Enhancing feed efficiency in converting mass into pig body is a critical phase for the profit producing pig. To improve metabolic utilization of dietary nutrients, it relies heavily on healthy gut or gastrointestinal tract, and only digestive can result better digestion nutrient absorption. Thus, study investigates growth performance, response morphology native pigs, which treatment will stretc...

We present numerical studies of atomic transport in 3D and 1D models for a mode-locked, pulsed atom laser as realized by Anderson and Kasevich [Science 281 (1998) 1686] using an elongated Bose condensate of 87Rb atoms poured into a vertical optical lattice. From our 3D results we ascertain in a quantitative manner the role of meanfield interactions in determining the shape and the size of the p...

Sharply defined veins in :stockworks and siliceous breccia matrix contain metallic mineral assembhges and follow a number of subparallel trends within and marginal to a ] p tassium-feldspar porphyritic dacite. The .porphyritic dacite and metal-bearing veins and breccias exhibit both con-. formable and crosscutting relationships with andesite and dacite country rocks of the Hazelton Group. Vein ...

OBJECTIVE Patients with fibromyalgia have shown hyporeactive autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses to physical stressors, augmented pain to ANS changes, and heightened negative emotions, which can increase pain. This study examined ANS reactivity to negative emotions and its association with pain in fibromyalgia and control participants. METHODS Sixty-two women with fibromyalgia and 59 wom...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The study was designed to analyze preoperative clinical and surgical findings at enucleation of ovarian endometrioma with their impact on recurrence and pregnancy rates. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 550 histologically verified ovarian endometriomas operated on at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Kiel, Germany, between 1995 ...

The global seroprevalence of latent toxoplasmosis is estimated to be higher than 30%. The presence of slowly dividing parasites in tissue cysts located mainly in immunoprivileged organs was long considered asymptomatic. Recently, many studies have shown that latent Toxoplasma infections could have serious impacts on human health. Here we ran a cross-sectional study in a population of 1486 volun...

INTRODUCTION Individuals with multiple versus single suicide attempts present a more severe clinical picture and may be at greater risk for suicide. Yet group differences within military samples have been vastly understudied. PURPOSE The objective is to determine demographic, diagnostic, and psychosocial differences, based on suicide attempt status, among military inpatients admitted for suic...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG) gene have been associated with cardiovascular risk factors, particularly obesity and diabetes. We assessed the relationship between 4 PPARG SNPs (C-681G, C-689T, Pro12Ala, and C1431T) and coronary heart disease (CHD) in the PRIME (249 cases/494 controls, only men) and ADVANCE (1,076 cases/805 ...