Background: Overcrowding during the annual Hajj pilgrimage has been known to increase the risk of infectious diseases transmission.Despite the high prevalence of respiratory illness among Malaysian Hajj pilgrims, knowledge about the etiologic Shooting Gloves pathogens is yet very limited.Thus, this study aimed to determine the spectrum of bacterial
Using mixed-species bird flocks as an example, we model the payoffs for two types of species from participating in multi-species animal groups.Salliers feed on mobile prey, are good sentinels and do not affect prey capture rates of gleaners; gleaners feed on prey on substrates and can enhance the prey capture rate of salliers by flushing prey, but
The quality of global sea level pressure patterns has been assessed for simulations by 23 coupled climate models.Most models showed high pattern correlations.With respect to the explained spatial variance, many models showed serious large-scale deficiencies, especially at mid-latitudes.Five models performed well at all latitudes and for each month
Objectives: Cleft lip and palate (CLP) is the most common congenital anomaly of the head and neck region.The upper airway in CLP patients is affected by retarded maxillary growth.Small size of the nasopharynx can also lead to mouth breathing.This study aimed to compare the size of nasopharynx and adenoids in non-syndromic unilateral CLP (NSUCLP) pa
The paper deals Hyssop with the problem of discovering fuzzy clusters with optimal number of elements in heuristic possibilistic clustering.The relational clustering procedure using a parameter that controls cluster sizes is considered and a technique for detecting the optimal number of elements in fuzzy clusters is proposed.The effectiveness of th