Three hundred feedlot steers (320 +/- 2 kg) were assigned to freeze brand, hot-iron brand, and sham branding treatments according to a randomized branding arrangement. Behaviors believed to be indicative of pain (i.e., tail-flicking, kicking, falling, and vocalizing) were recorded during branding. Escape behavior, measured as the amount and duration of force exerted on the headgate and squeeze ...

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Multisensory integration was assessed using two audiovisual illusions. In the McGurk effect, auditory speech perception is altered by incongruent visual speech. In the Shams illusion, the number of seen flashes is altered by an incongruent number of heard beeps. The illusions were tested in 10-year-old children, whose musical aptitude was also assessed. The strength of the McGurk effect was not...

1Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology; 2Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. 3Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Al Minya University, Egypt. 4Department of Nephrology, Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt. Received: 09/06/03; accepted: 26/10/03 ABSTRACT The prevalence of diabetic nephropathy as a cause of end-st...

Antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic effects of methanolic extracts leaves stems Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.)Md. Amran Howlader, Farhana Rizwan, Shapna Sultana, Mohammad Rakibur Rahman, K. M. Shams-Ud-Doha, Rumana Mowla, Apurba Sarker Apu

The educational medium plays a significant role in teaching and learning activities transferring materials to students. Chart Table helped the teacher teach grammar about Arabic verb forms. If asks students only memorize conjugation, he will find it difficult distinguish pronouns for each verb. Therefore, objectives of this thesis are identify use forms effectiveness promoting students' control...

textual coherence in cloudy semantic relations through which the relation is each piece of speech or writing acts as context. ma.k holliday and r.hassan played a key ale estabhshing the relationship in contchal shachre and the relationship among sentence elements. the believe that coherence applies to all kids of relations which link one element of the sentence to the element in previous senten...

Thirty-six young adult male baboons (Papio cynocephalus) were fed an atherogenic diet (40% calories from lard, 1.5 mg cholesterol/kcal) and taught to puff by operant conditioning with water rewards. Eighteen baboons (smokers) were assigned randomly to smoke 43 cigarettes a day, and 18 baboons (shams) were assigned randomly to puff air under conditions equivalent to those of the experimental gro...