SCREENING OF OPHIDIOMYCES OPHIDIICOLA IN THE FREE-RANGING SNAKE COMMUNITY ANNUALLY HARVESTED FOR THE POPULAR RITUAL OF SAN DOMENICO E DEI SERPARI (COCULLO, AQ, ITALY)

Screening of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola in the free-ranging snake community annually harvested for the popular ritual of San Domenico e dei Serpari (Cocullo, AQ, Italy)

In the Abruzzi village of Cocullo (Italy), each year, on Necklaces, Ready-to-Wear,Beads May 1st, local snake hunters (known as Serpari) display colubrids, captured in the wild, to commemorate the ancient ritual of San Domenico.The ascomycete Ophidiomyces ophidiicola (Oo) is the causative agent of ophidiomycosis, an emerging disease with sublethal e

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Leveraging social networking sites for disease surveillance and public sensing: the case of the 2013 avian influenza A(H7N9) outbreak in China

We conducted in-depth analysis on the use of a popular Chinese social networking and microblogging site, Sina Weibo, to monitor an avian influenza A(H7N9) outbreak in China and to assess the value of social networking sites in LADIES SKIRTS SUIT the surveillance of disease outbreaks that occur overseas.Two data sets were employed for our analysis:

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Application of Forward Error Correction (FEC) Codes in Wireless Acoustic Emission Structural Health Monitoring on Railway Infrastructures

Structural health monitoring (SHM) has been extensively used in the railway industry, Makeup with applications ranging from railway infrastructures to carbody shells.An SHM method that dominates monitoring procedures is Acoustic Emissions (AE).The utilisation of the AE method could use a significantly large amount of data, collected and forwarded t

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Research on the operational performance of high speed permanent magnet generator with controlled rectifier in distributed generation

The uncontrolled rectifier and controlled rectifier which use fixed switching frequency control Hat strategy are applied usually during the working of a high-power high- speed permanent magnet generator (HSPMG).Even for the controlled rectifier, it will generate harmonics.The electromagnetic performance of the HSPMG is also affected by these harmon

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