Microplastics are found in marine and freshwater environments; however, their specific sources are not yet well understood. Understanding sources will be of key importance in efforts to reduce emissions into the environment. We examined the emissions of microfibers from domestic washing of a new microfiber polyester fleece textile. Analyzing released fibers collected with a 200 μm filter during...

Grazing ability is difficult to record in animals under free-ranging conditions without sophisticated methods. Alternatively, grazing ability may be indirectly inferred from changes in BW and production characteristics during the grazing period. The present study investigated the effect of grazing on resource-limited rangelands on BW, wool characteristics, and offspring weaning weights in nine ...

T he “Golden Fleece Award” was established by the late Senator William Proxmire in 1975 to call attention to wasteful federal spending on useless and seemingly inane research. No doubt, enormous waste and corruption routinely emanate from Washington, DC. However, this and other eff orts to expose such evil sometimes have the eff ect of trivializing basic scientifi c inquiry that has no obvious ...

An experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of five sire breeds (Dorset, Finnsheep, Romanov, Texel, and Montadale), two dam breeds (Composite III [CIII] and northwestern whiteface [WF]), and three shearing seasons (December, February, and April, corresponding to August, October, and December breeding seasons) and their interactions on wool and other characteristics of F1 ewes. Fleeces we...

Lambs wool production and qualities from the progeny of 2 Merino and 2 Damara rams mated to Merino ewes were compared. The crossbred lambs produced about half the amount of wool and had high fibre diameter variation and medullated fibre components. Merino lambs wool was contaminated with pigmented and medullated fibres apparently transferred from continual exposure to the Damara crossbred lambs...

Occupation times of a stochastic process models the amount time spends inside spatial interval during certain finite horizon. It appears in fiber lay-down nonwoven production industry. The occupation can be interpreted as mass material deposited some region. From application point view, it is important to know average per unit area final fleece. In this paper we use white noise theory prove exi...