Female calves (n = 108) were assigned to 6 cold milk feeding treatments in two experiments for a 70-day period. Live-weight (LW) was measured weekly, with an additional LW taken at day 410 and post-calving for animals in experiment 1. In Experiment 1, the effect of feeding frequency and age of turnout to pasture on calf performance and 1st lactation milk yields were evaluated. The whole milk (W...

background: the main goal was to evaluate the attitudes and knowledge of zoroastrians living in iran towards oocyte donation (od) and embryo donation (ed) program. methods: this cross sectional study consisted of 318 zoroastrians (n=175 for od and n=143 for ed) of both sexes. the questionnaire form comprised two parts of general demographic characteristics of the participants and twenty multipl...

absorption spectra of the composite sol-gel (blue solid) and pure photochromic sol-gel (black solid). The open-form ∆OD for composite solgel (red dash). The inset is the chemical structure of the composite molecule with donor moiety (bottom red) and acceptor moiety (top blue). (d) The thermally reversing photokinetic measurement of the open-form ∆OD (460nm) of the composite sol-gel, recovering ...

Optical density (OD) measurements of microbial growth are one of the most common techniques used in microbiology, with applications ranging from studies of antibiotic efficacy to investigations of growth under different nutritional or stress environments, to characterization of different mutant strains, including those harbouring synthetic circuits. OD measurements are performed under the assum...

Health professionals worry that information about adverse events conveyed to patients in open disclosure (OD) may be used against them in medicolegal proceedings. Whether and how strongly state and federal laws in Australia protect against such uses is unclear. Our analysis concludes that existing laws do not prohibit the sharing of most types of information on adverse events with patients. How...

In the primary visual cortex (V1), monocular deprivation (MD) induces a shift in the ocular dominance (OD) of binocular neurons towards the open eye (Wiesel and Hubel, 1963; Gordon and Stryker, 1996). In V1 of C57Bl/6J mice, this OD-plasticity is maximal in juveniles, declines in adults and is absent beyond postnatal day (PD) 110 (Lehmann and Löwel, 2008) if mice are raised in standard cages. S...

The principle of antisense oligonucleotide (AS-OD) technologies is based on the specific inhibition of unwanted gene expression by blocking mRNA activity. It has long appeared to be an ideal strategy to leverage new genomic knowledge for drug discovery and development. In recent years, AS-OD technologies have been widely used as potent and promising tools for this purpose. There is a rapid incr...

We present a new method for optic disk (OD) detection in a retinal image. It is an hybrid approach which uses properties of both appearance and model-based approaches which are mostly used for OD detection. An extrema pyramidal decomposition is employed and hill type topographical features are extracted at the lowest level of the image pyramid. The detected hill points are characterised as cand...

One of the important problems in group theory is characterization of a group by a given property, that is, to prove there exist only one group with a given property. Let  be a finite group. We denote by  the largest order of elements of . In this paper, we prove that some Suzuki groups are characterizable by order and the largest order of elements. In fact, we prove that if  is a group with  an...