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Detection of bovine viral diarrhea-mucosal disease (BVD-MD) virus in Dromedary camel in Iraq using ELISA/ A preliminary study
Get PDFBovine Viral Diarrhea-
Mucosal Disease (BVD- MD) virus causes a high economic losses. BVD-MD infects a wide range of domestic animals (cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goat). The causative agent,
Baghdad –Iraq
bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a member of the Pestivirus genus of the family Flaviviridae that composed of two genotypes (BVDV-1, BVDV-2) and each genotype has 2 biotypes: non- cytopathic (NCP) and cytopathic (CP). Only NCP strains of BVDV produce Persistently Infected (PI) animals. Eighty- eight blood samples were collected from dromedary camels in different areas surrounding Baghdad (Al-Shula, Abu- grab and Al-Fudhailiyih), as well as from Karbala, Najaf and Babylon governorates. All serum samples were examined using a BVDV specific indirect enzyme – linked –immunosorbent assay (ELISA) specific to BVD-MD virus antibody. Totally, 12 out of 88 (13.63%) serum samples revealed positive reaction for (BVD-MD) virus antibodies. Moreover, 5 / 22 (5.68%), 2 /22(2.27%), 4/22 (4.54%) and 1/22 (1.13%) revealed positive reaction from Baghdad, Karbala, Najaf and Babylon respectively. No significant differences were seen between male and female. In conclusion, this preliminary study approved presences of positive camels for BVD-MD virus. The author recommends to do another future study that included large numbers of camels and from different areas in Iraq, as well as observe the congenital anomalies and abortion in newly borne camels
Episodic encoding is more than the sum of its parts: An fMRI investigation of multifeatural contextual encoding
No full textEpisodic memories are characterized by their contextual richness, yet little is known about how the various features comprising an episode are brought together in memory. Here we employed fMRI and a multidimensional source memory procedure to investigate processes supporting the mnemonic binding of item and contextual information. Volunteers were scanned while encoding items for which the contextual features (color and location) varied independently, allowing activity elicited at the time of study to be segregated according to whether both, one, or neither feature was successfully retrieved on a later memory test. Activity uniquely associated with successful encoding of both features was identified in the intra-parietal sulcus, a region strongly implicated in the support of attentionally mediated perceptual binding. The findings suggest that the encoding of disparate features of an episode into a common memory representation requires that the features be conjoined in a common perceptual representation when the episode is initially experienced
Religious Radicalization: Dimension of Culture and the Foundation of Freedom
No full textThe origins of human culture and the foundation of freedom can be traced back to the religious nature of the species. Human ability to create an entirely worldly one, separate from the great synthesis, came only after a long period of experimentation and thought. Certainly, this is seen as a positive development in the current conception of culture and its historical context. Today, it is being debated whether the detachment of human work-from science to morality to education to the state to economics to art-from religious connections and connections has been beneficial both to culture itself and to human personality progress in the direction of higher concrete achievements and human development. The author utilized deductive reasoning to create a link between religion and the aspects of culture and the foundations of freedom in this research work, which uses a qualitative technique based on a deductive research methodology
Duality in Hamlet\u27s Character: Good and Evil Nature
No full textDuality means having an opposite or contrasting quality or characteristic. Duality in Hamlet\u27s character means that he possesses a certain quality or characteristic in his action, while in the same action, he conveys a completely opposite quality or characteristic. Shakespeare mysteriously creates his characters in his play: Hamlet, a character in Shakespeare\u27s play Hamlet, conveys contrasting stable dual qualities – good and evil nature – that make him both hero and villain. Throughout the play, his actions portray his courage, sacrifice, nobility, moral integrity, and determination, as well as his pride, vindictiveness, ambition, indifference, and unholiness. The author thoroughly read the play and studied the character intensively. The article focuses on the duality – opposite balanced characteristics – of Hamlet, which makes the audience pliable with his completely contradictory characteristics of him
Effects of lattice mismatch on interfacial structures of liquid and solidified Al in contact with hetero-phase substrates: MD simulations
Get PDFPublished under licence in IOP Conference Series: Material Science and Engineering by IOP Publishing Ltd. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.In this study, the effects of the misfit on in-plane structures of liquid Al and interfacial structure of solidified Al in contact with the heterophase substrates have been investigated, using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The MD simulations were conducted for Al/fcc (111) substrates with varied misfits. The order parameter and atomic arrangement indicated that the in-plane ordering of the liquid at the interface decreases significantly with an increase of the misfit, i.e., solid-like for small misfit and liquid-like for large misfit. Further, our MD simulation results revealed that a perfect orientation relationship forms at the interface between the substrate and the solidified Al for a misfit of less than -3% and the boundary is coherent. With an increase in the misfit, Shockley partial and extended dislocations form at the interface, and the boundary becomes a semi-coherent or low-angle twist boundary.EPSR
Measurement of the B0–B0 oscillation frequency Δmd with the decays B0→D−π+ and B0→ J/ψK∗0
Get PDFThe B
0
–B
0
oscillation frequency Δmd is measured by the LHCb experiment using a dataset corresponding
to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1
of proton–proton collisions at √
s = 7 TeV, and is found to be
Δmd
=0.5156±0.0051 (stat.)±0.0033 (syst.) ps−1
. The measurement is based on results from analyses
of the decays B
0
→ D
−π
+ (D
−
→ K
+π
−π
−) and B
0
→ J/ψK
∗0
(J/ψ →μ
+μ
−,K
∗0
→ K
+π
−) and
their charge conjugated modes
Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization.
Get PDFThe QT interval, an electrocardiographic measure reflecting myocardial repolarization, is a heritable trait. QT prolongation is a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) and could indicate the presence of the potentially lethal mendelian long-QT syndrome (LQTS). Using a genome-wide association and replication study in up to 100,000 individuals, we identified 35 common variant loci associated with QT interval that collectively explain ∼8-10% of QT-interval variation and highlight the importance of calcium regulation in myocardial repolarization. Rare variant analysis of 6 new QT interval-associated loci in 298 unrelated probands with LQTS identified coding variants not found in controls but of uncertain causality and therefore requiring validation. Several newly identified loci encode proteins that physically interact with other recognized repolarization proteins. Our integration of common variant association, expression and orthogonal protein-protein interaction screens provides new insights into cardiac electrophysiology and identifies new candidate genes for ventricular arrhythmias, LQTS and SCD
Evaluation of cost benefit analysis of municipal solid waste management systems
No full textThe rate of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in developing countries is continuously growing in proportion to the gross national product. Landfilling, incineration, composting, and waste to energy (WtE) have a brief history as management strategies for MSW in India. Economic evaluation via cost benefit analysis (CBA) of MSW is establishing the most appropriate treatment/disposal strategy and it is often a major concern for solid waste management (SWM) policymakers. Thus, this study aims to analyze the municipal solid waste management (MSWM) activities in India's capital, Delhi, and the CBA of MSWM systems to identify the major problems and limitations involved. Sixty-six samples totaling 6,600 kg were collected and analyzed at random from various locations, including the sources of generation, composting plants, and disposal sites. Storage, collection, transportation, and recycling information were gathered from departments such as Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), and self-surveys. The total costs of each MSW option were calculated for cost analysis. The results revealed a high organic moisture content, indicating the possibility of composting and bio-methanation, except for waste from commercial, institutional area and restaurants that can be used to develop Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF). It was also revealed that only about 80% of the garbage generated in Delhi is collected. In terms of treatment and disposal, the MCD has proposed additional facilities such as disposal through sanitary landfills with linings, as well as a system for leachate collection and disposal. Furthermore, construction and demolition waste are used in the construction of various pavement components, such as base coarse, surface coarse, and so on. The total social value added by garbage trade operations in Delhi is expected to be INR 358.7 crores (approximately 46.60 million USD) between 2017 and 2020. Recycling saves the municipal budget about INR 17.6 crores (approximately 2.3 million USD per year).(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Politik Hukum: Perbedaan Konsepsi Antara Hukum Barat dan Hukum Islam
Get PDFEfforts to promote Islamic Law in the life of Indonesian Community always appear throughout history. However, the concept of Islamic Law itself has been debated among the Muslims. For that reason, the present author tries to compare the concept of Western Law and Islamic Law. The comparison will be based on JND. Anderson's Islamic Law and the Modem World and Mawdudi's Teori Politik Islam. The author finds that the product of Law was influenced by political configuration. If the political configuration was democratic, the law will be responsive, but, if its political configuration was authoritarian, the product will be conservative. In this context, if the Indonesian Muslims want all products of law influenced by Islamic Law, the Muslims themselves should take part dominantly in the government, but also in the government beurocrac
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