We conducted three experiments to evaluate the Optical Fibre Diameter Analyser (OFDA) for estimating medullation (med [M], kemp [K], and total [T] medullated fiber content) in mohair and wool produced by Angora goats and sheep, respectively. Medullation can be a beneficial characteristic in certain types of wool, but it is highly undesirable in mohair and apparel wools. Current techniques for e...

I 'N THE PAPER I wrote twenty years ago on the origins of British breeds of sheep, I .attempted to integrate new evidence from archaeology with older documentary evidence.' Medieval archaeology was in its infancy, and the bone remains from sheep gave little information. Illustrations in illuminated manuscripts and later paintings gave better evidence than records. But the most striking new and ...

The level of maternal circulating triglycerides during late pregnancy has been correlated to newborns' weight in humans. To investigate the response to fenofibrate, a hypotriglyceridemic agent, in pregnant rats, 0, 100, or 200 mg of fenofibrate/kg body weight as oral doses were given twice a day from day 16 of gestation and studied at day 20. Virgin rats were studied in parallel. Liver weight w...

issue of July 1929, Vol. LXIV, p. 386, of myiasis of a carious tooth, is by no means uncommon in : e villages of Bengal. Who does not know women vai s shouting " Bat. bhalo kari; danter poka bar kan U cure iheumatism; I extract disease germs from eca. teeth)? One has seen such an operator put a pe ge of cotton-wool soaked in mustard oil into the socke holes in carious teeth, and maggots subsequ...

The woollen coat, for example, which covers the day-labourer, as coarse and rough as it may appear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen. The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homel...

We studied the interaction of human neutrophils with nylon wool in vitro and during filtration Ieukapheresis (FL) to better understand cellular events detrimental to neutrophils that occur during FL. When neutrophils purified from blood by gradient centrifugation and sedimentation were incubated with nylon wool in vitro, release of lysozyme from the cells occurred rapidly and to a degree that w...

An innovative lamb-feeding facility with a raised-slatted floor (RF) was designed and built for the purposes of concurrently roducing high-quality, high-value wool and large, lean lamb carcasses. A ration was formulated to provide a low rate of gain in rder that lambs attained slaughter weight (59 kg) when they were approximately 12 month of age because a 12-month fleece is prerequisite for hig...