The objective of this study was to characterize the antibody prevalence of important livestock and domestic animal pathogens ill raccoons (Procyon lotor) trapped and sampled in 39 forest patches ill north-central Indi...
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The objective of this study was to characterize the antibody prevalence of important livestock and domestic animal pathogens ill raccoons (Procyon lotor) trapped and sampled in 39 forest patches ill north-central Indiana, USA, between 2004 and 2005. A total of 459 serum samples were tested for antibodies to Leptospira serovars, 512 for Canine distemper virus (CDV) antibodies, and 340 for antibodies to Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). In total, 47,16, and 0% of the samples were seropositive for at least one Leptospira serovar, CDV, and PRRSV, respectively. Most of the positive Leptospira results were to serovars grippotyphosa (36%), autumnalis (22%, and hardjo (22%). No statistically significant correlation was found between antibody prevalence estimates for different Leptospira serovars. A significant association was found between body weight and antibodies for Leptospira serovars and CDV. In addition, age (adult vs. juvenile) was significantly associated juvenile) was significantly associated with the presence of CDV antibody, with adults exhibiting a higher prevalence than juveniles. This study confirmed that raccoons in Indiana, USA, are exposed to different Leptospira interrogans serovars and CDV and that age and weight are associated with the presence of antibodies (or both pathogens.
We present a system of N-coupled Lienard-type nonlinear oscillators which is completely integrable and possesses N time-independent and N time-dependent explicit integrals. In a special case, it becomes maximally supe...
We present a system of N-coupled Lienard-type nonlinear oscillators which is completely integrable and possesses N time-independent and N time-dependent explicit integrals. In a special case, it becomes maximally superintegrable and admits (2N - 1) time-independent integrals. The results are illustrated for the N = 2 and arbitrary number cases. General explicit periodic (with frequency independent of amplitude) and quasi-periodic solutions as well as decaying-type/frontlike solutions are presented, depending on the signs and magnitudes of the system parameters. Though the system is of a nonlinear damped type, our investigations show that it possesses a Hamiltonian structure and that under a contact transformation it is transformable to a system of uncoupled harmonic oscillators.
With the publication in 1961 of Offenbarung als Geschichte, the first supplementary volume of the German periodical Kerygma und Dogma, it has become evident that a new theological movement is gaining momentum amongst ...
With the publication in 1961 of Offenbarung als Geschichte, the first supplementary volume of the German periodical Kerygma und Dogma, it has become evident that a new theological movement is gaining momentum amongst some of the younger theologians of Germany. Each of those writing for this booklet supports, from the vantage point of his own particular specialty, the thesis that revelation is mediated only through historical events: Wolfhart Pannenberg as a systematic theologian, Rolf Rendtorff as an Old Testament exegete, Ulrich Wilckens as a New Testament scholar, and Trutz Rendtorff as a Church historian. Since 1951 these and others who were then doctoral students at Heidelberg have been meeting regularly to formulate the basic ideology found in this booklet. Wolfhart Pannenberg has become the chief spokesman for this new movement, not because he was originally responsible for the basic approach to revelation as history, but because as one whose specialty is dogmatics, he provides the over-all synthesis for the historical and exegetical work of the others.
Sharify-Funk investigates contemporary forms of transnational networking in which Muslim women (and male scholars and activists who support them) argue for women's rights in both the family and politics, based on ...
Sharify-Funk investigates contemporary forms of transnational networking in which Muslim women (and male scholars and activists who support them) argue for women's rights in both the family and politics, based on hermeneutic readings of Islamic texts: through this process Islamic norms are derived and legitimated. Many of her respondents employ the idea of civil society, but the term has acquired specific meaning, within this transnational circulation of Islamic ideas, as a pluralistic space open to dialogue and multiple frameworks of interpretation (p. 1 17), a context for action and social change.
A new series of azabicyclic benzimidazole-4-carboxamides 2-21 and -carboxylates 22-30 were synthesized and evaluated for binding affinity at serotoninergic 5-HT3 and 5-HT4 receptors in the CNS. Most of the synthesized...
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A new series of azabicyclic benzimidazole-4-carboxamides 2-21 and -carboxylates 22-30 were synthesized and evaluated for binding affinity at serotoninergic 5-HT3 and 5-HT4 receptors in the CNS. Most of the synthesized compounds exhibited high or very high affinity for the 5-HT3 binding site and low to no significant affinity for the 5-HT4 receptor. SAR observations indicated that a halogen atom at the Ii-position and a nitro group at the 7-position of the benzimidazole ring is the best substitution pattern for 5-HT3 affinity and 5-HT3/5-HT4 selectivity, as well as no substitution in this ring. (S)-(-)-N-(Quinuclidin-3-yl)benzimidazo-4-carboxamides 2, 8, and 14 bound at central 5-HT3 sites with high affinity (K-i = 2.6, 0.13, and 1.7 nM, respectively) and excellent selectivity over serotonin 5-HT4 and 5-HT1A receptors (K-i > 1000-10000 dM). Furthermore, these new 5-HT3 receptor ligands were pharmacologically characterized as potent and selective 5-HT3 antagonists in the isolated guinea pig ileum (pA(2) = 9.6, 9.9, and 9.1, respectively).
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