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| Claus,Marlise Pompeo; Lunardi,Michele; Alfieri,Amauri Alcindo; Otonel,Rodrigo Alejandro Arellano; Ferracin,Lara Munique; Fungaro,Maria Helena Pelegrinelli; Alfieri,Alice Fernandes. |
| The common occurrence of multiple papillomavirus infections has been shown in several studies involving the human host. However, investigations with the aim of identifying mixed papillomavirus infections in cattle have been conducted only recently. In the current work we describe a co-infection with two different bovine papillomavirus (BPV) types that was identified in a bovine teat papilloma. The skin wart was obtained from a cow belonging to a Brazilian beef herd. A PCR assay was carried out with the FAP primer pair, which amplifies a partial segment of the L1 gene (approximately 478 bp), and the amplicon was submitted to direct sequencing. Because nucleotide sequences with satisfactory quality scores were not obtained, the amplicon was cloned and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cattle; Cutaneous papillomatosis; BPV; Co-infection. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700012 |
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| Marques,Marcus Vinícius Romero; Resende,José Sérgio de; Donatti,Rogério Venâncio; Vilela,Daniel Ambrózio da Rocha; Ecco,Roselene; Martins,Nelson Rodrigo da Silva. |
| A bumblefoot outbreak with different prognosis according to host species was studied in captive aquatic avian species. Six wood ducks (Aix sponsa), three scarlet-ibis (Eudocimus ruber), two black-swans (Cygnus atratus), five white-faced ducks (Dendrocygna viduata) and two roseate spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) were kept in a common pen with abrasive pavement pond margin, predisposing to podal skin wear. Incoordination and mortality occurred in the two roseate spoonbils and one black swan. Coagulase-positive penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from the synovial fluid and from the liver. All birds sharing the pen presented active or cicatricial foot lesions, indicating a possible challenge to the environmental Staphylococci. However, except... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Aquatic birds; Bumblefoot; Pododermatitis; Wood duck (Aix sponsa); Scarlet-ibis (Eudocimus ruber); Black-swan (Cygnus atratus); White-faced duck (Dendrocygna viduata); Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja). |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782009000600044 |
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| Medellín-Azuara,Josué; Howitt,Richard E.; Waller-Barrera,Cynthia; Mendoza-Espinosa,Leopoldo G.; Lund,Jay R.; Taylor,Joseph E.. |
| Irrigated agriculture is the largest water user in many regions, and agricultural water use efficiency and consumption has been studied by several authors. This paper provides a framework and application of economic valuation of water for agriculture in three regions in northern Baja California, Mexico, namely Guadalupe, Maneadero and Mexicali Valleys. Positive mathematical programming (PMP), a deductive valuation technique, was the framework used for this estimation using water delivery data reported by the National Water Commission in Mexicali, production costs and cultivated area, production factors use from the Agriculture Ministry (SAGARPA); and other data from previous studies. Analysis of the results shows that marginal economic water value in... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Mathematical programming; Baja California; Economic water valuation. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-31952009000200001 |
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| Paull, John. |
| This year marks a centenary of the synthetic fertilizer industry. German chemists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, in 1909 demonstrated their industrial process for the manufacture of ammonia. The achievement won them accolades including Nobel Prizes. The output of their Haber-Bosch process can be used for either peace or war, agriculture or munitions, and the rapid adoption by Germany of this industrial process is credited with prolonging WW1. Most of the synthetic nitrogenous fertilizer of the past century, and right up to the present, has been manufactured using the Haber-Bosch process. The use of synthetic fertilizers has led to significant negative environmental outcomes. Rudolf Steiner was an early voice against chemical agriculture. Steiner's... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental aspects; History of organics; Switzerland; Farming Systems; Farm nutrient management; Germany; Europe. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/15797/1/15797.pdf |
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| Mercade, Lluc; Gil, Jose Maria; Kallas, Zein; Serra, Jordi. |
| Agricultural producers face many risks in their economic activity due to weather conditions, plant or animal diseases, price volatility, policy changes and so on. One of the management tools to deal with some of these risks is the crop insurance system. In Catalonia (North-East of Spain) farmers’ participation in crop insurance for vegetables is low. Only 5 percent of the vegetables area is insured, when in Spain, as a whole, this percentage is around 20 percent. Different reasons have been suggested to explain this low participation ratio such as low risk perception, risk diversification, insurance cost or crop damage assessment rules, among others. However, no systematic research has been undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences for crop insurance in... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop insurance; Vegetables; Choice experiments; Catalonia.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58090 |
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| Mazur, Kasia; Bennett, Jeffrey W.. |
| The survey was designed to estimate environmental values suitable for integration into MOSAIC, a bio-economic model for catchment and farm level planning. Local residents, as well as distant rural and distant urban communities, were surveyed in three NSW catchments (Lachlan, Namoi and Hawkesbury-Nepean) using choice modelling (CM). The survey aimed to find out respondents’ attitudes about, and preferences for, potential natural resource management (NRM) improvements. In total, 3,997 responses were collected from seven different locations in NSW. Fourteen split samples were established to allow for testing of incentive compatibility in CM, the impact of respondent location on values held, and scale effects. This research report describes the development... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Nonmarket valuation; Choice modelling; Survey; Questionnaire design; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94813 |
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| Akter, Sonia; Bennett, Jeffrey W.. |
| The sources of preference uncertainty in contingent valuation (CV) studies have rarely been investigated from a theoretical standpoint. This paper proposes a holistic theoretical framework of preference uncertainty that combines microeconomic theory with the theories of cognitive psychology. Empirical testing of the proposed theoretical model was carried out in Australia in the context of a national ‘Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)’ to be introduced in 2010. Two separate ordered probit models for a certainty score associated with CV ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ responses were estimated. The results of the estimated regression models provide evidence supporting the hypotheses drawn from the theoretical model. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Contingent valuation; Preference uncertainty; Cognitive uncertainty; Climate change; Australia. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47938 |
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| New experimental data is available in the literature regarding the octanol-water distribution behavior of representative straight chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylate (PFCA) and sulfonate (PFSA) congeners. The current study provides the first investigation into the predictive ability of various software programs for estimating the corresponding octanol-water partitioning (log P) and distribution (log D) constants of PFCAs and PFSAs. Wide predictive variation was found within and between the various methods. Several programs were able to accurately estimate the log P/D fragmental contributions of a -CF~2~- group for PFCAs, as well as the associated Gibbs free energies for partitioning into octanol from water due to the hydrophobic character of the... |
| Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Chemistry; Earth & Environment. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3282/version/1 |
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| Sierra Rayne; Kaya Forest. |
| New experimental data is available in the literature regarding the octanol-water distribution behavior of representative straight chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylate (PFCA) and sulfonate (PFSA) congeners. The current study provides the first investigation into the predictive ability of various software programs for estimating the corresponding octanol-water partitioning (log P) and distribution (log D) constants of PFCAs and PFSAs. Wide predictive variation was found within and between the various methods. Several programs were able to accurately estimate the log P/D fragmental contributions of a -CF~2~- group for PFCAs, as well as the associated Gibbs free energies for partitioning into octanol from water due to the hydrophobic character of the... |
| Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Chemistry; Earth & Environment. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3282/version/2 |
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| Mo, Lijia. |
| This study examined whether the efficiency measures were invariant to choice of parametric and nonparametric methods for a sample of 183 wheat farms. The efficiency measures from the deterministic parametric method were smaller than those from the deterministic method. There was a trade-off between scale efficiency and economic efficiency. In the deterministic nonparametric method, the economic efficiency, scale efficiency and overall efficiency results were invariant to the number of inputs or the dimensionality. Only allocative and pure technical efficiency measures depended on the dimensionality. This work illustrated the importance of holding curvature for the cost function in stochastic frontier results. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Efficiency analysis; Deterministic nonparametric method; Parametric stochastic frontier; Production Economics; Q11. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56427 |
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| Chattopadhyay,Rabi Ranjan; Bhattacharyya,Subir Kumar; Medda,Chiranjib; Chanda,Sunanda; Bag,Anwesa. |
| A comparative in vitro antibacterial potential of extracts (aqueous and ethanol) of five important medicinal plants (Aegle marmelos, Azadirachta indica, Terminalia chebula, Mangifera indica and Ocimum sanctum) were investigated using microbial growth inhibition assays against the common human pathogenic bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli) of clinical origin. All the plant materials showed varying degrees of strain specific inhibitory action and ethanol extract of the plant materials showed higher antibacterial activity than their aqueous counterparts. Besides, T. chebula and A. marmelos had the strongest antibacterial activity out of which, T. chebula possessed a wider spectrum and a superior antibacterial... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Pathogenic bacteria; Medicinal plants; Antibacterial potential; Comparative study. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000500009 |
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| Abayomi,Taiwo A; Ofusori,David A; Ayoka,Oladele A; Odukoya,Samson A; Omotoso,Emmanuel O; Amegor,Frank O; Ajayi,Sunday A; Ojo,Gideon B; Oluwayinka,Oladele P. |
| This study assessed the micro anatomical differences in the tongue of rat, bat and pangolin with a view to establishing the functional anatomical differences of these mammalian tongues on their dietary pattern. Ten rats, ten bats and ten pangolins were used for this study. The animals were sacrificed and the tongue excised and processed for light microscopical study adopting the following stains: Haematoxylin Eosin, Verhoeff Gieson and Masson trichrome. The results showed non papillation of the keratinized stratified epithelium of pangolin tongue unlike the papillation seen in the tongue of the rat and bat. While the filiform papillation seen in the rat was bristle like, the filiform papillae in the bat were crown-like. There was also an unusual dense... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Rat; Bat; Pangolin; Tongue; Micro-anatomy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022009000400026 |
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| Ndungu, K; Gitonga, P; Mulinge, M; Kangethe, J; Kibugu, J. K; Munga, L. K; Maina, N; Kagira, J. M; Ngae, G. N; Murilla, G. |
| The efficacy of Triladyl®, a commercial cryomedium for bull semen, in the cryopreservation of both human and animal infective trypanosomes as compared to EDTA Saline Glucose (ESG) 10% glycerol was evaluated in the current study. Cryopreserved Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, T. evansi, T. b. brucei and T. congolense were first propagated in irradiated mice. At the peak of parasitemia, parasites were harvested by cardiac puncture and 106,105,104103,102 and 10 dilutions made using whole blood bled from clean mice. These dilutions were divided into two equal portions of 0.5 ml each and cryopreserved in both ESG 10% glycerol and neat Triladly®. The procedure was also repeated with T. congolense and T. vivax species of trypanosomes directly isolated from... |
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Palavras-chave: Trypanosoma; Cryopreservation. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/2500 |
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