Using laboratory Y-tube olfactometers, the attractiveness of lactic acid and 2 kairomone blends from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and BioGents GmbH (BG) was assessed for attractiveness to Aedes aegypti. Four geographically disparate populations were assessed: North Queensland Australia (NQA), Florida USA, Minas Gerais Brazil (MGB), and Singapore. In descending order, popul...

Trained sensory panel ratings and Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBS) values from the Beef Customer Satisfaction study are reported. Carcasses were chosen to fit into USDA quality grades of Top Choice (upper two-thirds of USDA Choice), Low Choice, High Select, and Low Select. A trained, descriptive attribute panel evaluated top loin, top sirloin, and top round steaks for muscle fiber tenderness, ...

background and objectives: this study was undertaken to determine the relationship between food security and individual dietary diversity score (idds). materials and methods: this population-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 non-diabetic individuals aged ≥40 years, selected randomly from the tehran lipid and glucose study. household food security was measured using a validated un...

Agricultural animal research has been immensely successful over the past century in developing technology and methodologies that have dramatically enhanced production efficiency of the beef, dairy, swine, poultry, sheep, and aquaculture industries. Most of this research effort has been conducted within the broad disciplines of genetics, physiology, and nutrition, but has become increasingly nar...

Matthew J. Helmers, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University Thomas M. Isenhart, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University Michael G. Dosskey, USDA Forest Service, National Agroforestry Center, Lincoln, Nebraska Seth M. Dabney, USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, Mississippi Jeffrey S. Strock, Department of S...

1 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA 2 USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK 99503, USA; and Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 80271, USA 3 Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4 School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durha...

Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, United States Department of Forestry, School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, 203 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building, Columbia, MO 65211, United States USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Clemson, SC 29634, United States USDA Forest Service, High Sierra Ranger District, S...