... Pastoralists and the Origins of State Veterinary Services John Fisher 180 Chapter 11 HoldingWaterinBambooBucketsAgricultural Science, Livestock Breeding, andVeterinaryMedicineinColonialManchuria ... deal with the institutionalization of veterinarymedicineand the role veterinary institutions came to play in state building and regulation in both metropolitan andcolonial settings (in particular, ... relationship between colonialism andveterinarymedicineIn some colonies, veterinarymedicine was used by the state to foster the development of settler economies, andveterinary administrations became...
... LABoratory) programming language After some testing with various similarity functions and linkage types, we finally opted for the cosine coefficient and single linkage which is the combination that ... suggest in this paper involves reducing the number of columns (contexts) and then applying a clustering algorithm to the row vectors (words) of the resulting matrix This works well since it is ... algorithm is capable of finding all the fine grained distinctions that are listed in manually created dictionaries such as the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), or in lexical databases...
... additional second reading was computed which is correct in 11 cases 16 of the WordNet assignments are missing, among them the verb readings for reform, suit, and rain and the noun reading for serve However, ... natural language Computational Linguistics 18(4), 467-479 Clark, Alexander (2003) Combining distributional and morphological information for part of speech induction Proceedings of 10th EACL, Budapest, ... distinctions, we decided to take only the three main dimensions into account, i.e the resulting matrix has a size of 50 rows times columns.4 The last step in our procedure involves applying a...
... problems in acute medicine, 561 88 Hypothermia, 566 89 Drowning and electrical injury, 571 90 Palliative care, 578 Section 3: Procedures in acute medicine 91 Arterial blood gas sampling, 587 ... problems in general medicine likely to be encountered in the emergency department Integration of the use of echocardiography, which we believe is as important in acute medicine as ECG interpretation, ... abdominal pain or tenderness • C-reactive protein • Blood culture if suspected sepsis • Urine stick test • Toxicology screen (serum 10 ml and urine 50 ml) if suspected poisoning Further reading Andrews...
... at 72 h • Increasing plasma bilirubin • Increasing plasma creatinine • Falling plasma phosphate • Arterial pH < 7.3 more than 24 h after ingestion Poisoning with aspirin, paracetamol and carbon ... Amphetamines, cocaine, phenothiazines, quinine, sympathomimetics, tricyclics Antiarrhythmics, anticholinergics, MDMA, phenothiazines, quinine, sympathomimetics, tricyclics Amphetamines, cocaine Carbon ... poisoning • Inhalation of car exhaust fumes • Inadequately maintained or ventilated heating systems (including those using natural gas) • Smoke from any fire • Methylene chloride in paint stripper...
... Deteriorating blood pressure control in compliant, long-standing hypertensive patients Rise in creatinine on treatment with ACE inhibitor Renal impairment with minimal proteinuria Low plasma sodium and ... flow chart Check creatinine and electrolytes initially daily (Table 31.9) Check C-reactive protein and white cell count initially every other day Check vancomycin/gentamicin levels as directed ... renin/aldosterone (for later analysis) Urine stick test and microscopy Ultrasound of kidneys and urinary tract Urinary catecholamine excretion Urinary free cortisol excretion if suspected Cushing...
... Examination of the nervous system in acute medicine point for a complete sentence point point point point for each Total point for each Total point for each Total point for each Score first attempt ... infection • Clinically improving • Able to swallow safely • No vomiting/ileus Substitute co-amoxiclav PO for IV cephalosporin Continue oral macrolide (+ rifampicin if indicated) Setting Continue ... pressure and urine output if patient is oliguric or if plasma creatinine is >200 µmol/L DVT prophylaxis Give DVT prophylaxis with stockings and LMW heparin Pain relief Relieve pleuritic chest pain...
... vomiting, and may follow straining (e.g in labor or with weight-lifting), coughing or hiccoughing Examination • Pneumomediastinum may result in subcutaneous emphysema (found in ∼25% patients) and ... head, often intensified by restraint • Gaze aversion, resistance to passive limb movement or eye opening, prevention of the hand falling on to the face • Incontinence, tongue biting and injury rare ... worse in the morning; exacerbated by coughing, sneezing, lying down, exertion) • Nausea and vomiting • Visual obscurations • Absence of spontaneous retinal vein pulsation • Papilledema • Retinal...
... Divide the remaining two-thirds into three and give as short-acting (soluble) insulin SC before meals • Monitor blood glucose preprandially and at 2200 h, and adjust doses of insulin as needed ... as intermediate-acting (isophane) insulin SC at 2200 h Divide the remaining two-thirds into three, and give as short-acting (soluble) insulin SC before meals Check blood glucose before meals and ... preprandially and at 2200 h If blood glucose rises above 11 mmol/L, start an insulin infusion (Table 66.5) • After insulin has been given by infusion for 24 h, change to SC insulin Management after insulin...
... immunoglobulin • Monoclonal immunoglobulin (paraprotein, e.g myeloma) • High fibrinogen Agglutination, reflecting the presence of cold agglutinin, seen in: • Mycoplasma infection • Infectious mononucleosis ... partial thromboplastin time Increased LDH and unconjugated bilirubin (reflecting hemolysis) Raised creatinine in ∼30% Differential diagnosis Disseminated intravascular coagulation In pregnant women, ... until INR is 8 No bleeding or minor bleeding Stop warfarin; restart when INR is
... • Quinine should be given by IV infusion • Loading dose: 20 mg/kg (up to a maximum of 1.4 g) of quinine salt given over h by IV infusion (omit if quinine, quinidine or mefloquine given within the ... features which begin within 48 h of stopping drinking May occur up to days after stopping drinking if the patient has been taking benzodiazepines Usually brief and self-limiting and not require specific ... neck veins and prominent chest wall collateral veins Diagnosis Chest X-ray usually abnormal in cancer-related SVC obstruction, with mediastinal widening (in two-thirds) and pleural effusion (in one-quarter)...
... then recombine and an interference pattern results In Fabry-Perot interferometry a single beam is incident on a partially reflecting reference mirror and a back mirror directly behind and parallel ... the AlGaAs side This results in the bands bending and confining the charge at the “perfect” AlGaAs-GaAs interface thereby forming the 2DEG (Fig 1.2b) Loren Pfeiffer and collaborators at Bell Labs ... electrons in 2, 1, and dimensions where the rules are changed due to its linear band structure Scattering is low in this material allowing for the observation of the Quantum Hall Effect (QHE), and...
... reported in Figure Discussion Cellular therapy is an emerging field in medicine; all the stem cell medicinal products must be in compliance with principles and guidelines of good manufacturing practice ... nylon mesh (BD Falcon) and then resuspended in 10 ml of 5% v/v human albumin One ml was collected for migration and invasion assay and endotoxin testing For the sterility testing, peripheral blood ... without inhibiting or enhancing the test Once prepared, the cartridge was inserted in the Endosafe PTS and loaded with 25 μl of the solution in each well Results were scored after 20 minutes of incubation...
... Medicine 2011, 9:110 http://www.translational -medicine. com/content/9/1/110 cancer targets for therapeutics and multiple Aurora kinase inhibitors are currently being studied in early phase I and ... data included both G-banding and Spectral Karytoyping (SKY) was collected from a variety of public sources including the DSMZ [16], ATCC [17], and the NCBI Sky collection [18] These data contain ... chloroform and purified using QIAGEN RNeasy Mini Kit (QIAgen, Inc., Valencia, CA) cDNA was prepared from μg total RNA using the Invitrogen SuperScript Double-Stranded cDNA Synthesis Kit (Invitrogen, Inc,...
... Medicine 2011, 9:110 http://www.translational -medicine. com/content/9/1/110 cancer targets for therapeutics and multiple Aurora kinase inhibitors are currently being studied in early phase I and ... data included both G-banding and Spectral Karytoyping (SKY) was collected from a variety of public sources including the DSMZ [16], ATCC [17], and the NCBI Sky collection [18] These data contain ... chloroform and purified using QIAGEN RNeasy Mini Kit (QIAgen, Inc., Valencia, CA) cDNA was prepared from μg total RNA using the Invitrogen SuperScript Double-Stranded cDNA Synthesis Kit (Invitrogen, Inc,...
... Germany; experiences and problems In: Proceedings IUFRO Joint Meeting of Working Parties on Breeding Theory, Progeny Testing and Seed Orchards Williamsburg, VA, USA, 13-17 Oc- Kleinschmit J tober ... Results from progeny and provenance trials suggest that selection andbreeding at the level of provenances and individuals should both be effective in reducing the frequency of shake in oaks Meanwhile, ... determine provenance variations in vessel size; 2) estimate the heritability of vessel size; and 3) to find a means of recognizing shake-prone trees so that they could be removed during early thinning...
... C2, C3, factor B, b leutenizing hormone (b-LH), C3b inactivator, properdin, and C4 binding protein [22] After initiation of alimentation, b-LH, C3b inactivator, C3, and factor B rapidly returned ... between body mass index (BMI) and complement C3 serum levels in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and healthy controls in response to therapy [22] In line with these findings, Sigal and colleagues ... determined low C3 levels in anorexic patients, which is in line with those previous findings However, while our findings suggest complement consumption secondary to increased activation in anorexic...
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2007, 49:22 [1] Giardia infections are common in humans and livestock, but also occur frequently in dogs, cats and numerous species of wild mammals and birds [2] ... Cryptosporidium and Giardia infections in dogs Giardia is more frequently found in preadult and adult dogs, and shedding of Giardia cysts can last for Since genotyping of Giardia and Cryptosporidium ... Cryptosporidium and Giardia are variable in different hosts and within the same host species, and depend on a number of factors including age, living conditions, diagnostic methodology and region...
... of position and effect estimates for multiple, linked and interacting QTL using multiple interval mapping in an F2 population and to examine the confidence intervals based on the standard statistical ... multiple inbred lines In the literature, numerous studies on the power of data designs and mapping strategies for single QTL models like interval mapping and composite interval mapping can be found ... multiple interval mapping analysis indicated strong repulsion linkage effects of closely linked QTL, which was missed by the composite interval mapping analysis So, identifying multiple QTL in a linkage...