The developmental pattern of apolipoprotein VLDL-II (apo-II) in the plasma with regard to lipid concentration was characterized during the transition of pullet females to the laying phase in commercial laying hens (Gallus domesticus). Apo-II was isolated from the plasma of estrogen-administered roosters, and a rapid ELISA was developed for its quantification in chickens. The sensitivity of the ...

The main purpose of the present study was to assess the ecological capability of agricultural soils using geographic information system (GIS). This research was conducted during 2014 in Hamedan Province, Iran. A cross-sectional study was conducted mapping the 10 factors of soil characteristics (texture, depth, erosion, and aggregation, percentage of slope, direction of slope, height, soil salin...

BACKGROUND Self-weighing increases a person's self-awareness of current weight and weight patterns. Increased self-weighing frequency can help an individual prevent weight gain. Literature, however, is limited in describing variability in self-weighing strategies and how the variability is associated with weight management outcomes. AIM This review analyzed self-weighing in weight management ...

Futurity can be signalled in English in a great variety of ways. [Aarts reviews previous statements concerning the progressive and non-progressive present with future reference.] There is considerable agreement among authors who have dealt with this topic, but to define the conditions that cause a speaker to choose the one form rather than the other would call for a detailed study. The importan...

For a graph H with at most n vertices and a weighing of the edges of Kn with integers, we seek a copy of H in Kn whose weight is minimal, possibly even zero. Of a particular interest are the cases where H is a spanning subgraph (or an almost spanning subgraph) and the case where H is a fixed graph. In particular, we show that relatively balanced weighings of Kn with {−r, . . . , r} guarantee al...