Using the British Household Panel Survey we examine how the Big Five personality traits – openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism – affect wages. We estimate mean and quantile pay gaps between people with low and high levels of each of the Big Five, and decompose these pay gaps in the part explained by differences in workers’ characteristics and i...

way to the United States to sign the INF Treaty in December 1987. The stop, made on Gorbachev's initiative, had both a practical and symbolic purpose. He had no aspiration to detach Thatcher from Reagan. Gorbachev knew that was impossible, and it would not have suited his purpose anyway. It was her closeness to Reagan that made her so helpful as an interlocutor. But Gorbachev would have looked ...

Background and Aims: Avian Influenza (AI) H9N2 subtype was first reported to infect turkeys in the United States in 1966 and has been panzootic in Eurasia. In Iran, the H9N2 virus was first isolated from broiler chickens in 1998 in Ghazvin province and it is the most prevalent subtype of influenza virus in poultry industry in Iran at the present time. Materials and Methods: In this study, we se...

W hat would motivate british neo-nazi skinheads to invade a public library and beat up a reading group of retired pakistani immigrants? and what would motivate half a million british citizens to vote for extreme right-wing parties whose rhetoric fuels such behavior? trilling traces the rise of the radical right in the united kingdom and condemns establishment figures for not taking it more seri...

Cell-bound and cell-free herpesvirus of turkeys infected and replicated in guinea pig cell cultures as evidenced by cytopathic effects, intranuclear inclusions, and the presence of herpesvirus particles as seen by electron microscopy were studied in this investigation. Further evidence for the replication of herpesvirus of turkeys in cell cultures was determined by serum neutralization, complem...

Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ORT) is a respiratory pathogen which has been isolated throughout the world from numerous bird species. The present study was designed to isolate and characterize the ORT from domestic turkeys, quails and pigeons. For this purpose, 250 samples from each bird species (turkey, quail and pigeon) with or without respiratory signs were tested by taking of tracheal...

In this study, 2 experiments determined the effects of increasing dietary concentrations of deoxynivalenol (DON) on performance, intestinal morphology, and measures of innate immunity in broilers and turkeys. For experiment 1, the 3-wk study used 5 concentrations of DON (up to 18 or 10 mg of DON/kg of feed in broilers or turkeys, respectively) from naturally contaminated corn. The BW gains were...

To determine if the effects of propranolol on hypertension and the arterial wall persisted for a significant time after the medication was discontinued, various parameters were compared at 16 weeks in control turkeys (CC), in birds on the medication from 3 days to 16 weeks (PP), and in others that were treated only from 3 days to 10 weeks (PC). At 16 weeks, arterial blood pressure, maximum rate...