Microplastics are found in marine and freshwater environments; however, their specific sources are not yet well understood. Understanding sources will be of key importance in efforts to reduce emissions into the environment. We examined the emissions of microfibers from domestic washing of a new microfiber polyester fleece textile. Analyzing released fibers collected with a 200 μm filter during...

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 ...

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...