Heartworm infestation is a disease in continuous geographic expansion. New cases are signaled each year in different countries, both in humans and dogs. This is a case report of a 45 kg, 10 year old, male, Argentinian Dog presented to consultation with pyuria and urinary incontinence. All blood and urinary analyses were made, and the results showed at microscopy examination of the blood smear microfilaria without any renal and hepatic functional abnormalities in biochemistry analyses. Urine cytological examinations detected small quantity of hemoglobin with pyuria, cristaluria, bacteriuria and cells from the wall of the bladder and microfilaria. The imagistic and functional kidney status did not show any indices to suspect renal failure. Because of that, we consider that the presence of microfilariuria may be explained only if we take in count the transparietal migration. To the authors knowledge this is the first report in literature in which an ectopic (urinary) presence of microfilaria is seen in the absence of a concomitant renal failure.

This study concerns experimental activities at in fine arts schools involving health and safety risks for artists, teachers and students, especially those carried out in the studios located in educational institutions. The project initially intends to promote quality research on issues concerning health safety and environment sustainable procedures, art materials and products; this includes products use and handling, recycling and waste management in art school studios and laboratories. Latter on, at a second stage, these findings would be made extensive to the art community. There is sufficient empirical evidence that a number of substances, products and materials frequently used in fine arts are either hazardous or suspected to be hazardous and can often cause health problems thus it becomes necessary to implement a health and safety and sustainable procedure to handle them.

Due to Romania’s location between Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, and the varied geographical environments, the country’s fauna is rich and diversified which leads to the definition of several environmental regions. The paper aims to analyse the dynamics of certain species of mammals in the south-eastern part of the country which, in terms of the European bio-geographical affiliation, lies at the margin most to the South-West of the Steppe region. The study-area ranks amongst the critical environment regions in Romania, mainly related to the hydro-climatic factors whose evolution have contributed to the decline of many mammal species. Although it is not the area largely covered in forests in the country, a varied fauna of large mammals has been preserved here to this day. The presence of most forests in the region has led to the preservation of certain valuable mammal species (Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elaphus, Sus scrofa, Vulpes vulpes etc.), even if not rich in specimens. During the past decades, the fauna inhabiting this territory has been enriched by several new species – some artificially introduced (Ovis ammon, Dama dama, Myocastor coypus), and others that have naturally penetrated the area (Cervus elaphus, Canis lupus, Canis aureus, Ondatra zibethicus, Nyctereutes procyonoides). Some rare mammals were also preserved, as was for example, Vormela peregusna, which has a zoo-geographical significance.

The present study was designed to study the effect of storage duration on changes of antioxidant capacity and bioactive compounds in garlic by DPPH and FRAP assays and GC-MS. The results showed that both DPPH and FRAP assays almost displayed the strongest antioxidant capacities in garlic at 8 weeks. The levels of soluble sugar decreased during storage, and that of total polyphenols and organosulfur compounds reached max value at 6 and 8weeks, respectively, and then decreased significantly. The GC-MS results of ethyl acetate extract showed that among of the 18 typical organosulfur compounds, 10 compounds of which reached max levels at 8 weeks. Above which indicated that organosulfur compounds played a key role in antioxidant capacities in garlic, due to its levels showed positive relation with antioxidant capacities during storage. The results provide beneficial information for garlic processing industries and consumers to make full use of garlic during storage.

In this paper a different approach based on Metaheuristic Algorithm is presented for removing unwanted region in mammogram image is carried out using image segmentation process. The foraging behavior of monkey is optimized as Monkey Search Optimization (MSO) which is the subset of the metaheuristic algorithm. To solve complex problems by cooperation the behaviors are considered. Several algorithms based on population-based metaheuristic algorithms were introduced in the literature to solve different problems like optimization problems; it is proven by result that the proposed approach has the potential to be an appropriate algorithm for image segmentation. Results are presented based on simulation made with the implementation in MATLAB which is tested on the images of MIAS database.

Communication used to be a field and it is nowadays a universe. It directly or subjacent includes, crosses and directs all manifestations of the human existence, a communicational fission occurs in any life manifestation. The mere presence within the limits of the personal and public space generates communication. At a higher level, any human contact is a communication embryo. The content of communication is the meanings. Messages are nodes of meanings. People do not transmit words, signs or signals to one another, they transmit meanings. Moreover, they co-construct meanings. People are creators of meanings, and communication ensures the “communisation”, their sharing. The world, the universe emerges as a grid of network wherein any entity is directly or indirectly related and voluntarily, involuntarily or neutrally communicates with any other entity. The universe consists of entities and of all they put together. What is “pooled” links and brings into relation. However, what is pooled also separates. From an analytical perspective focused on the practical aspect of communication, communication has several functions: persuasion or social influence, socialization, social support, information processing, conflict, decision-making, and entertainment. The functions represent activities which an entity is designed for and effectively conducts them. Once they are planned, they become attributions. The loop generating the functions is the needs. A system exercises fundamental or defining functions and complementary or related functions. Functions do not exist outside the systems. They are established in the idea of fulfilling a purpose and in satisfying a need. In other words, the needs induce purposes, and the purposes require functions. Generally, people have certain needs that lead to certain purposes. Some of the needs and purposes are of communicative nuance. On the coordinate of communicational needs-purposes, two defining communication purposes are outlined: communicative relationship and “communisation” of meanings (pooling the meanings). Concordantly, two ontological functions of communication are delimited. The first function of communication is the relationship. The second function is communisation. The relationship function is the constitutive function, and the “communisation” function (of pooling something: ideas, emotions, material elements, etc.) is the constructive function. In communication, the relation is the proximity kind, and pooling is the specific difference. In relation to the context, the situation or communication environment, these two functions become resonances and specific nuances. Modelling and the impregnation between the context (situation, environment) and the functions of communication are reciprocal. Thus, the functions acquire particular profiles in various types of communication: intrapersonal, interpersonal, grouped, organisational (managerial, decisional, etc.) or social.

The development of human resources (HR) plays a crucial role in determination and support of Business strategies (BS). The present paper aimed at studying the human resource management (HRM) and Business strategies alignment. This descriptive-survey study has an applied objective. The data collection is done through library research and applying a researcher-made questionnaire to confirm the research hypothesis.\n\nThe statistical population of the study consisted of managers and experts at Nayer Pars Mapna Company; the subjects were selected by random sampling method. The findings indicated that there would be a meaningful alignment between HR and Business strategies