The closure of the ductus arteriosus (DA) of 31 indigenous South African goats, whose ages ranged from 30 days prenatal to 60 days postnatal, were studied at an altitude of 1,514 m above sea level by vascular injection as well as histologically and ultrastructurally. The vascular injection results showed that functional occlusion started from the pulmonary end of the DA in kids 6 days old and p...

is it possible to discharge a 2-3 hours, 1134 g weight breast feeding newborn in 24 -36 hours from hospital?   yes, in materno pediatric hospital located in bogatto-clombia it is a routine. it is an approach to prevent high costs and nosocomial infections. it also used to establish a deep relationship based on natural and instinct process.   newborns who are in satisfactory clinical situations,...

Much of the disagreement over whether households are adequately prepared for retirement reflects differences in assumptions regarding the extent to which consumption declines when the kids leave home. If consumption declines substantially when the kids leave home, as some life-cycle models of retirement saving assume, households need to achieve lower replacement rates in retirement and need to ...

Weaning stress is crucial threatening factor in animal breeding. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects weaning oxidative and status goat kids at molecular levels. In study, blood samples were collected process (7 days before weaning- Pre-W, Day Day-W 7 after Post-W) from 24 healthy Damascus goats. Cortisol, MDA (Malondialdehyde), COX-2 (Cyclooxygenase-2), NRF2 (Nuclear erythroid ...

In this paper we consider the problem of coordinating activity in knowledge-intensive dynamic systems (HDS) -large-scale, multi-agent systems in which agents with significant individual capabilities work together 10 accomplish complex, knowledge-intensive tasks. Given the time pressure and resource limitations under which a KIDS typically operates, the establishment of plans and schedules can s...

Social commerce connects people’s shopping activities with their social communities. Much work has leveraged social network data to promote sales of products and services. However, less is known about the impact of shopping activities on people’s social relationships. This paper serves as foundational work in the field and addresses this gap by exploring people’s preferences in sharing products...

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE WORK The Activities Scale for Kids performance (ASKp) is one of the few self-assessment questionnaires in pediatric rehabilitation that measures child perception in performance of daily routine activities. ASKp is composed of 30 questions designed to explore activities and participation in children and teenagers with musculoskeletal disorders. Scores assess level of ph...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the carcass characteristics of Kanniadu kids under different housing systems viz., intensive, semi-intensive and extensive system of rearing. Twenty-four weaned Kanniadu kids were selected at random and they were allotted to three different treatments, comprising of eight animals in each group. The dressing percentage of intensive and semiintensively rear...

This study compared the use of five different models to describe the growth from birth to 20 weeks of age of kids from both genders of nondescript goats. Fifty nine (59) nondescript kids were weighed weekly at the university of Maiduguri livestock teaching and research farm, Nigeria and the live weights were modeled. Biologically relevant variables were estimated for each kid from the Logistic,...

The research was conducted on 40 young alpine goats (kids) divided into two groups. First group consisted of 20 kids demonstrating clinical signs muscular dystrophy. Second a control and animals that received intramuscular injection (2ml per animal) vitamin E selenium preparation containing in 1ml 50 mg tocopherol acetate, 0.5mg sodium selenite solvent 2nd day life. were clinically examined blo...