Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major problem for hospitalized patients. Nevertheless, adherence to VTE prophylaxis guidelines is suboptimal, partly because of physicians' neglect due to excessive workload. Simplified risk assessment methods (RAMs) facilitate timely risk stratification and thromboprophylaxis. However, the accuracy of such RAMs has not been extensively studied. Using the prosp...

Human harvests can unwittingly drive evolution on morphology and life history, and these selective effects may be detrimental to the management of natural resources. Although theory suggests that harvest refuges, as sources of unselected animals, could buffer the effects of human exploitation on wild populations, few studies have assessed their efficiency. We analyzed records from >7000 trophy ...

The time required to train rams to an artificial vagina (AV) makes collecting semen from large numbers of rams difficult. To manage this problem, we developed a glass, round-bottomed, 1.9-cm i.d. x 9.8-cm long vaginal collection vial (VCV). Three experiments were conducted to determine whether the VCV affected 1) semen volume per collection, 2) percentage of motile spermatozoa, 3) forward progr...

We present an algorithm for representing diffusion of sensible heat and vapor between hydrometeors and air that is formulated from implicit numerical equations and is therefore stable for long numerical model timesteps, but is solved explicitly without requiring iteration. Liquid, ice, and mixed-phase hydrometeor categories are incorporated into the system, and latent heat of fusion released or...

This study was aimed to determine whether the presence of sexually stimulated rams by photoperiodic and melatonin treatments can advance the resumption of post-partum sexual activity in Mediterranean ewes lambing in January and weaned at the end of the breeding season at 41°N, in March. Rams were exposed to two months of long days (16 h light/day) and given three melatonin implants at the end o...

configuration in which two RAMS are connected to each other through a single communication link and then calculating the number of crossing sequences for this configuration. (For a detailed discussion, see Aho et. ai’s paper [AUY83].) Both techniques have a serious drawback : they do not take into account any but the simplest aspects of the network topology (like the diameter, the bisection wid...

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Recent theoretical work suggests that personality is a component of life history, but links between personality and either age-dependent reproductive success or life-history strategy are yet to be established. Using quantitative genetic analyses on a long-term pedigree we estimated indices of boldness and docility for 105 bighorn sheep rams (Ovis canadensis), born between 1983 and 1999, and com...

Methods Annual prevalence of the IAS-USA 2009 DRV RAMs (V11I, V32I, L33F, I47V, I50V, I54L/M, T74P, L76V, I84V, and L89V) was studied in approximately 232,000 routine clinical samples submitted to Virco for resistance testing between Jan 2003 and Dec 2009. Prevalence was assessed over time for individual DRV RAMs, DRV RAM combinations and presence of 0, 1, 2, or ≥3 DRV RAMs. Results for DRV RAM...

The effect of ram percentage on the fertility of maiden ewes joined in autumn was examined on ten properties in New South Wales. On four of these properties a group of maiden ewes was joined to one per cent of rams and another group to three per cent. On another two properties the design was similar, but a third group containing maiden and mature ewes was also joined to one per cent of rams. On...