BACKGROUND Contraceptive use including short acting, long acting and permanent methods positively influence the socio-economic development of a nation by allowing families to space and limit their family size to their economic capacity. Demand for LAPMs of contraception as detrmined by utilization and unmet need for LAPMs of contraception can provide realiable information for providers. OBJEC...

A 2-yr production study was conducted to evaluate 3 systems of growing stocker calves under rotational stocking. One group of steers was stocked on pasture from early April to mid August (spring-stocked steers = SSS), and another group of steers was stocked from early July to late October (fall-stocked steers = FSS). Steers were stratified by BW (n = 72, BW = 229 +/- 11 kg for SSS; n = 72, BW =...

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Stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f.sp tritici Erik. & E. Henn. is a highly destructive disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The effects of fungicide application on stem rust (Puccinia graminis tritici) epidemics and yield of three bread wheat varieties varying in reaction to the disease were studied in two major wheat growing and stem rust prone districts (Agarfa and Sinana) of Bale, E...

The Bale River Sub Basin is located in Tulungrejo Village, Gandusari District, Blitar Regency, on territory with undulating topography and at an elevation of 519 to 846 meters above sea level, steep extremely slopes. majority the sub-watershed area's land use, notably forests, has been transformed into agricultural or mixed gardens, where conversion carried out without conservation measures und...

Comparison of latency and rate coding for the direction of 1 whisker deflection in the subcortical somatosensory 2 pathway 3 4 Riccardo Storchi , Michael R. Bale , Gabriele E. M. Biella , Rasmus S. Petersen 1 5 6 Running Head: Latency vs rate coding for direction of whisker deflection 7 8 Affiliations: 9 Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK 10 Institute of Bioimaging and Molec...