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 ...

In Iraq, Awassi is the most widespread sheep breed on non-European origin. The adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions. Sheep farming, mainly breed, represents an essential economic activity Iraq; however, so far, only very few genetic data exist this breed. present study was performed in Biology Department, University Zakho. Thirty two Blood samples were obtained from Awassi-Iq (Ovis...

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...

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...

The presence of sorbitol-negative Escherichia coli O157 was investigated in healthy Awassi sheep faeces from 175 randomly selected animals in Burdur province of Turkey. Out of 175 animals, 16 (9.1%) were faecal shedding of sorbitol-negative E. coli O157. Out of the 15 flocks included in the study, 7 (47%) had at least one sheep positive for sorbitol-negative E. coli O157. The isolation rate of ...

This experiment investigated the effect of feeding different levels of sesame oil cake on the intake and digestibility of DM, CP, crude fiber, and crude fat in Awassi fattening lambs. Sesame oil cake was incorporated into lamhs’ rafions at levels of 10 and 20% to replace similar percentages of barley and soybean. The results showed that the high level of sesame oil cake inclusion decreased DM a...

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...

The present study was carried out at Governmental Research Centre for Conservation of Sahiwal Cattle (RCCSC) Jahangirabad, District Khanewal during 2007, to investigate the overall prevalence of Ostertagia spp., in sheep. Out of 300 hosts 231 were infected with Ostertagia spp. The overall prevalence of Ostertagia spp. was (77%). The males showed significantly (P<0.05) higher prevalence (81.4%) ...

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