Livestock form a major means of livelihood in Burkina Faso where almost 80% the rural population keep sheep and goats. However, constraint to livestock productivity is seasonal feed scarcity. To bridge increasing gap, particularly dry season, keepers are increasingly turning purchase feeds from markets, which has led emergence markets peri-urban towns cities Sahel. characterize dynamics these i...

In marketing products with negative externalities, a schedule which specifies an order of consumer purchase decisions is crucial, since in the social network of consumers, the decision of each consumer is negatively affected by the choices of her neighbors. In this paper, we study the problems of finding a marketing schedule for two asymmetric products with negative externalites. The goals are ...

Dairy Farming is a class of agricultural, or more properly, an animal husbandry enterprise, raising female cattle, goats, or certain other lactating livestock for long term production of Milk, which may be either processed on site or transported to a dairy for processing and eventual retail sale. Most dairy farms sell the male calves borne by their cows/buffaloes usually for real production, ra...

This article explores the ways in which the court’s recognition of a broad zone of personal liberty in Lawrence v. Texas may serve to strengthen a woman’s constitutionally protected reproductive rights in future Supreme Court decisions. Part of the author’s analysis focuses on using particular Justices’ opinions (and dissents) to predict the direction of future challenges to abortion rights in ...

Recent decisions in Canadian Law suggest that it is evolving in a manner heavily influenced by American law. A recent Supreme Court decision uses the framework of prevailing law and superimposes the more stringent criteria enunciated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. We trace this development, reviewing the intervening cases that have contributed, and conclude with a summary of th...

IN THE PAST, SERIAL CANCELLATIONSAND STORAGE DECISIONS focused primarily on print resources. With the addition of electronic resources, librarians in large research institutions must now manage an integrated collection consisting of both print and electronic formats. This article explores the impact that electronic resources have on such deaccession decisions. The authors identify criteria for ...

Risk factors for congenital umbilical hernias were investigated in German Fleckvieh calves up for sale at livestock markets. Data from 53,105 calves were collected from 77 livestock auctions in 1996 and 1997. The overall incidence of congenital umbilical hernia was 1.8%. A significant influence on incidence was exerted by the sex of the calf, the occurrence of multiple births, the market place/...

The shocked reaction of commentators to the recent Canadian Supreme Court decision (Chaoulli v. Quebec) overturning Quebec's ban on private healthcare insurance is difficult to square with the facts and policy options realistically open to provincial governments. The problem is that rhetoric has centred on preserving a single-tier universal system that has never existed in the form its supporte...