Objective: The susceptibility and reaction of stabled horses to inhaled airborne pollutants is often associated with bedding materials, which have a poor hygienic status. In a field study we evaluated a new biocompost bedding material for horse stables with respect to its impact on air hygiene and compared the results to those from a reference trial with wood shavings. Methods: The study was co...

This study supports itself in ergonomic concepts and usability criteria by prioritizing the identification and correction of problems found during the interaction of children with projected interfaces for them and left from the cognitive, interactional and interfacial difficulties caused by the excesses of color, elements and animation in sites and games, between them the difficulty of recognit...

Bedding and nesting materials can improve the health and environmental welfare of laboratory mice. This study was carried out to examine which items are actually preferred by mice. Two series of studies were performed on four types of floor-covering materials (Wood-shavings (Clean-chip), Cloth (Agrebe), Recycled-paper (Paper-clean), Paper (Care-feeaz), and on four types of nesting materials (Re...

13 The Great Glen Fault (GGF) trends NNE-SSW across northern Scotland. According to 14 previous studies, the GGF developed as a left-lateral strike slip fault during the Caledonian 15 Orogeny (Ordovician to Early Devonian). However, it then reactivated right-laterally in the 16 Tertiary. We discuss additional evidence for this later phase. At Eathie and Shandwick, minor 17 folds and faults in f...

BACKGROUND Co-bedding, a developmental care strategy, is the practice of caring for diaper clad twins in one incubator (versus separating and caring for each infant in separate incubators), thus creating the opportunity for skin-to-skin contact and touch between the twins. In studies of mothers and their infants, maternal skin-to-skin contact has been shown to decrease procedural pain response ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated live house dust mite and mite allergen removal from clothing and bedding by washing machines. No studies have investigated the transfer of mites from infested to uninfested clothing and bedding during washing. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to wash different types of clothing and bedding in residential washing machines to determine the live De...

INTRODUCTION Observational studies report inverse associations between the use of feather upper bedding (pillow and/or quilt) and asthma symptoms but there is no randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence assessing the role of feather upper bedding as a secondary prevention measure. OBJECTIVE To determine whether, among children not using feather upper bedding, a new feather pillow and feathe...

Studies from the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, dating from 1993, found that soft bedding under and around a sleeping infant increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), with adjusted odds ratios of 3.1 to 6.7. The risk was so compelling that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 1996 that infants sleep in environments with firm sleep surfaces and f...

Abstract. The present study of field, petrological, exploration well, and seismic data describes backward-dipping duplexes comprised phyllitic coal bedding-parallel décollements thrusts localized along lithological transitions in tectonically thickened Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian; uppermost Devonian–Mississippian; Pennsylvanian–lowermost Permian sedimentary strata the Wood Bay an...

Guzik, J., Houdek, G., Chaplin, W., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D., Gilliland, R., Mullally, F., Rowe, J., Bryson, S., Still, M., Bedding, T., Benomar, O., Huber, D., White, T., Murphy, S., Stello, D., et al (2016). Detection Of Solar-Like Oscillations, Observational Constraints, And Stellar Models For Theta Cyg, The Brightest Star Observed By The Kepler Mission. The Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), 1-22...