Eighteen replicates (9 barrows, 9 gilts) were used to estimate the dietary available phosphorus (AP) needs of a high lean strain of pigs during each of four stages of growth (9 to 37, 37 to 65, 65 to 92, and 92 to 119 kg body weight [BW]). Pigs were self-fed a basal diet supplemented with one of six incremental additions of AP from monodicalcium phosphate. Initially (9 to 37 kg), pigs were fed ...

Mature weight, maturation rate and lifetime maternal performance, through a maximum of seven calving seasons, were analyzed for 182 cows of Angus (A) and Milking Shorthorn (S) breeds and the two reciprocal crossbred groups. Mature weight and rate of maturation were estimated for the three-parameter growth curve described by Brody. Estimates derived for mature weight (kilograms), both unadjusted...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that meal replacement calorie reduction combined with lifestyle change can more than double the weight loss seen with other diets. However, its widespread acceptance by physicians has been limited, perhaps waiting on evidence that patients are successful in keeping lost weight off. METHODS Obese patients (108.4 ± 25.7 kg, BMI 38.1 ± 7.9 kg/m2) used a diet of meal...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between anxiety and weight change in a multiethnic cohort followed for approximately 10 years. METHODS The study population consisted of participants of the multiethnic study of atherosclerosis who met specified inclusion criteria (n = 5,799). Weight was measured at baseline and four subsequent follow-up exams. Anxiety was analyzed as sex-specific anxiety ...

Objective: The authors examined the phenomenon known to college students as prepartying, which is the consumption of alcohol prior to attending an event or activity (eg, party, bar, concert) at which more alcohol may be consumed. Participants: To explore the extent of this behavior, the authors surveyed 227 college students about each drinking event over a 1-month period. Results: Principal res...

Laetitia Gauvin1,∗, Annick Vignes, Jean-Pierre Nadal 1. Laboratoire de Physique Statistique (LPS, UMR 8550 CNRS-ENS-UPMC-Univ. Paris Diderot), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 2. Equipe de Recherche sur les Marchés, l’Emploi et la Simulation (ERMES, EA 4441 CNRS-Paris II), University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France 3. Centre d’Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales (CAMS, UMR 8557 CN...

Career Design Laboratory for Gender Equality, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan 1The National Institute of Vocational Rehabilitation, 3-1-3 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba 261-0014, Japan 2Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 3Faculty of Regional Science, Tottori University, 4-101 Koyama-cho Minami, Tottori 680-8550, Japan 4...

We present a dynamical model of the emergence of firms as opposed to a flat labour market where entrepreneurs would recruit workers for each business opportunity. The model uses a preferential choice of partners based on previous collaborations experience. A sharp transition in the parameter space separates an ordered regime, where preferential links establish, from a disordered regime correspo...