Ebola in West Texas: A survey of West Texas hospital preparedness and a look into the social implications of Ebola infection

Ebola is a rare yet deadly virus that has recently come to the United States1 and has ties to West Texas. While it is not highly contagious because of its means of transmission,1 if an outbreak were to occur it has the potential to run rampant in community health care settings. Society is poorly educated about this disease, causing widespread fear that translates into major social and possible economic implications. While there are biocontainment facilities around the United States, their capacity is limited2 and it is predicted smaller towns do not have the equipment to support an Ebola epidemic. The aim of this thesis is to examine the preparedness of West Texas hospitals to handle cases of Ebola, and to explore the social implications that come along with this disease, including the discrimination against people from West Africa and stigmatization of those with or recovering from the disease

I.— On some new forms of Arachnida

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Zoology of Australia

The fauna of Australia is, taking the animal kingdom as a whole, extremely rich and varied, it is also more distinctively local in its general character than that of any other large area of the earth's surface. But, though the strictly Australian character exists throughout, the Fauna varies considerably in different parts of the country, the variations being evidently caused in some instances by differences in soil and climate, and in others by contiguity to other zoological regions

<i>Rehabilitation doxa</i> and practitioner judgment. An analysis of symbolic violence on health care provision in the Scottish prison system

This paper presents an analysis of the symbolic conditions which govern health care provision in the Scottish prison system. The paper considers the wider context of Scottish prisons, where health care provision follows a similar structure both in juvenile and adult prisons. Our intention is to provoke a debate about the doxa (Bourdieu, 1977), which underlies decision making in respect of health care in prison, in a political environment where pragmatism, allied to the ‘pathologisation’ of social policies, health and criminal justice has been a hegemonic force.<br/

Advertisement for Dr Macleay, medical graduate, settled in Bothwell and his wife who will open a boarding school, 10th August 1843

Dr Macleay, a regular Graduate in Medicine, respectfully requests this liberty to mention, that he has settled at Bothwell, and will be happy to give his advice, and assistance in relieving the complaints of the afflicted, in every case of disease, and in Midwifery, in which he has much successful practice. His fees will be found very moderate, and he has a constant supply of medicines for sale. Mrs Macleay, educated at the first boarding school in Dublin, will open one in a few days, for young ladies, where she will bestow the most unremitting attention to their morals, as well as in teaching them every branch of useful and ornamental education, on the most reasonable terms. 10th August 184

Letter of thanks, dated 1 June 1884, for the beef sent to Kenneth Macleay by John Clark of Cluny

Letter addressed to John Clark Esq., Cluny. Dear Sir, Permit me to offer my most sincere thanks for the kind present of excellent beef you were so good as to send us. That you and your Lady may long enjoy every comfort and happiness in my wife and my (…) earnest prayer. I am most respectfully, Dear John, your very (…) K Macleay, Bothwell 1 June 184

Proximity sensors provide an accurate alternative for measuring maternal pedigree of lambs in Australian sheep flocks under commercial conditions

Context: Proximity sensors were used recently to determine the maternal pedigree of lambs on a small plot with high accuracy. If this accuracy is maintained under commercial grazing conditions, this method could be a useful alternative to improving genetic gain in sheep, including reproduction traits. Aims: To investigate using proximity sensors to determine the maternal pedigree of lambs and to define the level of interactions required to determine maternal pedigree confidently irrespective of differences in ewe age, lamb age, birth type, paddock size, flock size or stocking rate under commercial grazing conditions. Methods: We compared maternal pedigree determined using the proximity sensors to DNA profiling (n = 10 flocks) and lambing rounds (n = 16 flocks). Ewes (n = 7315) and lambs (n = 8058) were fitted with proximity sensors under normal grazing conditions for each property for 1–3 days. Flocks varied in ewe age (adults, hoggets and ewe lambs), lamb age (up to 100 days old, except for 1 flock), birth type (singles, multiples), paddock size (0.25–320 ha), flock size (37–420 lambs) and stocking rate (2–100 dry sheep equivalents/ha, except for 1 flock). Key results: An interaction ratio of >2 was required for a confident ewe–lamb match (ewe with the most interactions compared with the ewe with the second-most interactions for each lamb). Using this criterion, the average success of proximity sensors at matching a lamb to a ewe was 95% and the sensors were 97% accurate when compared with the pedigree results from lambing rounds or DNA. For lambs matched successfully, over 90% of this success was achieved in the first 7 h and over 99% in the first 20 h. While the success rate of matching a lamb to a ewe was not influenced significantly by ewe age, birth type, paddock size, flock size or stocking rate, the time to achieve sensor success was significantly quicker for singles than for twins and sensor accuracy was significantly higher for smaller paddocks with higher stocking rates. Conclusions: Our results showed that proximity sensors can establish maternal pedigree effectively and accurately across a range of conditions experienced on commercial properties. Implications: Private industry can now develop more cost-effective sensor technologies with greater confidence that will enhance recording of maternal pedigree and, hence, the rate of genetic gain across the sheep industry

Growth pattern to the end of the mating period influences the reproductive performance of Merino ewe lambs mated at 7 to 8 months of age

The reproductive performance of Merino ewe lambs is highly variable and generally poor in comparison to older ewes. In this study, we determined the impacts of growth pattern to the end of the mating period and sire genetics on the reproductive performance of Merino ewe lambs. Five hundred ewe lambs with full pedigree records were managed under commercial conditions from weaning and weighed 43.5 kg at the start of the mating period with an average age of 224 days. The ewe lambs were offered a moderate or high feed allowance to achieve target growth rates of 100 or 200 g/day during a 46-day mating period. They were then recombined and scanned for pregnancy status 60 days after the mating period. At the individual animal level, a 5 kg greater live weight at the start of the mating period increased reproductive rate (foetuses per 100 ewes joined) by about 20% (P < 0.001). Regardless of their live weight at the start of the mating period, gaining an extra 100 g/day of live weight during the mating period further increased their reproductive rate by about 20% (P < 0.001). Ewe lambs from sires with higher Australian Sheep Breeding Values for fat measured post-weaning achieved a higher fertility (P < 0.05) and reproductive rate (P < 0.01) regardless of feed allowance treatment. The effects of sire fatness was significant even when the sire breeding values for live weight measured post-weaning were included in the model. The effects of managing growth pattern and sire genetics were additive, so improving the reproductive performance of Merino ewe lambs mated at 7 to 8 months of age requires improving their feed allowance and rate of live weight gain until the end of the mating period and using sires with higher breeding values for fatness

Body composition and cartilage biomarkers are affected by diet in growing large breed dogs

The purpose of this study was to describe cartilage and bone biochemical markers and body composition in growing large breed dogs and to determine if these masurements are affected by diets of similar caloric density but differing composition