Little of the rangeland resources of Balochistan, Pakistan have been assessed and there is little to no information on how abiotic factors such as soil type and topography infl uence the nutritive value of native species. Leaf nitrogen concentrations in all species showed broadly similar patterns of change with season. In all species, non-protein nitrogen (NPN) accounted for more than 35-50% of...

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 ...

Z. Burzić, Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, Serbia. Dž. Gačo, F. Islamović, E. Bajramović, Technical faculty, University of Bihac,Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. M. Burzić, University of Belgrade, I.C. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia. In present paper, experimental investigations have included the eff ect of exploitation conditions (exploitation time and temperature) o...

Th e past two decades have seen a proliferation of largeand small-scale experiments in participatory governance. Th is article takes stock of claims about the potential of citizen participation to advance three values of democratic governance: eff ectiveness, legitimacy, and social justice. Increasing constraints on the public sector in many societies, combined with increasing demand for indivi...

background: this study was designed to investigate the eff ect of clopidogrel-related gene polymorphisms on platelet reactivity and clinical outcome in chinese han patients. materials and methods: th ree hundred and thirty-six percutaneous coronary intervention - treated patients were recruited and followed for 1 year. blood samples were collected from all patients for dna genotyping. th e plat...

Social interactions among animals raised in pens can aff ect their performance. In this study direct and competitive models were compared to investigate the infl uence of social genetic eff ects on variation of carcass weight (CW), carcass lean meat content (LM) and ham round shape (RS) in heavy pigs. Four sequential models including, in addition to sex and slaughter group fi xed eff ects, the ...

LAUFER, T.: So factors have an empirically testifi able eff ect on rating grade. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2011, LIX, No. 2, pp. 177–182 The conclusions herein contain the summary of the results of an empirical survey in proof of the effects of so factors on corporate rating grade. In the eff ort, three diff erent so ware applications have been used. By means of the applicatio...