The Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC): Driving competition and collaboration in the graph data management space

Graph data management is instrumental for several use cases such as recommendation, root cause analysis, financial fraud detection, and enterprise knowledge representation. Efficiently supporting these use cases yields a number of unique requirements, including the need for a concise query language and graph-aware query optimization techniques. The goal of the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) is to design a set of standard benchmarks that capture representative categories of graph data management problems, making the performance of systems comparable and facilitating competition among vendors. LDBC also conducts research on graph schemas and graph query languages. This paper introduces the LDBC organization and its work over the last decade

Effects of bromocriptin on broodiness in turkeys

The aim of this study was to investigate the presumptive effect of Bromocriptin, which causes antiprolactinemia in mammals, on the broodiness in deeply brooding turkey hens. The effect of Bromocriptin was estimated by considering such broody symptoms as hissing nesting, cessation of laying, distance between the pelvic bones and blood prolactin values. There has been a statistically important decrease in the prolactin levels and increase in the pelvic bone distances (p < 0.05) in the treatment group. However, no difference was observed in the other criteria: Bromocriptin did not create the expected control effect on broodiness

Effects of Bromocriptin on Broodiness in Turkeys.

The aim of this study was to investigate the presumptive effect of Bromocriptin, which causes antiprolactinemia in mammals, on the broodiness in deeply brooding turkey hens. The effect of Bromocriptin was estimated by considering such broody symptoms as hissing nesting, cessation of laying, distance between the pelvic bones and blood prolactin values. There has been a statistically important decrease in the prolactin levels and increase in the pelvic bone distances (p < 0.05) in the treatment group. However, no difference was observed in the other criteria: Bromocriptin did not create the expected control effect on broodiness

A comparative study on the growth and survival characteristics of lambs produced by the transfer of in vitro produced (IVP) embryos

This study was carried out to determine the growth, survival rate and some body measurements until weaning of lambs produced by the in vitro production (IVP) method in comparison with those of lambs produced by artificial insemination. The lambs in the experimental group were produced by the transfer of IVP embryos developed to the blastocyst stage after the in vitro maturation and fertilisation of oocytes obtained from the ovaries of slaughtered ewes

Effects of different maturation periods on in vitro maturation of bovine oocytes

Primer oocytes (n=157) collected from ovaries of slaughtered cows were matured at 39 degrees C with 95-100% humidity and under a gas mixture of 5% O-2 5% CO2 and 90% N-2 for 22 (n=52), 24 (n=52) and 26 (n=53) hours. Modified Parker's Medium (MPM) supplemented with FSH and 20% ECS was used as maturation medium. At the end of these periods all oocytes were fixated in ethanol:acetic acid in the ratio of 3:1 for 2A hours and stained by %2 aceto-orcein to evaluate the maturational criteria