T he “Golden Fleece Award” was established by the late Senator William Proxmire in 1975 to call attention to wasteful federal spending on useless and seemingly inane research. No doubt, enormous waste and corruption routinely emanate from Washington, DC. However, this and other eff orts to expose such evil sometimes have the eff ect of trivializing basic scientifi c inquiry that has no obvious ...

An experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of five sire breeds (Dorset, Finnsheep, Romanov, Texel, and Montadale), two dam breeds (Composite III [CIII] and northwestern whiteface [WF]), and three shearing seasons (December, February, and April, corresponding to August, October, and December breeding seasons) and their interactions on wool and other characteristics of F1 ewes. Fleeces we...

The objective of this study was to compare weight and quality of fleeces of different F1 ewe types produced from breeds with a broad range of fleece types. Weights of 629 fleeces produced during 1988 through 1991 from F1 ewes that were daughters of Suffolk and Targhee dams and Finnsheep, Combo-6, Booroola Merino, St. Croix, and Barbados sires were recorded. Staple length was measured on the mid...

Lambs wool production and qualities from the progeny of 2 Merino and 2 Damara rams mated to Merino ewes were compared. The crossbred lambs produced about half the amount of wool and had high fibre diameter variation and medullated fibre components. Merino lambs wool was contaminated with pigmented and medullated fibres apparently transferred from continual exposure to the Damara crossbred lambs...

Single implants of 35 mg, 70 mg and 140 mg of testosterone propionate induced significant increases in wool growth rates and significantly depressed appetite of Corriedale wethers fed ad libitum in pens. Under field conditions, the fleece weight of Merino wethers was significantly increased following the implantation of 70 mg of testosterone propionate in April and October and in another group ...

Occupation times of a stochastic process models the amount time spends inside spatial interval during certain finite horizon. It appears in fiber lay-down nonwoven production industry. The occupation can be interpreted as mass material deposited some region. From application point view, it is important to know average per unit area final fleece. In this paper we use white noise theory prove exi...

This paper presents the propagation of dual-band diamond dipole antenna on three various jackets. The jackets are purely fleece fabric with Shieldit patches top it. network analyzers flexible lossless coaxial cable used to measure communication antennas. experiment involves a man ideal body mass index (BMI) wearing by placing antennas It is observed that best on-body engineered jacket. 10 dB im...

For cosmic particle spectroscopy on the International Space Station the AMS experiment will be equipped with a Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) to improve particle identification. The TRD has 20 layers of fleece radiator with Xe/CO2 proportional-mode straw-tube chambers. They are supported in a conically shaped octagon structure made of CFC-Al-honeycomb. For low power consumption VA analog m...

The efficacy of 4 treatments in maintaining adequate plasma and liver vitamin B lz (B,,) concentrations was compared in young sheep grazing a cobalt (Co)-deficient site in the south east of South Australia. The treatments were injections of Blz or an intraruminal glass pellet containing Co prior to weaning and at weaning intraruminal glass pellets or Co pellets. A liveweight and fleece weight r...

the objective of the present study was to estimate genetic parameters and genetic trends of growth traits , fleece weight and reproductive traits. data collected from 1993 to 2007 by the kermani breeding station were analyzed .traits were included birth weight (bw, n=2614), 3 months weight (3mw,n=2312), 6 months weight (6mw, n=1890), 9 months weight (9mw,n=1380) and 12 months weight (12mw,n=105...