The ability of a sheep to shed its own wool has an attraction in scenarios where the costs of harvesting wool outweigh its value. Certain breeds and composites have the ability to shed their wool in the spring, and these are investigated in this work in an attempt to outline the genetics of wool shedding. One flock from a breeding group in Southern England (UK) containing sheep with wool-sheddi...

in this paper, the flow around bluff bodies with different cross sections and determination of forces acts on them are investigated.this paper presents the results of a numerical study on the flow characteristics and heat transfer over two equal square cylinders in a tandem arrangement. spacing between the cylinders is 5 widths of the cylinder and the reynolds number ranges from 1 to 200, pr=0....

In the paper load shedding time analysis in Buildings Energy Management Systems are presented. Influence of the communication system structures on the data exchange duration is analysed and its results for a few communication structures are presented. Streszczenie. W artykule przedstawiono analizy czasowe operacji redukcji obciążenia w budynkowych systemach zarządzania energią. Przeanalizowano ...

Xavier Fauvergue, Roger Boll, Jacques Rochat, Eric Wajnberg, Carlos Bernstein, and Laurent Lapchin Unité Mixte de Recherche 1112 ‘‘Réponse des Organismes aux Stress Environnementaux,’’ Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 400 route des Chappes BP167, 06 903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France, Insectarium de La Réunion, Pépinière Communale, rue Simon Pernic, 97420 Le Port, France, and Unit...

This paper presents preventive and emergency control measures for on line transient stability (security) enhancement. For insecure operating state, generation rescheduling based on a real power generation shift factor (RPGSF) is proposed as a preventive control measure to bring the system back to secure operating state. For emergency operating state, two emergency control strategies namely gene...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate sensitivity and specificity of a new ELISA for antibodies against Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational survey. SAMPLE POPULATION Serum samples from 590 cattle that were infected with M avium subsp paratuberculosis and 723 cattle that were not infected. PROCEDURE Serum samples were tested by use of an ELISA for antibodies ag...

Aminopeptidase regulator of TNFR1 shedding (ARTS-1) binds to the type I tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR1) and promotes receptor shedding. Because hydroxamic acid-based metalloprotease inhibitors prevent shedding of both TNFR1 and the interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6Ralpha), we hypothesized that ARTS-1 might also regulate shedding of IL-6Ralpha, a member of the type I cytokine receptor superfam...