Zoos should aim to provide all of their animals with a good quality of life (QoL) throughout all life stages.In parallel with the evolution of QoL assessment questionnaires and tools in human and domestic animal settings, in recent times, some individual zoos and zoo industry associations have incorporated such instruments into their animal managem
Many factors may interfere in the quality of millet seeds; however, it is not known whether the location at different positions of the panicle may affect this quality.This Coal Scuttle study aimed to evaluate the quality of millet seeds produced at different positions of the panicle using uniformity, 1,000-seed mass, water content, X-ray, germinati
Using the world-systems perspective, this essay discusses the trajectories of several types of globalization over the last 100 years and the recent surge in public cognizance of global processes.It is found that different types of global-ization have different temporal characteristics.Some are long-term upward trends, POLYGONUM while others display
Daniel C McFarland,1 Fay Hlubocky2 1Department of Medicine, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, Lenox Hill Hospital, New Spices York, NY, USA; 2Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and the Cancer Research Center, Chicago, IL, USACorrespondence: Daniel C McFarlandDe
This paper extends the threshold stochastic volatility (THSV) model specification proposed in So et al.(2002) and Chen et al.(2008) by incorporating thick-tails in the mean equation innovation using the scale mixture of normal distributions (SMN).A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to estimate all the parameters Dressage Girt