Our culture has seldom been inclined to confront the profound changes that accompany technological innovation. Like a carrot prompting a cart horse, technology entices us forward in a way that keeps us from noticing much about the road ahead, each offering results in such a slight movement that by the time we realize we are far from home, no serious re-examination of our fate seems possible. — ...

There have been horse races for many centuries. Horse racing is closely related to betting, which illegal in China, and strictly speaking, betting regarded as gambling. If opens up “horse betting”, legally, will likely be included a part of the process. Since founding People’s Republic China has banned at beginning its development. After China’s reforms opening up, it was tacitly approved then ...

It is pointed out that the Trojan-Horse method is a suitable tool to investigate subthreshold resonances. TRANSFER REACTIONS AND TROJAN HORSE METHOD A similarity between cross sections for two-body and closely related three-body reactions under certain kinematical conditions [1] led to the introduction of the Trojan-Horse method [2, 3, 4]. In this indirect approach a two-body reaction

An equine SNP genotyping array was developed and evaluated on a panel of samples representing 14 domestic horse breeds and 18 evolutionarily related species. More than 54,000 polymorphic SNPs provided an average inter-SNP spacing of ∼43 kb. The mean minor allele frequency across domestic horse breeds was 0.23, and the number of polymorphic SNPs within breeds ranged from 43,287 to 52,085. Genome...

Whereas in former times horses were reserved primarily for people involved in agriculture, elite equestrians or the military, nowadays equestrian sport has become an activity for people with a wide variety of backgrounds. However, as more and more people become involved with equestrian sport today, the knowledge concerning animal husbandry in general is diminishing due to an alienation from agr...

The horse has a total visual field of nearly 360°, meaning a horse can just about see its tail with its head pointed forward. A small frontal binocular field of 65° is present. The horse retina is adapted for detection of movement because it contains significant numbers of large-diameter ganglion cells. The nasal extension of the retina, the laterality of the eyes, and the horizontal pupil faci...

A sialoglycoprotein from horse erythrocytes was isolated in essentially homogeneous form and found to contain the neuraminidase-sensitive determinant of the horse erythrocyte for Paul-Bunnell heterophile antibodies of infectious mononucleosis. This reactivity was retained after covalent coupling of the antigen to latex particles. The latex reagent has greater stability (greater than 3 years) th...

Karyotypic diversification is more prominent in Equus species than in other mammals. Here, using next generation sequencing technology, we generated and de novo assembled quality genomes sequences for a male wild horse (Przewalski's horse) and a male domestic horse (Mongolian horse), with about 93-fold and 91-fold coverage, respectively. Portion of Y chromosome from wild horse assemblies (3 M b...

BACKGROUND Horse riding and horse handling are dangerous. There is a lack of knowledge concerning the incidence of hospitalization due to horse-related injuries and types of injuries in Israel. During the last two decades we have observed an increasing incidence of hospitalizations due to horse-related injuries at our medical center as well as the frequent involvement of pediatric patients. O...

The objective of this work was to evaluate the genetic diversity of Brazilian Pantaneiro horse by microsatellite markers, investigate the effect of genetic bottlenecks and estimate genetic differentiation among four horse breeds. Genetic variation was estimated through allele frequencies and mean breed heterozygosity. Nei ́s genetic distances among the breeds Pantaneiro, Thoroughbred, Arabian, S...