It is generally thought that competitive equilibrium in sports leagues involves too little competitive balance (the strong dominate the weak too mucha more even contest would be more attractive). However, it is possible to sow in a standard logit contest model that the reverse is true – the strong do not win “enough”i.e. more wins by the strong team would increase attendance or revenues. This i...

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Statement of Work: Objective: I propose to quantify and qualify the microbial communities in restored and natural wetlands on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware. Specifically I would focus on the organisms associated with denitrification process, which involves the conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas, thereby removing a key pollutant from water. My approach is to quantify microbial bi...

A four-parity study is proposed to examine the effects of nutritional manipulation during gilt development on subsequent sow performance. Gilts will be selected from two genetic lines that are highly prolific, but differ in rate and composition of growth. During the development period (45 to 250 lb), gilts will be provided either; i) ad libitum access to feed, or ii) ad libitum access to feed u...

Materials and methods: Pregnant multiparous Yorkshire sows (N = 285) were housed in static groups of 11 to 31 sows in SMALL (34.0 to 49.5 m2) or LARGE pens (72.5 to 74.5 m2) with 2.3 m2 (n = 2,2), 2.8 m2 (n = 3,2) or 3.2 m2 (n = 4,2) per sow. A reference population of 98 sows was housed in gestation stalls. Sows were scored for body condition upon entering and leaving their respective housing t...

The way that sows are housed during gestation and lactation has moved towards more intensive systems so that sows can be more easily managed and production maximized. At a minimum, some of these factors have contributed to a decline in the productive life of sows in commercial pork production systems. A sow remaining in the breeding herd for fewer parities is likely to produce fewer pigs in her...

A concept (or signature) describes the interface of a set of abstract types by listing the operations that should be supported for those types. When implementing a generic operation, such as sorting, we may then specify requirements such as “elements must be comparable” by requiring that the element type models the Comparable concept. We may also use axioms to describe behaviour that should be ...