulátora neceločíselného rádu na riadenie teploty žiariča. V príspevku je ďalej uvedený matematický popis regulátorov a regulovaných sústav neceločíselného rádu. Pre použitie číslicových regulátorov neceločíselného rádu je uvedený príslušný algor...