Boer, Kiko, and Spanish meat goats were semi-intensively managed in a complete 3-breed diallel mating scheme to evaluate genetic effects on preweaning kid performance. Over a 6-yr period, 1,547 kids were born in March and May with 1,173 kids raised by their dams to weaning at 3 mo of age. March-born kids were lighter (P < 0.01) at birth, but had greater (P < 0.01) preweaning ADG and survival ra...

Ammonia fluxes in relation to cutting and fertilization of an intensively managed grassland derived from an inter-comparison of gradient measurements C. Milford, M. R. Theobald, E. Nemitz, K. J. Hargreaves, L. Horvath, J. Raso, U. Dämmgen, A. Neftel, S. K.Jones, A. Hensen, B. Loubet, P. Cellier, and M. A. Sutton Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Edinburgh Research Station), Bush Estate, Penicui...

A retrospective review of HIA antibody testing and transfusion records of 1 00 cancer patients who required extensive platelet support revealed that 27 of 1 00 patients exhibited positive HLA antibody tests; only 13 remained positive on repetitive examination, while 88% of aplastic anemia patients so tested were positive. Sixty-five patients with leukemia, 1 6 with Ewing’s sarcoma, and 19 with ...

The research was conducted in Purwodadi Village, Tebing Tinggi District, West Tanjung Jabung Regency, which is located on the easternmost coast of Jambi Province. Astronomically, Barat Regency between 0053 - 01041 South Latitude and 103023 104021 East Longitude. location chosen deliberately with consideration that: (1) Village has an integrated system development oil palm farming cattle farming...

Observational transition systems (OTSs) are state machines that can be described as behavioral specifications in CafeOBJ, an algebraic specification language and processor. The OTS/CafeOBJ method uses OTSs and CafeOBJ for systems specification and verification. Simultaneous induction is intensively used to prove that an OTS enjoys invariants in the method. To prove that two state predicates p a...

Calcium carbonate biominerals are frequently analysed in materials science due to their abundance, diversity and unique material properties. Aragonite nacre is intensively studied, but less information is available about the material properties of biogenic calcite, despite its occurrence in a wide range of structures in different organisms. In particular, there is insufficient knowledge about h...

Coccidiosis caused by Eimeria species is a major form of intestinal infection affecting intensively and semi-intensively reared goats. The province of Alentejo is the main goat-producing area in Portugal. Therefore, all 15 Serpentina goat farms in Alentejo were analyzed regarding the occurrence and diversity of Eimeria species. Fecal samples obtained from 144 animals (52.1% dairy goats, 47.9% p...