Abstract This article examines two female slaveholders, one real and fictional, to explore the relationship between gender slave management in both history popular culture. Annie Palmer, “White Witch of Rose Hall” plantation Jamaica, although creation folklore journalistic exaggeration, has functioned for a century half as symbol not only evils slavery but idea that slaveholders’ cruelty threat...

Performance measures were evaluated for 125 outdoor sows and litters of two crossbred genotypes (Camborough-15 and 25% Meishan) and in two farrowing hut designs (American-style and English-style hut). Contemporary breeding groups of second-parity sows were evaluated in an intensive, outdoor research unit. Sow genotype and hut designs were arranged factorially. Seven complete blocks were evaluat...

to determine breath- holding spells (bhs) prevalence and risk factors in under 6- year- old children, we interviewed mothers of 400 children in a cross- sectional study in 5 health centers at south of tehran in autumn 1999. 33 children (8.25%) had history of bhs (male: 19, female: 14 25 cases were between 2-4 years old (mean: 40±17 months). seventy percent of cases (23) had onset of attacks aft...

how to cite this article: abbaskhanian a, ehteshami s, sajjadi s, rezai ms. effects of piracetam on pediatric breath holding spells: a randomized double blind controlled trial. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6(4): 9-15.   abstarct: objective breath holding spells (bhs) are common paroxysmal non-epileptic eventsin the pediatric population which are very stressfull despite their harmlessnature....

mice are ideal models for icsi experiments because of the ease of culturing eggs/embryos in vitro and the availability of ample genetic information. unfortunately, it has been extremely difficult. in this study we improved the mouse icsi method by using a new holding pipette that was made of two pipettes such that one pipette was pulled and heat merged into the other one. the outer pipette had ...

Lack of competition for food items in banded mongoose litters allows pups to benefit from more demanding siblings, suggesting that in this species begging may not be entirely selfish.

We demonstrate a carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilized, chirped pulse laser amplifier that exhibits greatly improved intrinsic long-term CEP stability compared with that of other amplifiers. This system employs a grating-based stretcher and compressor and a cryogenically cooled laser amplifier. Single-shot carrier envelope phase noise measurements are also presented that avoid underestimation...

Under normal farming practices, piglets from different litters are often mixed around the time of weaning, and a high incidence of fighting and minor injuries often occur. The aim of this experiment was to determine the effect of age on the incidence of fighting in piglets mixed before weaning, at different ages between 5 and 26 days. We found no significant relationship between age and the lik...

Selecting the right habitat in a risky landscape is crucial for an individual's survival and reproduction. In predator-prey systems, prey often can anticipate the habitat use of their main predator and may use protective associates (i.e. typically an apex predator) as shields against predation. Although never tested, such mechanisms should also evolve in systems in which sexual conflict affects...