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- Millogo, Vinsoun, et al.
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Effect of different hand-milking techniques on milk production and teat treatment in Zebu dairy cattle
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In: Tropical Animal Health and Production. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0049-4747 .- 1573-7438. ; 44, s. 1017-1025
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of the study was to test three different hand-milking techniques ("pull down", "thumb in", and "full hand grip") and their effects on milk production and teat treatment. This is important since milk production in many tropical areas still rely on hand-milking. The study was carried out at a peri-urban farm in the Bobo-Dioulasso area in Burkina Faso. Twelve indigenous Zebu cows in early lactation were used in the study. The sequences of the treatments (hand-milking techniques) and the milkers were balanced for carry-over effects between successive periods and days, respectively. The sequences were constructed by using special Latin squares. Yield and composition of saleable milk was not affected by milking technique but there were differences between the milkers in milk yield. There was also a significant interaction for saleable milk yield between milker and milking technique. Hemoglobin in milk was measured as an indicator of teat damage. The hemoglobin content was numerically higher in post-milking strip milk samples than in saleable milk. It was concluded that the amount of milk removed depends mainly on the milker and how well the milking technique works for the individual milker. No effect of milking technique was observed on teat treatment.
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- Dunn, Michael, et al.
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Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test
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In: Diachronica. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0176-4225 .- 1569-9714. ; 29:1, s. 1-27
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- In the absence of comparative method reconstruction, high rate of lexical cognate candidates is often used as evidence for relationships between languages. This paper uses the Oswalt Monte Carlo Shift test (a variant of Oswalt 1970) to explore the statistical basis of the claim that the four Papuan languages of the Solomon Islands have greater than chance levels of lexical similarity. The results of this test initially appear to show that the lexical similarities between the Central Solomons Papuan languages are statistically significant, but the effect disappears when known Oceanic loanwords are removed. The Oswalt Monte Carlo test is a useful technique to test a claim of greater than chance similarity between any two word lists — with the proviso that undetected loanwords strongly increase the chance of spurious identification.
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- Daoud, Fatima, et al.
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Role of smooth muscle YAP and TAZ in protection against phenotypic modulation, inflammation, and aneurysm development
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In: Biochemical Pharmacology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-2952. ; 206
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A ruptured arterial aneurysm, especially in the aorta, represents one of the most acute and mortal conditions encountered in clinical medicine. Population-based screening in elderly men, treatment of risk factors, such as hypertension, and endovascular or open repair of rupture-prone lesions, represent cornerstones in management. Surgical repair has a sizeable effect on life-expectancy, but medical therapy that retards aneurysm growth still represents a considerable and unmet clinical need. In the current review we survey recent findings implicating the mechano-responsive transcriptional co-activators YAP and TAZ in protection from aneurysm development. Arteries from mouse mutants that lack YAP and TAZ in vascular smooth muscle respond inadequately to mechanical stimulation, and they develop aneurysms characterized by elastin fragmentation, proteoglycan infiltration, and severe inflammation at breathtaking speed. This seems to be due, at least in part, to unscheduled activation of STING (stimulator of interferon genes), an arm of innate immunity that responds to double-stranded DNA in the cytoplasm. YAP and TAZ protect from STING activation by securing nuclear integrity. These novel insights suggest unanticipated medical therapies for sporadic and genetic aneurysms alike, involving inhibition of kinases in the Hippo pathway using small molecules, or inhibition of STING signaling itself. Translation of these novel findings into clinical therapies now represents an important priority.
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- Dori, Dafna, 1967-
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The Brothers Al-Kuwaity and the Iraqi Song 1930–1950
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The brothers Saleh al-Kuwaity صالح الكويتي (1908–1986) and Daud al-Kuwaity داود الكويتي (1910–1976) were active as performers, composers, teachers and music entrepreneurs in Baghdad between 1930 and 1950, and they continued to work after immigrating to Israel in 1951. This thesis explores the brothers’ work in Iraq, and how it was intertwined with processes of modernisation and westernisation, at a time when Iraq was forming itself as a nation-state. I examine the role of Jews in these processes, focussing on the role of Jewish composers, instrumentalists and vocalists in Iraqi music.At the heart of this study are the songs that Saleh al-Kuwaity composed while in Iraq. They are analysed here in terms of their novelty and their relationship with different genres. I discuss the social and political context in which these songs were created, performed and remembered. The song analyses rely on recordings from the 1930s and 1940s. Other than these recordings, there are hardly any contemporary documents. Due to this scarcity of primary sources this thesis relies on indirect evidence such as interviews I conducted with the brothers’ family and fellow musicians, as well as interviews (conducted by others) with the brothers Al-Kuwaity, made several decades after they had emigrated from Iraq.Most of Saleh al-Kuwaity’s songs are in the Muslim Baghdadi dialect. I describe them as urban popular songs, in terms of their lyrics, their rhythms, their forms, the melodic modes in which they are composed, and the ways in which they were disseminated. These songs were innovative on the one hand, but rooted in Iraqi tradition on the other. They appear as songs “from the Iraqi heritage” in books from the 1980s and in electronic media, and I discuss the circumstances in which they acquired this status.Finally, I offer some preliminary observations regarding the work of the brothers Al-Kuwaity’s work in Israel after 1951. Among other things, I examine the circumstances in which they lived and worked, as compared with those they had enjoyed in Iraq before their migration. This study concludes with a brief look at the brothers’ legacy, and at the revival seen nowadays of Saleh al-Kuwaity’s songs.
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