Production data from 681 yearling ewes were evaluated for the effect of ewe breed and management system on fertility, prolificacy, lamb birth weight, lamb survival, lamb weaning weight, ewe fleece weight, and total lamb weight weaned per ewe exposed. Two hundred seven straightbred Targhee (T) and 474 1/4 Finn-1/4 Dorset-1/2 Targhee (FDT) crossbred ewes managed in a range or farm flock system we...

BACKGROUND India is home to 60% of the total global visceral leishmaniasis (VL) population. Use of long-term oral (e.g. miltefosine) and parenteral drugs, considered the mainstay for treatment of VL, is now faced with increased resistance, decreased efficacy, low compliance and safety issues. The authors evaluated the efficacy and safety of an alternate treatment option, i.e. single infusion of...

BACKGROUND In a major clinical trial, caspofungin was as efficacious as liposomal amphotericin B (LAmB) for empirical therapy in febrile neutropenia. The current study sought to evaluate the economic impact of caspofungin as compared with LAmB for febrile neutropenia in Australia. METHODS A decision analytic model was developed to capture the downstream consequences of the empirical antifunga...

Objective. The study aimed to characterize the reproductive performances and physical characteristics of Blackhead Somali indigenous sheep breeds. Methods. data from 460 were used for determination morphometric characterization while 110 male 150 females performance Results. Accordingly, about 86% have a white body with blackhead as dominant coat color 81% straight facial head profile. Dewlap w...

Data from the Montana State University Targhee flock were used to estimate genetic and environmental relationships between lamb BW and adult ewe BW, condition score, and prolificacy. The flock was managed under commercial western range conditions typical of the area. Data included records from 12,154 lambs born to 2,930 dams and 200 rams between 1960 and 2005. Lamb traits included BW at birth a...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To examine our experience with surgically treated radiation-associated malignancy (RAM) of the temporal bone. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. METHODS Thirteen patients treated surgically for temporal-bone RAM during 1999 to 2012 were identified. Demographics, symptoms at presentation with RAM, interval between initial radiotherapy and diagnosis of RAM, patholo...

Spin Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM) is a form of computer data storage which allows data items to read and write faster. Every peripheral circuit have some static power consumption, which is consumed while there is no circuit activity. The main objective of the paper is to reduce the static power consumption in peripheral circuits with the help of STT-RAM technology. Instead of fetching instruct...

The mRNA cap is a structure added to RNA pol II transcripts in eukaryotes, which recruits factors involved in RNA processing, nuclear export and translation initiation. RNA guanine-7 methyltransferase (RNMT)-RNA-activating miniprotein (RAM), the mRNA cap methyltransferase complex, completes the basic functional mRNA cap structure, cap 0, by methylating the cap guanosine. Here, we report that RN...

Overexpression of OmpC protein from an inducible plasmid vector reduced the amount of the precursor form of LamB protein in LamB signal sequence mutants. The stability of the precursor form of LamB protein was not affected, indicating that the effect of OmpC overexpression was on the synthesis of the precursor rather than on degradation. These results indicate that a functional signal sequence ...

What is the survival probability of a diffusing lamb which is hunted by N hungry lions? Although this capture process is appealingly simple to define ~see Fig. 1!, its long-time behavior poses a theoretical challenge because of the delicate interplay between the positions of the lamb and the closest lion. This model also illustrates a general feature of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics: lif...