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Το καθεστώς των ειδικευόμενων ιατρών
Ειδικευόμενοι ιατροί: καθεστώς, δικαιώματα και υποχρεώσεις - ευθύνη (πειθαρχική, ποινική, αστική)Intern doctors: status, rights and obligations - Liability (disciplinary, penal, civil
A framework towards resilient Mediterranean eco-solutions for small-scale farming systems
The impacts of climate change on crop and livestock sectors are well-documented. Climate change
and its related events (e.g., high temperatures, extreme events, disease outbreaks) afect livestock production in
various ways (e.g., nutrition, housing, health, welfare), and tend to compromise the physical productivity and the
economic performances. Understanding animal responses to climate change may help planning strategies to cope
with the adverse climatic conditions and also to reduce polluting emissions. Through an interdisciplinary approach,
we develop a conceptual framework to assess and develop new organisational models for Mediterranean small-scale
farming systems so as to mitigate the impacts of climate change, to improve farm management and farming tech‑
nologies, and to achieve an efective adaptation to the climate changes. The conceptual framework consists of four
phases: (i) community engagement, (ii) strategies development, (iii) data collection and analysis, (iv) business model
generation and sustainability assessment. We assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the ecosolutions by mean of a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis technique.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
The association of two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in growth hormone (GH) gene with litter size and superovulation response in goat-breeds
Two active mutations (A 781 G and A 1575 G) in growth hormone (GH) gene, and their associations with litter size (LS), were investigated in both a high prolificacy (Matou, n = 182) and a low prolificacy breed (Boer, n = 352) by using the PCR-RFLP method. Superovulation experiments were designed in 57 dams, in order to evaluate the effect of different genotypes of the GH gene on superovulation response. Two genotypes (AA and AB, CC and CD) in each mutation were detected in these two goat breeds. Neither BB nor DD homozygous genotypes were observed. The genotypic frequencies of AB and CC were significantly higher than those of AA and CD. In the third parity, Matou dams with AB or CC genotypes had significantly larger litter sizes than those with AA and CD (p < 0.05). On combining the two loci, both Matou and Boer dams with ABCD genotype had the largest litter sizes when compared to the other genotypes (p < 0.05). When undergoing like superovulation treatments, a significantly higher number of corpora lutea and ova, with a lower incidence of ovarian cysts, were harvested in the AB and CC genotypes than in AA and CD. These results show that the two loci of GH gene are highly associated with abundant prolificacy and superovulation response in goat breeds
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