Alstom signed a contract to supply 130 Coradia Stream High Capacity electric double-deck trains Landesanstalt Schienenfahrzeuge Baden-Württemberg (SFBW) for the network in Germany. In addition delivery of trains, was also contracted provide full-service maintenance period 30 years ensure trains’ seamless availability. Furthermore, reserves an option order up 100 additional trains. The total val...

Dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) treatment reduced color a*- and b*-values of cooked chicken breast rolls. Sensory panels rated the color of cooked chicken rolls with CLA treatments darker than the control. The production of carbon monoxide (CO) in cooked chicken rolls increased dramatically after irradiation and was correlated with the increased redness of cooked chicken rolls after irra...

Age has significant impact on hepatic cytochrome P450 (CYP450) systems in animals. Ross 708 broiler chicken is a breed of chicken with fast growth characteristics. Cytochrome P450 in the livers of Ross 708 broiler chicken of different ages has been investigated. The birds were raised under standard husbandry conditions. A certain number of chickens was randomly sampled weekly for liver collecti...

BACKGROUND Chicken Mx belongs to the Mx family of interferon-induced dynamin-like GTPases, which in some species possess potent antiviral properties. Conflicting data exist for the antiviral capability of chicken Mx. Reports of anti-influenza activity of alleles encoding an Asn631 polymorphism have not been supported by subsequent studies. The normal cytoplasmic localisation of chicken Mx may i...

We consider the following transportation problem with both random and fuzzy factors. There exist m supply points and n demand points. For each route between supply point and demand point, unit transportation cost is a random variable according to a normal distribution and existence possibility denoting the preference choosing this route is attached. The probability that the total transportation...

Chicken parathyroid hormone (cPTH) has been reported to stimulate adrenal steroidogenesis and to have unusual potency on traditional PTH target tissues. To evaluate these properties, chicken PTH-( 1-88) has been expressed in Escherichia coli using a plasmid encoding a fusion protein which links together growth hormone, a factor Xa recognition site, and chicken PTH-(1-88). The growth hormone-cPT...

In mammals, the two major sequence variants of U4 small nuclear RNA, U4A and U4B, differ in primary sequence only at nucleotJde positions 88 and 99 (1). In the chicken, molecular cloning and genomic analysis of U4 RNA genes indicated that there are only two genes In the chicken genome that encode U4 snRNA (2). One of these genes codes for the chicken U4B homotog. However, the second gene, named...