Study area and sample: The study was conducted in the Antananarivo Avaradrano district of the Analamanga region (Figure 3), which recorded the highest numbers of annual
ASF outbreaks from 1998 to 2004 compared to other districts within this region.
Increasing viscosity resulted in obvious morphological changes from spherical particle to bead-on-string and nanofiber (Figures 1(A)-1(C)), indicating that PEO solution possesses remarkably good ability to regulate morphology for electrospun products, whereas only aqueous
ASF solution is powerless.
The outcome variables of interest were the children's (i)
ASF intake (in grams) and (ii)
ASF diversity score, defined as the sum of individual
ASF categories (maximum of 10) the child consumed during the week preceding the survey.
Seeing the success of
ASF experimental project, a number of progressive growers in Khairpur/Sukkar districts have vowed to construct similar solar dryers on their respective farms and have approached
ASF for financial assistance, the spokesperson said.
The application server brings together
ASF's Tomcat and Axis, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ from Codehaus, JOTM and ASM from ObjectWeb, CGLIB and MX4J from SourceForge, and Mortbay's Jetty.
'We are lucky because the Philippines is surrounded by waters, the reason why we are still spared of the
ASF, but we cannot be complacent about it,' Bigot said.
Vietnam is among the hardest hit by
ASF, with total deaths-including those culled-of over 4 million hogs today.
Although Taiwan has taken the precautionary measure of inspecting carry-on baggage of all travelers from the Philippines, there have yet to be any confirmed cases of African swine fever (
ASF) in the Philippines.
Batangas on Tuesday issued a total ban on live hogs and meat products entering the province because of suspected cases of African swine fever (
ASF).