since 1895 cardamom has been cultivated in the cardamom hills of western ghats, india, which form a part of global biodiversity hot spots. these tropical forests in the last couple of decades have been subjected for severe periodical shade lopping and selective felling for maximizing cardamom production. photosynthesis, transpiration, leaf temperature and leaf relative humidity was studied in r...

J. A. Pérez. 2011. Production systems, technical parameters and quality of bovine milk producers in southern Chile. Cien. Inv. Agr. 38(1): 15-29. Production information of 29 milk producers in the southern region of Chile was studied with the objective of characterizing and classifying different dairy production systems, evaluating various associations between quantitative and qualitative studi...

A theoretical non-risk model was hypothesized to Harvest response to production and asymmetric explain the monthly harvest of food-size catfish. price risk was analyzed using an ordinary least After initial estimation, risk variables were incorposquares model. Statistically significant responses to rated into the model to account for production, input production-quality and output price risk we...

1. In a study spanning two breeding seasons, we assessed the effect of different dietary energy and protein levels on body mass, body condition, and egg production of female ostriches. 2. During the first breeding season, groups were given diets with energy concentrations of 8.5, 9.5 and 10.5 MJ/kg dry mass (DM) metabolisable energy (ME) and protein concentrations of 135, 150 and 165 g/kg. In t...

Peripheral blood specimens and clinical data were obtained over a 12-month period from subjects in the Dubbo Infection Outcomes Study to examine cytokine production in postinfective fatigue syndrome. Ex vivo production of 8 cytokines was examined in 22 case patients and in 42 control subjects who recovered promptly. No significant differences were found. Ongoing production of the cytokines exam...

Growth of lactic acid bacteria and amino acid production at an Indonesian soy sauce manufacturer, employing modern Japanese process technology, indicated that brine fermentation for one month is sufficient for industrial kecap production. Compared to traditional Indonesian soy sauce fermentation, application of modern Japanese process technology resulted in an obvious but not essential yeast fe...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the cost of production and the relative weight of the different production parameters is very important in pig farming. The goals of the present work were 1) to describe reliable reference values for production parameters and pig production cost from 2010 to 2014, 2) to describe their temporal evolution and 3) to determine the influence of the pig company size on th...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbance is associated with activation of systemic and cellular inflammation, as well as proinflammatory transcriptional profiles in circulating leukocytes. Whether treatments that target insomnia-related complaints might reverse these markers of inflammation in older adults with insomnia is not known. METHODS In this randomized trial, 123 older adults with insomnia were r...