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A dairy herd was affected by a disease of unknown origin. Over 12 months standard samples (feces, and blood serum) were taken and tested for Clostridium botulinum, botulinum neurotoxin and partly for botulinum toxin antibodies according to standard international procedures. Finally it was shown that…

In today’s knowledge-driven economy, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are major enablers in all sectors particularly in government departments. Furthermore, it is infinitely acknowledged that information is power, thus, in keeping up with the ICT evolution, the transformation to e-government has continued to be Malaysia’s…

Firms seek often to achieve higher level of performance, however, means and resources that are available do not allow them to have superior performance on all levels (financial, economic, commercial, and so on). In addition, managers do not perceive performance aspects in the same way.…

Managing a natural gas transport system is a complex process that requires controlling a huge amount of data regarding the instantaneous available transport capacity, the reserved capacity, the gas source capacity, the hourly consumption profiles and the network problems. Managing this system must be realised…

Grid computing was introduced with the provision of delivering high performance computing through connecting distributed heterogeneous resources over the Internet. However, due to the varied nature of Grid applications and lack of suitable resource provisioning tools and mechanisms, a major part of Grid resources remains…

From three commercial Friesian-Holstein dairy herds located in three different provinces of Egypt at El-Fayoum, EL-Ismailia, and EL-Beheira; a total of 183 paired serum and milk samples were collected on the same occasion and 23 Bulk Tank Milk (BTM) samples were collected for about a…

This paper is aimed to analyze the environmental impact in supply chain researches and daily transport operations. We have made a survey based on setting the general criteria and the interaction between the supply chain features and their effect on the environment. We integrate the…

Recently, Business Intelligence (BI) play an essential role particular in business areas. BI is particular important for enterprises and it enables manager to view business performance in convenient way and hence improve decision making. Despite knowing how important of BI implementation, many organizations still struggle…

A 10-year-old female crossbred dog of 6 kg bodyweight was presented with signs of marked abdominal distention. The abdominal skin vasculature appeared prominent. After an exhaustive physical examination, laboratory analysis (table 1) and imaging studies, the case was diagnosticated as Budd-Chiari like syndrome due to…

This article aims to elucidate theoretically the problematic dealing with the constraints of the success of technology transfer process to developing countries through synthesizing the main theoretical approaches. Numerous and important are barriers to implementation. They are dependent on several factors ranging from initial level…