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Smith, Brendan. "The Bruce Invasion and County Louth, 1315-18." Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society 22, no. 1 (1989): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27729669.
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Brister, Ronald. "Bruce Wade: Tennessee's Forgotten Geologist." Earth Sciences History 13, no. 1 (1994): 47–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.13.1.y4wxp17373q18388.
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A burst of intense geological exploration and interpretation of the eastern Mississippi Embayment marked the first three decades of the 20th century. Bruce Wade, a Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins-trained geologist, played a central role in the interpretation of the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cretaceous deposits of West Tennessee. He discovered and described the perfectly preserved and extensive fauna of the Coon Creek fossil site, made detailed county stratigraphic studies, and is credited with discovering the first fossil insect preserved in amber reported from North America. Wade served in World War I and later worked in the oil industry in Mexico as an exploration geologist in the early 1920's. His promising career was cut short by a severe illness which left him confined in hospitals for the rest of his life. He died at the age of 84 in relative obscurity.
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Gilmore, Peter E. "“Hark ye, Sweet Liberty Boys”: David Bruce, Western Pennsylvania’s Federalist Frontier Poet." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 89, no. 4 (2022): 552–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.89.4.0552.
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ABSTRACT The poetry of Western Pennsylvanian David Bruce in the 1790s offers a unique perspective on the politics of a turbulent decade in a region emerging from frontier conditions. His advocacy of Federalist politics enjoyed vibrant coloration as verse composed in Scots. His choice of language expressed his own background as a recent Scottish immigrant while allowing him to pose as “the Scots-Irishman.” A project that began as an act of political ventriloquism became admonition, reproachment, and condemnation as Bruce used his poetic skill to criticize and ridicule frontier democrats who actually were Irish of Scots cultural legacy. His poetry both gives voice to the concerns of a Federalist shopkeeper and offers pen-portraits of leading “Irish Jacobins” (as Bruce would have seen them) in Washington County and their views in the years between the Whiskey Rebellion and the Democratic-Republic triumph in 1800.
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STARR, JOANN, and BRUCE E. ZAWACKI. "Voices from the Silent World of Doctor and Patient." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 8, no. 2 (1999): 129–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180199802023.
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Joann Starr, a Roman Catholic nun, and Bruce Zawacki, a burn surgeon, met 22 years ago in the Los Angeles County, University of Southern California Burn Center in the roles of a patient and her physician struggling over issues of autonomy and informed consent. After recovery, she remained a nun and has become a patient advocate and doctoral candidate in bioethics. He remained a burn surgeon and has become a bioethics teacher and author. Although they live in distant locations, they maintain their friendship and frequently discuss their shared experience. Recently they met to reflect on the events, lessons, and meanings of their original encounter.
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Morris, T. F., and R. I. Kelly. "Origin and physical and chemical characteristics of glacial overburden in Essex and Kent counties, southwestern Ontario." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 34, no. 3 (1997): 233–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e17-022.
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The overburden of Essex and Kent counties, southwestern Ontario, has been described as consisting of a clayey silt to silty clay till overlying a gravelly unit resting on bedrock. Recent Quaternary geology mapping has identified additional materials and redefined the origin of others by determining the stratigraphic position and physical and geochemical properties of materials encountered in a sonic drilling program and field mapping. Catfish Creek Till was deposited on the bedrock surface during the Nissouri Stadial as ice advanced south over the area. As ice retreated during the Erie Interstade, fine-grained glaciolacustrine material was deposited in glacial Lake Leverett and overlay Catfish Creek Till. Tavistock Till was deposited over glacial Lake Leverett material as the Huron lobe readvanced south during the Port Bruce Stadial. As the Huron lobe retreated north, coarse-grained glaciolacustrine materials were deposited in the Leamington area. Ice from the Erie lobe deposited the Port Stanley Till along the north shore of Lake Erie in Kent County and deflected meltwater southward from the Huron lobe in the Blenheim area. A series of recessional moraines were deposited by the Huron lobe as it retreated north. The area is capped by a fine-grained glaciolacustrine deposit.
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Catling, Paul M., and Brenda Kostiuk. "Some Wild Canadian Orchids Benefit from Woodland Hiking Trails - and the Implications." Canadian Field-Naturalist 125, no. 2 (2011): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v125i2.1193.
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To clarify the impact that trails have on orchids we compared the occurrence of orchids on the lightly trampled edges of bare trails, with the occurrence of orchids in the surrounding woodland and noted the degree of disturbance. A two-way mixed analysis of variance, using six trails from across Canada, indicated that location by distance strata interaction was lacking. Orchid densities were consistently higher within a few meters of the bare portion of a trail than further away. The width of the disturbance gradient for two well-used trails in parks in Bruce County, Ontario, was determined with regression to be within 1 m from the edge of the bare portion of the trail. Calypso bulbosa var. americana on trails in in Alberta, Epipactis helleborine and Goodyera oblongifolia on trails in Ontario, Goodyera repens on trails in Northwest Territories and all native orchids (cumulatively) on trails on Flowerpot Island, Ontario demonstrated consistent and significant increased abundance within the trail disturbance gradients in comparison to their occurrence in the surrounding forest. More flowering plants of Goodyera oblongifolia and mature capsules of Epipactis helleborine occurred in the trail disturbance gradient than beyond suggesting a beneficial impact on fecundity. The disturbance gradient effect likely includes light trampling which reduces competition, compacts soil, and exposes mineral soil. The effect also includes increased light and microclimate differences near to the path. Landscape managers should recognize that in some situations orchids may benefit greatly from trails and that trails may be better considered as a benefit than as a problem.
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Shirzadi, Navid, Ameer Nizami, Mohammadali Khazen, and Mazdak Nik-Bakht. "Medium-Term Regional Electricity Load Forecasting through Machine Learning and Deep Learning." Designs 5, no. 2 (2021): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/designs5020027.
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Due to severe climate change impact on electricity consumption, as well as new trends in smart grids (such as the use of renewable resources and the advent of prosumers and energy commons), medium-term and long-term electricity load forecasting has become a crucial need. Such forecasts are necessary to support the plans and decisions related to the capacity evaluation of centralized and decentralized power generation systems, demand response strategies, and controlling the operation. To address this problem, the main objective of this study is to develop and compare precise district level models for predicting the electrical load demand based on machine learning techniques including support vector machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF), and deep learning methods such as non-linear auto-regressive exogenous (NARX) neural network and recurrent neural networks (Long Short-Term Memory—LSTM). A dataset including nine years of historical load demand for Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, fused with the climatic information (temperature and wind speed) are used to train the models after completing the preprocessing and cleaning stages. The results show that by employing deep learning, the model could predict the load demand more accurately than SVM and RF, with an R-Squared of about 0.93–0.96 and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of about 4–10%. The model can be used not only by the municipalities as well as utility companies and power distributors in the management and expansion of electricity grids; but also by the households to make decisions on the adoption of home- and district-scale renewable energy technologies.
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Guiaşu, Radu C. "Range expansion of the vulnerable crayfish Creaserinus fodiens (Cottle, 1863) (Decapoda, Cambaridae) in Ontario, Canada, with added notes on the distribution, ecology and conservation status of this species in North America." Crustaceana 94, no. 4 (2021): 467–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10104.
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Abstract The distribution of the semi-terrestrial burrowing crayfish Creaserinus fodiens (Cottle, 1863) in Ontario was updated based on the examination of the records stored in the crayfish database of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and specimens collected during field studies. New Ontario locality records are reported for this crayfish species from MacGregor Point Provincial Park and other nearby sites in Bruce County, along the shores of Lake Huron. These are among the northernmost locality records reported for this species in North America. These new records represent a northwestern range expansion for this crayfish species in southern Ontario. As a result of these new records, the revised distribution of this species in Ontario is estimated to cover an area of about 32 620 km2. This is an increase of 7620 km2 over a previous 1996 estimate of this range. Creaserinus fodiens is a vulnerable species in Ontario, mainly due to the loss of suitable wetland habitats. Thus, the new locations and the range expansion reported here provide some hopeful news about the long-term future of burrowing crayfishes in this Canadian province. At some of the new locations, C. fodiens was found together with Faxonius immunis (Hagen, 1870), another burrowing crayfish species. However, this analysis of all the relevant records found in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto) and the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa) shows that our knowledge of the distribution of C. fodiens in Ontario remains quite incomplete. A survey of the conservation status and challenges for this crayfish species in various regions of North America was also undertaken.
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Morris, T. F., J. H. McAndrews, and K. L. Seymour. "Glacial Lake Arkona – Whittlesey transition near Leamington, Ontario: geology, plant, and muskox fossils." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30, no. 12 (1993): 2436–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e93-210.
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Proglacial subaquatic fans between Leamington and Colchester, Essex County, Ontario, were deposited in glacial Lake Maumee at the end of the Port Bruce Stade by ice retreating northward. Some fans were buried by till and glaciolacustrine materials. One fan surface, northwest of Leamington, was only modified by lake current that transgressed and regressed over it. An aggregate excavation (Bondi site) exists within the surface of this fan. We describe the sedimentology of the site that provides evidence for fan and overlying bar deposits.Lake levels fell to the levels of lakes Arkona (216 m) and Ypsilanti (122 m) following the deposition of the fans. Large terrestrial areas supported plants and animals. Their presence is recorded at the Bondi site by a single bone and several organic mats recovered from the fan and bar sediment contact at two separate exposures. Radiocarbon dates on the bone of 13 410 ± 100 BP (TO-1803), organic material dates of 13 225 ± 200 BP (BGS-1404) and 13 150 ± 100 BP (WE-01-89), the altitude. (209 m), and the sedimentological setting indicate deposition during the Lake Arkona (216 m) – Lake Whittlesey (226 m) transition period.The pollen and plant macrofossil assemblages recovered from the organic material indicate a forest–tundra environment, with a mean July temperature of 14 °C. This interpretation fits well with the bone identified as cf. Euceratherium sp., a shrubox. The discovery of cf. Euceratherium sp. is surprising, as its previous range was south and west of this site. The organic material was subsequently buried by the formation of a bar as water levels rose within the Lake Erie basin and transgressed the site.
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Suffling, Roger, Michael Evans, and Ajith Perera. "Presettlement forest in southern Ontario: Ecosystems measured through a cultural prism." Forestry Chronicle 79, no. 3 (2003): 485–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc79485-3.
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To better manage southern Ontario's natural forests, the former and present status of old growth must be understood. We hypothesize that old-growth pine (Pinus spp.), although dominant elsewhere, was less common in southern Ontario than popular history suggests: we are obliged to evaluate historical information that has been filtered both by the original compilers and through our own biases. Beginning around 600 AD, the predominant beech (Fagus americana) forest was partially replaced by maple (primarily Acer saccharum), oaks (Quercus spp.) and eastern white pine (P. strobus). This pine increase either followed abandonment of pre-Columbian agriculture or, more plausibly, accompanied climate cooling. Eighteenth and 19th century European settlers encountered abundant large trees, which they hewed for square pine timber, milled timber, and tanbark. Other stands were cut and burned for agricultural clearance, with a potash by-product. Until recently, Ontario research emphasized the old-growth pine stands of central and northern Ontario to the relative exclusion of other kinds of old forest because very few southern Ontario old-growth stands remained to study. Ontario forest resource inventory data (FRI) show stands of over 150 years totalling only 1475 ha in 1978, concentrated on the Oak Ridges Moraine, the St. Lawrence Valley and the Awenda Peninsula. Red (P. resinosa) and eastern white pine stands constituted only 5.3% of the 1978 forested area, with virtually none of over 150 years, whereas eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) stands constituted 12.8%. The difficulty in finding modern old growth necessitates historical reconstruction using physical, written and graphical resources, including early survey records and trade statistics. In a case study of 1822 survey data from Darling Township (Lanark Co.) and 1960 FRI, vegetation was classified using TWINSPAN and mapped using ARC/INFO Thiessen polygons. In 1822, dominant hemlock occupied half the township but it has since been eliminated as a dominant. Conversely, there were no pine-dominated forests in 1822, but these had increased to 16% of the area by 1960. A second case used similar methods, with 1855 data for St. Edmunds and Lindsay townships (Bruce Co.) and 1981 FRI. Although logging halved the area and reduced the stature of pines in the large pinery, the elimination of dominant hemlock (originally 41% by area) is more significant. Fragmentary square timber trade data suggest that at least half the large pines in Bruce County were in St. Edmunds, so pine must have been spectacularly concentrated in a few areas. The third case, a map constructed from Gourlay's 1817–1819 survey, also demonstrates that pine-dominated areas were in the minority in southern Ontario, concentrated on sandy soils around Lakes Ontario and Erie. However, big hemlocks, beeches, maples and oaks were much more common overall. Management responses to this information should include designation of older southern Ontario forest stands (especially those never cleared since settlement) for maturation into an old-growth state, and the systematic restoration of eastern hemlock and beech stands for conservation purposes in southern Ontario. Key words: old-growth forest, Canada, Ontario, historical ecology, forest history
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Guimarães, João Paulo. "Beyond the Pulp Vanguard: Bruce Andrews's Film Noir Series and the Dead-End of Escapist Experimentalism." CounterText 7, no. 3 (2021): 467–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2021.0247.
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Despite the fact that Bruce Andrews's interests cut across different aesthetic media, with concepts from music, dance and film many times determining the formal and conceptual contours of his compositions, scholars most often examine the latter as bona fide works of poetry. In this essay, we will attend to and flesh out the significance of Andrews's dialogue with the medium of cinema in two chronologically distant works: Film Noir (1978) and Swoon Noir (2007). I will contend that while Andrews uses the noir, in the first book, to attack the sensorially disabling nature of immersive art, in the second one, the famed pulp genre functions as a grand metaphor through which the poet addresses the ineffectiveness of intentionally non-immersive avant-garde works, like his own 1978 piece, to carry out a much-promised perceptual and ethical awakening. There is, perhaps, in Andrews's view, an escapist element, very much like that which colours most detective pulp fiction and cinema, to innovative works that purport to be forward-thinking and transformative but end up promoting a feel-good mood of powerless rapture and amazement. In this piece, we fully flesh out Andrews's critique of the vanguard's ‘cinematic’ ambitions and assess the alternative ‘miniature’ aesthetics he proposes. Only by drawing out and bringing its innovations into focus, Andrews claims, will the avant-garde be able to rescue the transformative modes of experience it reveals from their dilution in sublime-soaked pulp poetics.
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Fajinmi, A. O., O. O. Faleke, A. A. Magaji, et al. "Haematological changes in Wistar rats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma brucei brucei obtained from North-west Nigeria." Sokoto Journal of Veterinary Sciences 19, no. 2 (2021): 73–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sokjvs.v19i2.1.
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This study determined haematological changes in Wistar rats experimentally infected with local strains of Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Forty-five Wistar rats between 10 – 12 weeks old weighing between 210 – 240 g were used. The Wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups (A, B, C and D), with the infected groups (B, C and D) having 10 rats each, while the uninfected control group (A) had 15 rats. Group A rats were not infected and served as the control, group B were infected with Trypanosoma congolense, group C were infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei and group D were co-infected with Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Infection was achieved using 0.1mL of blood containing approximately 1 × 103 trypanosomes intraperitoneally into each Wistar rat in the infected groups. Clinical signs were observed. The changes in the blood cells were assayed in the groups post-infection. Duncan’s Least Square Deviation showed significantly (p<0.05) higher parasitaemia in infected groups. However, group D showed a higher significant (p<0.05) difference in parasitaemia when compared to groups B and C. The pattern of mean parasitaemia for the infected groups, revealed a positive correlation with days of post-infection (p<0.05) before the decline. The packed cell volume, total red blood cell count and haemoglobin concentration were significantly (p<0.05) lower in infected groups B, C and D. The total white blood cell count, platelet counts and differential leucocyte count were significantly (p<0.05) lower in infected groups when compared to the uninfected group. These findings suggest that co-infection with Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma brucei brucei obtained from Wurno and Ngaski in Sokoto and Kebbi States respectively produced a more damaging effect on haematological parameters.
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Oparah, Queen Nneka, Anthony Bedu kojo Sackey, Idris Alao Lawal, and Usman Shehu Abdullahi. "Haematological Indices in Trypanosoma Brucei Brucei (Federe Isolate) Infected Nigerian Donkeys (Equus Asinus) Treated with Homidium and Isometamidium Chloride." Macedonian Veterinary Review 40, no. 1 (2017): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/macvetrev-2017-0014.
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Abstract The efficacy of intramuscular administration of Homidium chloride (Novidium®) and Isometamidium chloride (Sécuridium®) in Nigerian donkeys (Equus asinus) experimentally infected with T. b. brucei (Federe isolate) was investigated. Changes in haematological and serum biochemical indices were evaluated using clinical haematology and biochemistry methods. Red blood cell (RBC) count for the negative control group was significantly higher than for the positive control, Novidium® and Sécuridium®-treatment groups. Haemoglobin (Hb) concentration significantly reduced in the infected untreated group compared with other groups. Packed cell volume (PCV) was significantly different between negative and positive controls, and also between the infected untreated and treatment groups. There was significant reduction in platelet counts post-infection and post-treatment. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) increased significantly in the treatment groups while mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) significantly reduced only in the Sécuridium®-treatment group. Lymphocyte count for infected untreated was non-significantly higher than for the uninfected controls, but treatment with both trypanocides recorded further increases, which were higher compared with that of the uninfected group. Post infection and treatment, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels increased significantly. There were non-significant differences in electrolyte ion concentrations across the groups except for chloride ion which recorded a significant reduction in the Novidium®-treatment group. This experiment revealed that Nigerian donkeys infected with T. brucei brucei (Federe isolate) developed symptoms of trypanosomosis; anaemia, lymphocytosis and thrombocytopenia. Treatment with the trypanocides ameliorated effects of the infection, and results suggest that immunosuppression may not be a substantial clinical manifestation of T. brucei brucei (Federe isolate) trypanosomosis in Nigerian donkeys.
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Ding, Yan-Bing, Jun Chen, Li-Xia Huang, Ye-Li Gong, Fa-Hu Yuan, and Jin Wen Tu. "Anti-trypanosomal effect of Malva sylvestris (Malvaceae) extract on a Trypanosoma brucei brucei-infected mouse model of sleeping sickness." Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research 16, no. 10 (2017): 2373–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjpr.v16i10.9.
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Purpose: To evaluate the antitrypanosomal activity of Malva sylvestris (MS) extract in a Trypanosoma brucei brucei-infected mouse model of sleeping sickness.Methods: Sleeping sickness was induced by the intraperitoneal injection of Trypanosoma brucei brucei infected blood in mice. Confirmation of parasitaemia was performed by estimating the parasite count in the plasma on the 12th day after inoculation. All the mice were divided into five groups: control group that received neither infection nor treatment; negative control that was infected with the parasite but did not receive treatment; MS-treated group that receive MS extract (250 and 500 mg/kg, ip) and standard (STD) group that received levamisole (7.5 mg/kg, ip) for 7 days after the development of parasitaemia. A further parasite count was performed in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) after the treatment period. Humoral antibody response, delayed hypersensitivity reaction, and mobilization of leucocytes were determined after the treatment period in SRBC-sensitized mice.Results: The results indicate that treatment with MS significantly decreased body weight and parasite count in the blood and CSF of mice with Trypanosoma brucei brucei-induced sleeping sickness compared with that in the negative control group. There was a significant increase in paw swelling and decrease in secondary antibody in the MS-treated group compared with that in the negative control group. However, treatment with MS extract also enhanced the mobilization of the total leucocyte count compared with that in the negative control group.Conclusion: The results demonstrate the anti-trypanosomal activity of Malva sylvestris extract via immunomodulation in a Trypanosoma brucei brucei-infected mouse model of sleeping sickness.Keywords: Malva sylvestris, Trypanosoma brucei brucei, Sleeping sickness, Immunomodulatory activity, Delayed hypersensitivity reaction
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Ezeokonkwo, R. C., and W. E. Agu. "Experimental infections of domestic rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) with Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosma congolense: A comparative study." Nigerian Journal of Animal Production 31, no. 1 (2021): 100–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.51791/njap.v31i1.1490.
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Comparative study of single infections of domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) with Nigerian isolates of Trypanosoma brucei (Gboko strain), and Trypanosoma congolesense (Binchi strain) was carried out in the laboratory for clinical and haematological effects. Eighteen rabbits of 10-14 weeks old weighing between 600- 1200 grams were used for the study. The rabbits of both sexes were randomly selected and divided into groups. The level of infection was studied by determining red blood cell (RBC) count, haemoglobin estimation, total and differential white blood cell (WBC) count, changes in body weight, mortality, rectal temperature changes and other clinical signs of trypanosomiasis. There was significant reduction (P<0.001) in the total red blood cell counts and haemoglobin level in the rabbits when compared to the control rabbits with the effect being more pronounced in those rabbits infected with T. congolense. The white blood cell count was also highest in those rabbits infected with T. congolense. Both parasites produced similar clinical symptoms which included weight loss, unthriftiness, anorexia, fever, paleness of mucous membrane, and oedema of the facial region. One death was recorded in each of the infected group. Possible reasons for the significant differences in the total red blood cell count, haemoglobin level, and total whitre blood cell count are discussed.
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Tarau, Paul. "Deriving Efficient Sequential and Parallel Generators for Closed Simply-Typed Lambda Terms and Normal Forms." Fundamenta Informaticae 177, no. 3-4 (2020): 385–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/fi-2020-1994.
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Contrary to several other families of lambda terms, no closed formula or generating function is known and none of the sophisticated techniques devised in analytic combinatorics can currently help with counting or generating the set of simply-typed closed lambda terms of a given size. Moreover, their asymptotic scarcity among the set of closed lambda terms makes counting them via brute force generation and type inference quickly intractable, with previous published work showing counts for them only up to size 10. By taking advantage of the synergy between logic variables, unification with occurs check and efficient backtracking in today’s Prolog systems, we climb 4 orders of magnitude above previously known counts by deriving progressively faster sequential Prolog programs that generate and/or count the set of closed simply-typed lambda terms of sizes up to 14. Similar counts for closed simply-typed normal forms are also derived up to size 14. Finally, we devise several parallel execution algorithms, based on generating code to be uniformly distributed among the available cores, that push the counts for simply typed terms up to size 15 and simply typed normal forms up to size 16. As a remarkable feature, our parallel algorithms are linearly scalable with the number of available cores.
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BARRASH, WARREN, and ROGER H. MORIN. "Hydrostratigraphy and distribution of secondary permeability in the Brule Formation, Cheyenne County, Nebraska." Geological Society of America Bulletin 99, no. 4 (1987): 445. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1987)99<445:hadosp>2.0.co;2.
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Jolayemi, KO, M. Mamman, D. Sani, M. O. Okoronkwo, and J. Amaje. "In vitro and in vivo changes observed in Trypanosoma brucei brucei-infected rats treated with artesunate and/or diminazene aceturate." Sokoto Journal of Veterinary Sciences 18, no. 4 (2021): 211–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sokjvs.v18i4.5.
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This study evaluated in vitro and in vivo antitrypanosomal effect of artesunate and/or diminazene aceturate in Wistar rats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei. In vitro screening was carried out in triplicates using 50 μl of 0.2, 2 and 20 μg/μl of artesunate as test drug; diminazene aceturate, normal saline and trypanosome-infected blood served as controls in a 96-well microtitre plate, incubated at 37˚C for 5 minutes. Efficacy was observed over a period of 60 minutes for reduced or complete trypanosomal immobilization. Results showed concentration-dependent cessation of trypanosomal motility was significantly (p < 0.001) induced by artesunate when compared to the controls. Seventy Wistar rats of both sexes weighing between 190 and 210 g were randomly divided into 7 groups (5 males and 5 females) are used for in vivo study. Groups I and II served as normal control and model control respectively. Groups III to VII were infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei (106 trypanosomes/ml) intraperitoneally. At peak parasitaemia (8 days post-infection), group III was treated with diminazene aceturate (3.5 mg/kg) intramuscularly once while groups IV, V, VI were treated with artesunate (200, 100, 50) mg/kg orally for 5 consecutive days and group VII was treated with combination of artesunate (50 mg/kg) orally and diminazene aceturate (1.75 mg/kg) intramuscularly for 5 days. Results indicated pre-patent period of 4 days and increase in levels of parasitaemia post-inoculation. PCV, Hb concentration, RBC count, MCV, MCHC and total leucocyte count decreased significantly (p < 0.05) between days 0and 8 in groups II to VII. Following treatment, significant increases (p < 0.05) were recorded except for groups II, IV, V and VI where the rats died. Thus, combination of artesunate (50 mg/kg) and half the standard dose of diminazene aceturate was able to reduce parasitaemia and ameliorate the anaemia elicited by the trypanosomes.
 Keywords: Artesunate, Diminazene Aceturate, Haematology, Trypanosoma brucei brucei, Wistar rats
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Onyeabor, A., M. Wosu, and and Ohaeri. "Corprological and haematological parameters of albino mice (Mus musculus) concurrently infected with Heligmosomoides bakeri and Trypanosoma brucei." Open Veterinary Journal 5, no. 2 (2013): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/ovj.2013.v3.i2.p96.
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The effect of concurrent infection with Trypanosoma brucei (T. brucei) and Heligmosomoides bakeri (H. bakeri) was investigated in this study. Thirty adult male albino mice were used for the study. The mice were divided into six groups of five mice each. Group 1 served as uninfected control, Groups 2 and 3 were infected with H. bakeri and T. brucei respectively, Group 4 received both T. brucei and H. bakeri on the same day, Group 5 was experimentally infected with H. bakeri three days after T. brucei infection, while Group 6 was infected with T. brucei three days after H. bakeri infection. Blood and faecal samples were collected and analyzed weekly to determine the faecal egg counts (FEC), packed cell volume (PCV) and level of parasitaemia (LP). Weekly body weights (BW) were also recorded. FEC and parasitaemia increased in all the infected groups during the study, but these were significantly (p<0.05) higher in the multiple-infection (groups 4, 5 and 6) than those with the single infection (groups 2 and 3). The same trend was also observed in the BW and PCV (p<0.05). The level of infection produced by single infection with T. brucei and H. bakeri respectively were similar (p<0.05). All treatment groups were significantly (p<0.05) different from the control group. From the results, it was concluded that concurrent helminth and protozoan parasite infections produced more deleterious effect on the host when compared with single infection with either parasite. However, the pathology produced by concurrent infection was more severe when the host was exposed to the protozoan parasite before the helminth parasite.
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Wemyss, Charles. "Image and Architecture: A Fresh Approach to Sir William Bruce and the Scottish Country House." Architectural Heritage 23, no. 1 (2012): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/arch.2012.0036.
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Erwin, Miles, Coleen Fava, and Ludmila Cosio-Lima. "Bruce Protocol Versus Costill-fox Protocol For Vo2 Max In College Male Cross Country Athletes." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 41 (May 2009): 262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000355354.54847.d7.
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Sovtic, Nemanja. "The non-aligned humanism of Rudolf Bruci: The composer and the society of self-management socialism." Muzikologija, no. 23 (2017): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz1723083s.
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In 1979 the oratorio We Are All a Single Party was performed, composed by the Yugoslav composer Rudolf Bruci, who in an interview for the Novi Sad daily newspaper Dnevnik explained his driving motives in the following way: ?I wanted to preserve the spirit of our revolutionary songs and to speak in a modern, familiar way, understandable to everyone, about the decades in which our revolution was born and grew; about the legendary activities of pre-war communists, the difficult days of the War of National Liberation, the liberation and reconstruction of the country, about Tito and his invaluable contribution to the development of our selfmanagement socialism and non-aligned humanism? (Dnevnik, 10 April, 1979). In this article I argue that the syntagm ?non-aligned humanism? is suitable for identifying the connection between the aesthetic and the political in Rudolf Bruci?s creative output, observed as a consistent author?s opus. At the core of this thesis lies the assumption that non-alignment in regard to the West or East was a major political and aesthetic orientation of Yugoslav self-management socialism. The intersubjective field of this self-management socialist pluralism produced creative entities - composers such as Bruci - whose works were created under the principles of direct political engagement and modernist aestheticism as different manifestations of the same ideology. Within the specific rationality of non-aligned humanism, the concrete poetic-morphological characteristics of Bruci?s compositions become coherent subjective (Bruci?s personal) and objective (social) achievements.
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Shecaira, Fábio Perin. "Analogical Arguments in Ethics and Law: A Defence of Deductivism." Informal Logic 33, no. 3 (2013): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/il.v33i3.3778.
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The paper provides a qualified defence of Bruce Waller’s deductivist schema for a priori analogical arguments in ethics and law. One crucial qualification is that the schema represents analogical arguments as complexes composed of one deductive inference (hence “deductivism”) but also of one non-deductive subargument. Another important qualification is that the schema is informed by normative assumptions regarding the conditions that an analogical argument must satisfy in order for it to count as an optimal instance of its kind. Waller’s schema (in qualified form) is defended from criticisms formulated by Trudy Govier, Marcello Guarini and Lilian Bermejo-Luque.
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Shi, Wen-Rong, Yan Liu, Xiao-Ting Wang, Qiong-Ying Huang, Xue-Rong Cai, and Shao-Rong Wu. "Antitumor Efficacy and Mechanism in Hepatoma H22-Bearing Mice ofBrucea javanicaOil." Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 (2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/217494.
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Brucea javanicais a traditional herbal medicine in China, and its antitumor activities are of research interest.Brucea javanicaoil, extracted with ether and refined with 10% ethyl alcohol fromBrucea javanicaseed, was used to treat hepatoma H22-bearing mice in this study. The antitumor effect and probable mechanisms of the extractedBrucea javanicaoil were studied in H22-bearing mice by WBC count, GOT, GPT levels, and western blotting. The H22 tumor inhibition ratio of 0.5, 1, and 1.5 g/kg bwBrucea javanicaoil were 15.64%, 23.87%, and 38.27%.Brucea javanicaoil could inhibit the involution of thymus induced by H22 tumor-bearing, but it could not inhibit the augmentation of spleen and liver.Brucea javanicaoil could decrease the levels of WBC count and GOT and GPT in H22-bearing mice. The protein levels of GAPDH, Akt, TGF-β1, andα-SMA in tumor tissues decreased after being treated withBrucea javanicaoil. Disturbing energy metabolism and neoplastic hyperplasia controlled by Akt and immunoregulation activity were its probable antitumor mechanisms in hepatoma H22-bearing mice.
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Olaosebikan, O. O., O. O. Alaka, and A. A. Ajadi. "Haematological changes associated with porcine haemoparasitic infections in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria." Nigerian Veterinary Journal 39, no. 3 (2018): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/nvj.v39i3.5.
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The study was carried out between January and July 2016. Blood samples were obtained from 153 pigs by venipuncture and jugular severance at slaughter. The blood samples were examined for all known hemoparasites detectable by light microscopic examination. Haematimetric indices, complete blood cell count and leukocyte differentials were determined. The level of parasitaemia and changes in blood indices were subjected to statistical analysis across seasons. Trypanosoma brucei and Eperythrozoon suis were the only hemoparasites detected in the blood of pigs during the period of sampling. The prevalence of haemoparasitic infections in sampled pigs was 5.23%. T. brucei contributed 3.9% while E. suis contributed 1.31% to the prevalence. Anaemia (PCV<32) was a consistent and significant finding in all parasitemic samples. Eperythrozoon suis caused more severe anaemia (20±9.89) when compared with Trypanosoma brucei (27±3.03). The anaemia caused by E. suis was mostly microcytic normochromic while T. brucei mostly caused normocytic normochromic anaemia. Mild leucopenia was observed in eperythrozoonosis while a moderate lymphocytosis was observed in T. brucei infections. It was observed that in spite of intense chemoprophylaxis and other control measures employed, we still have persistent infections with Eperythrozoon sp and Trypanosomes in our pig population. Further studies should be carried out to detect the possibility of drug resistance by some of these circulating hemoparasites in the pig industry. Attempts should also be made to control the vectors of these parasites which are usually abundant during the rainy season and may be responsible for the higher prevalence recorded during this period.Keywords: Porcine, Infection, Haemoparasites, Haematological changes, Nigeria
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Rowley, Peter, Robert Biek, and David Hacker. "Basin-range uplift and canyon cutting in 3 million years, Kingston Canyon, Piute County, southwestern Utah." Geology of the Intermountain West 9 (February 3, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31711/giw.v9.pp1-11.
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The Sevier Plateau is a gently east-tilted, block-faulted range in the High Plateaus transition zone of southwestern Utah. Part of this range underwent basin-range deformation, including at least 6000 feet (1800 m) of uplift, in a 3-million-year time span. The north-south range, whose southern end is just north of Bryce Canyon National Park, was uplifted and tilted by the Sevier fault zone along the western side. Kingston Canyon is a deep, east-west antecedent canyon that cut through the range and maintained itself during uplift. The deformation took place between 8 and 5 Ma, constrained by isotopic dating of pre-uplift rhyolite flows (8 Ma), now exposed on the crest of the range, and a post-canyon-cutting rhyolite dome (5 Ma), now in the bottom of Kingston Canyon. This episode of uplift and canyon cutting represents the most closely constrained example known in the Great Basin and adjacent transition zone of main-phase uplift by basin-range faults.
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Hounyèmè, Robert Eustache, Jacques Kaboré, Geoffrey Gimonneau, et al. "Molecular epidemiology of Animal African Trypanosomosis in southwest Burkina Faso." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16, no. 8 (2022): e0010106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010106.
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Background Animal African Trypanosomosis (AAT) is a parasitic disease of livestock that has a major socio-economic impact in the affected areas. It is caused by several species of uniflagellate extracellular protists of the genus Trypanosoma mainly transmitted by tsetse flies: T. congolense, T. vivax and T. brucei brucei. In Burkina Faso, AAT hampers the proper economic development of the southwestern part of the country, which is yet the best watered area particularly conducive to agriculture and animal production. It was therefore important to investigate the extent of the infection in order to better control the disease. The objective of the present study was to assess the prevalence of trypanosome infections and collect data on the presence of tsetse flies. Methods Buffy coat, Trypanosoma species-specific PCR, Indirect ELISA Trypanosoma sp and trypanolysis techniques were used on 1898 samples collected. An entomological survey was also carried out. Results The parasitological prevalence of AAT was 1.1%, and all observed parasites were T. vivax. In contrast, the molecular prevalence was 23%, of which T. vivax was predominant (89%) followed by T. congolense (12.3%) and T. brucei s.l. (7.3%) with a sizable proportion as mixed infections (9.1%). T. brucei gambiense, responsible of sleeping sickness in humans, was not detected. The serological prevalence reached 49.7%. Once again T. vivax predominated (77.2%), but followed by T. brucei (14.7%) and T. congolense (8.1%). Seven samples, from six cattle and one pig, were found positive by trypanolysis. The density per trap of Glossina tachinoides and G. palpalis gambiensis was 1.2 flies. Conclusions/Significance Overall, our study showed a high prevalence of trypanosome infection in the area, pointing out an ongoing inadequacy of control measures.
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Priest, Julie, Erin Hulbert, Bruce L. Gilliam, and Tanya Burton. "1019. Healthcare Resource Utilization and Cost of People Living with HIV (PLWH) in US Commercial and Medicare Advantage Health Plans." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 7, Supplement_1 (2020): S539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.1205.
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Abstract Background The goal of HIV treatment is to achieve and maintain virologic suppression to prevent disease progression. Patients with uncontrolled HIV and decreasing CD4 counts can experience more health problems and increased health care resource utilization (HCRU) and cost. The objectives were to describe the clinical characteristics, HCRU and cost of PLWH in US Commercial and Medicare Advantage health plans by CD4 count. Methods A retrospective cohort study of PLWH aged 18+ between 01/01/2014-03/31/2018 in the Optum Research Database was conducted. Patients were continuously enrolled 6 months before (baseline) and 12 months after (unless evidence of death) the first identified antiretroviral (ARV) therapy (follow-up). Patients were classified as heavily treatment-experienced (HTE) if their regimen indicated an ARV therapy used to treat multi-drug resistant (MDR) virus, Non-HTE if treatment did not include an HTE regimen, or Treatment-Naïve if they were not treated with any ARV medication during baseline. All variables were summarized descriptively by the CD4 count closest to the first ARV regimen and compared using chi-square or F-test/ANOVA. Results 5,522 patients met the inclusion criteria including 18% with a CD4 count &lt; 200, 70% 200-500, and 12% &gt; 500 cells/mm3. Patients in the lowest CD4 group were more likely to be HTE or Naïve, African-American, female, living in the South, earn less and have at least one AIDS defining condition (Table 1). Patients in the lowest CD4 group also had the highest mortality rate, (6% in the &lt; 200, 2% 200-500, 1% in the &gt; 500 group; p-value &lt; 0.001) and the highest rates of emergency room visits and inpatient stays (Figure 1). All-cause total cost among patients with CD4 counts &lt; 200 was 51% higher than those with CD4 &gt; 500, and medical cost was 207% higher driven primarily by inpatient health care cost. Similar trends were seen for HIV-related care. Among the lowest CD4 group, average total cost was highest in the HTE group followed by Naïve patients. Table 1. Baseline Characteristics by CD4 count group, cells/mm3 Figure 1. Percentage of Patients with All-cause and HIV-related Healthcare Utilization by CD4 Group Conclusion There are still PLWH with CD4 counts &lt; 200 cells/mm3 which can result in more AIDS defining conditions, higher mortality risk, and higher HCRU and cost. These results suggest interventions may be needed to diagnose and treat patients sooner and closely monitor the health of more advanced patients for worsening outcomes. Disclosures Julie Priest, MSPH, GlaxoSmithKline (Employee, Shareholder) Erin Hulbert, MS, Optum (Employee)ViiV (Grant/Research Support) Bruce L. Gilliam, MD, ViiV Healthcare (Employee)
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Smith, Wayne W., and Stephen L. J. Smith. "The use of rank order data in segmentation analysis: A case study of Bruce Country, Ontario, Canada." Journal of Vacation Marketing 17, no. 2 (2011): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356766710392426.
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HUTIN, YVAN J. F., VINCENT BROWN, VINCENT OWINI, et al. "TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE TRYPANOSOMIASIS IN TEREGO COUNTY, NORTHERN UGANDA, 1996: A LOT QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLING SURVEY." American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 70, no. 4 (2004): 390–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.390.
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Onyeabor, A., E. C. Uwalaka, D. N. Onunkwor, and H. A. Chimezia. "Physiological and Coprological Changes Associated with Single and conjunct experimental infections of trypanosoma brucei and haemonchus contortus in west African dwarf goats." Nigerian Journal of Animal Production 49, no. 4 (2023): 176–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.51791/njap.v49i4.3714.
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An experimental study on the interaction between Trypanosoma brucei and Haemonchus contortus infections was conducted on 36 male West African Dwarf Goats (WADG) of 8–9 months old. Coprological and physiological observations were made on these animals in different groups of 6 groups of 6 animals each. In this study, experimental single infections of either T. brucei or H. contortus and conjunct infection of both parasites produced an acute infection in WADG with initial parasitaemia occurring 7- 14 days post-infection and initial detection of egg in faeces occurring 14 days post-infection. The pre-patent period of infection of T. brucei and H. contortus were influenced by conjunct infections resulting in the early detection of nematode egg in the faeces and trypanosome in the blood of the infected conjunct groups. A high level of parasitaemia was observed more in group 3 compared to other groups. The faecal egg count and worm burden were more in groups 3, 4, and 5 than group 2. Judging from the degree of clinical manifestation, animals in the conjunct group appeared to be more severely affected. Haematological parameter changes were particularly more marked in conjunct infected groups (3 and 5). These observations may not be unconnected with the stress of the conjunct infections and immunosuppressive effects of trypanosomosis. This was very evident in the significant sustained decrease in the levels of packed cell volume, mean haemoglobin concentration and total red blood cell counts following the onset of parasitaemia and patency in the infected goats. The above observation confirmed the long-held view that both parasites precipitate anaemia and immunosuppression in infected animals.
 
 
 
 
 Une étude expérimentale sur l'interaction entre les infections à Trypanosoma brucei et à Haemonchus contortus a été menée sur 36 West African Dwarf Goat (WADG) mâles âgées de 8 à 9 mois. Des observations coprologiques et physiologiques ont été faites sur ces animaux dans différents groupes de 6 groupes de 6 animaux chacun. Dans cette étude, des infections expérimentales uniques de T. brucei ou de H. contortus et une infection conjointe des deux parasites ont produit une infection aiguë dans le WADG avec une parasitémie initiale survenant 7 à 14 jours après l'infection et une détection initiale d'œufs dans les fèces survenant 14 jours après. -infection. La période d'infection pré-patente de T. brucei et H. contortus était influencée par des infections conjointes résultant en la détection précoced'œufs de nématodes dans les fèces et de trypanosomes dans le sang des groupes conjointsm infectés. Un niveau élevé de parasitémie a été observé davantage dans le groupe 3 par rapport aux autres groupes. Le nombre d'œufs fécaux et la charge de vers étaient plus élevés dans les groupes 3, 4 et 5 que dans le groupe 2. À en juger par le degré de manifestation clinique, les animaux du groupe conjoint semblaient être plus gravement touchés. Les modifications des paramètres hématologiques étaient particulièrement plus marquées dans les groupes infectés conjointement (3 et 5). Ces observations ne sont peut-être pas sans lien avec le stress des infections conjointes et les effets immunosuppresseurs de la trypanosomose. Cela était très évident dans la diminution significative et soutenue des niveaux d'hématocrite, de la concentration moyenne d'hémoglobine et du nombre total de globules rouges après l'apparition de la parasitémie et de la perméabilité chez les chèvres infectées. L'observation ci-dessus a confirmé l'opinion de longue date selon laquelle les deux parasites précipitent l'anémie et l'immunosuppression chez les animaux infectés.
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Hassan-Kadle, Ahmed A., Abdalla M. Ibrahim, Hamisi S. Nyingilili, Abdulkarim A. Yusuf, and Rafael F. C. Vieira. "Parasitological and molecular detection of Trypanosoma spp. in cattle, goats and sheep in Somalia." Parasitology 147, no. 14 (2020): 1786–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003118202000178x.
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AbstractAfrican animal trypanosomiasis (AAT) affects the livestock of 12.3 million Somalis and constrains their development and wellbeing. There is missing data on AAT in the country after the civil war of the 1990s. Therefore, this study has aimed to assess the prevalence of Trypanosoma spp. in 614 blood samples from cattle (n = 202), goats (n = 206) and sheep (n = 206) in Afgoye and Jowhar districts, Somalia using parasitological and molecular methods. Twenty-one out of 614 (3.4%; 95% CI: 2.1–5.2%) and 101/614 (16.4%; 95% CI: 13.6–19.6%) ruminants were positive for Trypanosoma spp. by buffy coat technique (BCT) and internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1)-polymerase chain reaction (PCR), respectively. Using ITS1-PCR, the highest prevalence was observed in cattle (23.8%; 95% CI: 18.4–30.1%) followed by goats (17.5%; 95% CI: 12.9–23.3%) and sheep (8.3%; 95% CI: 5.1–12.9%). A total of 74/101 (73.3%; 95% CI: 63.5–81.6%) ruminants were shown coinfection with at least two Trypanosome species. The four T. brucei-positive samples have tested negative for T. b. rhodesiense, by the human-serum-resistance-associated-PCR. Trypanosoma evansi, T. godfreyi, T. vivax, T. brucei, T. simiae and T. congolense were the Trypanosoma species found in this study. This is the first study on the molecular detection of Trypanosoma sp. in ruminants in Somalia. Further investigations and control measures are needed to manage Trypanosomiasis spreading in the country. Studies should also focus on the detection of T. b. rhodesiense in the country.
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Maganga, Gael Darren, Larson Boundenga, Emmanuella Jacqueline Ologui-Minkue-Edzo, et al. "Frequency and diversity of trypanosomes in sheep and goats from Mongo County in South Gabon, Central Africa." November-2020 13, no. 11 (2020): 2502–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2020.2502-2507.
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Background and Aim: Trypanosomosis is a major impediment to livestock farming in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a vector-borne disease caused by several species of protozoan parasites, namely, trypanosomes. The present study aimed to identify the diversity of trypanosome species infecting sheep and goats from Mongo County and to determine the frequency of these parasites. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 286 trypanotolerant goats and sheep from Mongo regions located in South Gabon, using polymerase chain reaction. Results: Analyses showed that the overall occurrence of trypanosomosis in small ruminants was 13.6% (39/286). Our results also showed that two factors, species and season, could affect the occurrence rate of Trypanosoma. A total of six Trypanosoma species were identified, two in sheep (Trypanosoma simiae and Trypanosoma theileri) and five in goats (Trypanosoma vivax, T. simiae, T. simiae Tsavo, Trypanosoma congolense, and Trypanosoma brucei), though Trypanosoma simiae was the most important species. Mixed infections were also found in goats (54.5%) and sheep (3.57%). Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that small ruminants could represent a reservoir of biodiversity for Trypanosoma parasites.
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Wang, Tan, Kun Luo, Kuo Yuan, and Shuai feng Yuan. "The experimental study and finite element analysis of wheel - buckle scaffold." E3S Web of Conferences 165 (2020): 06018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016506018.
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With the rapid development of the construction industry, the country has a higher demand for scaffolding engineering, so it is very necessary to develop and promote the application of wheel buckle scaffolding. Steel tube scaffold with wheel buckle has the characteristics of clear transmission and good mechanical performance. In order to study the structural performance of steel tubular scaffolding with wheel buckle, the single span three-step element frame was tested. The failure mode and ultimate bearing capacity of the frame are obtained. The finite element software Sap2000 was used to conduct 3d modeling and linear buckling analysis of scaffolds in the test. The results of experiments and finite element analysis show that the failure type of steel tubular scaffolding is the overall torsional instability failure. The connection stiffness at the joint of the diagonal brace fastener has a great influence on the wheel-buckle scaffold. The diagonal brace has obvious influence on the bearing capacity of steel tubular scaffolding body with buckles.
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Guilmoto, Christophe Z. "Chiffrage et déchiffrage : les institutions démographiques dans l'Inde du Sud coloniale." Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 47, no. 4-5 (1992): 815–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ahess.1992.279080.
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It may safely be affirmed that in no country in theworld is it more difficult than in India to get accessto really valuable statistical information.J. B. NORTONEn 1854, paraît à Madras un pamphlet adressé à l'administration britannique. John Bruce Norton y brosse un tableau sarcastique des rapports entre les autorités coloniales et leurs administrés. Il dénonce notamment la profonde ignorance qui règne sur l'état de la Présidence de Madras et de ses habitants, et l'impossibilité de s'en former la moindre opinion, sinon indirectement à travers des écrits sans date et des témoignages intéressés. Son indignation traduit pourtant plus le passage d'une époque qu'un état de fait permanent, car les décennies qui suivront seront précisément caractérisées par un formidable développement de l'infrastructure bureaucratico-statistique du régime colonial, y compris dans le seul domaine démographique où les données couvriront bientôt des centaines de volumes.
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Melo, Ana M. P., Sofia Oliveira, Jorge S. Oliveira, Corinne S. Martin, and Ricardo B. Leite. "Making European performance and impact assessment frameworks for research infrastructures glocal." F1000Research 11 (August 2, 2022): 278. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108804.2.
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Sustainability of research infrastructures (RIs) is a big challenge for funders, stakeholders and operators, and the development and adoption of adequate management tools is a major concern, namely tools for monitoring and evaluating their performance and impact. BioData.pt is the Portuguese Infrastructure of Biological and Portuguese node of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures "Landmark" ELIXIR. The foundations of this national research infrastructure were laid under the “Building BioData.pt” project, for four years. During this period, performance and impact indicators were collected and analysed under the light of international guidelines for assessing the performance and impact of European research infrastructures produced by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the EU-funded RI-PATHS project. The exercise shared herein showed that these frameworks can be adopted by national RIs, with the necessary adaptations, namely to reflect the national landscape and specificity of activities, and can be powerful tools in supporting the management of RIs. “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts”. (Attributed to William Bruce Cameron)
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PERALTA, DENILSON FERNANDES, and DIMAS MARCHI DO CARMO. "A synopsis of the moss family Splachnaceae (Bryophyta) in Brazil." Phytotaxa 454, no. 1 (2020): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.454.1.6.
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We recognize four genera and six species of Splachnaceae in Brazil. Tetraplodon itatiaiae Müll.Hal. is proposed as a new synonym of Tetraplodon mnioides (Hedw) Bruch & Schimp., and Tetraplodon tomentosus Sehnem new synonym of Leptodontium capituligerum Müll.Hal. Three species are recognized as endemic: Moseniella ulei (Müll.Hal. ex Broth.) A. Kop., M. brasiliensis Broth., and Tayloria arenaria (Müll.Hal.) Broth. The species Tayloria scabriseta (Hook.) Mitt. is a new record for the country. We provide identification keys, comments, and diagnostic illustrations, as well as comments on their conservation status.
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Mallen, Evan, Heather A. Joseph, Megan McLaughlin, et al. "Overcoming Barriers to Successful Climate and Health Adaptation Practice: Notes from the Field." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 12 (2022): 7169. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127169.
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State and local public health agencies are at the forefront of planning and responding to the health challenges of climate hazards but face substantial barriers to effective climate and health adaptation amidst concurrent environmental and public health crises. To ensure successful adaptation, it is necessary to understand and overcome these barriers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative (CRSCI) provides funding to state and local health departments to anticipate and respond to health impacts from climate change using the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework. This paper explores the barriers to and enablers of successful adaptation projects among BRACE West CRSCI grantees, including Arizona, California, Oregon, and the city and county of San Francisco. The barriers included competing demands such as the COVID-19 pandemic, dependence on partners with similar challenges, staff and leadership turnover, uncertain and complex impacts on at-risk populations, and inadequate resources. The enablers included effective partnerships, leadership support, dedicated and skilled internal staff, and policy windows enabling institutional change and reprioritization. These findings highlight effective strategies in the field that state and local health departments may use to anticipate potential barriers and establish their work in an environment conducive to successful adaptation.
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Rowley, Peter, Robert Biek, and David Hacker. "An unconformity in the Pole Creek area (Sevier Plateau) west of Antimony, western Garfield County, Utah, and its bearing on the Sevier gravity slide." Geology of the Intermountain West 9 (February 3, 2022): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31711/giw.v9.pp13-24.
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Pole Canyon is cut into the western backslope of the Sevier Plateau of southwestern Utah, a gently-tilted, block-faulted range that extends north from Bryce Canyon National Park through the eastern part of the Marysvale volcanic field. The canyon exposes a spectacular angular unconformity that separates brecciated, intensely deformed, and steeply dipping Eocene to Oligocene sedimentary and volcanic rocks below, from gently east-dipping Miocene volcanic rocks above. Although identified in 1968 by the senior author, it took renewed geologic mapping in 2015 by all three authors to discover that the rocks below the unconformity were deformed by gravity sliding. We named it the Sevier gravity slide, one of the largest terrestrial landslides on Earth. The ages of the volcanic rocks above and below the unconformity constrain the age of sliding at between 25.8 and 23.1 Ma; later dating elsewhere put the slide movement at between 25.2 and 25.1 Ma.
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Thomas, Howard H., Troy L. Best, and Bernard Agwanda. "Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Rodentia: Sciuridae)." Mammalian Species 51, no. 978 (2019): 61–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/sez010.
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Abstract Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842), one of six species of Heliosciurus, is a sciurid commonly called red-legged sun squirrel. It is a medium-sized diurnally adapted tree squirrel occurring at ground-level to upper heights of the canopy of mature forests. It ranges from the west coast of Africa to Garissa County, Kenya. Adapted to an arboreal life, its frugivorous diet makes it a seed disperser for forest plants. In portions of West Africa, it serves as a source of bushmeat and it is a reservoir for human monkey-pox virus and Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness. H. rufobrachium is listed as “Least Concern” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
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Ovchinnikov, A., A. Deryugina, and S. Shchurov. "W244 Measurement of different salivary biomarkers in young cross-country skiers at rest and following the Bruce protocol exercise test." Clinica Chimica Acta 530 (May 2022): S422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2022.04.461.
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Bemba, Irina, Arsene Lenga, Herman Parfait Awono-Ambene, and Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio. "Tsetse Flies Infected with Trypanosomes in Three Active Human African Trypanosomiasis Foci of the Republic of Congo." Pathogens 11, no. 11 (2022): 1275. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11111275.
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Introduction: Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a neglected tropical disease still endemic in the Republic of Congo. Despite the continuous detection of HAT cases in the country, there is still not enough data on trypanosome infections in tsetse flies, trypanosome species and tsetse flies’ species distribution in endemic foci. The present study was intended to fill this gap and improve understanding of trypanosome circulation in three active foci in the centre and south of Congo. Methods: Pyramid traps were set in various places in villages to collect tsetse flies both during the rainy and dry seasons. Once collected, tsetse flies were identified using morphological keys. DNA extracted from flies was processed by PCR for species identification and for detection of trypanosome presence. A second PCR was run for different trypanosome species identification. Results: A total of 1291 tsetse flies were collected. The average apparent density of flies per day was 0.043 in Mpouya, 0.73 in Ngabé and 2.79 in Loudima. Glossina fuscipes quazensis was the predominant tsetse fly collected in Ngabé and Mpouya, while Glossina palpalis palpalis was the only tsetse fly found in Loudima. A total of 224 (17.7%) flies were detected infected by trypanosomes; 100 (7.91%) by Trypanosoma congolense savannah, 22 (1.74%) by Trypanosoma congolense forest, 15 (1.19%) by Trypanosoma vivax, 83 (6.56%) by Trypanosoma brucei (s.l.) and 2 (0.16%) undetermined species. No T Trypanosoma brucei gambiense was found. A total of 57 co-infections between T. brucei (s.l.) and T. congolense savannah or T. brucei (s.l.) and T. congolense forest were found only in G. p. palpalis. Loudima recorded the highest number of infected tsetse flies. Conclusion: The study provided updated information on the distribution of tsetse fly populations as well as on Trypanosoma species circulating in tsetse flies in the different active HAT foci in Congo. These data suggested a high risk of potential transmission of animal trypanosomes in these foci, thus stressing the need for active surveillance in this endemic area.
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Rasekoala, Elizabeth. "The seeming paradox of the need for a feminist agenda for science communication and the notion of science communication as a ‘ghetto’ of women's over-representation: perspectives, interrogations and nuances from the global south." Journal of Science Communication 18, no. 04 (2019): C07. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.18040307.
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The challenge to the science communication field put forward by Bruce Lewenstein, of the sector becoming a ‘ghetto’ of women's over-representation (see the commentary by Lewenstein in this issue), is a very timely wake-up call. This Commentary however, elaborates and frames the pivotal and constructivist premises on which this phenomenon should be interrogated and understood on many levels. It is critical that we undertake a deeper introspection, beyond just simplistic head counts of the number of women and men in the field, if we are to make sense of the seeming paradoxes that pervade the field, across the intersectionalities of gender, race, social class and other paradigms of inequality. This Commentary also highlights with qualitative and quantitative data how the interrogation of these developments in the field should bring on board inclusive global and diverse regional perspectives, critiques, good practices and nuances, to fully inform our shared understandings, and engender transformation in the field.
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Leggat, Sandra G., and Judith Dwyer. "The only constant is change." Australian Health Review 29, no. 4 (2005): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah050375.
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A COLLECTION OF FIVE contributions on health policy and system infrastructure from three countries opens this issue. Toni Ashton continues her thinking about the changes that make a real difference in New Zealand with an analysis of what she sees as significant opportunities for primary health care (page 380). Jonathan Shapiro discusses the problems that may arise in the implementation of the ?contestability and choice? open market agendas in the United Kingdom (page 383). Raisa Deber challenges current orthodoxies in Australian health policy (particularly the use of competition principles) from her Canadian perspective (page 386). As the term of the inaugural Australian Council on Safety and Quality in Health Care draws to a close, its chair, Bruce Barraclough, reviews the Council?s achievements and the work that is not yet done (page 392). Linda Mundy and colleagues report on a new initiative in this country?s continuing effort to manage the introduction of emerging health technology (page 395).
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Franken, Marcelo, Robert P. Giugliano, Shaun G. Goodman, et al. "Performance of acute coronary syndrome approaches in Brazil: a report from the BRACE (Brazilian Registry in Acute Coronary SyndromEs)." European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes 6, no. 4 (2019): 284–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcz045.
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Abstract Aims Diagnostic and therapeutic tools have a significant impact on morbidity and mortality associated with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Data about ACS performance measures are scarce in Brazil, and improving its collection is an objective of the Brazilian Registry in Acute Coronary syndromEs (BRACE). Methods and results The BRACE is a cross-sectional, observational epidemiological registry of ACS patients. Stratified ‘cluster sampling’ methodology was adopted to obtain a representative picture of ACS. A performance score (PS) varying from 0 to 100 was developed to compare studied parameters. Performance measures alone and the PS were compared between institutions, and the relationship between the PS and outcomes was evaluated. A total of 1150 patients, median age 63 years, 64% male, from 72 hospitals were included in the registry. The mean PS for the overall population was 65.9% ± 20.1%. Teaching institutions had a significantly higher PS (71.4% ± 16.9%) compared with non-teaching hospitals (63.4% ± 21%; P &lt; 0.001). Overall in-hospital mortality was 5.2%, and the variables that correlated independently with in-hospital mortality included: PS—per point increase (OR = 0.97, 95% CI 0.95–0.98, P &lt; 0.001), age—per year (OR = 1.06, 95% CI 1.03–1.09, P &lt; 0.001), chronic kidney disease (OR = 3.12, 95% CI 1.08–9.00, P = 0.036), and prior angioplasty (OR = 0.25, 95% CI 0.07–0.84, P = 0.025). Conclusions In BRACE, the adoption of evidence-based therapies for ACS, as measured by the performance score, was independently associated with lower in-hospital mortality. The use of diagnostic tools and therapeutic approaches for the management of ACS is less than ideal in Brazil, with high variability especially among different regions of the country.
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NEARNS, EUGENIO H., IAN P. SWIFT, and ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA. "Three new species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with notes on additional taxa." Zootaxa 5228, no. 2 (2023): 137–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.3.
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The differences between Methia enigma Martins, 1981 and M. argentina Bruch, 1918 (Cerambycinae: Methiini) are discussed, and a new country record for the latter is provided. Sexual dimorphism in Pseudosparna Mermudes and Monné, 2009 (Lamiinae: Acanthocinini) is reported for the first time, and two new species of Pseudosparna (Lamiinae: Acanthocinini) are described from Panama: Pseudosparna dimitrisi sp. nov. and Pseudosparna marilenae sp. nov. The female of Pseudosparna mantis Devesa & Santos-Silva, 2020 is described for the first time. Eranina dariae sp. nov. (Lamiinae: Hemilophini) is described from French Guiana. The type locality of Bisaltes (Bisaltes) bimaculatus Aurivillius, 1904 (Lamiinae: Apomecynini) is reported, and a new country record is provided for the species. Aerenea subsulcicollis Breuning, 1948 (= A. sulcicollis subsulcicollis) (Lamiinae: Compsosomatini) is synonymized with A. sulcicollis Melzer, 1932, and a new country record is provided. A new state record is provided for Schmidarius kondratieffi Santos-Silva, Heffern, Botero & Nascimento, 2020 (Lamiinae: Hemilophini). Tucumaniella Breuning, 1943 (Apomecynini) is synonymized with Cacostola Fairmaire & Germain, 1859 (Onciderini), and Tucumaniella brevipes Breuning, 1943 is synonymized with Cacostola volvula (Fabricius, 1787).
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Cantwell, Roch. "Commentary." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 6, no. 1 (2000): 39–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.6.1.39.
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In the sometimes sensational world of illicit drug reportage, there is one unsung villain. While heroin misuse remains the bête noir of tabloid journalism, ecstasy the demon of the dance floors and cocaine caricatured as the choice of the rich and famous, amphetamine misuse has lurked the shadows. Its use defies such simple categorisation and spans several groups in society. Bruce has provided a timely reminder of this neglected area in substance misuse literature and, in the process, has highlighted the relevance of basic information gathering as the most important tool in the armamentorium of drug misuse workers. The lack of prominence given to what they describe as a “hidden epidemic” is striking. Could this be because amphetamine misuse is a less prevalent problem than that of other illicit drugs? Evidence suggests otherwise. Amphetamine is the second most common illicit drug seized in the UK (after cannabis). It is easily produced and used in a variety of modes, and recent research confirms a high prevalence of misuse in this country reflecting that found in North American and Australian literature.
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Schneider, M. "Austrian agriculture: experience with the CAP and the anticipated effects of the EU’s Eastern enlargement." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 49, No. 2 (2012): 80–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/5269-agricecon.
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The transition to the CAP and admission to the internal market triggered a shock wave in Austria which caused fundamental changes in the country&rsquo;s farming and food industries. Behavioural patterns stuck in traditional routines and petrified structures began to break up. The resulting thrust towards modernisation has been a major success of the EU integration.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Eastern enlargement, about to be embarked on by the European Union, will have a&nbsp;greater impact on Austrian agriculture than the country&rsquo;s accession to the EU ever had. Farmers will have to brace for a loss of market shares and an additional pressure to adjust. The rural regions bordering the accession candidates will be particularly hit and thus require special attention in terms of economic policy measures. Agriculture and rural regions in Eastern Europe will profit from the EU-membership.
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Englund, R. "Country competitiveness: Technology and the organizing of work edited by Bruce Kogut. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 270 + viii pages. $39.95." Journal of Product Innovation Management 11, no. 4 (1994): 374–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0737-6782(94)90110-4.
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