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Economic Decisions in Producing Irrigated Grain Sorghum on the Northern High Plains of Texas
American farmers have a wealth of research data
available to them. Much of the data is concerned
with technical problems of increasing yields, improving
quality and reducing costs. In nearly all instances
the improved practices can be applied by a farmer
only at a cost. The farmer must decide if the improvement
in output, quality or efficiency is enough
to justify the extra cost, or more likely, must decide
to what extent these practices should be applied. The
extent to which any single agricultural input should
be used cannot be determined without considering
the use and effect of other inputs and the costs of
all inputs and the price of the product.
This publication is concerned with the amounts
of nitrogen and irrigation water to use in the production
of grain sorghum on the Northern High Plains
of Texas. There is a strong interacting effect between
these two inputs; each is dependent on the presence
of the other for much of the yield response from its
use. Few studies have attempted to deal with both
of these inputs as simultaneous variables
The effect of concurrent infections with Pasteurella multocida and Ascaridia galli on free range chickens
Pasteurella multocida and Ascaridia galli are observed with high prevalences in free range chickens in Denmark, but the impact is unknown. A study was carried out to examine the interaction between A. galli and P. multocida in chickens and the impact on production. Five groups, each with 20 18-week-old Lohmann Brown chickens were infected. Group I was orally infected with 1000 +/- 50 embryonated A. galli eggs. Group 2 received 10(4) cfu p. multocida intratracheally. Group 3 was infected with A. galli and subsequently with P. multocida. Group 4 was infected with P. multocida followed by A. galli. Group 5 was the control. The study ran for I I weeks where clinical manifestations, weight gain and egg production were recorded. Excretion of P. multocida was determined on individual basis and blood smears were made for differential counts. At the end of the study pathological lesions and the number of adult worms, larvae and eggs in the faeces were recorded. The birds were more severely affected when infected with both pathogens compared to single infections with A. galli or P. multocida, respectively. A lower weight gain and egg production was observed with dual infections. A. galli infection followed by a secondary P. multocida infection resulted in more birds with pathological lesions and continued P. multocida excretion. In conclusion a negative interaction between A. galli and R multocida was observed and it is postulated that free range chickens are at higher risk of being subjected to outbreaks of fowl cholera when they are infected with A. galli
An Oral Selective Alpha-1A Adrenergic Receptor Agonist Prevents Doxorubicin Cardiotoxicity
Alpha-1 adrenergic receptors (α1-ARs) play adaptive and protective roles in the heart. Dabuzalgron is an oral selective α1A-AR agonist that was well tolerated in multiple clinical trials of treatment for urinary incontinence, but has never been used to treat heart disease in humans or animal models. In this study, the authors administered dabuzalgron to mice treated with doxorubicin (DOX), a widely used chemotherapeutic agent with dose-limiting cardiotoxicity that can lead to heart failure (HF). Dabuzalgron protected against DOX-induced cardiotoxicity, likely by preserving mitochondrial function. These results suggest that activating cardiac α1A-ARs with dabuzalgron, a well-tolerated oral agent, might represent a novel approach to treating HF
Application of a surplus production model to assess environmental impacts on exploited populations of Daphnia pulex in the laboratory
The surplus production model is a simple and easily applied model for the assessment of environmental impacts on exploited fish populations. However, its application requires several assumptions about the relationships between the degree of impact and the population response that are difficult to test using field data. To examine these assumptions, the model is applied to exploited laboratory populations of Daphnia pulex exposed to chronic radiation stress. The model describes the observed relationship between equilibrium population size and the level of radiation exposure. It also describes the relationship between yield and population size.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/23914/1/0000158.pd
Finite driving rates in interface models of Barkhausen noise
We consider a single-interface model for the description of Barkhausen noise
in soft ferromagnetic materials. Previously, the model had been used only in
the adiabatic regime of infinitely slow field ramping. We introduce finite
driving rates and analyze the scaling of event sizes and durations for
different regimes of the driving rate. Coexistence of intermittency, with
non-trivial scaling laws, and finite-velocity interface motion is observed for
high enough driving rates. Power spectra show a decay , with
for finite driving rates, revealing the influence of the internal
structure of avalanches.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX, final version to be published in Phys.
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Analytical approximation of the stress-energy tensor of a quantized scalar field in static spherically symmetric spacetimes
Analytical approximations for and of a
quantized scalar field in static spherically symmetric spacetimes are obtained.
The field is assumed to be both massive and massless, with an arbitrary
coupling to the scalar curvature, and in a zero temperature vacuum state.
The expressions for and are divided into
low- and high-frequency parts. The contributions of the high-frequency modes to
these quantities are calculated for an arbitrary quantum state. As an example,
the low-frequency contributions to and are
calculated in asymptotically flat spacetimes in a quantum state corresponding
to the Minkowski vacuum (Boulware quantum state). The limits of the
applicability of these approximations are discussed.Comment: revtex4, 17 pages; v2: three references adde
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