Current Situation and Future Prospects of the US Goat Industry

Abstract The current demand for goat meat in the US outstrips domestic supply. There is great potential for industry growth in the meat and dairy sectors. Whereas fiber prices have improved, loss of animals and market resources, labor costs for shearing, and lack of animal genetic resources prevent growth in the short term. As producers age, there is opportunity for new producers to enter the marketplace. Significant challenges exist, like access to local markets and abattoirs, dewormer resistant parasites, and feed costs. Establishing goat feedlots can increase meat supply and industry commercialization. Technologies used for cattle will be expanded for use in goats with interconnected sensors collecting health and production data. The field of genetic improvement will change from current production testing to identifying superior animals at an early age using DNA analysis. A quality assurance program is needed to address animal welfare issues and promote the consumption of domestic products to consumers. Keywords: Meat Goat Industry, Dairy Goat Industry, Goat Industry, Goat Industry Statu

Prospectus, October 21, 1971

GOOD ELECTION MARRED BY LIGHT TURN-OUT; Lieutenant Governor Simon Speaks To College Democrats of Illinois; Arc Triangle; Seed For Thought; Bull Sheet: Key Notes, S.W.A.M.P. Conducts Membership Drive, I.O.C. Special, Library Hours For Veterans Day Weekend, Gymnastics, Ski Club, Phi Beta Lambda, Draft Deferments For Freshman; Student Government In Action; News Briefshttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1971/1003/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, February 25, 1972

FOUNDATION BECOMES A REALITY; P. C. Student Achievement Winners; Ford Foundation Scholarship Awarded; New Course Offered; Nelson To Speak At U. of K.; The Editor\u27s View: Yes!, S.I.U. Where The Action Is; What\u27s Going On: Registration Time Schedule Spring Quarter 1971-72, Drug Week Planned, Disadvantaged Student Workshop; Counselor\u27s Corner: Mount Senario College, S.I.U., Evening Counseling, Pre-reg.; Parkland Notices: Veterans, Illinois Grant, Ski Club, Pre-Reg., Yearbook, Law Enforcement, Student Gov\u27t, LRC; Editorial Cartoons: Women\u27s Lib vs Men\u27s Lib, Politics and \u27The War\u27, Ecologically Speaking, Easy Dialing?, Don\u27t Get Sick!, Freedom, Love thy Neighbor, The Real State Of The Union?; Kevin On Environment; Black Genesis; Wiese Films at The Dream Museum; They Were Here; MEM-Brain; Portrait Painting Class; Orpheus Reborn: fall, Doorman, Time, Damned!; Movie Reviews: Crime is Bloody; Reflections; Hart Beat; Wrestlers Eye National; Cobra Statistics; Intercollegiate Women\u27s Basketball; IM Basketball Standings; Cobra Basketball Recordhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1972/1010/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, March 9, 1989

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Prospectus, June 12, 1972

GOVERNOR CITES PARKLAND STUDENT FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE; Harris Moeller Selected As New Dean of Students; Charles Gerron Is Student Senate President For 1972-73 School Year; Scholarships Awarded To Parkland Students; Parkland College Personnel Receive Recognition; Teacher Aides Hold Banquet; New Registration Procedures Will Begin In Fall \u2772 Quarter; Parkland Foundation Holds First Charter Meeting; Board of Trustees Have Two Very Eventful Meetings: Results of the Meeting of April 18, 1972, Results of the Meeting of May 16, 1972; Parkland Summer Session Begins June 19; New Non-Credit Courses Slated For Summer; Graebner to Speak at Parkland Commencement; Parkland Notices: Schedule changes, Vocational Information, Summer Jobs, Summer Graduate?, For Sale-Bargain!, Summer Registration, Lost; News From William J. Scott, Attorney General - State of Illinois; Parkland Student Government Passes Viet Nam Resolution; Journalism Club; A Day In The Park Has Large Turn-Out; The Editor\u27s View: Europe This Year - A-1; Student Senate Resolution; Seed For Thought; Unique Summer-Winter Program Developed In Maine; Youth Caucus \u2772 Organized In Illinois; Portfolios to Replace Grades; Coeds Bring Fraternity Ban, Other Campus News in Brief; New Academic Calendars; Entertainment & Fine Arts, Or ( We Got Culture Too! ); Movie Review: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich; Ear Wax; Orpheus Reborn: Been around the block twice..., greece looks good..., ast i..., A babe be born..., Sweet sweets..., Away To The Mountain; WLS - Wavelength; Book Review: The Assassins (Elia Kazan); Summer Session \u2772; Summer Session; Course Offerings; Angel & Clayborn in Nationals; Hart Beathttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1972/1007/thumbnail.jp

Assessment and detection of pain in noncommunicative severely brain-injured patients.

peer reviewedDetecting pain in severely brain-injured patients recovering from coma represents a real challenge. Patients with disorders of consciousness are unable to consistently or reliably communicate their feelings and potential perception of pain. However, recent studies suggest that patients in a minimally conscious state can experience pain to some extent. Pain monitoring in these patients is hence of medical and ethical importance. In this article, we will focus on the possible use of behavioral scales for the assessment and detection of pain in noncommunicative patients

The Herschel-Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI): instrument and pre-launch testing

This paper describes the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI), to be launched onboard of ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, by 2008. It includes the first results from the instrument level tests. The instrument is designed to be electronically tuneable over a wide and continuous frequency range in the Far Infrared, with velocity resolutions better than 0.1 km/s with a high sensitivity. This will enable detailed investigations of a wide variety of astronomical sources, ranging from solar system objects, star formation regions to nuclei of galaxies. The instrument comprises 5 frequency bands covering 480-1150 GHz with SIS mixers and a sixth dual frequency band, for the 1410-1910 GHz range, with Hot Electron Bolometer Mixers (HEB). The Local Oscillator (LO) subsystem consists of a dedicated Ka-band synthesizer followed by 7 times 2 chains of frequency multipliers, 2 chains for each frequency band. A pair of Auto-Correlators and a pair of Acousto-Optic spectrometers process the two IF signals from the dual-polarization front-ends to provide instantaneous frequency coverage of 4 GHz, with a set of resolutions (140 kHz to 1 MHz), better than < 0.1 km/s. After a successful qualification program, the flight instrument was delivered and entered the testing phase at satellite level. We will also report on the pre-flight test and calibration results together with the expected in-flight performance

A genome-wide association study identifies risk alleles in plasminogen and P4HA2 associated with giant cell arteritis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of vasculitis in individuals older than 50 years in Western countries. To shed light onto the genetic background influencing susceptibility for GCA, we performed a genome-wide association screening in a well-powered study cohort. After imputation, 1,844,133 genetic variants were analysed in 2,134 cases and 9,125 unaffected controls from ten independent populations of European ancestry. Our data confirmed HLA class II as the strongest associated region (independent signals: rs9268905, P = 1.94E-54, per-allele OR = 1.79; and rs9275592, P = 1.14E-40, OR = 2.08). Additionally, PLG and P4HA2 were identified as GCA risk genes at the genome-wide level of significance (rs4252134, P = 1.23E-10, OR = 1.28; and rs128738, P = 4.60E-09, OR = 1.32, respectively). Interestingly, we observed that the association peaks overlapped with different regulatory elements related to cell types and tissues involved in the pathophysiology of GCA. PLG and P4HA2 are involved in vascular remodelling and angiogenesis, suggesting a high relevance of these processes for the pathogenic mechanisms underlying this type of vasculitis

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio