Urban Regeneration in Lyon Connectivity and Social Exclusion

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Active imaginative listening—a neuromusical critique

The parallel study of music in science and creative practice can be traced back to the ancients; and paralleling the emergence of music neuroscience, creative musical practitioners have employed neurobiological phenomena extensively in music composition and performance. Several examples from the author’s work in this area, which began in the 1960s, are cited and briefly described. From this perspective, the author also explores questions pertinent to current agendas evident in music neuroscience and speculates on potentially potent future directions

Oat Grain Rations for Growing and Finishing Cattle

Mechanical processing to alter physical and possibly chemical properties is one attempt to improve the value of a feedstuff. Processing methods such as grinding and rolling reduce particle size. These methods may result in an increase in rate of passage through the digestive tract but with more total efficiency in utilization of nutrients. This has been shown for roughages where grinding of hay resulted in improved daily gain and feed efficiency over those obtained with unprocessed hay. Reduction in particle size of concentrates has not shown the response in daily gain as that for roughages. Rather, the main advantage for processing of concentrates has been improved feed efficiency. Excessively fine grinding of concentrates may induce more frequent cases of rumenitis and other gastrointestinal upsets which are important. factors to consider when processing· such feedstuffs. A wide variety of concentrates is used in beef cattle finishing rations. Many have been subject ed to several methods of processing to investigate the possibility of improving animal performance. Some of the more conventional grains for finishing cattle are corn, sorghum and barley. Traditionally, oats have been used in limited amounts for starting cattle on feed, wintering breeding flocks and herds, creep feeds and growing type rations. However, oats are a major crop in South Dakota and availability may make the grain an appropriate alternative as a major feed grain under favorable economic conditions. As a cattle feed, less supplemental protein is necessary when feeding oats due to the higher protein content. But, the energy value of oats is substantially lower than for corn, primarily due to the high percentage of hulls. Lightweight oats are composed of a higher proportion of hulls, therefore more fiber, which is why the variability in oat test weight can play a major role in feeding value. A ration of oat grain is approximately equivalent to one composed of 60 parts whole corn grain and 40 parts alfalfa hay in crude fiber and total digestible nutrients. In view of this, oats must be considered as a substitute not only for concentrate but also for roughage. Oats are the fourth largest grain crop globally and South Dakota ranks first in oat production in the United States. These facts, coupled with poorer performance from animals fed all-oat rations, indicated a need to try to improve the feeding value of oats and to more accurately describe the place of oats in growing and finishing rations for cattle. Therefore, these experiments were conducted to study whole, rolled and ground and pelleted oats as the sole grain without added roughage for feedlot steers. The experiments included feeding trials along with studies on digestibility, nitrogen balance and rumen fermentation

Arsenic in Asia: a regional overview

Besides the well known cases of Taiwan, West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh, there are eight other countries in Asia where arsenic in groundwater has been found in excess of permissible values1: Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam. Given the chronic health effects that result from long-term ingestion of inorganic arsenic in water, the discovery of arsenic in groundwater invariably leads to questions about further testing, patient identification, mitigation responses etc. In addition, occasional questions are raised about the need for arsenic screening in other countries (e.g. in Africa and Latin-America). To provide some context for the specialist sessions on arsenic at the WEDC Conference, and to introduce the subject to a varied international audience, this paper provides a broad overview of the arsenic situation in Asia, national responses, and areas for future attention

Infant-mother attachment of internationally adopted children in the Netherlands

Wetensch. publ. refereedFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappe

Development of a rural water supply, sanitation and hygiene strategy in the context of decentralisation in Cambodia

There are number of serious challenges facing the rural water supply, sanitation and hygiene sector in Cambodia, including uncertainties over decentralisation reforms. For the development of a RWSSH Strategy to address these challenges, they were characterised as a “wicked problem” and a process of “mess mapping” was used to understand the challenges from the perspectives of stakeholders from national to commune level. These proved to be a useful conceptual approach and practical process respectively

Oat Grain Rations for Growing and Finishing Cattle

The poor animal performance obtain with rations containing a high amount of oats indicated a need to more accurately describe the place of oats in growing and finishing rations for cattle. Therefore, this experiment was conducted to study whole, rolled or ground and pelleted oats as the only grain for feedlot steers. Feedlot performance and digestibility were determined and compared for each form of oats

Implanting Site for Zeranol Compared to Synovex-S for Finishing Steers

Numerous experiments during the past several years have shown that ear implants of diethylstilbestrol (DES and DES also as a feed additive), Synovex or zeranol (Ralgro) improve weight gain and feed efficiency of growing and finishing steers and heifers. The improvement has been reported from an early age throughout growing and finishing by reimplanting of the products at appropriate intervals. Improvement has been reported with numerous types of rations, but the degree of response may vary with the nutritional adequacy. DES has been more widely used because of the greater amount of information on the product and lower cost in comparison to Synovex and zeranol. Since the banning of DES, there has been more interest in the response that might be expected from Synovex and zeranol. Implanting technique has also received considerable emphasis as to the effects on degree and uniformity of response from implants. We have completed two experiments with finishing steers where responses to Synovex-S and zeranol were compared to nonimplanted controls. Two implanting sites were used for zeranol in each experiment