An embattled agency: model research     

Critchlow DT 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1985,230(4729):1030-1031

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Periodicity in tree rings from the corn belt     

Meko DM  Stockton CW  Blasing TJ 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1985,229(4711):381-384

Previous tree-ring studies indicated that the total area affected by drought in the western United States has rhythmically expanded and contracted over the past 300 years, with a period near the 18.6-year lunar nodal and 22-year double-sunspot cycles. Recently collected tree-ring data from the U.S. Corn Belt for the years 1680 to 1980 were examined for evidence of either of these cycles on a regional scale. Spectral analysis indicated no periodicity in the eastern part of the Corn Belt, but a significant 18.33-year period in the western part. The period length changed from 17.60 to 20.95 years between the first 150 years and the last 151. High-resolution frequency analysis showed that the structure of the 18.33-year spectral peak was complex, with contributions from several frequencies near both the lunar nodal and double-sunspot periods. A t-test of difference of means in reconstructed annual precipitation weakly corroborated a previous finding of an association between drought area and the phase of the double-sunspot cycle. Both the high-resolution frequency analysis and the t-test results indicate that the periodic component of drought near 20 years is too weak and irregular to be of use in drought forecasting for the Corn Belt.  相似文献   

A new dimension in gas chromatography     

Maugh TH 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1985,227(4694):1570-1571

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A New Trend: Training on "the Tube"     

Maugh TH 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1985,227(4694):1569-1570

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Kinetics at the Critical Point of Fluids: Changes in solvent properties near the critical point may influence reaction rates, but a key experiment is shown to be wrong     

Maugh TH 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1985,227(4688):738

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Isolation of avian influenza virus (subtype H5N2) from chicken eggs during a natural outbreak     

D T Cappucci  D C Johnson  M Brugh  T M Smith  C F Jackson  J E Pearson  D A Senne 《Avian diseases》1985,29(4):1195-1200

Avian influenza virus (A/Chicken/Pennsylvania/83; H5N2) was recovered from the yolk, albumen, and shell surface of eggs obtained from naturally infected chicken flocks in Pennsylvania and Virginia. These findings represent the first reported isolation of avian influenza virus from the internal contents of eggs from naturally infected flocks. The need for adequate safeguards to prevent spread of the virus during commercial movement of table and hatching eggs, cracked and "checked" eggs, and egg flats and other materials is emphasized.  相似文献   

A nutritional myopathy enzootic in a group of yearling beef cattle          下载免费PDF全文

Smith DL  Palmer SJ  Hulland TJ  McSherry BJ  Blackwell TE 《The Canadian veterinary journal. La revue veterinaire canadienne》1985,26(12):385-386,387-390

Steers and bulls under feedlot conditions and on an apparently adequate ration developed transitory signs of diarrhea and unthriftiness. One animal became recumbent. Sick and clinically normal animals in the group had elevated serum creatine kinase and aspartate aminotransferase enzyme values and degenerative changes in muscle fibers on biopsy. Feed analysis was carried out and the animals were monitored over several weeks by means of muscle biopsy and serum enzyme analysis as well as by postmortem examination at slaughter. Subclinical myopathy was found in several animals and was thought to be related to low vitamin E content in the high moisture corn ration.  相似文献   

The modern role of meat inspection and food hygiene   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Feltmate TE 《The Canadian veterinary journal. La revue veterinaire canadienne》1985,26(1):29-32,33

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Shell strength of eggs from medium‐bodied hybrid hens housed in cages or on range in outside pens     

B. O. Hughes  P. Dun  C. C. McCorquodale 《British poultry science》1985,26(1):129-136

1. On average, over the laying year, a higher proportion of eggs were cracked from cages (4.6%) than from range (2.0%); the difference tended to increase as the flocks aged.

2. There was evidence that eggs from range had stronger shells: they required more energy to crack, shell thickness was greater and shell deformation at 70 weeks was less (though the difference was not significant).

3. The differences between systems in shell strength, although real, were small. It is probable that environmental insults make a much larger contribution than shell strength to differences in crack incidence.

4. Eggs laid by hens on range were larger (+ 6.8% at 36 weeks and + 2.9% at 70 weeks) than those laid by the same stock housed in cages.  相似文献   

Behaviour of roaster chickens towards an automatic weighing perch     

Ruth C. Newberry  J. R. Hunt  E. E. Gardiner 《British poultry science》1985,26(2):229-237

1. Automatic weighing equipment was tested on a flock of 752 roaster chickens reared on litter to 10 weeks of age.

2. Mean body weights obtained automatically were lower than those obtained manually, mainly because of birds perching on the automatic weighing perch with part of their body in contact with the floor.

3. Birds observed on the weighing perch on one day of the week were 3–5 times more likely to use the perch again on the following 2 d than expected on the basis of random perch use by flock members. These birds were also more likely to be seen in the area immediately surrounding the perch than in similar areas elsewhere in the pen.  相似文献