The aim of this study was to estimate heritabilities of and genetic correlations between pathogen-specific subclinical mastitis (SCM) traits and lactation mean somatic cell score (LSCS) in Norwegian Red cattle. Based on data from 130 733 first-lactation cows four binary pathogen-specific SCM traits, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus dysgalactiae, Streptococcus uberis and coagulase-negative s...

Software configuration management (SCM) is the discipline of controlling the evolution of large and complex software systems. Many tools and systems for SCM have been developed which are based on a variety of different version models. Usually, the underlying version models have been hard-wired into the respective tool or system. In this paper we present MOD2-SCM, a PhD project which is dedicate...

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

Supply chain management (SCM) has become one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in management. One major issue of SCM is the proper design of supply chains to serve customers effectively (high customer service) and efficiently (at low costs). This is particularly difficult as companies nowadays face a series of challenges like shrinking product life cycles, the proliferation of produ...

Oxygen availability drives changes in microbial diversity and biogeochemical cycling between the aerobic surface layer and the anaerobic core in nitrite-rich anoxic marine zones (AMZs), which constitute huge oxygen-depleted regions in the tropical oceans. The current paradigm is that primary production and nitrification within the oxic surface layer fuel anaerobic processes in the anoxic core o...

In this study the effects of iron chloride (FeCl3) on the CO2 gasification kinetics of lower sulphur petroleum coke (PC) and sugar cane bagasse (SCB) via thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) were investigated. The FeCl3 loading effects on the thermal behaviour and reactivity of CO2 gasification of PC were studied. The possible synergistic interaction between the PC and SCB was also examined. Then t...