The role of Toll-like receptor polymorphisms in susceptibility to canine distemper virus 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Host range & prevalence Although CDV was initially described as an infectious disease of domestic dogs, it has increasingly become known as a worldwide multi-host pathogen, infecting a wide range of carnivores (Beineke...

Competences and professional characteristics expected of reflective neonatal nurses

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Transferability Transferability or applicability is the degree to which the findings can be applied to another context or setting or can be generalised (Babbie & Mouton 2001:277; Krefting 1991:220-221; Lincoln & Guba 1985:316;...

The influence of scale and count method on prey selection of a large carnivore

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Study area We conducted our study in a 1,000-km2 area in the central region of the KNP, South Africa, centred on Satara rest camp (31.77° E, 24.39° S). The study area was mainly...

Standardisation of a research tool in tuberculosis epidemiology

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Cattle and domesticated or farmed buffalo Mycobacterium bovis is the primary source of BTB in cattle, swamp or Asiatic water buffalo (Cousins, 2001). M. bovis causes BTB in cattle and was previously reported...

Phylogeny of the Botryosphaeriaceae reveals patterns of host association

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Wounding, stress, virulence and host susceptibility For many years, it was assumed that D. pinea, especially the B morphotype, required wounds for infection (Wang et al. 1985; Palmer et al. 1987). These wounds...

Genetic diversity of piroplasms in plains zebra and Cape mountain zebra

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Quantitative real-time PCR assays The recent development of quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) has greatly improved the molecular detection and diagnosis of many organisms of veterinary and medical importance (Jeong et al., 2003; Lindh...

Genetic variation of the reference population for qtl research

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The South African Angora goat industry The Angora goat was domesticated in Turkey, in the region of Angora (now the city of Ankara), from where they were exported to Europe during the sixteenth...

Incidence and morphological classification of abnormal sperm

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Aims of the study Although there have been a number of studies on the collection of spermatozoa and on aspects of the application of AI techniques in the emu (Malecki et al., 1997;...

The divine Spirit is both life-giver and vulnerable

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The passion of Jesus Christ’s voluntary surrender to the weakness of being born and dying on the cross was the calculated break-through of God in the history of humanity (Nouwen 2001:31-35). Jesus’ story...

Metaethical moral relativism and corporate governance convergence

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Convergence During the economic boom of the 1990s, in which rapid technological advance played an important role in enhancing global communication and integration, one could perhaps be forgiven for associating globalisation with progress....