The goats raised in the barn are usually fed on fresh grass. As dry forage can be stored for long periods in large amounts, dry forage feeding makes it possible to feed large numbers of goats in barns. This review explains the physiological factors involved in suppressing dry forage intake and the cause of drinking following dry forage feeding. Ruminants consume an enormous amount of dry forage...

To determine the clinical viability of a phenol red impregnated cotton thread in differentiating between normal, aqueous deficient and non-aqueous deficient dry eyes. Subjects were recruited on the basis of subjective symptoms, tear stability, rose bengal staining, Schirmer test, conjunctival hyperaemia, patency and number of meibomian glands, presence of mucin strands, appearance of lower tear...

Diquafosol is a drug used for dry eye treatment with a novel mechanism of action. It stimulates the secretion of tear fluid and mucin on the ocular surface, thus enabling us to selectively treat the tear film layer, playing an important role in the establishment of the concept of "Tear Film Oriented Therapy (TFOT)", an effective therapeutic approach to dry eye in Japan. The 3% diquafosol ophtha...

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PURPOSE To investigate the association of dry eye disease with sleep quality. METHODS In 2011, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among all the employees, mainly young and middle-aged Japanese office workers, who used visual display technology, at a company in Osaka, Japan (N=672; age range =26-64 years). The participants were classified according to the Japanese dry eye diagnosis criteri...

This paper is a floristic and phytosociological study of the dry forest communities of the Dominican Republic. A total of 69 relevés in dry forest biotopes were carried out. The samples were subsequently subjected to Detrended Correspondence Analysis for the determination and study of possible groupings. The study does not cover tree formations growing on serpentines, nor the so-called semideci...