Information on different rangeland plants’ nutritive values during variousphonological stages is of importance for the rangelands management. This information helpsrangeland managers to choose proper grazing times to achieve higher animal performancewith no detrimental effects on the rangeland vegetations. Effects of various plant parts’phenological stages and vegetation types on reserve carboh...

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One of the most oft-cited parts of Francis Hutcheson’s Illustrations upon the Moral Sense (1728) is his discussion of “exciting reasons.” In this paper I address the question: What is the function of that discussion? In particular, what is its relation to Hutcheson’s attempt to show that the rationalists’ normative thesis ultimately implies, contrary to their moral epistemology, that moral idea...

SCOPe (Structural Classification of Proteins-extended, http://scop.berkeley.edu) is a database of relationships between protein structures that extends the Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database. SCOP is an expert-curated ordering of domains from the majority of proteins of known structure in a hierarchy according to structural and evolutionary relationships. SCOPe classifies the...

Criteria for the classification of bacterial viruses were proposed by Burnet (1933), including particle size, serological relationship, and certain physiological characteristics. These criteria were applied to the definition of 12 serological groups of coli-dysentery phages. This taxonomic scheme was an important advance since it embodied the concept of phylogenetic relationships among the bact...

Background: SCOP is a manual classification of protein domain structures. CATH is a classification of protein domain structures created through a combination of manual and automatic methods. The Dali Domain Classification (henceforth Dali) is an automatically generated classification of protein domain structures. EVEREST is an automatically generated classification of protein domains that uses ...

Methane is a major constituent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ruminants, and mitigation strategies are needed to alleviate this negative environmental impact while maintaining the other benefits grazing systems. Forages containing plant-specialized metabolites (PSM), particularly condensed tannins, may help reduce enteric methane (CH4) emissions. However, information on in vivo CH4 cows...

the objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of different concentration of salicylic acid on enhancement germination characteristics of sanguisorba minor l. under salt and drought stress. the experimental design was factorial arranged in a completely randomized block design with four replications. treatment were combination of 5 levels of salt and drought stress, separately (0, -0....