fracture mapping of late permian-early triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the sydney basin,new south wales, australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. joints with a regional distribution fall into two (early and late) formed groups. group i joints propagatedhorizontally and never interfered with each other. these joints were subsequent...

The application of compost bedding system on sheep farm is a technology to minimize the negative impact manure waste toward environment. microorganisms which inhabit bedding, especially nitrifying bacteria are expected have significant role in odor emission reduction become environmental problem around farm. This study aims analyze abundance and diversity obtained from important reducing ammoni...

The South Saskatchewan River has a long term average discharge of 275 m3/sec, with flood peaks in the range of IS00 to 3800 nP/sec. South of Saskatoon, the four major types of geomorphological elements recognised are channels, slipfacebounded bars, sand flats and vegefated islands and floodplains. Major channels are 3-5 m deep, up to 200 m wide, and flow around sand flats which are 50-2000 m lo...

This article suggests a method for classifying sows’ activity types performed in farrowing house. Five types of activity are modeled using multivariate dynamic linear models: High active (HA), Medium active (MA), Lying laterally on one side (L1), Lying laterally on the other side (L2) and Lying sternally (LS). The classification method is based on a Multi Process Kalman Filter (MPKF) of class I...

Relationships between air quality, a variety of environmental risk factors, and calf respiratory health were studied in 13 naturally ventilated calf barns during winter. A minimum of 12 preweaned calves were randomly selected and scored for the presence of respiratory disease in each barn. An air sampling device was used to determine airborne bacteria colony-forming units per cubic meter (cfu/m...

Novelty stimuli cause various behavioral responses, such as exploration and avoidance, and contextual variables may contribute to the behavioral outputs. Here, we tried to compare the behavioral responses to novel objects of five inbred strains of mice (C57BL/6J, 129/svJae, C3H/HeJ, BALB/cJ and DBA/2J) by using a modified novel object test where a small light-weight cube wrapped with paper was ...

This study aims to fully explore the influence of rock joint roughness in slope stability analysis an open mine. Therefore, based on least squares parameter estimation method, a generalized shear strength coupling roughness, which is used evaluate design, was established by matching formula reflecting relationship between coefficient and parameter. Firstly, verify calibrate model, physical dire...

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements from thin sections of rock samples such as shales demand as great a scattering vector range as possible because the pores cover a wide range of sizes. The limitation of the scattering vector range for pinhole SANS requires slit-smeared ultra-SANS (USANS) measurements that need to be converted to pinhole geometry. The desmearing algorithm is onl...