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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Cull"”.
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The Cull
<p>The Cull concerns newlyweds who move to rural Tennessee, where the husband has accepted a position as the resident physician for a small town called Sawyer. The long-time physician for the town has retired under duress and mysterious circumstances. The novel is preceded by a critical preface.</p>
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Effect of electrical stimulation and genotype on meat quality traits of Nellore and crossbreed cull cows
The Brazilian beef cattle supply chain has undergone technological modernization in its production systems, resulting in better productivity, meat quality and competitiveness. Electrical stimulation (ES) has been used as an innovation in the meat industry to improve meat tenderness and colour of …
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Identifying, quantifying, and fortifying the risk of the us cull sow marketing channel, through the use of analytics
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Effectiveness of on-farm screening tests for detection of antibiotic residues and control of mastitis through antibiotic therapy based on somatic cell counts
… the Delvotest-P, and the Penzyme test. Urine of cull cows was collected and tested with the Live Animal Swap Test (LAST). Results showed 21% to 24% of milk samples contained antibiotic residues past the recommended withholding period. In a comparison of the two on-farm tests to the officially …
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Intervals
… me. With these new insights in mind, I begin to cull the images, seeking to draft a sense of place, to part out from complexity a body of work that I hope will allow viewers to contemplate a place through the language of its own images.
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Field-drying logging residues for use as an industrial fuel
… that these residues (tree tops, branches, and cull trees) had become dry enough for fuel use after as little as one or two months of field-drying in a suitable location. In other situations, drying rates were too slow to consider the method a viable alternative. The main factors affecting the …
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The Potato
… low yield of today is due to planting small and cull tubers. I also found that there was a direct relationship of the physiological structure to the docking quality and flavor. Thanks are due to Dr. A. N. Hume, for many kindly helps in the way of corrections and suggestions. Acknowledgement is …
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Narratives of Transition: United States Service Members' Stories of Reintegration after a Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan Post 9/11
… method, specifically narrative analysis to cull out overarching themes from individual service member narratives. There were seven emerging narratives where the individual service member narratives intersected. The first two narratives answered the first research question to explain what …
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Contribution au classement des fruits par analyse d'images numériques. Application au tri en ligne des pommes Golden delicious et Jonagold.
… fruit grading into four classes (Extra, A, B and cull) according to European standards is obtained by using a cluster analysis on the segmented regions. The results obtained are favourable and make it possible to envisage the transfer of developed algorithms onto a commercial sorting machine.
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Gissing and unhealth: an analysis of medicine, death, and eugenics in the work of George Gissing
… if Gissing’s protagonists are part of a moral cull because of their unhealth. In concluding his novels Gissing maintains a middle-class status quo as his unhealthy protagonists are removed. His protagonists resist doctoring as it is a form of power and can prolong lives that Gissing believes …
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A Hybrid Modeling Approach to Assess the Efficacy of Control Measures on Paratuberculosis on U.S. Dairy Farms
… combination of control measures such as test and cull, and intensive pen cleaning may lead to a disease-free environment in the dairy farms.
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The milk supply response of Virginia dairy farmers
… to own-price changes, negatively to feed and cull-cow prices, and positively to technical change using time as a proxy variable. Estimated own-price elasticities for total and Grade A milk supplies were 1.19 and 0.94, respectively, and for Grade B milk supply was 2.11. Responses to own-price …
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A comparison of soil management systems for urban agriculture
… yield was separated by quality (marketable vs. cull) and weighed. Data is collected for soil nutrients and organic matter, soil moisture, weed emergence, soil water infiltration rate and bulk density.
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Major problems associated with the West Virginia forest sector as perceived by West Virginia Division of Forestry Service foresters
… hardwoods and leaves the undesirable species and cull trees in the stand" ranked fourth and received a score of 3.51. Of the 48 statements identified, 28 were rated as moderate problems, 15 were rated as slight problems and one was rated as not a problem.;West Virginia Service Foresters consider …
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Use of Cone Penetration Testing in the Interpretation of Ground Shaking From Paleoliquefaction Evidence
… cases is refined to add recent data and to cull older data based on a set of criteria that allow the effect of measured fines content on liquefaction resistance to be quantified. This refined database allows for the development of liquefaction resistance relationships based on the magnitude …
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Identifying a non-invasive measure of bone status in dairy cattle
… (sample pairs) were excised from 107 Holstein cull cows following slaughter. Parity, age, and days in milk (DIM) of the donor animal were obtained for 43 pairs of samples. Samples were grouped by parity (1, 2, 3, and >4) and stage of lactation (Stage 1 = < 90 DIM, Stage 2 = > 90 and < 150 DIM, …
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Integrated harvesting systems to incorporate the recovery of logging residues with the harvesting of conventional forest products
… Where logging residues consisted primarily of cull trees, full tree chippers were found to be an effective means for comminution. Residues consisting of tops and branches are more problematic due to their small piece size, lack of uniform linear orientation, and low bulk density. Compaction …
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Ovide Brunet, the Atelier Photographique de Livernois & Cie., and Sites et végétaux du Canada: The Art and Science of Early Canadian Botanical Photography
Published in 1866, Sites et végétaux du Canada was an early photographic experiment in botanical illustration. It was the result of a collaboration between Abbé Ovide Brunet (1826-1876), a botany professor at the Université Laval, and the photography studio of Livernois & Cie., noted Québec City …
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Bipartite Assertion: A New Account of Assertion, Defined in Terms of Responsibility and Explicit Presentation
Assertion is a speech act that stands at the intersection of the philosophy of language and social epistemology. It is a phenomenon that bears on such wide-ranging topics as testimony, truth, meaning, knowledge and trust. It is thus no surprise that analytic philosophers have devoted innumerable …
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