a research study was carried out on the indirect selection efforts amongst small scale holders of west african dwarf (wad) goats based on coat pigmentation and wattle types in ogbomoso, nigeria using personal interviews and structured questionnaires given using simple random on-farm techniques. the questionnaires were focused on the ownership distribution, preferred pigmentation and wattle type...

OBJECTIVES This study explored the role of mode and unexpectedness of death, age, race, and marital status on psychological symptoms for widows approximately 6 months after their husbands' deaths. METHODS Midwestern samples were drawn from death/divorce records for 276 Black and White women aged 19-74 whose husbands had died from homicide, suicide, or accidental death; 276 matched natural dea...

Khaqani is one of the most important poets in Persian literature. His artistic personality is a complex character; he has worked on various branches of art and elegy is one of the main of these branches. Khaqani has composed over sixty elegies that are considered his masterpieces. His personal elegies are the most famous and the most artistically composed Persian elegies. Seven of these elegies...

BACKGROUND After a child's death, parents may experience depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and increased risk for cancers, diabetes, psychiatric hospitalization, and suicide. Racial/ethnic differences are unknown. This longitudinal study investigated health and functioning of Hispanic, black, and white parents through 13 months after NICU/PICU death. METHODS Parents (176 mothe...

Case reports of sudden death during exertion have not established an association between the sickle-cell trait (hemoglobin AS) and exercise-related death. To test this association, all deaths occurring among 2 million enlisted recruits during basic training in the U.S. Armed Forces in 1977 to 1981 were classified from autopsy and clinical records as non-sudden deaths or as sudden deaths explain...

Studying invisible objects in space that are hundreds of millions light years away may sound impossible. But, recent years, astronomers have developed a new way to investigate type and distant objects—super-massive black holes. Black holes the most densely packed Universe. When stars get close super-massive they can be torn apart, which produces relatively brief but informative flash light. The...