Abstract Transportation causes sheep to experience stress and body weight loss due physical during the process. This study aimed evaluate administration of protected methionine hydroxy analog (MHA) or dextrose before transportation on loss, physiological responses, post-transportation behaviours sheep. The used 42 thin-tailed (body 18.28±2.11 kg) that were divided into three treatments, i.e., w...

The white-tailed prairie dog is a spontaneous hibernator that enters an anorexic state followed by torpor in early fall. The black-tailed prairie dog is a facultative hibernator that enters torpor only when deprived offood and water in the winter. The physiological state of hibernation is similar to a Phase II euthermic fast characterized by elevated fat catabolism, increased blood ketone bodie...

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is one of the most prevalent zoonotic diseases in some countries world. considered a neglected disease. This disease increases economic damage via medical costs and loss human livestock productivity. The aim current study gains better understanding prevalence CE sheep. Totally 250 sheep sera were collected. 25 serum samples from newborn lambs used as negative, others ...

When the growth of aggregate consumption exhibits no serial correlation, the socially efficient discount rate is independent of the time horizon, because the wealth effect and the precautionary effect are proportional to the time horizon. In this paper, we consider alternative growth processes: an AR(1), a Brownian motion with unknown trend or volatility, a two-state regimeswitching model, and ...

It is well-known that parameter estimates and forecasts are sensitive to assumptions about the tail behavior of the error distribution. In this paper we develop an approach to sequential inference that also simultaneously estimates the tail of the accompanying error distribution. Our simulation-based approach models errors with a tν-distribution and, as new data arrives, we sequentially compute...

A total of 146 Menz and Horro lambs of both sexes were serially slaughtered and dissected at 5 different stages of growth (i.e. at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of age) to define the pattern of growth and partitioning of fat among body depots of indigenous Ethiopian Menz and Horro sheep breeds. The GLM procedure of SAS and an allometric growth equation were used to assess the effects of various fact...

Asymmetry and fat-tail are both stylized facts of financial return data. Many asymmetric and fat-tailed distributions have been used to model the innovation in autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) models. This article introduces two more distributions from systems of frequency curves into the ARCH context: Pearson’s Type IV and Johnson’s SU. Both distributions have two shape par...

the relationship between live body weight, body length, girth circumference, animal hight, upper, middle as well as lower width of fat-tail, fat-tail length, fat-tail gap length, fat-tail depth and fat-tail circumference along with fat-tail weight were determined using records of 731 loribakhtiari sheep. principal component and least square analyses were applied to solve the collinearity instab...