This review brings together the available literature that examines the effect of variations in pigmentation on the water vapour conductance of avian eggshells. Pheasant and Houbara bustard eggs provide some evidence that shell abnormalities can impact upon colour and water vapour conductance. By contrast, data from wild birds suggest that neither the degree of maculation or intensity of backgro...

The coexistence of neuronal NADPH-diaphorase and ACHE activities were investigated in the phaesant spleen by successive double histochemical staining of the same sections. Two types of nerve structures were found in pheasant the spleen: nerve cells and nerve fibres. NADPH-d and ACHE-positive nerve fibres in colocalization enter the spleen in its hilum in the vicinity of splenic artery branches ...

detector attached to the UH ims-1280. TMP = turbo molecular pump. DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPE IMAGING SYSTEM WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL ION DETECTOR SCAPS FOR IMS-1280 SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETER. K. Nagashima 1 , G. R. Huss 1 , K. Kosaka 2 , T. Kunihiro 3 , K. Keil 1 , A. N. Krot 1 , G. J. Taylor 1 , and H. Yurimoto 4 . 1 Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai‘i at M!noa...

The distribution of the activity of seven acid glycosidases in the reproductive organs of the pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) was studied. The study was carried out on seven mature birds at the age of 11 months during the reproductive season (May). Significant (p<0.01) differences in acid glycosidase activity dependent on enzyme origin were observed. Generally, the highest activity of acid glyco...

The causes of the deaths or culling of 155 adult pheasants in breeding pens on one site between 1995 and 1997 were investigated. Approximately half the deaths were the result of problems associated with the reproductive tract or trauma, including injuries acquired during fighting or mating. Sinusitis was the commonest infectious cause of mortality or culling, despite medication of the flocks fo...

Abstract This article inquires into the ideological circumstances behind Wang Mang's 王莽 seizure of power, to examine how he built legitimacy at every stage his career, by establishing a political and symbolic continuum between role minister that sovereign, rather than suddenly wresting power from Liu clan. His classical learning in general references Zhougong 周公 particular were fundamental succ...

A 42-year-old woman with a history of migraine headaches and no other significant past medical presented daily headaches, cervicalgia, nausea over period 3 weeks. These were similar in severity to those that she had previously experienced. Presumptive treatment was administered released home. Three days later, her symptoms worsened developed double vision, unsteady gait, right-sided hearing los...