Effects of feeding ractopamine (RAC; 5 mg/kg) to physically castrated (PC) and immunologically castrated (IC) pigs on carcass characteristics, cutting yields, and loin quality were evaluated using 285 carcasses. Male pigs were randomly assigned to sex treatments (PC and IC) at birth and fed the same nursery diets before allotment into 32 pens with 22 pigs per pen in a grow-finish barn. Pigs in ...

BACKGROUND Glomerulonephropathies are common causes of kidney disease in dogs. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of immune-complex glomerulonephritis (ICGN) in North American dogs biopsied for suspected glomerular disease. ANIMALS Renal biopsies (n = 733) submitted to the Texas Veterinary Renal Pathology Service between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2012 were reviewed. Dogs were incl...

To keep up with the demand of continuous increase in device densities, the integration of three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D-IC) has become the most probable solution, and the utilization of ultra-finepitch microbump has emerged as an essential component of 3D-IC technology. In this study, a Kelvin bump structure was fabricated and resistances measured at different angles on a 20.0 lm mi...

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.microrel.2010.09.031 E-mail address: [email protected] At the moment, a major paradigm change, from 2D IC to 3D IC, is occurring in microelectronic industry. Joule heating is serious in 3D IC, and vertical interconnect is the critical element to be developed. Also reliability concerns will be extremely important. For example, in order ...

induced by toluene diisocyanate. Am Rev Respir Dis, 1987, 136, 36-42. 8. Boschcuo P, Fabbri LM, Zocca E. Milani OF, Pivirotto P, Dal Vecchio A, Plebani M, Mapp CB. Prednisone inhibits late asthmatic reactions and airway infli!Jllmation induced by toluene diisocyanate in seruitiz.ed subjects. J Allergy Clin lmmunol, 1987, 80, 261267. 9. Fabbri LM, Di Giaromo R. Dal Vecchio L, Zocca E, De Marzo N...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the left main (LM) coronary artery anatomy using three-dimensional (3D) quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) software as compared to intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). BACKGROUND Percutaneous intervention of the LM coronary artery is becoming more common in selected patients with LM coronary artery disease (CAD). Quantification of LM CAD b...

Lung macrophages (LM)' are known to differ f rom peri toneal macrophages (PM) in many respects, such as their lysosomal enzymes, metabol ic activity for ene rgy requ i rement , morphology , and function (1-3). We repor t ed that the expression of a glycosphingolipid, asialo GM1, on the cell surface is markedly di f ferent be tween LM and PM (4, 5). In the present paper , we repor t that LM are ...

In December 2007, the Cinemateca Portuguesa (the Portuguese Film Museum) ended a yearlong programme dedicated to ‘national genres’ with a selection of 18 Portuguese fi lms not associated with any particular genre, but with the category of ‘Portuguese cinema’ itself . It seemed an odd choice, even if one took into account the very loose definit ion of ‘f i lm genre’ of the previous months – who ...

The front door of the Ribeirão Preto Health System for diagnosing tuberculosis Oliveira MF, Arcêncio RA, Ruffino-Netto A, Scatena LM, Palha PF, Villa TCS Rev Esc Enferm USP 2011; 45(4):893-8 www.ee.usp.br/reeusp/ The front door of the Ribeirão Preto Health System for diagnosing tuberculosis* O r ig in a l a r t ic l e A portA de entrAdA pArA o diAgnóstico dA tuberculose no sistemA de sAúde de r...

An innovative charge-recycling structure and a driving scheme for TFT-LCD source-driver IC application are proposed. A zero is used to obtain the stability and a coarse buffer is added to reduce the settling time. The numbers of switches and resistors, which are used for the charge recycling and stability, respectively, are greatly reduced. An experimental prototype 6-bit source driver with fiv...