Heat stress (HT) and photoperiod affect milk production and immune status of dairy cows. The objective was to evaluate the effects of HT abatement prepartum under controlled photoperiod on hepatic metabolic gene expression and cellular immune function of periparturient Holstein cows (n=21). Cows were dried off 46 d before expected calving date and assigned to treatments by mature equivalent mil...

SEM analysis contains researches of tooth enamel surfaces of two populations. First group of samples is tooth enamel of prehistorically ancestor from Vucedol and the second group of samples is enamel of modern Croatian citizen. Even on small number of human teeth samples from cooperage site of Vucedol (3,000 BC) and today's Croatian people, we can conclude about chewing biometry of prehistorica...

An important part of quality control in the fabrication of integrated circuit wafers involves making three-dimen sional measurements of the wafer’s surface topography. We describe a method for obtaining a dense depth map of the wafer surface from a single Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image. The depth map gives a complete description of the surface topography, allowing the easy calculation...

The objective of the present study was to examine the dimensionality, reliability, and construct validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) in three Spanish samples using structural equation modeling (SEM). Pooling the FFMQ data from 3 Spanish samples (n = 1191), we estimated the fit of two competing models (correlated five-factor vs. bifactor) via confirmatory factor analysis....

Microvascular changes of the denture-bearing mucosa on the hard palate of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) were investigated on microvascular casts utilizing the acryl plastic injection method (Taniguchi, Ohta et al. 1952, 1955) under SEM and ultrastructure of the endothelium of the blood capillary and surrounding tissues under TEM. The results obtained were as follows: 1. SEM findings of micr...