the aim of the study was to investigate the effect of tail-docking on the lh pulse frequency in femaletuj lambs. twelve female lambs were assigned into two equal groups. a rubber ring was applied to the baseof the tail for shedding off. blood samples were collected for 8 h in the 4th and 8th months of age todetermine pulsatile secretion of lh. starting from the age of 6 months, blood samples we...

The authors assessed whether bobcat (Lynx rufus) or coyote (Canis latrans) urine could reduce white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) use of established feeding areas or trails. A four-week experiment evaluating deer use of eight feeding stations, four each with coyote or bobcat urine was conducted at a 2,200 ha fenced facility in northern Ohio with high deer densities (38Ik1d). At this same...

Growing evidence supports the suggestion that the compact high–velocity clouds of H i (CHVCs) are located throughout the Local Group and continue to fuel galactic evolution. If gaseous objects characterised by the FWHM diameter of 10 kpc and H i mass of 1×10 M⊙ that follow for the Local Group sample of CHVCs also populate other galaxy groups, then it is natural to ask if these would not already...

We developed a point-fluorescent-source-based white-light interferometer for high-resolution reflectometry, range-gating imaging, and group-velocity-dispersion measurement. The laser-pumped point fluorescent source has 9 mW of power and a spatial coherence of 0.97, which allows it to be used like a laser beam. Owing to its 40-nm FWHM spectral width, the width of its temporal autocorrelation is ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recent research has shown that a T2* image (either magnitude or phase) is not identical to the internal spatial distribution of a magnetic susceptibility (χ) source. In this paper, we examine the reasons behind these differences by looking into the insights of T2*-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (T2*MRI) and provide numerical characterizations of the source/image mism...