The farmer's and stock breeder's guide to breeding, rearing and dealing in horses, cattle, sheep, and swine : and giving plain directions, from experience as to everything relating to the profitable management of the barn and the farm yard including the proper veterinary treatment of domestic animals /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fur breeder's guide and ranch book; where to buy, where to sell, as well as other useful information.

Mode of access: Internet.

Principles of commercial poultry breeding; a semi-technical account of recent developments in genetics applied to breeding for the improvement of economic traits in poultry. For the breeder, the hatcheryman, and the commercial poultryman.

Mode of access: Internet.

Swine in America; a text-book for the breeder, feeder & student ...

Plates printed on both sides.

The American swine breeder, a practical treatise on the selection, rearing and fattening of swine.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms [n.d] (American culture series, Reel 340.12)

The liquid metal fast breeder reactor programm, past, present, and future : report to the Congress /

"RED-75-352."

TVA and the Clinch River breeder reactor project : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regional and Community Development of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, April 20, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references.

Lysine requirements of pre-lay broiler breeder pullets: Determination by indicator amino acid oxidation

The indicator amino acid oxidation (IAAO) method allows the determination of amino acid requirements under conditions of low growth rate as found in pre-laying broiler breeder pullets. Cobb 500 breeder pullets (20 wk old; 2290 +/- 280 g, n = 4) were adapted (6 d) to a pelleted, purified control diet containing all nutrients at greater than or equal to 110% of NRC recommendations. After recovery from surgery for implantation of a jugular catheter, each bird was fed, in random order, test diets containing one of nine levels of lysine (0.48, 0.96, 1.92, 2.88, 3.84, 4.80, 7.68, 9.60 and 14.40 g/kg of diet). Indicator oxidation was determined during 4-h primed (74 kBq/kg body), constant infusions (44 kBq (.) h(-1) (.) kg body(-1)) of L-[1-C-14]phenylalanine. Using the breakpoint of a one-slope broken-line model, the lysine requirement was determined to be 4.88 +/- 0.96 g/kg of diet or 366 +/- 72 mg (.) hen(-1) (.) d(-1) with an upper 95% Cl of 6.40 g/kg of diet or 480 mg (.) hen(-1) (.) d(-1). IAAO allows determination of individual bird amino acid requirements for specific ages and types of birds over short periods of time and enables more accurate broiler breeder pullet diet formulation.

A novel multilocus sequence typing scheme for the opportunistic pathogen Propionibacterium acnes and characterisation of type 1 cell surface-associated antigens

We have developed a novel multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme and database (http://pubmlst.org/pacnes/) for Propionibacterium acnes based on the analysis of seven core housekeeping genes. The scheme, which was validated against previously described antibody, single locus and random amplification of polymorphic DNA typing methods, displayed excellent resolution and differentiated 123 isolates into 37 sequence types (STs). An overall clonal population structure was detected with six eBURST groups representing the major clades I, II and III, along with two singletons. Two highly successful and global clonal lineages, ST6 (type IA) and ST10 (type IB1), representing 64?% of this current MLST isolate collection were identified. The ST6 clone and closely related single locus variants, which comprise a large clonal complex CC6, dominated isolates from patients with acne, and were also significantly associated with ophthalmic infections. Our data therefore support an association between acne and P. acnes strains from the type IA cluster and highlight the role of a widely disseminated clonal genotype in this condition. Characterization of type I cell surface-associated antigens that are not detected in ST10 or strains of type II and III identified two dermatan-sulphate-binding proteins with putative phase/antigenic variation signatures. We propose that the expression of these proteins by type IA organisms contributes to their role in the pathophysiology of acne and helps explain the recurrent nature of the disease. The MLST scheme and database described in this study should provide a valuable platform for future epidemiological and evolutionary studies of P. acnes.

Opportunistic Contact Graph Routing

L'ambiente di questa tesi è quello del Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTN), un'architettura di rete di telecomunicazioni avente come obiettivo le comunicazioni tra nodi di reti dette “challenged”, le quali devono affrontare problemi come tempi di propagazione elevati, alto tasso di errore e periodi di perdita delle connessioni. Il Bunde layer, un nuovo livello inserito tra trasporto e applicazione nell’architettura ISO/OSI, ed il protocollo ad esso associato, il Bundle Protocol (BP), sono stati progettati per rendere possibili le comunicazioni in queste reti. A volte fra la ricezione e l’invio può trascorrere un lungo periodo di tempo, a causa della indisponibilità del collegamento successivo; in questo periodo il bundle resta memorizzato in un database locale. Esistono varie implementazioni dell'architettura DTN come DTN2, implementazione di riferimento, e ION (Interplanetary Overlay Network), sviluppata da NASA JPL, per utilizzo in applicazioni spaziali; in esse i contatti tra i nodi sono deterministici, a differenza delle reti terrestri nelle quali i contatti sono generalmente opportunistici (non noti a priori). Per questo motivo all’interno di ION è presente un algoritmo di routing, detto CGR (Contact Graph Routing), progettato per operare in ambienti con connettività deterministica. È in fase di ricerca un algoritmo che opera in ambienti non deterministici, OCGR (Opportunistic Contact Graph Routing), che estende CGR. L’obiettivo di questa tesi è quello di fornire una descrizione dettagliata del funzionamento di OCGR, partendo necessariamente da CGR sul quale è basato, eseguire dei test preliminari, richiesti da NASA JPL, ed analizzarne i risultati per verificare la possibilità di utilizzo e miglioramento dell’algoritmo. Sarà inoltre descritto l’ambiente DTN e i principali algoritmi di routing per ambienti opportunistici. Nella parte conclusiva sarà presentato il simulatore DTN “The ONE” e l’integrazione di CGR e OCGR al suo interno.