Abortion in Pagan context Often abortion is regarded as a contemporary issue only. However, even before the birth of Christ, in Greek and Roman society abortion was commonplace. Christianity developed in a largely pagan society. In an attempt to understand Christian feelings and attitudes, we first need to observe abortion in its pagan context. Abortion appears to have been practised extensivel...

In the empirical analysis of panel data the Breusch Pagan statistic has become a standard tool to infer on unobserved heterogeneity over the cross section. Put differently, the test statistic is central to discriminate between the pooled regression and the random effects model. Conditional versions of the test statistic have been provided to immunize inference on unobserved heterogeneity agains...

Harding and Pagan note that their stripped-down Markov-switching model (3)-(5) is an example of a standard state-space model, albeit with non-Gaussian innovations. This is indeed true of a broad class of Markov-switching models, as noted by Hamilton (1994, Section 4.1). Hence one could always use the Kalman filter in Markov-switching models to find the linear projection of the unobserved regime...

Nutrition of the performance horse has been the subject of several recent reviews (Meyer, 1987; Frape, 1988; Glade, 1988; Jackson, 1988; Pagan, 1988a). When reviewing the literature several points become obvious 1) There is much to be learned about nutrition of the equine athlete 2) Energy nutrition is usually considered to be of greatest concern and 3) There is great interest in vitamin nutrit...

Objective: In recent years, antibiotics have been used widely in the glob to prevent and treat bacterial diseases. They injected into eggs to eliminate pathogens and prevention of egg transmission of disease, but the adverse effects of drugs have always been a major concern. There is little information available about the safety of tetracycline drugs in the embryonated eggs of the birds. The ob...

Horses are raised to become sound athletes, and therefore optimal growth is preferred to maximal growth, which may be required in other livestock production systems. in horses, optimal growth rate results in a desirable body size at a specific age with the least amount of developmental problems. While the genetic makeup, or genotype, ultimately determines a horse’s mature size, nutrition plays ...

Objective: In recent years, antibiotics have been used widely in the glob to prevent and treat bacterial diseases. They injected into eggs to eliminate pathogens and prevention of egg transmission of disease, but the adverse effects of drugs have always been a major concern. There is little information available about the safety of tetracycline drugs in the embryonated eggs of the birds. The ob...