Abstract West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic flavivirus which often causes asymptomatic infection in humans but may develop into a deadly neuroinvasive disease.In this study, we aimed to investigate variables potentially associated with human WNV infection using human Sleep Tops and mosquito WNV surveillance and monitoring datasets,
Abstract Objective Scrapie is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that naturally occurs in sheep and goats.This fatal neurodegenerative disease results from misfolding of the normal cellular prion protein (PrPC) to a pathogenic prion protein form (PrPSc).This pathogenic form, PrPSc, accumulates in the brain and lymphoid tissues.The pres
Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between institutionalized democracy and the shadow economy in both the long- and short-run.Using time series data from Uganda that cover the period from 1991 to 2015, this paper applies autoregressive distributed lag method to investigate this relationship.How democracy affects the shadow economy in
BackgroundTargets of bullying are at high risk of negative socioemotional outcomes.Bullying programming in rural schools is important as bullying is more prevalent in those schools compared to urban schools.Comprehensive, school-wide bullying programs require resources that create significant barriers to implementation for rural schools.Because tec
Unlike imaging in air, underwater panoramic imaging faces great challenges arising from water pressure and diminished light, necessitating special lens packaging and focused underwater illumination.The processing of underwater images from multiple channels necessitates adaptations to existing image processing algorithms to mitigate color cast, nois