... Artificial insemination (AI) is widely used by veterinarians and veterinary specialists in most domestic as well as wild animal species Reasons for use of AI instead of natural matings are diverse and ... the uterus, and the semen is very viscous (Adams et al., 2009) Camelids are not as easily trained to mount an AV as rams, bulls or stallions It is necessary to maintain a stable AV temperature during ... animals is the use of sex sorted spermatozoa Separation ofthe X and Y bearing sperm is desirable in animals as one sex has significantly more value than the other in certain species For dairy cattle...
... groups of similar habits The second group is the therians, ancestors of both marsupials and modern placental mammals (a category ranging from whales to bats, aardvarks and humans) These early therians ... reburial The Smithsonian Institution is also experimenting with laser scanning But again the issue of cost arises, as many museums express dismay that the repatriation act is already straining their ... primitive animal and as such is signiịcant for understanding the family tree ofthe varanoid lizards (the group that includes the Komodo) The skull has an unusual series of canals at the base of the...
... the same size and shape as our own galaxy They appear elliptical because most of them are viewed at a slant, and of course they are faint because they are so far away The idea ofa universe filled ... certain class of objects which have the appearance of stars nevertheless have enormous red shifts, in some cases over 300 per cent! If these 'quasi-stellar objects' are as far away as their red shifts ... for a class of stars in our galaxy known as Cepheid variables The reason this was so important was that in the preceding decade the work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Harlow Shapley ofthe Harvard...
... advertising providing advertising messages Infomediary: collecting and disseminating information 17 Assessing a business model Can be assessed by looking at the marketing strategy Can also ... also be assessed by technology - imitation - complementary assets Financial measures Competitor benchmarking Market analysis 18 Traditional vs New Business Models Traditional New Business Distribution ... Mass Manufactures push Middleman Personalized Customer Pull Direct Communications Closed Open Finance Slow Difficult Local Mass Physical Fast Easier Global Niche Virtual Production Markets Assets...
... St Petersburg of Russia) was under siege for two years by the advancing German army during World War II, hydrolysis of lignocellulosics was used as a source of some digestible carbohydrates There ... lignocellulosic materials was also investigated at the Forest Products Laboratory ofthe U .S Department of Agriculture, in Madison, Wisconsin A number of publications (Saeman 1945) from these efforts become ... industry, aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment were also becoming increasingly an important and widely used processes in the sanitation industry The fundamentals are the same, whether it is...
... Physicians think this to be the cause why they sometimes fail in their Cures, as well as Chirurgeons? and also make their own Medicines as well as they, especially since the Apothecary may as easily ... Simples, and Compounds ofthe Shops So that the Customer can tell the price of what he hath occasion to use, and not stand at the mercy ofthe Apothecary to rate them as he lists, and to this ... offenders against the lives and healths of his Majesties Subjects could not be discovered; and they had reason not to doubt a grant ofthe said power, since by the said Charter a power was granted them...
... perspective The remainder of this section is a characterization of each of these dimensions and the consequences that their consideration has with respect to the design ofa conceptual representation ... content" Langacker identifies six important dimensions of imagery; in our semantic analysis of spatial expressions we are interested in just three of these: ZThe issue of which side ofthe reference ... constraint are: : thethethethe CLOSING APPROACHES AND REMARKS Nearly all the work in recent years on computing the meanings of spatial prepositions stem from the prototype semantics of either...
... abstract name is a name which stands for an attribute ofa thing Thus John, the sea, this table, are names of things White, also, is a name ofa thing, or rather of things Whiteness, again, is ... is the father of B, and of B that he is the son of A, is to assert one and the same fact in different words The two propositions are exactly equivalent: neither of them asserts more or asserts ... of actio and passio; and the relation of such of them as are active, to their objects, and of such of them as are passive, to their causes, would rightly be so placed; but the things themselves,...
... monocyte adherence to ECs decreases EC stiffness, as measured by AFM, and at the same time also reduces the adhesiveness of ECs to the substrate, as indicated by a decrease in electric cell–substrate ... that pathological conditions such as cancer and atheroscle1150 rosis are associated with changes in tissue and cell stiffness [66–68] The effects of tissue stiffness are also important in the ... biochemical signaling cascades within the cell, leading to a cellular response 1146 ECs respond to shear stress A single sheet of ECs lines the walls ofthe arteries and is responsible for transmitting...
... change The media and the general public are generally interested in various forms of active resistance to change such as strikes or protests Other forms of resistance such as passive resistance, ... for us to observe is that changes at differing levels may share some common characteristics but may also possess certain unique characteristics One ofthe central issues of organizational change ... prior research has suggested that organizations change certain aspects such as strategies or structures (Zajac and Shortell, 1989) For an extensive discussion of organizational inertia, see Arrow...
... Fairness • Price is defined as any price that a consumer uses as a basis for comparison in judging another price (Schiffman & Kanuk, 2000) • Price fairness is defined as consumers’ assessments ... performance ofa service • Parasuraman et al (1988) have also suggested that service quality consists of five generic dimensions: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy â All ... state that the higher the service quality, the higher the customer satisfaction Teas (1993) also states that perceived service quality is the augmentation ofthe customer satisfaction Parasuraman...
... chains and in connective tissue in the walls of pelvic organs However parasympathetic paraganglia (PSP) are found along cranial and thoracic branches ofthe glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves Among ... when there is metastasis to sites where paraganglial tissue is not otherwise found As a matter of fact there s no reliable histological criteria for classifiying phaeochromocytoma as malignant at ... are spheroidal and show slight pleomorphism The paraganglia Sympathetic paraganglia (SP) are distributed along paraaxial regions ofthe trunk along the prevertebral and paravertebral sympathetic...
... centers of galaxies from what are called quasars There are other explosions, maybe small quasars In fact, the Milky Way Galaxy itself has had a set of explosions from its center, some thirty thousand ... Copernican ideas to reach galactic astronomy And then there was the hope that, well, at least maybe our galaxy was at the center of all the other galaxies, all those many billions of other galaxies ... possibility, the idea that the stars were distant suns and that they also had planets going around them and that, after all, you can see thousands of stars with the naked eye Suddenly the Earth is not only...
... [2] In the same series, survival was found to be associated with location of metastases; metastases outside the craniospinal axes were associated with a shorter survival time than metastases confined ... immunohistochemical labeling in 0% of noninvasive adenomas, 15.2% of invasive tumors, and 100% of metastases These data suggest that p53 expression analysis may be a promising avenue for assessing aggressive ... distant systemic metastases than craniospinal metastases[3] In fact, the rate of systemic metastases for ACTH-producing pituitary carcinomas is between 57% to 67% [2,3] A small percent of these...
... was carried out and an omental deposit was sampled for histological assessment Gross examination ofthe specimen revealed a 40 mm diameter tumour arising from the mucosal aspect ofthe bowel wall ... Meckel 's diverticulum, ectopic pancreatic tissues are usually asymptomatic and are found incidentally; they too can occasionally cause symptoms such as bleeding, inflammation, abdominal pain and Although ... the appendix or a Meckel 's diverticulum serosal surface ofthe small bowel The resection margins and the adhered appendix were tumour-free A single omental deposit submitted separately was also...
... irresectable presentation of unicentric CD, surgery after neoadjuvant radiotherapy was a possible strategy This case illustrates that this hypothesis was successful and should be considered as a strategy ... Yoshida K, Suzuki T, Sakata T, Kawai N, Matsuda A, Kayano H, Hirashima K, Matsutani M, Bessho M: Successful treatment of multicentric Castleman s disease with intracranial and retroperitoneal ... is considered to be the most adequate therapy for unicentric resectable cases of CD, as it seems to be curative in almost all ofthe cases [4,6,12-20] Radiotherapy has also been described as a...
... hematological recovery was obtained after six weeks Conclusion Pancytopenia is a rare appearance ofa hormonal abnormality; clinicians should consider the possibility of hypopituitarism as a cause of pancytopenia ... replacement treatment, I felt better I prefer to remain anonymous Page of 3 Gokalp D, Tuzcu A, Bahceci M, Arikan S, Bahceci S, Pasa S: Sheehan s syndrome as a rare cause of anemia secondary to ... (Table and Table 2) [5] The mean age of these women was 41.1 years (range: 22 to 57 years) The mean time between the hemorrhagic accident and diagnosis was at 11.1 years (range: two to 27 years)...
... Gaffney K, Mat C, Yazici H, al Ialaan A, et al: Mucocutaneous criteria for the diagnosis of Behcet s disease: an analysis of clinicopathologic data from multiple international centers J Am Acad ... Budd-Chiari syndrome is a vascular complication that can be associated with Behçet s disease In countries where the prevalence of Behçet s disease is high, such as Turkey and others in the Middle and ... Far East, evidence suggests that this disease should be included among the diagnostic possibilities in cases of Budd-Chiari syndrome Severe vascular complications of Budd-Chiari syndrome in patients...