As part of a continuing study of health problems pertinent to Canadian Northern Military operations, two aspects of Vitamin C have been examined in land element personnel participating on Northern Winter Exercises. This report describes results of an ongoing Vitamin C survey designed to examine both the Vitamin C status of troops and the effects of a daily Vitamin C supplement on the incidence ...

The parameters investigated in this study with the objective of evaluating growth, lactation and reproductive performances, included birth weight, litter size, 0-90 days gain and average daily gain of kids as well as the milk yield and progesterone profile of Red Sokoto does supplemented with crop-residue based rations during the long-dry period of the subhumid zone in Nigeria. A total of 7 tre...

Results: Gender, animal density, and concurrent disease were not associated with death due to HBS. Rates of death due to HBS were higher for pigs finished during the summer than for those finished in the winter. Rates of death due to HBS were lower in pigs fed rations containing bacitracin methylene disalicylate or chlortetracycline than in pigs on rations containing virginiamycin or no antibio...

Abstract Background The aim of this study is a comparison between some different protein sources in sheep rations to identify the best source that achieves highest production performance and lowest economical feed efficiency. Twenty Farafra male lambs weighed on average 41.39 ± 1.66 kg were divided randomly into four similar groups 5 animals each. All fed concentrate mixture (CFM) at 3% their b...

without meeting fresh supplies, whilst the one week's " daur" is now a prominent feature of Indian Frontier warfare. When here we speak of emergency rations therefore we mean not so much the compressed food ration, which may keep a man going for a day or so, though this rightly, too, has its place in every man's haversack, as that collection of foods that an army cut oft from all fresh supplies...

1 Mohacsi PJ,Thompson JF, Nicholson JK, Tiller DJ. Patients’ attitudes to xenotransplantation. Lancet 1997; 349: 1031. In the absence of a political solution, we believe that there are only two ethical alternatives. Preferably, more autonomy should be granted to the refugees and aid should be targeted towards restoring their livelihoods. Such a change would probably involve dividing the camps i...