Reproductive biotechnologies continue to be developed for genetic improvement of both river and swamp buffalo. Although artificial insemination using frozen semen emerged some decades back, there are still considerable limitations. The major problem appears to be the lack of efficient methods for estrus detection and timely insemination. Controlled breeding experiments in the buffalo had been l...

Materials and Methods The estimate of world buffalo population is approximately 185.29 million dispersed in 42 countries, out of which 97% (179.75 million) are found only in Asia [1]. India has approximately 57% (105.3 million) of the total world buffalo population. The water buffalo ( ) contributes immensely to the agricultural economy through milk, meat, hides and draught power [2]. Share of ...

Two human generations ago, my great-grandparents paused in their westward move while herds of migrating buffalo crossed the Missouri River in front of their steamboat. Long before the birth of my father the migratory herds of the North American great plains were a distant memory and the plains ecosystems were forever changed. The marine world is different. Fencing or paving the sea is impossibl...

BACKGROUND This is the fourth in a series of papers detailing the terrestrial arthropods collected during an intensive survey of a site near Steel Creek campground along the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. The survey was conducted over a period of eight and a half months in 2013 using twelve trap types, including Malaise and canopy traps, Lindgren multifunnel traps, and pan traps. NEW INF...

background: lactoperoxidase (lpo) is one of the most heat-stable enzymes in milk and its inactivation has been proposed for monitoring thermal processes. the aim of this study was to provide information on activity and thermal inactivation behavior of lpo in iranian cow and buffalo milk and whey. methods: sixty cow and buffalo milk samples were collected. the lpo activity was measured using spe...

Rules of Crowdsourcing: Models, Issues, and Systems of Control Gregory D. Saxton a , Onook Oh b & Rajiv Kishore c a Department of Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA b The Center for Collaboration Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA c Department of Management Science & Systems, School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo, Buf...

1Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, The First Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361003, China 2Buffalo General Medical Center, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA 3Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200001, China 4Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatolog...

Contextual vocabulary acquisition as computational philosophy and as philosophical computation William J. Rapaport a & Michael W. Kibby b a Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics, and Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA b Department of Learning and Instruction and Center for Li...

GEORGIRENE D. VLADUTIU and NOEL R. ROSE. From the Center for Immunology and the Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214 . Dr . Vladutiu's present address is the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, 86 Hodge Street, Buffalo, New York 14222 . Dr . Rose's present address is the...