The organisation of services to support the increasing number of people receiving enteral tube feeding (ETF) at home varies across regions. There is evidence that multi-disciplinary primary care teams focussed on home enteral nutrition (HEN) can provide cost-effective care. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a HEN Team in one UK city. A HEN Team comprising dietetians, nurses...

In the domestic hen phenylacetic acid is excreted conjugated mainly with ornithine (Totani, 1910), but in the pigeon it is excreted conjugated with taurine and glycine (James et al., 1972). This difference between the hen and pigeon has now been further investigated with several arylacetic acids. The compounds used were 14C-carboxy-labelled phenylacetic acid, 4-chloroand 4-nitrophenylacetic aci...

The use of game elements in non-game contexts (gamification) -has previously been widely explored in contexts such as healthcare and marketing but less extensively in education and training. In this paper we explore the use of gamification in education and training. Traditional training methods often fail to engage or motivate students, especially Digital Natives raised from a young age with ap...

It is well known that in the hen the egg-white protein ovotransferrin (conalbumin) and the serum protein transferrin are very similar in structure and iron-binding properties (for review see Beam & Parker, 1966). Since it is evident that for the eggwhite protein the name 'ovotransferrin' (Komatsu & Feeney, 1967; Azari & Baugh, 1967) is more informative than the classical name 'conalbumin', it i...

to determine the effect of hen age and storage condition on egg quality, fresh eggs were sampled from two commercial flocks of white leghorn hens at 28 and 68 weeks of age. half of sampled eggs from each flock were stored at 6°c and the other half was stored at room temperature. fifteen eggs were randomly sampled from each treatment following collection and at 5-day intervals to 30 days of stor...

in order to find out suitable organic fertilizers for elimination of chemical fertilizers usage and the optimum sowing date in pot marigold cultivation, an experiment was conducted in the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, in 2007 growing season. for this purpose a split plot experiment based on completely randomized block design with three replications was use...

The paper presents a Process Integration application for waste heat utilisation from exhaust gas streams with partial condensation. It is based on the hot composite curve construction representing gaseous mixture cooling accounting condensable vapour part's gas–liquid equilibrium. With cold requiring heating, Pinch Point determined. On this basis, exchanger network (HEN) structure utilised inte...

The relationship between nutrition and welfare is usually considered to be a direct result of supplying the hen with adequate quantities feed water. This simple notion freedom from hunger thirst belies fact that nutrients play pivotal role in body’s response challenges whether they relate ambient temperature, gastrointestinal health, pathogen exposure, metabolic disorders, or social mental stre...

Authors: Grigorios Spirakis, School of Business and Economics, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis 22100, Greece; Antonios Sarantidis, Visiting Researcher, Forecasting Laboratory, Bangor Business School, Hen Coleg, College Road, Bangor, LL57 2DG, United Kingdom; Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Bangor University, Business School, Hen Coleg, College Road, Bangor, LL57 2DG, United Kingdom, Kostas@forta...

an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of mineral and vitamin premix on performance and egg traits of laying hens from 37 to 49 weeks of age. two hundred and forty laying hens (hy-line w-36 strain) were randomly assigned to 5 dietary treatments of four replicates each with 12 hens per replicate). the levels of mineral and vitamin premixes in the experiment were ...