Participating Centres: Edinburgh: P. Forrest, A. Huggins, A. Smith; Guildford: B. Thomas, J. Sharpe, J. Basten, P. Pocock; Huddersfield: C.A. Joslin, J. Philip, E. Riley; Nottingham: R. Blamey, A. Locker, C. Dowle, N. Galea, A. Mitchell; Dundee: J. Swanson Beck, P. Preece, M. Barclay, J. Horobin; Avon: P. Bradfield; Stoke: J. Scoble, N. Adams, J. Veitch; Oxford: M. Vessey, E. Bale, A. Gatherer,...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of a winter feeding strategy on the performance, lactation, reproduction, and feed costs of springcalving, lactating beef cows. In Exp. 1, Angus (n = 66) and Simmental (n = 70) cows were allotted to 1 of 4 treatments: 1) distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and free-choice corn residue bales; 2) corn bran and DDGS and freechoice cor...

BACKGROUND Partograph is basically a graphic representation of the events of labour plotted against time in hours. It is designed for early detection of abnormal progress of labour and prevention of prolonged labour in order to reduce risk of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH), sepsis, obstructed labour and its sequels such as ruptured uterus and obstetric fistula. However, little is known about docu...

The number of operating cotton gins in Texas has steadily declined in the past 40 years from 1400 to less than 280 while the production of cotton has remained at approximately 4-5 million bales. In order to market the 5 million bales with fewer gins, the remaining gins will be processing more seed cotton in the future. It is likely that the cotton ginning industry will be faced with longer seas...

Michael N. Rossol, John H. Shaw, Hrishikesh Bale, Robert O. Ritchie, David B. Marshall,k and Frank W. Zok Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 kTeledyne Scien...

BACKGROUND Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a harmful traditional practice that is deeply rooted in Africa. It is associated with health complications and human rights violations. Research on intention for the continuation of FGM and the social determinants underpinning this practice are scarce. Therefore, this study intended to assess the intention of women toward the continuation of FGM amo...

Despite some production issues associated with preservation of forages as roundbale silage, potential benefits with respect to minimizing DM loss and preserving forage quality compared with traditional hay preservation systems are well documented. Less information is available regarding the feeding value of forages preserved in this manner. This paper attempts to address issues associated with ...

In a recent publication, Hawes and Bale provide an extended discussion of phenotypic plasticity in the context of low temperature responses of animals. They argue that phenotypic plasticity may be partitioned phylogenetically at several levels and go on to explore these levels, and cold hardiness strategies that they term cryotypes, which in their view constitute cryotypic plasticity. Here we a...