Reliable estimates of survival for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns are needed for sound deer management. Several studies have estimated fawn survival prior to recruitment (i.e., before the onset of hunting season) but few have monitored fawns post-recruitment, especially in the lower Midwest or Southeast. We captured and radiocollared 166 neonatal fawns during 2002–2004 in sout...

A main challenge in harvest management is to set policies that maximize the probability that management goals are met. While the management cycle includes multiple sources of uncertainty, only some of these has received considerable attention. Currently, there is a large gap in our knowledge about implemention of harvest regulations, and to which extent indirect control methods such as harvest ...

Effect of pre-harvest methyl jasmonate (MeJA) and post-harvest 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatments on broccoli floret glucosinolate (GS) concentrations and quinone reductase (QR, an in vitro anti-cancer biomarker) inducing activity were evaluated two days prior to harvest, at harvest and at 10, 20, and 30 days of post-harvest storage at 4 °C. MeJA treatments four days prior to harvest of br...

PREFACE The process of setting waterfowl hunting regulations is conducted annually in the United States (Blohm 1989). This process involves a number of meetings where the status of waterfowl is reviewed by the agencies responsible for setting hunting regulations. In addition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) publishes proposed regulations in the Federal Register to allow public commen...

PREFACE The process of setting waterfowl hunting regulations is conducted annually in the United States (Blohm 1989). This process involves a number of meetings where the status of waterfowl is reviewed by the agencies responsible for setting hunting regulations. In addition, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) publishes proposed regulations in the Federal Register to allow public comment....

OBJECTIVE To compare intercostal nerve block before and after rib harvest in terms of mean postoperative pain score and mean postoperative tramadol usage. STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Plastic Surgery, Mayo Hospital, KEMU, Lahore, from January 2011 to July 2012. METHODOLOGY Patients (n = 120) of either gender with ASA class-I and II re...

1. Research Framework and Objectives Ghana is about 99% self-sufficient in the production of maize (Nyanteng and Asuming-Bempong, 2003), the major staple for many low-income Ghanaians, yet the aggregate staple maize availability projections in Ghana does not take into account insecurity problems in the post-harvest season caused by poor storage, distribution difficulties, high prices and low in...

this study has investigated smallholder farmers’ household food security level in mazandaran province during the two times i.e pre-harvest period and post-harvest period. using krejcie and morgan’s detrmining sample table, 384 farmers selected as a sample. a multi-stage sampling technique was used to select preciously subjects. household food insecurity access scale (hfias) was the main tool fo...