In mink production, silkiness refers to a silky fur surface. The sensory evaluation of silkiness may be based on information perceived by the eyes and the hands. Silkiness is assumed to depend on hair fiber properties such as guard hair straightness, glossiness, and smoothness. Our objective was to characterize the dorsal surface of brown mink pelts by means of optical variables and relate thes...

INTRODUCTION Male fertility requires continual spermatogenesis, a process dependent on activities of an undifferentiated spermatogonial population composed of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) and transient amplifying progenitor spermatogonia (de Rooij and Russell, 2000; Oatley and Brinster, 2012). Self-renewal of SSCs maintains a constant pool from which progenitors will arise and amplify in nu...

background: according to quality transformation of services during the time, the quality requirements and standards also change and recognition of these requirements and transformation process can assist in recognizing the quality dimensions of services. the aim of this research was to explain the transformation process, requirements and quality dimensions of services in hospitals.   methods: t...

background: the quality of care from the perspective of people with type 2 diabetes using a new model (cqmh) including three dimensions of quality in health care (technical, service and customer quality) was assessed. methods: a cross-sectional survey with a sample of 577 people with type 2 diabetes was conducted. measures were self-reported adherence to national guidelines for technical qualit...

thriteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty two (13752) records on growth tarits (birth weight, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 month weights) as well as pelt scores, collected during 1996-2002 as karakul sheep breeding station, sarakhs, iran were employed in this study. best liner unbiased prediction (blup) of breeding values, genetic and phenotypic trends of the traits were estimated as the regression of av...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relations between congenital malformations and maternal occupation during pregnancy with a registry based case-control study. METHODS Analysis was performed on data derived from the Florence Eurocat registry surveillance programme. The study included cases with isolated conditions, including chromosomal anomalies (n = 1351), cases with multiple anomalies register...