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Aim of this study was to estimate variance components for litter size in Improved Jezersko-Solcava sheep. Analysis involved 66,082 records from 12,969 animals, for the number of lambs born in all parities (BA), the fi rst parity (B1), and later parities (B2+). Fixed part of model contained the eff ects of season and age at lambing within parity. Random part of model contained the eff ects of he...

Objective. To investigate the effi cacy of preoperative short term radiotherapy in patients with mobile rectal cancer undergoing TME surgery. Summary Background Data. Local recurrence is a major problem in rectal cancer treatment. Preoperative short term radiotherapy has shown to improve local control and survival in combination with conventional surgery. The TME trial investigated the value of...

One commonly studied driver of community assembly is the eff ect of dominant species on subordinate species. Dominant species may impact community assembly during competitive sorting, or recruitment. For ants, important and abundant species in the tropics, several factors may drive community assembly including competition, dispersal, priority eff ects, and environmental conditions. Although com...

R. Kruzel, M. Suliga, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland Steel tire cord, springs and rope wires belong to the group of metal products from which the low residual stresses are required. In this paper the eff ect of multiple bending of wire on residual stresses of high carbon steel wires has been assessed. It was found that the application of the multi-roller straightening...

collaborators [1]. Many potential lung transplants are lost because of hypoxemia after apnea test. Th e authors evaluated the positive eff ect of a single recruitment maneuver (RM) after the apnea test with encouraging eff ect. In light of the study from Mascia and collaborators [2], we think that the RM will not be necessary if the apnea test is performed with continuous positive airway pressu...

It is often argued that countries with a high population share of children and young workers should attract large capital infl ows from aging industrialized economies. However, many of these countries deter foreign investors by a high risk of creeping or outright expropriation. In this paper we explore whether the correlation between countries’ demographic structure and the perceived security o...

The working papers published in the Series constitute work in progress circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comments. Views expressed represent exclusively the authors' own opinions and do not necessarily refl ect those of the editors. Die Deutsche Bibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der deutschen National-bibliografi e; detaillierte bibliografi sche Daten sind im Internet üb...

▼ Objectives: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate whether Jobelyn ® (JB) possesses anti-depressant-like property in the mouse forced swimming test (FST), tail suspension test (TST) and yohimbine-induced lethality test (YLT) in aggregated mice. Methods: Mice were given JB (10–100 mg/kg, p.o.) daily for 7 days and then subjected to FST, TST, YLT and open fi eld test. The parameters ...

Following the notion of skill-biased FDI fl ows from developed to less developed regions, high-skilled workers are likely to benefi t from FDI to a larger extent. They earn a productivity advantage that potentially transfers into a skilled wage premium. This gives rise to distributional confl ict that might turn into heterogeneous attitudes toward FDI infl ows in line with skill. In this paper ...