scholarly journals Global epidemiology of Equine Influenza viruses; “A possible emerging zoonotic threat in future” an extensive systematic review with evidence

2023 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Khan ◽  
M. H. Mushtaq ◽  
J. Muhammad ◽  
B. Ahmed ◽  
E. A. Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Species ◽  
Influenza Viruses ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Equine Influenza Virus ◽  
Equine Influenza ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Epidemiology ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract There are different opinions around the World regarding the zoonotic capability of H3N8 equine influenza viruses. In this report, we have tried to summarize the findings of different research and review articles from Chinese, English, and Mongolian Scientific Literature reporting the evidence for equine influenza virus infections in human beings. Different search engines i.e. CNKI, PubMed, ProQuest, Chongqing Database, Mongol Med, and Web of Knowledge yielded 926 articles, of which 32 articles met the inclusion criteria for this review. Analyzing the epidemiological and Phylogenetic data from these articles, we found a considerable experimental and observational evidence of H3N8 equine influenza viruses infecting human being in different parts of the World in the past. Recently published articles from Pakistan and China have highlighted the emerging threat and capability of equine influenza viruses for an epidemic in human beings in future. In this review article we have summarized the salient scientific reports published on the epidemiology of equine influenza viruses and their zoonotic aspect. Additionally, several recent developments in the start of 21st century, including the transmission and establishment of equine influenza viruses in different animal species i.e. camels and dogs, and presumed encephalopathy associated to influenza viruses in horses, have documented the unpredictable nature of equine influenza viruses. In sum up, several reports has highlighted the unpredictable nature of H3N8 EIVs highlighting the need of continuous surveillance for H3N8 in equines and humans in contact with them for novel and threatening mutations.

Performing States-Of-In-Between: Dogs, Parrots, and Other Humans in Recent Austrian Performances

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-310
Author(s):  
Sabine Wilke
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Dramatic Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
The World ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Recent Developments

Every late spring since 1951, the Wiener Festwochen bring performers from around the world to Vienna for an opportunity to share recent developments in performance styles and present them to a Viennese public that seems to be increasingly open to experimentation. These festival weeks solidify a specific form of Viennese self-understanding and self-representation as a culture that is rooted in performance. This essay seeks to link two recent Austrian performances—one of them was part of the Wiener Festwochen in 2016, the other was staged in downtown Linz during the past few years—to this Austrian and specifically Viennese culture of performance by reading them as contemporary articulations of a tradition of radical performance art that can be traced back to the Viennese Actionism of the sixties and later feminist articulations in the seventies and eighties. They play on the dramatic effect of these actions, specifically their joy in cruelty, chaos, and orgiastic intoxication, by staging regressions and thus making visible what has been dammed up and repressed in contemporary society.1 Just as their historical models, these two performances merge the performing and the fine arts and they highlight provocative, controversial, and, at times, violent content. But they do it in an interspecies context that adds an entire layer of complexity to the project of societal and cultural critique.

A Voice without a Muse

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Vespa
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Ancient Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Voice

Ancient sources often describe non-human primates as imitative animals, i.e., living beings able to reproduce, with different degrees of perfection, gestures and movements carried out by human beings. Indeed monkeys are often characterized asmimeloi, mimetikoi, terms coming from the same semantic field of the nounmimos(< *mim-).But what about the world of sounds? Are non-human primates regarded as good imitators and performers also when it comes to music and singing? Ancient evidence clearly indicates that other animal species (like nightingales or partridges), and not monkeys, were mainly regarded as excellent singers worthy of imitation by human beings. Through a detailed analysis of ancient Greek sources, especially some passages in Galen, this paper aims at investigating why non-human primates were not considered good singers. In particular, this survey tries to shed a new light on some cultural associations, according to which the small and weak voice of monkeys (µικροφωνία) and the voice of other figures in ancient society (like actors, musicians, kids, eunuchs and so on) were described in a similar way.

Preserving the world for Christ

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThe practices, habits and convictions that once allowed the inhabitants of Christendom to determine what they could reasonably do and say together to foster a just and equitable common life have slowly been displaced over the past few centuries by new configurations which have sought to maintain an inherited faith in an underlying purpose to human life while disassociating themselves from the God who had been the beginning and end of that faith. In the end, however, these new configurations are incapable of sustained deliberations about the basic conditions of our humanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology provides important clues into what it takes to make and keep human life human in such a world. The first part of this essay examines Bonhoeffer's conception of the last things, the things before the last, and what binds them together. He argues that the things before the last do not possess a separate, autonomous existence, and that the positing of such a breach has had disastrous effects on human beings and the world they inhabit. The second part looks at Bonhoeffer's account of the divine mandates as the conceptual basis for coping with a world that has taken leave of God. Though this account of the mandates has much to commend it, it is hindered by problematic habits of interpretation that leave it vacillating between incommensurable positions. Bonhoeffer's incomplete insights are thus subsumed within Augustine's understanding of the two orders of human society set forth in City of God.

Diagnosis of equine influenza virus infections in quarantine stations in Australia, 2007

2011 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Watson ◽  
P Selleck ◽  
A Axell ◽  
K Bruce ◽  
T Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Equine Influenza Virus ◽  
Equine Influenza

scholarly journals Development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of specific antibodies against an H7N7 and an H3N8 equine influenza virus

1984 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Denyer ◽  
J. R. Crowther ◽  
R. C. Wardley ◽  
R. Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Allantoic Fluid ◽  
Influenza Viruses ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Equine Influenza Virus ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Specific Antibodies ◽  
Equine Influenza

SummaryThis paper describes a solid-phase microtitre plate enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of antibodies to equine influenza viruses. Using egg-grown influenza viruses as the antigens attached to the solid phase, crossreactions were observed between an H7N7 equine virus (designated A1) and an H3N8 equine influenza virus (designated A2) when untreated antisera were tested. Absorption of antisera with egg-grown A/Porcine/Shope/1/33 influenza virus eliminated cross-reactive antibodies so that specific detection of anti-equine influenza A1 or A2 antibodies was possible.Examination of horse sera following vaccination with A1 and/or A2 isolates showed that antibodies were produced against antigen associated with egg allantoic fluid as well as against virus. Such antibodies were eliminated following the absorption of antisera with porcine influenza virus. Results using sera from horses with known vaccination histories confirmed that the ELISA preferentially detected antibodies homologous to the antigen attached to the solid phase and methods to evaluate the current serological state of individual horses by relating the titres of specific antibodies against equine influenza A1 and A2 isolates are shown. This ELISA provides a simple and rapid method of assessing specific antibodies from horse sera and offers advantages over the ‘routine’ HI and SRH assessments since it gives high precision, is economical of reagents and has the capacity to handle large numbers of serum samples.

scholarly journals WHAT IS CORONAVIRUS, THEIR PREVENTION AND TREATMENTS AND SOME GOVERNMNET POLICIES IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (06) ◽  
pp. 816-821
Author(s):  
Babita a ◽  
◽  
Rajat b ◽  
Nivedan Bhardwaj ◽  
Nivedita c ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinical Interest ◽  
Incubation Duration ◽  
New Form ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The name “coronavirus” comes from the crown- like spike that cowl the surfaces of coronaviridae family. The 2019 novel coronavirus is getting plenty of interest now due to the fact it's miles a brand new form of coronavirus. We have now no longer visible amongst human before. The idea is that it is able to have jumped from an animal species into the human population, after which all started spreading. We have visible a few human beings which have died of this ailment, and we recognize that there are already thousands of cases. So human beings are concerned, due to the fact we do now no longer but recognize precisely how intense the ailment may be or how a long way it's going to unfold. Also, don't forget that coronavirus has an incubation duration of up to fourteen days, and also you ought to are seeking for clinical interest if the signs persist or get worse past 7 to ten days. PM Modi recites shloka to stress on collective strength against coronavirus: “Utsaho balavanarya nastyutsahat param balam | Uthsaharambhamatrena jayante sarvasampadah. Meaning there is no force greater than our enthusiasm and spirit in this world. There is nothing in the world that cannot be achieved with this force.

scholarly journals Membaca Semangat Hermeneutika Hanafi

MELINTAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Masmuni Mahatma
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Dynamic

Alquran cannot be detached from the chain of history accompanying it. Alquran has always been associated with sacred values it contains. That is it’s <em>fitrah</em>. Hasan Hanafi, born in Cairo, develops a unique hermeneutics to view Alquran as revelation. In safeguarding the originality of the Scripture as much as possible, the potential of reason and thought cannot be avoided as well. For the Scripture is an ideal ‘mirror’ of the expressions of the reality in life together with all the social dynamic continuously approaching the believers. Without the involvement of reason and thought the Scripture might not be so much different from an ‘inscription’, which is passive, cold, and barely engendering things characterised as dialogical and productive. Viewed in its process of descent to human beings, the scriptural revelation is not something suddenly flying and drifting without reason. The revelation is closely related with the reality (of the past) tied up together by Allah. Each verse or set of verses in the Scripture has mirrored solution to particular problem in the banality of individual and communal life. The Scripture is not simply a ‘text’, for it is always breathing ‘context’. By having context, the Scripture cannot be uncoupled from the social reality of the believers who put their trust in it. The Scripture is a text merging with context, which in turn illuminates the believers all around the world.<br /><br />

scholarly journals HUMAN IMPACTS ON LANDSCAPES: LESSONS OF CITIES FROM THE PAST

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
ERIC FOUACHE ◽  
STÉPHANE DESRUELLES
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

The first cities emerged in the Middle East at the end of the 4th millennium BC. Studies in the field of archaeology, geomorphology, geoscience and history allow us to understand which types of hazards were affecting the cities, and how they had an impact on landscapes in the past, in the Middle East, but also in other parts of the world. There is much to be gained: these studies are fundamental to a better understanding of present-day hazards, to urban development, but also to remembering our heritage. Cities have always been susceptible to nature’s risks and natural disasters but have also – through urban development and through the proximity of great numbers of human beings –, generated their own specific hazards.

scholarly journals Protein Posttranslational Signatures Identified in COVID-19 Patient Plasma

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavan Vedula ◽  
Hsin-Yao Tang ◽  
David Speicher ◽  
Anna Kashina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Posttranslational Modification ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Protein Processing ◽  
Plasma Samples ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Healthy Control

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly contagious virus of the coronavirus family that causes coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) in humans and a number of animal species. COVID-19 has rapidly propagated in the world in the past 2 years, causing a global pandemic. Here, we performed proteomic analysis of plasma samples from COVID-19 patients compared to healthy control donors in an exploratory study to gain insights into protein-level changes in the patients caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection and to identify potential proteomic and posttranslational signatures of this disease. Our results suggest a global change in protein processing and regulation that occurs in response to SARS-CoV-2, and the existence of a posttranslational COVID-19 signature that includes an elevation in threonine phosphorylation, a change in glycosylation, and a decrease in arginylation, an emerging posttranslational modification not previously implicated in infectious disease. This study provides a resource for COVID-19 researchers and, longer term, will inform our understanding of this disease and its treatment.

scholarly journals The Soundtrack of Revolution Memory, Affect, and the Power of Protest Songs

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiina Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
The Past ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Protest Songs ◽  
The World ◽  
Musical Memory

All cultural representations in the form of songs, pictures, literature, theater, film, television shows, and other media are deeply emotional and ideological, often difficult to define or analyze. Emotions are embedded as a cultural and social soundtrack of memories and minds, whether we like it or not. Feminist scholarship has emphasized over the past decade that affects and emotions are a foundation of human interaction. The cognitive understanding of the world has been replaced by a critical analysis in which questions about emotions and how we relate to the world as human beings is central (Ahmed 2004: 5-12). It is in this memory-related instance that this article discusses the unexpected reappearance of a long forgotten song, Hasta siempre, as a part of my personal musical memory. It is a personal reflection on the complex interaction between memory, affect and the genre of protest songs as experiences in life and music. What does it mean when a melody intrudes in the middle of unrelated thoughts, when one’s mind is occupied with rational and purposive considerations? These memories are no coincidences, I argue, they are our forgotten selves singing to us.

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