Evaluation of the protein quality of fish meals by means of the NPU method

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Utilization of protein from opaque -2 Maize by chicken and rat

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Risk profiles and one-year outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in India: Insights from the GARFIELD-AF Registry.

BACKGROUND: The Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation (GARFIELD-AF) is an ongoing prospective noninterventional registry, which is providing important information on the baseline characteristics, treatment patterns, and 1-year outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). This report describes data from Indian patients recruited in this registry. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 52,014 patients with newly diagnosed AF were enrolled globally; of these, 1388 patients were recruited from 26 sites within India (2012-2016). In India, the mean age was 65.8 years at diagnosis of NVAF. Hypertension was the most prevalent risk factor for AF, present in 68.5% of patients from India and in 76.3% of patients globally (P < 0.001). Diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) were prevalent in 36.2% and 28.1% of patients as compared with global prevalence of 22.2% and 21.6%, respectively (P < 0.001 for both). Antiplatelet therapy was the most common antithrombotic treatment in India. With increasing stroke risk, however, patients were more likely to receive oral anticoagulant therapy [mainly vitamin K antagonist (VKA)], but average international normalized ratio (INR) was lower among Indian patients [median INR value 1.6 (interquartile range {IQR}: 1.3-2.3) versus 2.3 (IQR 1.8-2.8) (P < 0.001)]. Compared with other countries, patients from India had markedly higher rates of all-cause mortality [7.68 per 100 person-years (95% confidence interval 6.32-9.35) vs 4.34 (4.16-4.53), P < 0.0001], while rates of stroke/systemic embolism and major bleeding were lower after 1 year of follow-up. CONCLUSION: Compared to previously published registries from India, the GARFIELD-AF registry describes clinical profiles and outcomes in Indian patients with AF of a different etiology. The registry data show that compared to the rest of the world, Indian AF patients are younger in age and have more diabetes and CAD. Patients with a higher stroke risk are more likely to receive anticoagulation therapy with VKA but are underdosed compared with the global average in the GARFIELD-AF. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION-URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01090362

Farmers perceptions of precision agriculture and the role of agricultural extension: a case study of crop farming in the Schweizer-Reneke Region, South Africa

The profit of crop production in South Africa is under pressure due to unreliable rainfall associated with climate change and severe competition in a highly subsidized global food market. Such constraints lead to food insecurity and could be dealt with by adopting inter alia precision agriculture. This study aimed to gain insights into crop farmers’ perceptions of precision agriculture in the Schweizer-Reneke region. For this purpose, both qualitative and quantitative methods were applied by requesting 36 farmers to complete questionnaires; 18 who practice precision agriculture and 18 who do not. The results showed that economic considerations are the most important determinant whether precision agriculture is adopted or not by the crop farmers. Surprisingly, neither the age nor the education of farmers played a major role in the practicing or not of precision agriculture. Farmers who practice precision agriculture said that the most beneficial outcome is the costs saved through variable fertilizer application.Keywords: Economic benefit, Fertilizer application, Food security, Management strategy, Sustainable agricultur

Groeitoets met kuikens vir die lisiengehalte van vis-, grondboonoliekoek- en sonneblomoliekoekmeel

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Endogenous energy, a cause of biased true metabolisable energy values

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Evaluering van verskillende kommersiële prosesseringsmetodes op die voedingswaarde van pluimvee-afvalmeel

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A biosystematic study of Pelargonium section Ligularia: 2. Reappraisal of section Chorisma

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Reagent Degradation in the Synergistic Solvent Extraction System LIX®63/Versatic™10/Nonyl-4PC

Direct solvent extraction of nickel and cobalt from nitrate-based leach liquors has become of interest due to the successful piloting of nitric acid processes for treating nickel laterite ores. The current study investigated the stability of both hydroxyoxime and nonyl-4PC (nonyl-4-pyridine carboxylate) in LIX 63/Versatic 10/nonyl-4PC under conditions relevant to the recovery of nickel and cobalt from a nitrate-based leach liquor with stripping into sulfuric acid. Nonyl-4PC increased both the rate of hydroxyoxime degradation under the pH 1.5 extract conditions required for a potential nickel–cobalt separation process and the rate of cobalt poisoning of LIX 63. Under strip conditions and the pH 4 extract conditions required for co-extraction of nickel and cobalt, nonyl-4PC did not otherwise affect the rate of hydroxyoxime loss. Additionally, the presence of nitrate anions did not increase the loss of either hydroxyoxime or nonyl-4PC. The combination LIX 63/Versatic 10/nonyl-4PC therefore appears prospective for the co-extraction of nickel and cobalt at pH 4 from nitrate-based leach liquors

‘Material girls’: lingering in the presence of the material sublime

By exploring selected, recent works produced by amongst others Zanele Muholi, Nandipha Mntambo, Tracey Rose and Leora Farber it is the aim of this essay to trace a possible resurgence of the real through the depiction of the corporeal in their work. The artists have been selected because their work provide a fecundity of ‘corporeal realness’ or corpo(real)ity. The exploration is further layered by inquiring how the resurgence of the real corresponds to the aesthetic category of the material sublime. The material sublime dates from the nineteenth century as has been regarded as a sub-theory within the broader classical sublime. It is argued that the material sublime together with contemporary feminist theorists e.g. Bonnie Mann, Karen Barad, Elizabeth Wilson and Vicky Kirby, provide a useful lens for re-thinking the engagement between matter and discourse. It is in particular through the resilient flesh represented in Muholi’s, Mntambo’s and Farber’s work, that they and their subjects are turned into what can be playfully termed ‘Material Girls’.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrc20gv201