Wheeze is one of the most prevalent symptoms in preschool children with huge impacts on children and their families, on healthcare utilisation and hence costs [1]. While most children will become asymptomatic by 5–6 years of age, some will develop asthma or, even more importantly, severe problematic asthma and/or will experience an accelerated decline in lung function. Several studies have show...

It is difficult to be taken seriously when writing in the academic press about ‘love’ in relation to academic work. In response to a chapter entitled Intellectual love and the link between teaching and research (Rowland 2005), a reviewer commented ‘Rowland... highlights the role of ‘intellectual love’ (I kid you not) as the motivator for academic inquiry’ (Tight 2006 italics added). Why might a...

A newly developed technique for trans-cervical deep uterine insemination of goats is described. An experiment was conducted to compare this transcervical method with the laparoscopic intrauterine insemination using frozen-thawed semen. Of the 46 primiparous and 21 multiparous estrus-synchronized Boer goat does inseminated transcervically, 71% (22/31) kidded compared with 53% (19/36) of does ins...

in this study, production, reproduction, management and economic parameters deduced from recordings of 5 flocks with 720 heads of native goats during an annual cycle of production in transhumance, village and farming systems were employed to determine the traits' economic values. the economic values of the traits were estimated, using maximizing profit, revenue per cost as well as minimizi...

A study on the socio-economic, phenotypic, and technical features of Purgi goats in Kargil was undertaken. total 215 goat breeders from 8 villages were interviewed kids born between 2016 2018 studied. The revealed that farming under area is mainly practiced by poor farmers having an education level middle to matric standard belonging age group scheduled tribe (Muslims) community. average annual...

it is firstly proved that the multi-input-single-output (miso) fuzzy systems based on interval-valued $r$- and $s$-implications can approximate any continuous function defined on a compact set to arbitrary accuracy.  a formula to compute the lower upper bounds on the number  of interval-valued fuzzy sets needed to achieve a pre-specified approximation  accuracy for an arbitrary multivariate con...