Studies that examined the association between personality traits and employees’ job performance in respect of hotels Lagos State, Nigeria is under-reported. The current study, therefore, filled this research gap. study adopted a quantitative design, hence used structured questionnaires to collect data from 332 employees 63 across 20 LGAs State. Data were collected was analyzed using Partial Lea...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of dried aerial parts powderand extract of pennyroyal­ (mentha pulegium) medicinal plant on performance, egg traits, blood biochemical and immunity parameters of laying hens. two-hundred-fifty-two hi-line (w36 strain) laying hens from 46 until 58 weeks of age were used in a completely randomized design in 7 treatments and...

Males of many species have multiple behavioral display traits. Females may be able to use these multiple behavioral display traits together to evaluate a male’s overall cognitive ability, which may be related to his genetic quality. It is also possible that individual behavioral display traits indicate unique aspects of male quality possibly related to cognitive performance. We tested predictio...

A number of plant features and traits, such as overall plant architecture, leaf structure and morphological features, vascular architecture and flowering time are important determinants of photosynthetic efficiency and hence the overall performance of crop plants. The optimization of such developmental traits thus has great potential to increase biomass and crop yield. Here, we provide a compre...

Genetic parameters were obtained using REML procedures applied to a multiple trait animal model for number born alive (NBA), litter birth weight (LBW), average piglet weight at birth (ABW) recorded in the first, second and third parity (NBA , LBW , ABW ) and 21-day litter weight (LW21 ) for 6050 Large White and Landrace sows. Heritability 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 1 estimates ranged from 0.06 to 0.22 f...

Behavioural ecologists increasingly recognise spatial memory as one the most influential cognitive traits involved in evolutionary processes. In particular, spatial working memory (SWM), i.e. the ability of animals to store temporarily useful information for current foraging tasks, determines the foraging efficiency of individuals. As a consequence, SWM also has the potential to influence compe...

The link between callous-unemotional (CU) traits in youth and delinquent, aggressive and violent behavior is well-replicated in the literature. However, the mediating effects of violence exposure on this relationship are unclear. The current study addresses this important gap in the literature with a sample of 88 detained, primarily ethnic minority adolescent boys (M age = 15.57; SD = 1.28). Re...

Steers (n = 15,631) and heifers (n = 5,897) fed at 18 feedlots (total confinement, partial confinement, or open lots) in southwest Iowa between 2002 and 2006 as part of the Tri-County Steer Carcass Futurity sponsored by Iowa State University were used to correlate various phenotypic traits with feedlot performance and carcass traits. Dependent variables [ADG, respiratory morbidity, HCW, fat thi...