The chemosignals from mating male are found to be responsible for protecting his coital partner against pregnancy failure induced by strange male or food-deprivation. The stud male pheromone not only provides luteotrophic support in female of vulnerable condition but also exerts luteotrophic effect in pregnancy-blocked females by inducing pseudopregnancy. The luteotrophic stimulus rendered by s...

a correlation stud on the subjective criteria versus lower esophageal sphincter pressure in idiopathic achalasia

Light-gauge steel framed (LSF) walls used in low- and mid-rise buildings are usually sheathed with gypsum plasterboard to protect the thin-walled studs fire. The structural failures of these fire mostly associated local in-plane shear or pull-through at their stud-to-gypsum sheathing screw fastener connections. reductions mechanical properties cold-formed elevated temperatures significantly red...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy rates with cooled equine semen can be unsatisfactory and show great variation. Information about first cycle pregnancy rates and pregnancy rates per cycle are often lacking from publicly available records. This retrospective cohort study was performed to evaluate the fertility of the Norwegian Coldblooded trotter. The aim of the study was to compare the breeding results aft...

This research effort focuses on the evaluation of existing design standards for cold-formed steel stud walls and the development of retrofit wall systems. Full-scale wall systems are tested under uniform static pressure using a vacuum chamber. The resistance functions obtained are used to model the dynamic behavior of the walls and to predict performance under blast conditions. This paper focus...

The structural behaviour of sheathed cold-formed steel lipped channel section columns (studs) subjected to combined compression and major axis bending is investigated herein by means numerical modelling. Finite element (FE) models single studs, set in tracks connected oriented strand board (OSB) gypsum plasterboard sheathing under varying combinations axial horizontal loading were developed ABA...

Abstract The drawn arc stud welding is widely applied in steel construction, and its procedure can be qualified according to different standards by visual examinations practical destructive tests of the resulting joint. An evaluation material properties usually not requested particularly considering locally limited weld region. Nevertheless, there a need knowledge regarding complex press proces...

When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later. When females were made psuedopregnant by hormone treatment and vaginal stimulation (i.e. no stud male involved), 87% exhibited luteal failure when exposed to a strange male. It is suggested that the characteristics of the stud m...

Recently, Gandomi and Alavi proposed a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, called Krill Herd (KH), for global optimization [Gandomi AH, Alavi AH. Krill Herd: A New Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithm. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 17(12), 4831–4845, 2012.]. This paper represents an optimization method to global optimization using a novel variant of KH. This me...