________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The effect of sex and the supplementation of the prebiotic, mannan oligosaccharides (MOS), the acidifier, calcium propionate (CPr) or their combination in the feed of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) on their performance and carcass quality was examined in this experimentation. Three hundred, 1-day old J...

An audit of resource use was undertaken in 35 patients treated by two ambulatory wound care providers in Germany (one medical practice and one outpatient wound clinic). A new wound dressingi was introduced with appropriate education and training in its use, and the frequency of dressing change and types of dressings used were recorded before and after adopting the new approach. Clinicians’ view...

800x600   introduction:  many items are needed for dressing including sterile dressing set, antiseptic and washing solutions, leucoplast tape, waste bin for infectious garbage, waste bin for noninfectious garbage, safe disposal trash for sharp cutting instruments, bedpan and sometimes drugs. all the items are laid out on a simple wheeled trolley. the multiplicity of items together with problems...

Three groups of 12 high percentage Charolais steers were slaughtered on three dates. Steers (n = 27) were infused immediately after exsanguination at 10% of BW with a solution containing saccharides, NaCl, and phosphates (MPSC solution; MPSC, Inc., St. Paul, MN) plus either 500 ppm vitamin C (MPSC+C), 500 ppm vitamin E (MPSC+E), or 500 ppm vitamin C plus 500 ppm vitamin E (MPSC+C+E). Noninfused...

First, some basic notions of transparent intensional logic (TIL) are introduced. Secondly, it is studied how natural-language interrogatives are analyzed in TIL.

Weshow that the supremumof the successive percentages of red balls in Pólya’s urnmodel is almost surely rational, give the set of values that are taken with positive probability, and derive several exact distributional results for the all-time maximal percentage.

Forty-eight West African Dwarf sheep and goats (twenty-four of each) with liveweights ranging from 8 to 15 kg were allotted in groups of eight to six diets containing 0%, 15%, 30%, 45%, 60% and 75% brewers’ dried grains (BDG) fed ad libitum together with 0.5 kg/head/ day fresh forage. After twenty-five weeks, all the animals were slaughtered and the carcass evaluated. Brewers, dried grains did ...

Medical tests, such as genetic tests and blood tests for various diseases or conditions, are far from infallible. A test can produce two kinds of errors: a false positive result (meaning that the test indicates presence of the disease when it is, in fact, not there) or a false negative result (meaning that the test indicates absence of the disease when it is in fact present). Thus, when you get...