We report mortality events in a group of 123 common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) captured in México and housed for a rabies vaccine efficacy study in Madison, Wisconsin.Bat mortalities occurred in México and Wisconsin, but rabies cases reported herein are only those that occurred after arrival in Madison (n = 15).Bats were confirmed p
Super Fruits I describe how real quantum annealers may be used to perform local (in state space) searches around specified states, rather than the global searches traditionally implemented in the quantum annealing algorithm.The quantum annealing algorithm is an analogue of simulated annealing, a Coaxial TV Cable classical numerical technique which
Chia-Hsien Chen,1–3 Wei-Chuan Chen,4 Chun-Yi Lin,5 Chih-Hwa Chen,1–3 Yang-Hwei Tsuang,1,2 Yi-Jie Kuo2,6 1Department of Orthopedics, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3School of Biomedica
Background/Aims: Adropin is a metabolic hormone secreted by the liver, brain, and many peripheral tissues and is involved in energy homeostasis and insulin sensitivity.Some reports have indicated a significant decrease in serum adropin levels in type 2 diabetic patients.However, the significance of a decline in adropin level in early detection of d