The pregnancy results of 17337 inseminations carried out in a dairy herd near Cairo over a period of 12 years were retrospectively analyzed in relation to environmental temperature and temperature-humidity index (THI). The overall average of pregnancy rates to all inseminations was significantly (P

This study analyzed meteorological, clinical and economic factors in terms of their effects on monthly ED revenue and visitor volume. Monthly data from January 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009 were analyzed. Spearman correlation and cross-correlation analyses were performed to identify the correlation between each independent variable, ED revenue, and visitor volume. Autoregressive integrated movi...

Considering the rapid climate changes worldwide, with the purpose to reduce financial losses for dairy farmers and enable a more sustainable farming as well, there is an increasing necessity to implement breeding values for heat resistance in breeding strategies. The estimation of breeding values requires a determination of temperature-humidity index (THI) threshold value. Therefore, the object...

Till date the available data regarding goat breeds suggests that out of 570 breeds; 187 (33%) are found in Europe, 146 (26%) Asia and Pacific region 89 (16%) Africa [1]. All these totally comprise 422 breeds. But exact for remaining 48 under controversy. Speculatively they either wild or on verge extinction having only a few numbers individuals [2].

The present study was conducted to determine the effect of increasing temperature humidity index (THI) on lactating Murrah buffalo. six buffaloes which were offered same basal diet and blocked by days in milk, milk yield parity. during May, June July with average THI 79.88, 80.57 85.36, respectively. Milk recorded twice a day at 06:00 18:00 h physiological parameters blood sampled 30th each mon...

Fluctuations of the refractive index associated with atmospheric turbulence affect the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic waves in the atmosphere. In the reported study, the effects of turbulence on wave propagation in the atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) are considered in terms of the second-order refractive index structure function and related to its structure-function par...

We present a laser-based system to measure the refractive index of air over a long path length. In optical distance measurements, it is essential to know the refractive index of air with high accuracy. Commonly, the refractive index of air is calculated from the properties of the ambient air using either Ciddor or Edlén equations, where the dominant uncertainty component is in most cases the ai...