SECTION B ABSTRACTS 1. GENERAL (INCLUDING LAND USE) 6177 Agyen-Frempong, M., 1988. Strategies for livestock development in tsetse infested areas of northern Ghana. In: Ferrara, B. (ed.), 1988 (see 13: no. 6180), pp. 101-110. Animal Health and Production Department, P.O. Box 97, Pong-Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana. The valleys of the Northern Region of Ghana are known to be very fertile and have...

High costs of complying with drug development regulations slow progress and contribute to high drug prices and, hence, mounting health care costs. If it is exorbitantly expensive to bring new therapies to approval, fewer agents can be developed with available resources, impeding the emergence of urgently needed treatments and escalating prices by limiting competition. Excessive regulation produ...

The stress of high milk production, along with increasing herd size and changes in facilities and management, has made fertility one of the main focuses of genetic improvement today. In the US, the reduction in calving rate to first service and the impact of this decrease in fertility on the Holstein breed, mainly in the last 20 years, is of major concern [27]. Figure 1 shows the clear trend fo...

To take advantage from genetic improvement of broiler chickens, updates must be made of the nutritional levels that promote maximum protein accretion and minimum fat deposition. The development of growth models is a valuable tool to understand nutrient deposition in poultry. This article presents experimental results and methodologies used to obtain prediction equations for true digestible lysi...

The sucrose storage process of sugarcane has attracted the interest of plant physiologists for 100 years whereby, depending on the availability of techniques and concepts, the biochemical part of enzymology preceded the aspect of compartmentation and transport. With the new techniques of molecular biology and genetic engineering, the manipulation of enzymatic processes has started again, puttin...

CMMI has proven benefits in software process improvement. Typically, organisations that achieve a CMMI level rating improve their performance. However, CMMI implementation is not trivial, in particular for high maturity levels, and not all organisations achieve the expected results. Certain CMMI implementation problems may remain undetected by SCAMPI since only a sample of the organisation is a...

There are three economically important traits under the CUlTent U. S. Beef Grading System: the distribution and amount of intramuscular fat (or marbling), the subcutaneous fat thickness, and the ribeye muscle size. These traits are also major factors used in evaluating body composition for genetic improvement. The marbling scores are visually graded by certified inspectors under the current USD...

abstract background and objective: proficiency testing schemes as a part of quality system in clinical and research laboratory centers provides the opportunity to evaluate the quality of test results. in this paper, we try to introduce the proficiency testing schemes as a useful method for achieving standardization and homogenization of test results in clinical and research laboratory centers. ...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education has introduced clinical gov­ernance as the accepted model of hospital healthcare improvement. subsequently, a growing movement for implementing clinical governance in health facilities has emerged. this study aimed to explore the opinions of the relevant experts and executives to provide insight into current challen...

evaluating the investment that healthcare organisations make in quality improvement requires knowledge of impact at multiple levels, including patient care, workforce and other organisational resources. the degree to which these resources help organisations to survive and thrive in the challenging contexts in which healthcare is designed and delivered is unknown. investigating this question fro...