This study was undertaken to describe the growth pattern of the pearl gray Guinea fowl. Using BW data from hatch to 22 wk, 3 nonlinear mathematical functions (Richards, Gompertz, and logistic) were used to estimate growth patterns of the pearl gray guinea fowl. The logistic and Gompertz models are a special case of the Richards model, which has a variable point of inflection defined by the shap...

conclusions the most important factor in childhood acute gastroenteritis in east anatolia is the rotavirus. rotavirus and adenovirus antigens should be routinely investigated as a factor in fresh stool samples for the accurate diagnosis and treatment of gastroenteritis in children in the winter and autumn months. patients and methods the records of stool sample analyses for 1154 patients admitt...

The sequencing of the recombinant plasmid containing 2916 bp hexon gene insert of fowl adeno virus 4 (FAV4) of Indian origin revealed the complete nucleotide sequence of the FAV4 hexon gene. The sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame of 2814 bp coding for a 937 amino acids long polypeptide with a molecular mass of 106.04 kDa. This sequence was larger than the hexon coding regions of F...

Visible Diode Laser Enhancement of Exotic DNA Uptake by Fowl SpermEssam A. El-Gendy, Mona M. Abdelaziz, Mohamed Abdelfattah, S. Salama, YhiaM. Badr

The luminance dependence of spatial acuity in domestic fowl was measured directly over stimulus luminances ranging from 0.06 to 57.35 cd m(-2). At the highest luminance, acuity was around 6.5 c deg(-1), in agreement with previous studies in this species. As stimulus luminance decreased, acuity fell with increasing rate to 3.2 c deg(-1) at 0.06 cd m(-2), following the same shape as acuity functi...

Two-day-old specific pathogen-free (SPF) chickens were divided into two groups. Group I was inoculated orally with fowl adenovirus Ⅷ (FAV-Ⅷ). Group II served as a negative control. Chickens were investigated at various days post-inoculation (dpi) by flow cytometric analysis for changes in T lymphocyte subpopulations in immune system and blood. In the thymus, CD3(+)T lymphocytes were increased a...

Some of the properties and the amino acid compositions of the histones of calf thymus, calf liver, fowl erythrocytes, and of a protamine-like material isolated from rooster sperm were described. The amino acid compositions of the histones were rather similar except that no methionine was found in the fowl erythrocyte histone. In the fowl, histones are found in the somatic chromosomes and protam...

The pathogenicity of a fowl adenovirus serotype-1 (FAdV-1, K181 strain) isolated from a case of gizzard erosion in layer chickens was investigated in specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chicks. One-week-old SPF chicks were inoculated orally or intramuscularly with the isolate of FAdV-1 and euthanized for necropsy at 7, 14, and 21 d postinoculation. Although there were no clinical signs after inoculati...

After introducing the jeopardy card game Fowl Play, we present equations for optimal two-player play, describe their solution with a variant of value iteration, and visualize the optimal play policy. Next, we discuss the approximation of optimal play and note that neural network learning can achieve a win rate within 1% of optimal play yet with a 5-orders-of-magnitude reduction in memory requir...