This study examined the ability of pole-bound hawk-kites to protect maturing fields of corn from blackbird damage. Hawk-kites were placed over half of each experimental field. Damage on the hawk-kite side was slightly, but not significantly, less than on the unprotected side as measured by the percent of ears damaged by birds, total amount of grain lost to birds, or percent of crop damaged by b...

Compliance with food group and nutrient recommendations, and self-efficacy, stage of change, perceived barriers and benefits for healthy eating were assessed among a convenience sample of college students majoring in health-related disciplines. Dietary and psychosocial data were collected using three-day food records and scales, respectively. Means (SD), frequencies, and percents were calculate...

Chickpeas are rich sources of highly nutritious protein and dietary fibre; the health benefits of consuming legumes such as antioxidant activity (AoxA) could be effective for the expansion of their food uses. The technological properties and antioxidant potential of five pigmented chickpea cultivars were evaluated. Protein content of the grains varied from 24.9 to 27.4 g/100 g sample (dw). The ...

Little scientific documentation is available that evaluates maximum levels of dried distiller grain with solubles (DDGS) in lamb-finishing rations. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of feeding increasing levels of DDGS in lamb-finishing rations on lamb performance and carcass characteristics. Two-hundred forty Western, white-faced Rambouillet wether and ewe lambs (31.7 ±...

We present the rst imaging circular polarimetry of the Orion Molecular Cloud, OMC-1. The observations, taken in the J , H , K n and nbL bands, reveal a complex pattern of circular polarisation. Globally, there is a background circular polarisation of the order of 2 percent in the K n band, conforming to the typical quadrupolar patterns that have been observed in other outtow sources. Overlaying...

Dust particles can be a useful plasma diagnostic tool. Sufficiently dust particles can be used as test grains for the visualization of the plasma potential distribution; larger dust particles can be used as specific probes to determine electron temperature. Here we report on diagnostic measurements carried out in a capacitively coupled planar rf discharge. The location of the sheath edge has be...