Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to th...
Average age is rising around the world—a demographic (人口统计) change that may pose a significant challenge to efforts to slow down climate change. Hossein Estiri at Harvard University and Emilio Zagheni of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany, have found that energy use...
Studies on age-specific and month-wise mortality pattern and sequele to an onslaught of peste des petits ruminants on reproductive behaviour of goat Between 15 May and 12 July 1997, there was a severe outbreak of pest of small ruminants virus (PSRV) at the regional goat breeding farm in Tr...
Smoothed Age-Season Adjustment Factors for Dairy Goat Lactation Milk and Fat Records Kiddings at ages greater than 60 mo were aggre- gated and assigned 67 mo, the approximate average age of the class. The unsmoothed factor for a given age-season at kidding is the ratio of the estimated pro...
Thirty-six Kiko-cross growing meat goats (body weight (BW) = 27.7 卤 2.83 kg) at approximately 7 mo of age were used in this study. Animals were randomly allocated to three pasture treatment groups (n = 12) as follows: (1) bermudagrass pasture (BG; Cynodondactylon), (2...
TAO is about deep connection, wholeness, and the various threats to it. TAO refers to the Chinese philosophy of naturalism and is an acronym drawn from CS Lewis’ highly prescient 1943 book, The Abolition Of Man, that discusses The Tao. The TAO acronym is also found in The Age of Surveil...
Farrowing in the swine world refers to the act of giving birth, and while female pigs (called sows) can be pregnant for the first time and get their first piglet at just 5 months of age, it's best to wait until the pig is at least 8 to 10 months old. ...
Tom's act was very popular and brought in a lot of money. By the time Tom was an adult, he had grown very rich. He had become a billionaire at the age of twenty five. Fortunately for Tom, Mr. Barnum added more little people to his show, and Tom became lucky in love as well. ...
The association just existed in some goat breeds for each locus. Interestingly, however, there was a strong positive correlation (r = 0.830, P = 0.003) between the G allele frequency of the A712G locus and average daily sunshine duration in ten local goat breeds, suggesting that RFRP gene ...
If we're long-term investors, it's a good idea to understand how much the stock market moves a day on average. When stock market volatility spikes, we'll feel more calm and reduce our chances of doing something irrational. Let's look at the average daily percent move of the stock mark...