Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation of Bacillus, Saccharomyces and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) on performance and nutrient digestibility in grower and finisher pigs. In Exp. 1, 80 pigs (32 females and 48 males), 28.7±0.9 kg body weight (BW), were randomly divided into 4 treatment groups balanced for sex and weight (5 pigs per pen, 4 pens per treatm...

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the compensatory growth feeding strategy could be a suitable solution for overcoming the negative effects on growth, carcass composition and meat quality of low birth weight pigs. Forty-two Swiss Large White barrows from 21 litters were selected at weaning and categorized into either being light (L; >0.8 and <1.3 kg) or heavy (H; >1.7 kg) birth weig...

An experience sampling study assessed the relation between psychological functioning in daily life and emotional expressivity as measured by the emotional expressivity scale (EES). Four hundred and twenty-nine participants carried personal digital assistants that signaled them 8 times daily to complete questionnaires assessing affect, activities, and social contact. As predicted, participants h...

A survey was conducted to assess competencies of dental graduates of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, as perceived by the graduates and their employers, based on the five-year undergraduate curriculum introduced in 1995. All senior dental officers in the Ministry of Health (MOH), representing employers, and all 164 dental graduates of the years 2000, 2001, and 2002 were sent a se...

A total of 200, day old broiler chicks were divided into 4 treatments consisting 5 replicates in each group and ten replicate. Basal diet (T1) prepared following BIS (2007) [2] standards the experimental diets by incorporating antibiotic 0.02% BMD (T2), 0.1% sodium butyrate pre-starter, 0.05% starter 0.025% finisher (T3) (T4). The results revealed that combination along with resulted significan...

Compound feed and the raw materials used in their production are potential vectors of microbiological contamination food chain. The purpose this study was to microbiologically asses (maize, wheat, soybean meal, sunflower meal), broiler compound (starter, grower, finisher) from a representative mill Romania; contaminants that were analyzed yeasts molds, Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, Clostri...

For much of its existence, Nigeria was governed by the military. From 1960 to 2007, a total of forty-seven years, the military ruled for twenty-nine years. The remaining eighteen years was taken up by civilian rule. The search for a functional and cohesive Nigeria was a constant leitmotiv that ran throughout the period. This search is what has been termed nation-building. The federal government...