BACKGROUND The aim of this work was the comparison between the carcass and the meat ewes of the regional Traditional market and the Islamic religious (Halal) market. METHODS Thirty and 20 at the end of career traditional market and Halal market ewes were slaughtered following the EC (European Council, 2009) animal welfare guidelines. Live weight of ewes was taken and dressing percentage of ca...

background: since the introduction of the first radioimmunoassay, several improvements have been made in the design of immunoassays such as method of antibody production, labeling, automation and detection technology. we performed an analytical evaluation of the new electrochemiluminescent immunoassay (eclia) for serum tsh, ft4 and t3 in the elecsys 2010 immunoassay system and compared the resu...

despite the current use of radiography for quantifying sagittal skeletal measurements, it is an unsuitable way for screening or epidemiologic purposes. although not fully approved, anthropometric measurements have been suggested as a substitute, and considering displacement of soft tissues, could possibly lead to more consistent results. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability...

background: dystocia is one of the important causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in low-income countries. this study wasaimed to determine the diagnostic accuracy of maternal anthropometric measurements as predictors for dystocia in nulliparous women. materials and methods: this prospective cohort study was conducted on 447 nulliparous women who referred to omolbaninhospital. several mat...

a crossbreeding experiment involving four iranian fat-tailed sheep breeds, namely kurdi (k), chaal (c), afshari (a) and sanjabi (s) was carried out to determine the ram breed effects on productivity of kurdi fat-tailed ewes (k) under extensive production system. a total of 475 kurdi ewes were mated to 24 rams from four breeds producing 454 lambs including pure kurdi, kk, (116 lambs), afshari × ...

objectives: this study sought to evaluate the accuracy and errors of linear measurements of mesiodistal dimensions of kennedy class iii edentulous space using cone beam computed tomography (cbct) in comparison with clinical measurements. materials and methods: nineteen kennedy class iii dental arches were evaluated. an impression was made of each dental arch and poured with dental stone. the di...

oxide nanoparticles of fe-co-ni were prepared in six different compositions by co-precipitation method. the as-synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), field emission scanning electron microscope (fesem), fourier transform infrared (ft-ir) and vibrating sample magnetometer  (vsm). it was found that the nanoparticles had mean crystalline size of 30-55 nm and spher...

fourteen different morphological traits in 169 and 131 cattle of oulmes-zaer and tidili, respectively were recorded and analyzed using a multivariate approach. the characters measured included heart girth, wither height, rump height, rump length, rump width, chest depth, body length, neck length, cannon circumference, ear length, ear width, head length, horn length and tail length. breed signif...

Morphometric variation can be effectively measured within and between populations used as a basis for characterization of different livestock types. The study was aimed at contributing to the process Japanese quail (mottled brown white) through quantitative assessment. Zoometrical data on body weight 11 measurement were taken 747 mottled 272 white from six farms around Ibadan in Southwest Niger...