A good knowledge of the quality of the satellite soil moisture products is of great importance for their application and improvement. This paper examines the performance of eight satellite-based soil moisture products, including the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) passive Level 3 (L3), the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Centre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS (CATDS) L3, the Jap...

Pig weight variation represents an important source of lost production and profitability in the swine industry. To date, few experiments have classified how pigs of the same age but different weight utilize dietary energy and nutrients. The objective of this experiment was to characterize how pigs with varying weaning weights (WW) and postweaning growth performance differ in apparent total trac...

Abstract The problem of management and treatment wastewater from commercial laundries is a matter concern. present study provides an effective eco-friendly solution to the in Quebec (Canada) by using extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) as bio-flocculant. EPS was produced valorization crude glycerol paper mill sludge bacterial strain (BS-04). Two different types EPS: Slime (S-EPS) Broth (B-E...

Market data on 1,315 rabbits from 201 litters from Californian (CAL), New Zealand White (NZW), CAL X NZW and NZW X CAL dams bred to CAL, NZW and Flemish Giant sires were subjected to multiple regression and path analyses. Market traits observed in litters at 56 d included average kit weight (A56W), litter size (LS56), total litter weight (L56W) and within-litter uniformity in individual weights...

In this work, we develop a correlative model based on the surface tension data in order to calculate thermodynamic parameters, such as interaction energy between components (Uij), activity coefficients and etc. In the new approach, by using Li et al. (LWW) model, a three-parameter surface tension equation is derived for liquid mixtures. The surface tension data of 54 aqueous and 73 non-aqueous ...

Curosurf, a natural lung surfactant, is considered a potential candidate for improving the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). To investigate this in a rat model of early-stage ARDS, Curosurf (62.5, 125 or 250 mg x kg(-1)) was administered by intratracheal bolus at 10 or 24 h following an intratracheal lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 1.6 mg x kg(-1)) challenge. Survival, respirato...

The supplement to the September 2012 issue of Medical Care [1] focuses on the development and evaluation of new questions, or "item sets," for use with the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys. The supplement is dedicated to the late Chuck Darby, who was a founding father of CAHPS. All 12 articles are freely available at: http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcar...

Edited by Edited by Ellis D. Avner, Former President, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, William E. Harmon from Harvard University, and Patrick Niaudet, Former President of the European Society of Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Nephrology (5th edition, LWW, 2004), this internationally focused book offers an overview of the anatomy, physiology, and biology of the pediatric kidney and foc...

The objective was to quantify relationships between sow body condition and subsequent reproduction. Multiparous sows were measured at breeding (n = 1571) farrowing 887) on a commercial farm in eastern North Carolina. Sow measures included: caliper (CS), weight (BW), backfat, longissimus muscle area (LMA) visual score (BCS). production traits were: number born alive (NBA), litter birth (LBW), we...