The future of the collection practice is complete integration of all functions and applications. Your job will be to ptactice law, enhance recoveries for your clients, and monitor the controls of ...your practice. Under a complete integration scenario, not only will your office receive claims electronically, but your claims management system (CMS) will regularly and automatically communicate with a remote and secure site on the Internet to download new claims and updates on active claims. Your system will populate your database with all the new claims data and update existing cases with new information. Your staff will be automatically notified of what is new. The system will check for conflicts and notify you or a supervising attorney of questionable matters.
Efficacy of cyflutrin for the control of parasitic infections in grazing cattle caused by Diptera Diaferia, M.; Piergili Fioretti, D.; Arcaro, R. (Perugia Univ. (Italy). Dipartimento di Scienze Biopatologiche Veterinarie); Nisoli, L.; Lulla, D. (Bayer S.p.A. Sanità Animale, Milan (Italy)); Rosignoli, L.; Fioretti, D
Atti della Società Italiana di Buiatria (Italy),
(2004), Letnik:
36
Journal Article
The insect population has an economic and sanitary importance in grazing cattle. In the present work the results of an experimental study on efficacy of cyflutrin on cattle, in field conditions, for ...the control of parasitic infections caused by diptera of family Muscidae, Tabanidae, Ceratopogonidae, are reported. The study was performed from June until September in two experimental stations: Arrone (Umbria region) and Cesi-Colfiorito (Marches region). The insecticide, administered at the dose of 10 ml/head, once a month, showed a percentage of reduction of 92-94% in the first two weeks post-treatment and of 65% in the other weeks of month. None of the 40 treated animals showed clinical symptomatology. Differences between treated animal groups and control groups were statistically significant. The results demonstrated that cyflutrin may lead to an effective and safe management of the infections caused by diptera in grazing cattle
L'importanza economica e sanitaria che le infestazioni parassitarie da ditteri rivestono per gli animali allevati hanno portato allo sviluppo di numerosi principi attivi per il trattamento preventivo di tali intestazioni. Scopo del presente studio è stato quello di valutare in condizioni di campo l'efficacia del cyflutrin, in termini di tempi di attività abbattente, repellente e protettiva, nei confronti di muscidi, tabanidi e Culicoides in bovini allevati allo stato brado in 2 siti sperimentali, Arrone (Umbria) e Cesi di Colfiorito (Marche). Lo studio è stato condotto durante un periodo di 4 mesi (da giugno a settembre). Le percentuali medie di riduzione del numero di ditteri circolanti sono risultate alte, 92 _ 94% nelle prime due settimane di ogni trattamento mensile, per poi attestarsi su valori del 65% nel restante periodo mensile. Le differenze di dati rispetto ai gruppi controllo sono sempre risultate statisticamente significative (t di Student). Gli animali non hanno mostrato sintomatologia clinica riferibile alla somministrazione del farmaco
Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have shown that human ventral visual cortex anterior to human visual area V4 contains two visual field maps, VO-1 and VO-2, that together form the ...ventral occipital (VO) cluster (Brewer et al., 2005). This cluster is characterized by common functional response properties and responds preferentially to color and object stimuli. Here, we confirm the topographic and functional characteristics of the VO cluster and describe two new visual field maps that are located anterior to VO-2 extending across the collateral sulcus into the posterior parahippocampal cortex (PHC). We refer to these visual field maps as parahippocampal areas PHC-1 and PHC-2. Each PHC map contains a topographic representation of contralateral visual space. The polar angle representation in PHC-1 extends from regions near the lower vertical meridian (that is the shared border with VO-2) to those close to the upper vertical meridian (that is the shared border with PHC-2). The polar angle representation in PHC-2 is a mirror reversal of the PHC-1 representation. PHC-1 and PHC-2 share a foveal representation and show a strong bias toward representations of peripheral eccentricities. Both the foveal and peripheral representations of PHC-1 and PHC-2 respond more strongly to scenes than to objects or faces, with greater scene preference in PHC-2 than PHC-1. Importantly, both areas heavily overlap with the functionally defined parahippocampal place area. Our results suggest that ventral visual cortex can be subdivided on the basis of topographic criteria into a greater number of discrete maps than previously thought.
Attributing awareness to oneself and to others Kelly, Yin T.; Webb, Taylor W.; Meier, Jeffrey D. ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS,
04/2014, Letnik:
111, Številka:
13
Journal Article
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This study tested the possible relationship between reported visual awareness (“I see a visual stimulus in front of me”) and the social attribution of awareness to someone else (“That person is aware ...of an object next to him”). Subjects were tested in two steps. First, in an fMRI experiment, subjects were asked to attribute states of awareness to a cartoon face. Activity associated with this task was found bilaterally within the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) among other areas. Second, the TPJ was transiently disrupted using single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). When the TMS was targeted to the same cortical sites that had become active during the social attribution task, the subjects showed symptoms of visual neglect in that their detection of visual stimuli was significantly affected. In control trials, when TMS was targeted to nearby cortical sites that had not become active during the social attribution task, no significant effect on visual detection was found. These results suggest that there may be at least some partial overlap in brain mechanisms that participate in the social attribution of sensory awareness to other people and in attributing sensory awareness to oneself.
Previous detections of individual astrophysical sources of neutrinos are limited to the Sun and the supernova 1987A, whereas the origins of the diffuse flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos remain ...unidentified. On 22 September 2017, we detected a high-energy neutrino, IceCube-170922A, with an energy of ~290 tera-electron volts. Its arrival direction was consistent with the location of a known γ-ray blazar, TXS 0506+056, observed to be in a flaring state. An extensive multiwavelength campaign followed, ranging from radio frequencies to γ-rays. These observations characterize the variability and energetics of the blazar and include the detection of TXS 0506+056 in very-high-energy γ-rays. This observation of a neutrino in spatial coincidence with a γ-ray-emitting blazar during an active phase suggests that blazars may be a source of high-energy neutrinos.
The relationship between antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and sickle cell disease (SCD) has never been systematically addressed. Our aim was to evaluate potential links between SCD and aPL in all ...age groups. EMBASE/PubMed was screened from inception to May 2020 and Peto odds ratios for rare events were calculated. The pooled prevalence (PP) of IgG anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) was higher in individuals with SCD than in controls (27.9% vs 8.7%, P < 0.0001), that of IgM aCL was similar in the two groups (2.9% vs 2.7%); only individuals with SCD were positive for lupus anticoagulant (LA) (7.7% vs 0%, P < 0.0001). The PP of leg ulcers was similar between aPL positive and negative individuals (44% vs 53%) and between patients in acute crisis and stable patients (5.6% vs 7.3%). Reporting of aPL as a binary outcome and not as a titer precluded further interpretation. The results indicate that a prospective case-control study with serial measurements of a panel of aPL in SCD patients might be warranted, in order to understand further the possible pathogenic role of aPL in SCD.
We report on the first detection of very high-energy gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula by a Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) configuration. This result has been ...achieved by means of the 4 m ASTRI-Horn telescope, operated on Mt. Etna, Italy, and developed in the context of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory preparatory phase. The dual-mirror SC design is aplanatic and characterized by a small plate scale, which allows us to implement large cameras with a large field of view, with small-size pixel sensors and a high level of compactness. The curved focal plane of the ASTRI camera is covered by silicon photo-multipliers, managed by an unconventional front-end electronic system that is based on a customized peak-sensing detector mode. The system includes internal and external calibration systems, hardware and software for control and acquisition, and the complete data archiving and processing chain. These observations of the Crab Nebula were carried out in December 2018 during the telescope verification phase for a total observation time (after data selection) of 24.4 h, equally divided between on- and off-axis source exposure. The camera system was still under commission and its functionality was not yet completely exploited. Furthermore, due to recent eruptions of the Etna Volcano, the mirror reflection efficiency was reduced. Nevertheless, the observations led to the detection of the source with a statistical significance of 5.4
σ
above an energy threshold of ∼3 TeV. This result provides an important step toward the use of dual-mirror systems in Cherenkov gamma-ray astronomy. A pathfinder mini-array based on nine ASTRI-like telescopes with a large field-of-view is in the course of implementation.
The initiator caspase Dronc is the only Drosophila caspase that contains a caspase activation and recruitment domain (CARD). Although Dronc has been implicated as an important effector of apoptosis, ...the genetic function of dronc in normal development is unclear because dronc mutants have not been available. In an EMS mutagenesis screen, we isolated four point mutations in dronc that recessively suppress the eye ablation phenotype caused by eye-specific overexpression of hid. Homozygous mutant dronc animals die during pupal stages; however, at a low frequency we obtained homozygous adult escapers. These escapers have additional cells in the eye and wings that are less transparent and slightly curved down. We determined that this is due to lack of apoptosis. Our analyses of dronc mutant embryos suggest that dronc is essential for most apoptotic cell death during Drosophila development, but they also imply the existence of a dronc-independent cell death pathway. We also constructed double mutant flies for dronc and the apoptosis inhibitor diap1. dronc mutants can rescue the ovarian degeneration phenotype caused by diap1 mutations, confirming that dronc acts genetically downstream of diap1.
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