After a milk meal, bucket-fed calves show non-nutritive oral activities, including cross-sucking, and this can discourage producers from rearing them in groups. Sucking is known to induce a quiet state in humans and rats. We examined if nutritive sucking affects non-nutritive oral activities in calves, if it reduces arousal (assessed through behavior and cardiac activity), and if sucking a dry ...

The resistance of yemane (Gmelina arborea Roxb.)-based wood wool cement board (WWCB) against Philippine termites was evaluated under laboratory and field conditions. Tests were conducted following the FPRDI standard procedures in determining the resistance of WWCB against subterranean and drywood termites. Results of the laboratory tests showed that WWCB was resistant to both Microcerotermes lo...

Lipogenic activation was studied in mice that had been restricted to a single large meal once a day rather than being allowed to eat at frequent intervals throughout the night. Mice were injected intravenously with [U-(14)C]glucose, and the flux of glucose C to total lipid fatty acids (TLFA) and to all "end products" was estimated from serial plasma glucose specific activities and measurements ...

Abstract Cold recycling of asphalt is an effective solution to reduce the environmental impacts pavement construction and operation. This approach reduces use scarce resources fossil fuels, prevents spread greenhouse pollutants in air. Despite its benefits, recycled does have drawbacks, some which include nibbling, stripping, less resistance fatigue. The additives can improve mechanical propert...

Herbivorous fishes play important functional roles in coral reef ecosystems, and their influence on mediating competitive dynamics between corals macroalgae is well studied. Nonetheless, direct interactions herbivorous may also be relevant, although these are less Here, we describe a series of observations schools the streaked rabbitfish (Siganus javus) nibbling black (order Antipatharia) at SS...