In the spring of 2009 (April/May) the Denver Zoological Foundation in collaboration with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences conducted a fi eld coprological assessment feasibility study at the Ikh Nart Nature Reserve in southeastern Mongolia. Our initial effort was directed at fi nding simple methodologies that would work consistently in the fi eld for identifying some of the enteric parasites fo...

Dispersal has long been recognized as a crucial factor affecting population dynamics. Several studies on long-distance dispersal revealed a peculiarity now widely known as a problem of "fat tail": instead of the rate of decay in the population density over large distances being described by a normal distribution, which is apparently predicted by the standard diffusion approach, field data often...

data on 361 lambs of mehraban (n=90), ghezel (n=92), ghezel × mehraban (n=87), and mehraban × ghezel (n=92, sire breed listed first) were used to estimate individual heterosisfor lamb growth. the obtained results demonstrated that lambs of purebreds of ghezel and mehraban showed the highest and the lowest birth weight, respectively (p

BACKGROUND The prevalence of childhood obesity has risen greatly worldwide. However, assessment of obesity among children and adolescents is further complicated by the changes occurring in the body composition during the growth. The aim of this study is to create gender-specific percentile curves for total body fat percentage (TBFP), total body fat mass (TBFM), fat mass index (FMI), and fat fre...

The identification of meat quality characteristics from selected breeds grazing in specific regions is particularly relevant to achieve a marketing advantage. Longisimus thoracis at lumborum (LTL) from the indigenous Western Balkan (WB) sheep VlašićkaPramenka (VP) sheep and lambs, and Pivska Pramenka (PP) sheep grazing in Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) and Montenegro (MN), respectively, was compare...

The apolipoprotein A-V (APOA5) gene is a candidate that plays an important role in carcass characteristics and lamb quality. This study aimed to association polymorphism of the APOA5 with quality sheep. breed sheep were used 100 consisting Thin Tailed Sheep (TTS) (n=55), Compass Agrinac (CAS) (n=10), Garut (GS) (n=18), Composite (GCS) (n=8), Barbados cross (BCS) (n=9). Identification was perfor...

For the consumer, tenderness, juiciness and flavour are often described as the most important factors for meat eating quality, all of which have a close association with intramuscular fat (IMF). X-ray computed tomography (CT) can measure fat, muscle and bone volumes and weights, in vivo in sheep and CT predictions of carcass composition have been used in UK sheep breeding programmes over the la...

This paper considers dynamic asset allocation in a mean versus downside-risk framework. We derive closed-form solutions for the optimal portfolio weights when returns are lognormally distributed. Moreover, we study the impact of skewed and fat-tailed return distributions. We nd that the optimal fraction invested in stocks is V-shaped: at low and high levels of wealth the investor increases the ...