Background: 830 Lyme disease (LD) is emerging in many parts of central and eastern Canada.Serological testing is most commonly used to support laboratory diagnosis of LD.Standard two-tiered testing (STTT) for LD involves detection of Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies using an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) followed by IgM and/or IgG immunoblots.However, im
Marine hatchetfishes, Argyropelecus spp., are one of the 14 genera of mesopelagic teleosts, which possess tubular eyes.The tubular eyes are positioned dorsally on the head and consist of a main retina, which subtends a large dorsal binocular field, and an accessory retina, which subtends the lateral monocular visual field.The topographic distributi
To enhance the protective performance of ceramic composite armor, ballistic penetration experiments were conducted on Al2O3 ceramic-ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) composite armor with different thickness configurations.The damage and failure modes of hard projectiles and ceramic-fiber composite targets were analyzed.The recovered
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of complicationsof measles in hospitalized children.Methodology: This hospital based cross-sectional descriptive study was conductedin Paediatrics Unit, Post Graduate Medical Institute, Govt Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar from January 2012 to December 2012.All patients who presented wi
Cosmological large-scale structure analyses based on two-point correlation functions often assume a Gaussian likelihood function with a fixed covariance matrix.We study the impact on cosmological parameter estimation of ignoring the parameter dependence of this covariance matrix, focusing on the particular case of joint weak-lensing and galaxy clus