Writing a personal statement, letter of recommendation, or fellowship statement is a reflective process. It requires one to be thoughtful about why one has engaged in professional experiences as well as intentional about what one has learned. In general these documents should discuss how the applicants' pursuit of their goals has informed their career paths and ideally how their goals align wit...

The effects of housing and nutrition on the performance of first lactation sows of the Nepalese Pakhribas breed were investigated. A total of 36 sows, from a previous experiment on nutrition during gilt rearing, were allocated according to a factorial design with 2 levels of nutrition, 60 or 80% of the calculated lactation requirement, and two types of housing, traditional or improved. The mean...

The organisation set to take over Public Health England’s leadership role in health promotion and illness prevention from 1 October will be called the Office for Improvement Disparities underline government’s commitment “level up” health, social care secretary Sajid Javid has announced. It had been expected that it would Promotion. Javid, who took on brief 26 June, said, “When I came into this...

Traditionally cost-benefit analysis of different farm systems and management strategies, or losses due to diseases, are based on rough estimates made by experts. The purpose of this study is to use panel data to quantify the differences experienced in real life between farmand management systems (fixed sow versus loose sows, one site versus two or multi sites, etc.) and the actual loss due to d...

Statement of investment deposits performance is a separate and supplementary financial statement that is designed with two objectives: 1. Improvement in the level of disclosure and accountability of the banks to the owners of investment deposits as the main providers of the banks’ resources, and 2. Implementation of the IFRS standards on banking business in Iran. In this paper, the principles g...

Techniques for detecting deviation from expected production level has long been known and applied outside agricultural production. Even though the need for monitoring within agriculture seem obvious, only few examples exists. With recent method-ological improvements this may be changed. As an example the present paper describes a prototype of a system for monitoring pregnancy rate in sow herds....

SIMPLE, practical methods to improve postoperative pain control. Shifting our focus about where and when women die in childbirth from anesthesia. Blood tests to predict morbidity and mortality in our patients. Where and how anesthetics work. What method to choose in performing a regional anesthetic block. Whether to continue using nitrous oxide. These issues should be of interest to all medical...

3 Outreach Document The UAF team feels that communication with stakeholders must be an early priority. We made the development of an outreach (legislative) document our first priority. This outreach document will stress the importance of an undergraduate research program by connecting the program purpose to educational outcomes and to the Alaska economy. In particular, the mission statement whi...

The strategic marketing planning process flows from a mission and vision statement to the selection of target markets, and the formulation of specific marketing mix and positioning objective for each product or service the organization will offer. Leading authors like Kotler present the organization as a value creation and delivery sequence. In its first phase, choosing the value, the strategis...