ALL SWINE! and joe bush barac's protectoraterun's! fiat's like golden dawn's!
bill gate's your barbados n s. a. intel eproms get you PIG ONE! nuremberg whiny or guiltymicrosoft!
like a pig duck! hung a king in iraq! on hoods IN HOODS! PROTECTORATES! CEASERS VALKRYS!
ALL SWINE! and joe bush barac's protectoraterun's! fiat's like golden dawn's!
bill gate's your barbados n s. a. intel eproms get you PIG ONE! nuremberg whiny or guiltymicrosoft!
like a pig duck! hung a king in iraq! on hoods IN HOODS! PROTECTORATES! CEASERS VALKRYS!
I'm all about only domesticated animals like cows...they don't want to eat me just stare at
Now we are going beyond that to understand how flies steer and maneuver. Learning how nature creates superior sensors could lead to lighter smarter drones.
#New vaccine against lung diseases in goats and sheepan intranasal spray was developed using local isolated bacterium in Malaysia
or pneumonic diseases in goats and sheep that was developed and patented by its scientists. The soft launch of STVAC7 the first intranasal spray vaccine for goats
and sheep was officiated by the Deputy Minister of Science Technology and Innovation Datuk Dr Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah in a brief ceremony on 24.oct 2013.
The vaccine was developed and tested from 1998 to 2005 by UPM scientists led by Prof Dr Mohd Zamri Saad of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
since in Malaysia alone there were more than 600000 goats and sheep at present and the figure is expected to increase to 1 million by 2015 a growth rate of 12.1%as projected by the Veterinary Services Department.
The company's collaboration with UPM would ensure that it would produce the STVAC7 vaccines under Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
or respiratory diseases of goats and sheep caused by bacteria. It was developed and produced using sophisticated recombinant technology
which unlike the imported vaccines has been demonstrated to provide protection against bacterium infection in the small ruminants like goats and sheep.
and the goats and sheep farmers could benefit from the STVAC7. The product itself is ready for the market
Parambath Sudeep a research scholar at Cochin University of Science and Technology India; Rice senior faculty fellow Robert Vajtai;
Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund researchers have found that tigers in central Sumatra live at very low densities lower than previously believed according to a study in the April 2013 issue of Oryx--The International Journal of Conservation.
#Research documents lesser prairie chickenstexas Tech University scientists have been at the forefront of research on the lesser prairie chicken (LPC) a prairie grouse native to the West Texas landscape for more than three decades.
Additional research out of Oklahoma and Kansas has indicated lesser prairie chickens have an aversion to tall vertical structures such as wind turbines
and the number of lesser prairie chickens has decreased about 90 percent in the past 100 years. The bird is now found only in restricted areas of five states in the southern Great plains:
Hence the prairie chickens tend to stay away from areas where there are tall structures. Blake Grisham a post doctoral research associate working with Boal said in terms of wind farms companies already have been trying to do the right thing by staying away from known habitats.
Those spots do occur where they overlap with the distribution of the lesser prairie chickens; we've been fortunate that the wind energy companies have identified these places as potential problems
Boal said prairie chickens for example are not very likely to use cotton fields to nest in or for lekking (places where males aggregate to try to attract females to mate with).
Prairie chickens have evolved in this landscape Boal said. They have a breeding strategy that is suited to this landscape a boom
If the prairie chicken has a bad year they may have to expand their home range and forage over a greater area.
and the relative risk that a species is facing we need to look at those risks across its distribution not just have a one-size-fits-all for the prairie chicken's entire distribution.
The state of the lesser prairie chicken is an indicator of prairie health he said. A general decline shows that the ecosystem as a whole faces uncertainty
What people need to understand is that it's not just prairie chickens. It's really the inter-connectedness of these biotic communities Boal said.
When we have indicators like a prairie chicken and there's something going wrong that's an indication of that biotic community as a whole.
Prairie chickens are an important component of that land and their future depends on the quality of stewardship they receive.
Corn ethanol's byproduct--called distiller's dried grains--can be used as cattle feed but cellulosic ethanol's byproduct--called high-lignin residue--is perceived often as less valuable.
and beef cattle with an enriched diet of flaxseed and other omega-3 rich grains have fewer respiratory diseases.
The cattle also have higher fertility rates which helps offset infertility among dairy cattle. The technology to enrich ground beef with omega-3s is a spinoff of flaxseed research Drouillard began in 1998.
Drouillard and his students studied flax for several of its omega-3 fatty acids that may suppress inflammation
and reduce diabetes in cattle. Research showed that omega-3 levels dramatically increased in the cattle as more flaxseed was introduced into their diet.
Keeping the omega-3s from becoming saturated fats in cattle's digestive system is a challenge however.
Microorganisms in the rumen--the largest chamber in the cow's stomach--modify most of the ingested fats and turn them into saturated fats.
This causes ground beef to have low levels of omega-3s. Christian Alvarado Gilis a doctoral candidate in animal sciences and industry is researching how to improve omega-3 levels in cattle diets to further enhance the fat profile of beef.
Gilis is from Chile. According to Drouillard substituting omega-3 fatty acids for saturated fats does not change the ground beef's flavor.
#Cow behavior changes in response to deterioration in healthwhen a cow develops mastitis her behaviour changes
when the cow is milked but is it possible to recognise the signs of this diseases in other ways and even earlier?
A dairy cow becomes restless four hours after it contracts bacterial mastitis. Simultaneously the other symptoms of a steadily progressing inflammation such as increased body temperature
while changes in a cow's behaviour acted as an indicator for a change in the cow's health says Jutta Kauppi summing up the results of her study.
when a cow has failed to enter the robot for milking or when it has failed several milking attempts in its history.
Kauppi's doctoral dissertation sought to identify critical points in cow behaviour pointing to deterioration in the cow's health.
Changes in cow behaviour including restlessness proved promising indicators for an incipient change in health status. To our surprise changes in milk composition were identifiable before such symptoms were evident
The study also investigated alterations in cow behaviour in relation to successful completion of robotic milking procedure as well as in dairy management practices
Technology provides extra set of eyes for the stockpersonin addition to the stockperson's good eye for cattle technology is used heavily in the modern cowshed in feeding cattle in ensuring a successful completion of milking and in monitoring cows'health and activity levels.
Because some cows are naturally more active than others technology alone is insufficient detect decreasing health status of a cow.
and production technology at our disposal but it is the stockperson who knows its cattle
and a well-functioning interaction between the stockperson the cow and technology become pronounced she continuesresearch on animal welfare
This will enable the launch of preventive measures at an earlier stage than before affecting the process of a cow contracting a disease and shortening the recovery time.
Mastitis is extremely harmful for both the farmer and the cow. When an inflammation has gained a footing the cow is seriously ill.
The milk extracted from the cow is also unsuitable for the food chain causing substantial loss due to treatment with antibiotics
because it goes literally down the drain. With regard to the cow's well-being and the financial impact caused by the disease warning signals should be intercepted as early
and comprehensively as possible Jutta Kauppi concludes. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by MTT Agrifood Research Finland.
Through the use of a simple efficient and low cost technique involving a focused laser beam two NUS research teams led by Professor Sow Chorng Haur from the Department of physics at the NUS Faculty of science demonstrated that the properties of two
Said Prof Sow â#oein our childhood most of us are likely to have the experience of bringing a magnifying glass outdoors on a sunny day
To address this technological challenge Prof Sow Dr Lu Junpeng a postdoctoral candidate from the Department of physics at the NUS Faculty of science
Hidden images â#drawnâ##by focused laser beam on silicon nanowires could improve optical functionalitiesin a related study published in the journal Scientific Reports on 13 may 2014 Prof Sow led
To develop materials with properties that can cater to the industryâ##s demands Prof Sow together with his team of researchers will extend the versatile focused laser beam technique to more nanomaterials.
This study has implications for a range of other species including black grouse (Tetrao tetrix) capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and woodlark (Lullula arborea.
and wheat along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter) pork and poultry.
#Environmental strategies on livestock farms: Results obtained after evaluationthe Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and development (Neiker-Tecnalia) has coordinated the European BATFARM project
and practices used on livestock farms in the European Atlantic region in order to reduce their environmental impact on the air water and soil.
In this project a detailed study has been made of the technologies present on livestock farms belonging to various regions in the Atlantic Area.
Among the technologies evaluated in situ are floor type in cattle housing use of additives in slurry storage manure turning flexible lagoons for collective slurry storage biowashers for gases at the outlet of air ducts of the sheds
In this part of the continent a considerable proportion of livestock production takes place in line with the intensive model as in the case of pig poultry and a large proportion of cattle livestock.
So the problems in managing livestock waste are shared by all the regions involved in the project.
The outcomes of the project have been made available to the various interest groups companies livestock management bodies policy-making bodies research centres end users and the general public.
Directive on the adopting of Best Available Techniquesin connection with the environmental problems involved in livestock production the EU 2010/75/EC Directive also known as the IED (Industrial Emissions Directive) seeks to regulate all forms of emission into the atmosphere water
and soil coming from intensive livestock farms (farms with a population of over 40000 hens 2000 fattening pigs
or 750 sows) and makes the obtaining of comprehensive environmental authorisation compulsory. The Directive proposes adopting Best Available Techniques (BAT)
and human health They live in the digestive systems of cattle and sheep where they facilitate the digestion of feed consumed in the diet.
Efforts to control methanogens in specific ways may improve feed utilization and enhance the production of meat
Beta-agonists, the environment and cattle fatiguein agricultural production maintaining a level of excellence that includes environmental sustainability animal welfare
and rightfully so might hold beef to an even higher standard of excellence said Dan Thomson Kansas State university veterinarian professor and director of the Beef cattle Institute.
The use of beta-agonists in cattle feeding is among the modern feedlot technologies making waves in the beef industry.
K-State researchers including Thomson are among the many researchers who are examining how beta-agonists affect cattle performance
and how the feed supplement might cause cattle particularly in the summer months to be slow-moving and stiff-muscled once they arrive at packing facilities.
Are we using low-stress cattle handling techniques? How far away from the load out facility are the fat cattle being moved?
Are we shipping them during the afternoon in the heat of the day or are we shipping them at 2 a m.?
History of beta-agonist usefeedlots have used beta-agonists a cattle feed supplement approved by the U s. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) and considered safe from a food safety perspective to improve the cattle's natural ability to convert feed into more lean muscle.
Zilmax formally known as zilpaterol hydrocholoride is one of only two beta-agonists approved for cattle feeding on the market.
However Merck Animal health manufacturer of Zilmax voluntarily suspended sales of the product last September when major U s. meat packer Tyson announced it would stop buying cattle fed Zilmax due to an animal welfare concern
which questioned if the product affected the ambulatory ability or movement of cattle. Thomson said that
because the slow-moving cattle reports were more consistent during the summer months he has questioned how heat stress
what he calls cattle fatigue syndrome. This isn't a new phenomenon Thomson said. We've seen this in other species. The swine industry 15 to 20 years ago discovered pig fatigue syndrome.
It occurred about the time they started feeding beta-agonists at a very high level to pigs.
Market hogs would arrive at the plant and they were stiff open-mouth breathing had blotchy skin muscle tremors
and were going through stress. Thomson said many in the swine industry started calling these pigs NANI pigs meaning non-ambulatory non-injured.
So these pigs show up (at the packing facility) and they don't have any clinical signs of injury besides that they don't move Thomson said.
Researchers) did diagnostic tests to look at the difference between non-ambulatory pigs and pigs within the same truckload that were able to move.
They found elevated serum lactate and creatine phosphokinase (CPK) levels which are both indicative of depletion of muscle glucose
or muscle damage in these big heavily muscled animals. Regardless of beta-agonist use in feeding pigs Thomson said the swine industry went from having about a 250-lb. average out weight to a 300-lb. average out weight on market hogs.
So the hogs had more weight to carry around at the packing facility. To see if beta-agonists played a role in the movement concerns researchers did a series of tests on market hogs that were fed not beta-agonists They put some through a stressful situation prior to shipping them to slaughter
while the others did not experience any stress. They were able to recreate the same syndrome that we're now seeing in some cattle Thomson said.
Generally physical stress whether they were on a beta-agonist or not showed clinical signs of fatigue in these market hogs.
Still the swine industry has since cut the dose of beta-agonists in feeding by about 75 percent Thomson said.
A closer look at cattle fatigue syndromethe beef industry has a really good start on understanding
what cattle fatigue syndrome is said Thomson but the reason more research must be done is that like the NANI pigs the syndrome has shown up in cattle that were fed a beta-agonist
and cattle that were fed not a beta-agonist. In our research when we've looked at cattle that are stressed not
and they're on one of the beta-agonists on the market we've not seen anything
but an increase in heart rate by about 10 beats per minute and no difference in lactate or CPK levels Thomson said.
However we have to understand that when we have seen the issues with this fatigue cattle syndrome at packing facilities it's during the summer months
when we have heat stress. Moving forward Thomson said the industry needs to better-understand the clinical and physiological responses of beta-agonists in cattle
if dosages in cattle feeding rations might need to be altered and if there is a potential genetic component to it as well.
Advice for feedlot operatorsthomson said that he is very pro-technology. While Merck recently announced that it is too early to determine
and many have taken on the challenge of retrofitting energy hogs--to save money, to make cities more efficient,
and Glen Bull of the  Curry School of education at the University of Virginia, recently answered my questions about the project.
Bull: Producing and creating customizable manipulatives like base 10 rods, fraction cubes, geometric Tangram shapes all potentially support elementary students'mathematic proficiency and understanding in ways that the teacher controls.
Bull: The decision regarding participation by corporate partners will depend on the commercial outcomes. The decision regarding participation by academic partners will depend on
Bull: While the technology is in emergent state and there are certainly a number of technical challenges,
Glen Bull
At Crane and Co.,a greener greenbackmassachusetts firm  Crane and Co. has been supplying paper for U s. currency--bills, specifically--for the federal government since 1879.
A subspecies of Pyrenean ibex was cloned momentarily back to life. Credit: Joseph Wolf (1898), via Wikimedia) But returning to the merits of Mulligan's proposal, remember that resurrecting dead
such as the Asian gaur in 2001, but often with limited success. In 2009 Spanish biologists cloned the calf of an extinct subspecies of Pyrenean ibex from tissue samples preserved for that purpose,
but minutes after its birth the calf died of lung abnormalities (which have been cloned common among animals to date).
Moreover, all those cloning efforts crucially relied on the use of egg cells or surrogate mothers from living species closely related to the ones being brought back.
Meet the Maverick: the only fully legal flying carthe last time a flying car had shot a at making an impact was in 1956,
the Maverick Sport is powered officially a parachute. The Sport Pilot license required to fly it is much easier to obtain than a standard pilot's license.
For the first certified Maverick's vanity plate, FLY CAR seemed an appropriate choice. As for the hardware, it's a lithe, 900lb vehicle reminiscent of a dune buggy.
The Maverick Sport should be available for purchase in time for Airventure 2011 a yearly air show held in July.
the Maverick Sport has a unusual creation story. The mastermind of the project, a missionary named Steve Saint, created the Maverick not to indulge some kind of sci-fi whim,
but to solve practical transportation problems in the developing world. From CNN: What we're doing here at
'The Maverick flying car is just one piece of the puzzle for I-Tec. We've been working on this particular project for six years,
and sees the Maverick's potential uses as extremely diverse, from security to recreation to search and rescue.
Guan Haisen (pictured top), an appraiser who works at Beijing Antique City, imports the Ocean Optics LIBS system from the U s,
So, for example, it would be possible to distinguish corn-fed cattle from Vermont from their cousins from Texas or Idaho.
livestock which produce medications or biological substances such as spider-silk; and an optimal source of biofuel.
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