1Animal Sciences Department, NDSU 2Carrington Research Extension Center, NDSU 3Hettinger Research Extension Center, NDSU 4Department of Animal Science, South Dakota State University The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of feeding different levels of forage during the finishing phase of beef production. Three different finishing diets of 20, 30 and 40 percent forage were fed to...

A merica has an image problem. Only 1 percent of people surveyed in June 2003 in Jordan or the Palestinian Authority expressed a favorable opinion of the United States. Favorability ratings elsewhere in the Middle East were almost all below 30 percent. Osama bin Laden was among the top three leaders most often trusted to “do the right thing” by survey respondents in Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disorder with significant prevalence in the Medicare community. OSA is linked to several co-morbidities, including myocardial infarction, stroke, hypertension and type-2 diabetes, which add significant burden to the health care system. The diagnostic algorithm and treatment model for OSA is fragmented and flawed in its present state. Currently, physicians untr...

answered calls while driving a simulator. Calls were answered using a center-console-mounted phone or one of several phone designs which utilized a HUD to display the caller ID and steering-wheel-mounted buttons to activate the phone. Driving workload was manipulated by varying the curve radius and by varying the timing of the call, either 1 second before or 5 seconds after the start of a curve...

hemoglobin values in 9550 mothers delivered in the ob. & gyn. dept. of amin medical center were studied. hemoglobin levels of less than 11gr/100ml which is usually considered to be to the lower limit of normal for pregnancy were found in 2410 patient (25.3%) this rate has been recorded to be 19-30 percent in the u.s.a., 36 percent in western venezuela, 57.4 percent in india and about 80 percent...

OBJECTIVE To identify objective factors, available at the time of surgical evaluation, associated with outcome for patients in the medical ICU undergoing abdominal surgery. DESIGN Single-center, prospective observational study. SETTING An academic tertiary care center. PATIENTS The study included 1,617 consecutive patients in the medical ICU. INTERVENTION Prospective patient surveillanc...

and 16.2 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, are projected to reach $4 trillion in 2015 and 20 percent of GDP. Approximately 31 percent of health care costs are administrative, 35 percent are elderly consumed, 75 percent relate to chronic disease management and 25 percent relate to spending linked to risky behaviors. These expenditures are expected to continue to be nearly evenly split ...