The Empirical Impact of Bovine Somatotropin on New York Dairy Farms

The Adoption and Impact of Bovine Somatotropin on U.S. Dairy Farms

Data from a national survey representative of U.S. dairy operations were used to assess adoption and the production and financial impacts of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST). Adoption rates of rbST varied significantly across the nation, but were higher among larger diary operations in all regions. However, the scale bias of rbST adoption was substantially diminished when the influence of...

Potential Impact of Bovine Somatotropin on Dairy Sire Evaluation

Use of bovine somatotropin to increase product ion of milk and milk solids poses the problem of allocation within herd and implications for genetic evaluatat ion records with and without bovine somatotropin were simulated for different correlations between performance with and without t reatment and response to it. Resulting within-herd variances and accuracy and bias in sire evaluations were c...

Detecting Technological Heterogeneity in New York Dairy Farms

the impact of morphological awareness on the vocabulary development of the iranian efl students

this study investigated the impact of explicit instruction of morphemic analysis and synthesis on the vocabulary development of the students. the participants were 90 junior high school students divided into two experimental groups and one control group. morphological awareness techniques (analysis/synthesis) and conventional techniques were used to teach vocabulary in the experimental groups a...

the impact of peer review on efl reviewers writing proficiency

امروزه تصحیح همکلاسی در کلاسهای نگارش یکی از اجزاء لاینفک کلاسهای دانش آموز محور است. تاثیرات مفید تصحیح همکلاسی بر زبان آموزان، معلمان را متقاعد کرده است که علیرغم صرف زمان، انرژی و توان بسیار، از این شیوه ی آموزشی در کلاسهای آموزش نگارش بهره بگیرند. تحقیق حاضر بر آن است تا با مقایسه دو گروه از یادگیرندگان زبان انگلیسی، تاثیر تصحیح همکلاسی را بر توانایی نوشتاری آنها نشان دهد. 122 خانم زبان آمو...