OBJECTIVES Older adults with care needs live in a variety of settings-from traditional community housing to nursing homes. This analysis provides new estimates of the size and characteristics of the older population across settings and examines unmet needs for assistance. METHOD Data are from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study (N = 8,077). Multinomial logistic regressions focus o...

Drugs and other forms of experience (e.g., complex housing) share the ability to alter the dendritic fields of cortical and subcortical neurons. Although such modifications are typically considered advantageous, recent research has demonstrated that psychomotor stimulants (cocaine and amphetamine) block subsequent experience-dependent structural plasticity in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and pa...

Litter moisture content has been related to ammonia, dust and odour emissions as well as bird health and welfare. Improved understanding of the water holding properties of poultry litter as well as water additions to litter and evaporation from litter will contribute to improved litter moisture management during the meat chicken grow-out. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how manageme...

In Cambodia, influenza A(H5N1) virus surveillance at live poultry markets (LPMs) relies on virus isolation from poultry specimens; however, virus is rarely detected by this method. We tested 502 environmental LPM samples: 90 were positive by PCR, 10 by virus isolation. Virus circulation could be better monitored by environmental sampling of LPMs.

For a number of years, poultry selection has concentrated on growth velocity in meat lines, producing improvements in growth that have not been without consequence for muscle structure, metabolism, and meat quality. Higher growth rates may induce morphological abnormalities, induce larger fiber diameters and a higher proportion of glycolytic fibers, and a lower proteolytic potential in the musc...

Women play a signi cant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied  elds. This paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Backyard poultry as a case-study. The empowerment of women is the key issue in protecting women’s interests. The rural women folk were provided with desi poultry birds, inputs and capacity building to strengthen their liveliho...

Ethiopia has considerable livestock resource and poultry population is second ranked preceded by Cattle. Besides their important numbers, little known about production systems, growth, egg utilization trends development strategies in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian almost entirely composed of indigenous chicken recent estimates showed that 81.7%, 10.9%, 7.4% are indigenous, hybrids exotic, respectively...