The reproductive performance of a dairy herd has a significant effect on the profitability of that herd. Common measures of reproductive performance are days to first service, days to conception, calving interval, services per conception, conception rate, estrus detection rate, and pregnancy rate. Most cow operations would benefit economically by reducing the number of operational days, decreas...

The reproductive performance of a dairy herd has a significant effect on the profitability of that herd. Common measures of reproductive performance are days to first service, days to conception, calving interval, services per conception, conception rate, estrus detection rate, and pregnancy rate. Most cow operations would benefit economically by reducing the number of operational days, decreas...

This article concerns how a critical theory of reification should be conceptualized to grasp the 2007 crisis, state-imposed austerity, and rise right-wing authoritarian populism. It argues that Jürgen Habermas’s, Axel Honneth’s, Georg Lukacs’s interpretations cannot provide theoretical framework for social these developments due their inadequate theories domination, crises, character formation,...

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Kant famously insisted that “the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislative will” is the supreme principle of morality. Recent interpreters have taken this emphasis on the self-legislation of the moral law as evidence that Kant endorsed a distinctively constructivist conception of morality according to which the moral law is a positive law, created by us. But a closer...

The NRC is issuing this regulatory issue summary (RIS) to inform recipients of the status of the agency’s efforts to implement the requirements of Section 651(e) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) on “Treatment of Accelerator-Produced and Other Radioactive Material as Byproduct Material.” This RIS updates the information contained in RIS 2007-22, “Status Update for Implementation of NRC R...

When we build electronic cash systems, the main focus of the design is usually on preventing customers’ malicious actions. However, since authorities such as banks and certificate authorities may have important secret data of customers, the insiders in the potentially untrusted authorities can become threats to electronic cash systems. Miyazaki and Sakurai [2] first systematically analyzed secu...

State sovereignty is born together with the independence of a country, as well in cyberspace. The state has cyberspace its territorial space so that it jurisdictional authority, but reality, there are unclear boundaries Indonesia today still dependence on foreign cyberinfrastructure, which causes high level cyber vulnerability and low resilience. local wisdom known "Gotong Royong," this concept...

analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing Ping Qiu: Conception and design, data interpretation, manuscript writing Jiao Jiao: Conception and design, manuscript writing Hiroyuki Hirai: Conception and design, administrative support Wei Xiong: Conception and design Jifeng Zhang: Conception and design, administrative support Tianqing Zhu: Administrative support Peter X. Ma: Conception and des...