Sleep in the horse is essential for its overall health. Sleep disorders and lack of sleep can seriously compromise horses’ physical activity and even worse, quality of life. Limited information and lack of understanding of sleep and associated disorders may lead to inaccurate diagnosis and management. Authors’ addresses: Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, Tupper Hall 2108, One Shields Ave...

1. THE PHENOMENON Our work on adding the “missing user” to the telecommunication (telecom) policy discourse reaches back to the early 1990s.(1) Much like today, policy debates at the time raged over issues such as the upgrading of telecom networks and the need for new services, the (re)definition of universal service, the emergence of “information age” inequalities (e.g., the rural-urban divide...

M. Hong Nguyen,1 Mark C. Wissel,2 Ryan K. Shields,1 Martin A. Salomoni,2 Binghua Hao,1 Ellen G. Press,1 Ryan M. Shields,2 Shaoji Cheng,1 Dimitra Mitsani,1 Aniket Vadnerkar,1 Fernanda P. Silveira,1 Steven B. Kleiboeker,2 and Cornelius J. Clancy1,3 1Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2Viracor-IBT Laboratories, Lee's Summit, Missouri; and 3Department of Medicine, VA Pi...

 Introduction: Nowadays, applications of free-lead radiation shields are increased specially for weighting factor and toxicity of lead elements. Although touching the lead may be results in the nervousand blood system of body, it is not exactly proven yet. Protective measures are the fundamental parts of radiation protection. On the other hand, high weighting factor of lead sh...

Relationship between nondestructive firmness measurements and commercially important ripening fruit stages for peaches, nectarines and plums Constantino Valero a, Carlos H. Crisosto b,∗, David Slaughter c a Departamento de Ingenierı́a Rural, Universidad Politécnica Madrid, Av. Complutense, Madrid 28040, Spain b Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Dav...

Fernandez (2004b) argues that the present value effect of the tax saving on debt cannot be calculated as simply the present value of the tax shields associated with interest. This contradicts standard results in the literature. It implies that, even though the capital market is complete, value-additivity is violated. As a consequence, adjusted present value formulae of a standard sort cannot be...

In order to analyze the leakage magnetic field and stray loss in power transformer, leakage magnetic field and stray loss in structure parts of a power transformer are calculated by three-dimensional (3-D) non-linear time harmonic finite element method (FEM). The results show that stray loss and loss density in structure parts are large and which may lead to local overheating and affect perform...

A new relationship between the roughness height and the main hydrodynamic and sediment parameters for plane beds under oscillatory conditions is presented. In order to derive such a relationship, a large data base encompassing plane-bed experiments was compiled from previous investigations and analyzed. Different methods to estimate the roughness height were investigated. Comparisons between th...