Forty-eight crossbred ewes were subjected to heat stress of short or long duration during the last third of gestation in a completely randomized design to determine the effects of maternal heat stress on lamb birth weight, lamb conformation and subsequent preweaning growth rate. Ewe treatments were spring range pasture, confinement on slotted floors in a heated room maintained between 28 to 38 ...

The Loads-n-Limits (LNL) and Release-n-Sequence (RNS) modules are rule-based sub-systems designed to validate various configurations of aircraft stores loading and weapons release planning. LNL, in conjunction with verifying and validating the loads presented, returns usage restrictions and limitations of the aircraft and the weapons load. The RNS module evaluates user-selected weapons employme...

Atmospheric CO2 and tropospheric O3 are rising in many regions of the world. Little is known about how these two commonly co-occurring gases will affect reproductive fitness of important forest tree species. Here, we report on the long-term effects of CO2 and O3 for paper birch seedlings exposed for nearly their entire life history at the Aspen FACE (Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment) site in ...

We studied sarcomere performance in single isolated intact frog atrial cells using techniques that allow direct measurement of sarcomere length and force. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether length-dependent alterations in contractile activation occur in the single isolated cardiac cell. This was accomplished by determining the effect of initial sarcomere length on the ti...

In this study, I investigate whether small world properties of developer collaboration networks influence developer productivity. Small world networks are characterized by two macro level network properties: dense clustering and short average path length. Structure of relationships among developers affects how information and knowledge is shared among them. I argue that networks characterized b...

JTLV is a computer-aided verification scripting environment offering state-of-the-art Integrated Developer Environment for algorithmic verification applications. JTLV may be viewed as a new, and much enhanced TLV [18], with Java (rather than TLV-basic) as the scripting language. JTLV attaches its internal parsers as an Eclipse editor, and facilitates a rich, common, and abstract verification de...

P iaget's theory of cognitive de velopment changed the way psy chologists and educators view children's intellectual development. However, with the widespread ac ceptance of Piaget's insight and theory has also come research that modifies and refines his contribution. According to Piaget, there are four major stages of development: the sensory-motor, the pre-operational, the concrete operationa...

The radiation lengths needed for the radiative corrections, for the nitrogen dilution and elastic analyses are calculated in this note. 1 Polarized He cells 1.1 Wall and window thicknesses 1.1.1 Duke The wall and window thickness measurements were done by Jaideep Singh [1]. The average value for wall thicknesses measured by Vince Sulkosky [2] were very similar: 1.42 mm for the left side∗ and 1....

Primula species provide possibly the best known examples of heteromorphic flower development and this breeding system has attracted considerable attention, including that of Charles Darwin. However, despite considerable recent advances in molecular genetics, nothing is known about the molecular basis of floral heteromorphy. The first molecular marker for the Primula S-locus is reported here. Th...

Networks are fundamental models for data used in practically every application domain. In most instances, several implicit or explicit choices about the network definition impact the translation of underlying data to a network representation, and the subsequent question(s) about the underlying system being represented. Users of downstream network data may not even be aware of these choices or t...