PREVALENCE AND ANTHELMINTIC EFFICACY OF ABAMECTIN AGAINST GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES IN HORSES

The prevalence and anthelmintic efficacy of Abamectin against gastrointestinal parasites under field conditions in Faisalabad (Punjab, Pakistan) was studied in 100 horses. The overall prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites was 75%, including Strongylus spp. (50%), Oxyuris equi (12%), Parascaris equorum (8%) and mixed infection (5%). Among these naturally infected animals, 15 were selected. These horses were assigned to three groups on the basis of prevalent species of gastrointestinal parasites. Each group had five animals, comprising four treatment horses and a control horse. Abamectin was evaluated against these gastrointestinal parasites with a single shot at the dose rate of 0.2 mg/kg body weight administered through subcutaneous route which resulted in 98% reduction in faecal egg count after day 14 post-treatment. Non-treated horses remained positive for gastrointestinal parasites. No adverse reactions were observed during the experimental period. It was concluded that Abamectin is highly effective against gastrointestinal parasites in horses

Role of Contact Center for Smart Cities

Smart city is a strategic entity that comprises of modern urban production factors in a common framework and highlights the growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Telecommunications service providers have strengths and assets that can be utilized to bring the dream of a smart city environment into reality. This leads to a strong move that serves the needs of society by ensuring E-Governance rather than conventional setup of Governance. Establishing a customer contact centre is just the first part of the process of optimal digitalization of municipal operations and interactions with citizens. This research highlights how a contact center helps to achieve few goals of a by providing significant facilities to citizens

Outcome of late preterm infants and the factors associated with neonatal intensive care admission

Background: Infants born between 34 0/7 and 36 6/7 weeks of gestation are referred to as late-preterm infants (LPI). The study’s objective was to examine the prevalence and course of LPI at our institution. Methods: This single-center prospective observational study was conducted at the level 3 NICU from June 2018 to June 2019 and included LPIs born in the hospital. Both the prevalence of LPI and the reasons for premature births were evaluated. Infants were observed until discharge for complications and outcomes (mortality and NICU admission). The risk factors associated with NICU admission were analyzed using multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results: LPI constitutes 2.94% of all live births and 40.45% of total preterm births. Pre-eclampsia (15.1%) and premature membrane rupture (9.4%) were the two main causes of preterm birth, while the majority of mothers (37.7%) experienced spontaneous labor. A total of 55 (51.9%) babies developed complications, with respiratory distress (33.9%) being the most common. Three infants died, and 65 infants needed admission to the NICU. NICU hospitalization was independently associated with the existence of maternal risk factors, gestational age of 35 weeks, the requirement for resuscitation, and children whose weight was out of proportion to their gestational age. Conclusions: LPIs account for a large proportion of premature babies, are prone to complications, and have a high mortality and morbidity rate

A well-defined readily releasable pool with fixed capacity for storing vesicles at calyx of Held.

The readily releasable pool (RRP) of vesicles is a core concept in studies of presynaptic function. However, operating principles lack consensus definition and the utility for quantitative analysis has been questioned. Here we confirm that RRPs at calyces of Held from 14 to 21 day old mice have a fixed capacity for storing vesicles that is not modulated by Ca2+. Discrepancies with previous studies are explained by a dynamic flow-through pool, established during heavy use, containing vesicles that are released with low probability despite being immediately releasable. Quantitative analysis ruled out a posteriori explanations for the vesicles with low release probability, such as Ca2+-channel inactivation, and established unexpected boundary conditions for remaining alternatives. Vesicles in the flow-through pool could be incompletely primed, in which case the full sequence of priming steps downstream of recruitment to the RRP would have an average unitary rate of at least 9/s during heavy use. Alternatively, vesicles with low and high release probability could be recruited to distinct types of release sites; in this case the timing of recruitment would be similar at the two types, and the downstream transition from recruited to fully primed would be much faster. In either case, further analysis showed that activity accelerates the upstream step where vesicles are initially recruited to the RRP. Overall, our results show that the RRP can be well defined in the mathematical sense, and support the concept that the defining mechanism is a stable group of autonomous release sites

Lower k-record values from unit-Gompertz distribution and associated inference

Mazucheli et al. (2019) introduced the unit-Gompertz (UG) distribution and studied some of its properties. More specifically, they considered the random variable X =exp(-Y), where Y has the Gompertz distribution. In this paper, we consider the lower k-record values from this distribution. We obtain exact explicit expressions as well as several recurrence relations for the single and product moments of lower k-record values and then we use these results to compute the means, variances and the covariances of the lower k-record values. We make use of these calculated moments to find the best linear unbiased estimators (BLUEs) of the location and scale parameters of the UG distribution. Applying the relation between the BLUE and the best linear invariant estimator (BLIE), we obtain the BLIEs of the location and scale parameters, as well. In addition, based on the observed k-records, we investigate how to obtain the best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) and best linear invariant predictor (BLIP) for a future k-record value. Confidence intervals for the unknown parameters and prediction intervals for future k-records are also discussed. A simulation study is performed to assess the point and interval estimators and predictors proposed in the paper. The results show that the BLIE and BLIP outperform the BLUE and BLIP, in the sense of mean squared error criterion, respectively. Finally, a real data set pertaining to COVID-19 2-records is analyzed

Ethical preferences for influencing superiors: A 41-society study

With a 41-society sample of 9990 managers and professionals, we used hierarchical linear modeling to investigate the impact of both macro-level and micro-level predictors on subordinate influence ethics. While we found that both macro-level and micro-level predictors contributed to the model definition, we also found global agreement for a subordinate influence ethics hierarchy. Thus our findings provide evidence that developing a global model of subordinate ethics is possible, and should be based upon multiple criteria and multilevel variables

Fairness of human resource management practices, leader-member exchange and organizational commitment

Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) applies.The purpose of this research was to test the hypothesis that relations between fairness perception of human resource management (HRM) practices and organizational commitment are affected by the quality of leader-member exchange (LMX). Specifically, we predicted the unique (positive) contribution of fairness perception of HRM practices and LMX as well as their interaction to organizational commitment. A sample of 224 managers was drawn from nine diverse multinational, manufacturing companies located in Northern Malaysia. Participation in the research was voluntary. Data were gathered by means of a survey questionnaire that consisted of a series of psychometrically sound scales to assess the employed variables in the study. Hierarchical multiple regression results provided support for the direct impact of fairness perceptions and LMX on each component of commitment. But significant interactions were convincingly evident only in the case of affective commitment. These interactions suggest that the impact of fairness perceptions of HRM practices on affective commitment is not unconditional. Key implications of the survey findings both for theory and practice are discussed, potential limitations are specified, and directions for future research are suggested.Ye

Sensory and histological comparative investigation of frozen and salted-half dried fish

Fagyasztott állapotban - 5 C°-on tárolt és sózott-félig szárított állapotban tárolt halakon végeztek érzékszervi és szövettani vizsgálatokat. Megállapították, hogy a sózott-félig szárított halaknak rehidratizálásuk után kedvezőbb volt a színe, mint a fagyasztott halmintáké. Egyéb érzékszervi tulajdonságok tekintetében nem volt különbség észlelhető a kétféle módon tartósított halminták között. Sensorische und histologische Untersuchungen wurden mit in gefrorenem Zustand bei — 5°C gelagerten Fischen und in als gesalzte-halbgetrocknete Produkte gelagerten Fischen durchgeführt. Es wurde gefunden, dass die gesalztenhalbgetrockneten Fische nach ihrer Rehydratation eine günstigere Farbe besassen als die Farbe der gefrorenen Fische. Bei anderen sensorischen Eigenschaften wurden zwischen den durch die untersuchten beiden Konservierungsverfahren behandelten Fischprodukten keine Unterschiede beobachtet. Sensory and histological investigations were carried out with fish stored in a frozen state at - 5°C and with fish stored as salted-half dried product. 11 was found that salted-half dried fish showed, after its rehydration, a colour more favourable than the colour of the frozen fish samples. In other sensory properties no differences were perceptible between fish samples preserved by the examined two methods. On a effectué des examens sensoriques et histologiques sur des poissons entreposés en état congelé on mariné et mi-séché, ä — 5°C. On a établi qu’aprés réhydratation la couleur des poissons marinés et mi-séchés était meilleure que celle des poissons congelés. Quant au reste des carctéristiques sensoriques il n’y avait pás de différence entre les posissons conservés par les deux méthodes

Societal-level versus individual-level predictions of ethical behavior: a 48-society study of collectivism and individualism

Is the societal-level of analysis sufficient today to understand the values of those in the global workforce? Or are individual-level analyses more appropriate for assessing the influence of values on ethical behaviors across country workforces? Using multi-level analyses for a 48-society sample, we test the utility of both the societal-level and individual-level dimensions of collectivism and individualism values for predicting ethical behaviors of business professionals. Our values-based behavioral analysis indicates that values at the individual-level make a more significant contribution to explaining variance in ethical behaviors than do values at the societal-level. Implicitly, our findings question the soundness of using societal-level values measures. Implications for international business research are discussed

Multi National Survey of the Advice Given to Muslim Kidney Graft Recipients by Muslim Nephrologists about Lifestyle and Religious Rituals with Potential Medical Risk

Muslim renal transplant recipients often ask their physicians if performing certain lifestyles or religious obligations may be harmful to their health. Permissibility as advised by an expert Muslim physician is considered as being religiously accepted. A cross-sectional, survey-based study was conducted enquiring what nephrologists would advise their transplant recipients to do, about some lifestyles and religious duties. Fifty-eight nephrologists responded to the survey. Of these, 77% routinely follow-up post-transplant patients; 34% were from Saudi Arabia, 18% from the USA, and 20% from Pakistan. Fifty-four percent of the respondents would let patients with stable graft function fast during Ramadan, while 20% would not recommend fasting at any time following transplantation. This response did not change much if the patient was diabetic although in these patients, not recommending fasting at any time increased to 32%. For kidney donors, fasting would be allowed by 58% of the respondents once the kidney function stabilizes. About 50% would let their patients perform Omrah or obligatory Hajj any time after 12 months following transplantation, and only about 3% would not recommend that at any time after transplantation. For nonobligatory Hajj, 37% and 22%, respectively, would allow. Sixty-one percent would delay the pregnancy in nullipara with stable renal function, and none of the nephrologists would deny the opportunity to pregnancy at any time. In multiparous transplant recipients, the respective frequencies would be 45% and 20%. To our knowledge, this the first study exploring the consensus among Muslim nephrologists regarding the advice they would give on performance of potentially risky lifestyles and religious rituals by Muslim posttransplant patients