Lameness scoring (0-3) was carried out on four UK dairy farms during the housing period over three consecutive years (2010-2012). At the start of the study cows were matched by parity and stage of lactation and randomly allocated into a treatment (TX) and a control (CX) group. Cows were enrolled when two sound scores (0 or 1) were followed by a lame score (2). Farmers were immediately notified ...

Halogen bonding (HB) has emerged as a promising route for designing supramolecular assemblies due to its directional nature and versatility in modifying interactions through the choice of halogens molecular...

1 Geophysical Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-6160, USA 2 School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK 3 National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 14–901, Wellington, New Zealand 4 British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK 5 McGill University...

We recently reported detection of a transient increase in circulating donor leukocytes (WBCs) in immunocompetent recipients 3 to 5 days posttransfusion (tx) (Blood 85:1207, 1995). We have now characterized survival kinetics of specific donor WBC subsets in additional tx populations. Eight female elective surgery patients (pts) were sampled pre-tx and on days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 14 post-tx. Ten fema...

A very effective spirocyclization procedure for installing nucleophiles (Nu = N(3), NO(2), SCN, SO(2)Tol, and halogens) via iodonium(III) salts has been developed using the combination of iodoarene and mCPBA. The high-yielding syntheses of the cyclohexadienone-type spirocyclic compounds 2 having varied functionalities in the skeletons have been achieved from the aryl alkynes 1 with the optimize...

The role played by inorganic chemical additives in fire retardancy and flame inhibition is considered. Particular attention is given to the molecular level aspects of commercially important systems containing compounds of antimony, halogens, and phosphorus. The flame inhibiting function of metal containing additives is also discussed.

the present study is intended to develop a preventive maintenance (pm) policy for industrial applications, while considering two different objectives: the first objective is to optimize the total maintenance costs, i.e., the preventive maintenance (pm) and emergency maintenance (em) costs per unit time. (cput). the second objective is to design the policy in such a way that the simplicity of it...