To investigate the effects of certain factors on the rate of retained placenta, 2844 calving records from 1288 Holstein cows in a herd were used. These cows calved during year period of 2001 to 2007. A generalized statistical linear model was applied to analyze the data. Logistic regression model was applied as the statistical model. In the model, fixed effects of year, season (warm or cold) an...

durum wheat due to its quality is an important crop in feeding and economics. saji is a newly released durum wheat cultivar with a mean yield of 2824 kgha-1 which was higher than the two durum wheat (zardak) and bread wheat (sardari) check cultivars in different yield traits conducted during 2000-2008 cropping seasons in iran. its grain yield was 23% and 11% higher than those of zardak and sard...

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatse (FBPase) from larvae of the freeze-avoiding gall moth Epiblema scudderiana occurs in two forms, which are interconverted by reversible phosphorylation and separable by CM-cellulose column chromatography. The phosphoenzyme has properties that would make it the more active form in vivo. Compared with the dephosphorylated form, the phosphoenzyme had three-fold lower valu...

The objective of this study is to investigate the climate sensitivity of health in a moderate climate of SW Germany. Daily mortality rates for the 30 yr period 1968–1997 for Baden-Württemberg (SW Germany) have been investigated with regard to the possible impacts of the thermal environment. A complete heat budget model of the human being (Klima-Michel model with outcome ‘perceived temperature’)...

Air pollution is one of the emerging environmental issues of the western cities of Iran. Daily data (2009-2012) on air pollutants in Sanandaj, Iran, were collected from the Department of Environmental Protection, Kurdistan Province, Iran. Climatic parameters were collected from the Kurdistan Meteorological Bureau. The quality of air was assessed based on the air quality index (AQI). The relatio...

It is well-known that coastal low-level jets (CLLJs) play an essential role in transporting heat, water vapor and pollutants. However, the CLLJ characteristics Pearl River Estuary have not been deeply revealed due to lack of long-term observations. Based on observations from a wind lidar, we analyze primary climatic CLLJs investigate their relationships with large-scale local-scale synoptic sys...

Integrating multiple facets of biodiversity to describe spatial and temporal distribution patterns is one way of revealing the mechanisms driving community assembly. We assessed the species, functional, and phylogenetic composition and structure of passerine bird communities along an elevational gradient both in wintering and breeding seasons in the Ailao Mountains, southwest China, in order to...

the impact of land use intensity on the abundance and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) was investigated at six land use types viz., natural forest, grassland, acacia plantations, cardamom plantations, coffee plantations and paddy fields in the niligiri biosphere of the western ghats in south india. there was no significant difference in amf root colonization in different land use...

The use of space by the resident population of estuarine dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) in Norte Bay, southern Brazil was studied by boat surveys between 2000 and 2003. Data such as the geographical position and group size was collected at 5-minute intervals using focal-group sampling. The distribution and seasonal and daily group home-ranges were estimated using a GIS (Geographic Information Sy...