Eggs of spruce grouse dry at a faster rate than those of ruffed grouse

2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (11) ◽  
pp. 1688-1692 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Bendell ◽  
L.I. Bendell–Young
Keyword(s):  
Water Loss ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Distribution Density ◽  
Nest Site ◽  
Ruffed Grouse ◽  
Pore Density ◽  
Bonasa Umbellus ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Behavioural Aspects ◽  
Different Parts

We measured the rate of water loss and pore density of eggs of spruce grouse ( Canachites canadensis canace (L., 1766)) and ruffed grouse ( Bonasa umbellus togata (L., 1766)) from different parts of their range in Ontario. Eggs were dried in enclosed glass jars over Drierite® and in paper trays in open air at room temperature and humidity. Eggs were weighed to the nearest 0.01 g every 2–4 days and the change in mass was measured as water loss. Pores of shells were counted (pores/cm2) in the blunt, middle, and pointed sections of the egg. Eggs of spruce grouse lost water at a faster rate in Drierite® and in open air and had a greater density of pores than eggs of ruffed grouse. Rates of water loss were constant and varied inversely with ambient humidity, with the difference between species greatest in open air. Eggs late in incubation of ruffed grouse dried at a faster rate than those early in incubation in Drierite®. The adaptations of eggs of each grouse to the moisture of the nest may help explain their distribution, density, and habitat and nest-site selections, as well as behavioural aspects of the nesting hen. Both, especially the spruce grouse, may be good indictors of climate change.

Renal responses to chronic cold exposure

2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongjie Sun ◽  
Zhonge Zhang ◽  
Robert Cade
Keyword(s):  
Food Intake ◽  
Cold Exposure ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Urine Output ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Urine Osmolality ◽  
Urine Flow ◽  
Receptor Mrna ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Renal Responses

The aim of this study was to assess our hypothesis that the release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), the renal concentrating response to ADH, or both is decreased by prolonged cold exposure. Six groups (n = 6/group) of rats were used. Three groups were exposed to cold (5°C), while the remaining three groups were kept at room temperature (25°C). It was found that urine osmolality decreased significantly and serum osmolality increased significantly during cold exposure. The ratio of water/food intake was not affected by prolonged cold exposure. However, prolonged cold exposure increased the ratio of urine output/food intake in the cold-exposed rats, indicating that more urine flow is required by the cold-exposed rats to excrete the osmotic substance at a given food intake. The difference between water intake and urine output decreased significantly in the cold-exposed rats. Thus, prolonged cold exposure increases water loss from excretion. Renal concentrating responses to 24-h dehydration and Pitressin were decreased significantly in the cold-exposed rats. Plasma ADH levels remained unchanged, but renal ADH receptor (V2 receptor) mRNA was decreased significantly in the cold-exposed rats. The results strongly support the conclusion that cold exposure increases excretive water loss, and this may be due to suppression of renal V2 receptors rather than inhibition of ADH release.Key words: renal concentrating response, cold-induced dehydration, serum and urine osmolality, ADH, renal V2 receptor mRNA.

COMPERATIVE STUDY OF THE REGULATIES OF FAT DEPOSIT IN THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF TRUNK OF YOUNG PIGS OF THE LARGE WHITE AND MYRGOROD BREEDS

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
I. V. Khatko ◽  
A. O. Onyshchenko ◽  
V. O. Vovk ◽  
T. M. Konks
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Fat Deposition ◽  
Thoracic Vertebra ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Large White ◽  
Young Pigs ◽  
Fat Deposits ◽  
Fat Thickness ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Different Parts

The modern state of social-economic processes development demands increasing the level of food safety of the state, especially providing population by the high quality foods of domestic production, specifically by pork. One of criteria for estimating pigs' meatness is determining the fat thickness in different points of a trunk. The informative content of measuring in different parts of a trunk is different and it needs detailed study. The fat thickness is the most common as trait for pigs' meatness in the practice of pig breeding because it has high correlation with meat yield in carcasses. The aim of our research was the comparative study of fat deposition regularities in different parts of a trunk of Large White and Mirgorod pigs in different age periods. For conducting researches 24 pigs of both breeds with average live weight about 40 kg and at age not more 4 months were selected. The fat thickness was measured at live animals using ultrasonic device Draminski in such points: on withers, the level of the 6-7th thoracic vertebra, the level of the 1st-2nd loins vertebra and sacrum. Measuring the fat thickness was carried out at the age of 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 months. During researches it was carried out the statistical processing of obtained material. Reliability of obtained indexes of productivity was determined. Regularities of formatting fat thickness and fat deposition rate depending on the age were studied. For the results of researches it has been studied and compared economically valuable traits of the most spread domestic pigs of Large White and Mirgorod breeds. By comparative study of growth and development of young pigs of experimental and control groups it has been found that animals of Large White breed differed by lesser fat deposits in all points of measuring. Thus, at 6-months’ age they had lesser thickness of fat in all parts of a trunk. More expressed tendency was at withers and the level of the 6-7th thoracic vertebra, at that in the first case the difference between groups was reliable (p < 0.01). The fat deposition rate in young pigs of both breeds was not the same in different points of measuring along a trunk. Above mentioned tendencies were intensified with the age. Purebred animals of intrabreed type LW-1 at 7-months’ age had reliable less thickness of fat in comparison with the control group: on withers (p < 0.01), at the level of the 6-7th thoracic vertebra, the level of the 1st-2nd loins vertebra (p < 0.05) and on sacrum (p < 0.01). In future, according to economic and scientific expediency, the animals of Mirgorod breed were excluded from the experiment. Concerning Large White breed, the researches were finished when animals were at 8 months’ age. The process of fat deposition in Large White pigs was less intensive in comparison to Mirgorod breed. The highest relative rate of fat thickness increase in both breeds was observed at the level of the 1st-2nd loins vertebra. By statistical processing of the obtained materials it has been found that the difference of average arithmetical indexes (as absolute and relative) between the experimental and control groups during growth and development had distinct tendency to increasing in all points of measuring. The reliability of the difference between the averages in groups with the age of animals increased. A higher reliability of data was obtained at measuring of the front parts of a trunk of pigs at the level of the 6th-7th thoracic vertebra and on withers. The carried out researches at all points of measuring give the reason to confirm that the fat deposits of Large White pigs are less comparing to Mirgorod breed. Conclusions. 1. Carcasses of animals of intrabreed type ULW-1 are comparatively more technologically suitable and economically beneficial for agricultural proceeding industry. 2. Animals of intrabreed type ULW-1 at 7-months’ age had reliable less thickness of fat in comparison with the control group: on withers, at the level of the 6-7th thoracic vertebra, the level of the 1st-2nd loins vertebra and on sacrum. 3. The process of fat deposition in Large White pigs was less intensive in comparison to Mirgorod breed.

Trypanosoma ontarioensis n.sp. and T. paddae from Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos in Ontario, Canada, with notes on the biology of T. ontarioensis n.sp.

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (9) ◽  
pp. 2107-2115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick T. K. Woo ◽  
Cheryl M. Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Agar Medium ◽  
Gallus Domesticus ◽  
Blood Agar ◽  
Melopsittacus Undulatus ◽  
Ruffed Grouse ◽  
Bonasa Umbellus ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Corvus Brachyrhynchos ◽  
Domestic Chicks ◽  
Serinus Canarius

Two morphologically distinct trypanosomes (Trypanosoma ontarioensis n.sp. and Trypanosoma paddae) were found by the haematocrit centrifuge technique in the blood of 53% (64 of 121) of Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos wintering in southern Ontario. Trypanosoma ontarioensis n.sp. is a small trypanosome with subterminal kinetoplast. It is monomorphic and not host specific. It was readily cultured in diphasic blood-agar medium. Two-week cultures were infective and contained dividing sphaeromastigotes, epimastigotes, and trypomastigotes. Blood trypomastigotes were detected in low numbers in the blood of inoculated birds (Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos, Bonasa umbellus, Gallus domesticus, Melopsittacus undulatus, and Serinus canarius) at 28 and 48 days postinfection. The crows, ruffed grouse, and domestic chicks were laboratory raised while the budgerigars and canaries were from pet stores. One canary that was further examined at 180, 360, 540, 730, and 910 days postinfection still had detectable numbers of trypanosomes in its blood.

Effect of titanium alloys elasticity modulus on warping of stamped blanks during cooling

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-227
Author(s):  
M.O. Smirnov ◽  
A.M. Zolotov ◽  
A.M. Tyukhtyaev
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Titanium Alloys ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Elasticity Modulus ◽  
Preliminary Deformation ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Temperature Dependences ◽  
Cumulative Deformation ◽  
The Difference

Wide spread in the values of the elasticity modulus of the titanium VT6 alloy and its analogs Ti—6Al—4V, Ti—6Al—4V ELI at room temperature and at elevated temperatures is revealed аs result of the literature sources analysis. The data are ambiguous, the available temperature dependences of the elasticity modulus have very different values starting from the temperature T l 500 °C. Mathematical modeling of the warping process is carried out on the example of figurine-shaped stamped blank of turbine blade using various dependences of the elasticity modulus on temperature. Cases of warping during cooling of stamped blank after cooling-down in stamp with and without cumulative deformation are considered. The difference in the course of thermal deformations during the cooling of the workpiece is obtained using different temperature dependences of the elasticity modulus. The presence of preliminary deformation increases the warping of the workpieces.

Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus)

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald H. Rusch ◽  
Stephen Destefano ◽  
Michael C. Reynolds ◽  
David Lauten
Keyword(s):  
Ruffed Grouse ◽  
Bonasa Umbellus

ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT AND PATHOGENICITY OF EIMERIA ANGUSTA IN THE RUFFED GROUSE, BONASA UMBELLUS

1984 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Ian K. Barker ◽  
Allan Garbutt ◽  
Alex L. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Ruffed Grouse ◽  
Bonasa Umbellus

Avian Haemoproteidae. 12. The haemoproteids of the grouse family Tetraonidae

1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1465-1472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen M. White ◽  
Gordon F. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Ruffed Grouse ◽  
Bonasa Umbellus

The haemoproteids of the grouse family Tetraonidae are reviewed. Haemoproteus stableri n.sp. is described from the ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus, from Montana. Haemoproteus rotundus Oliger, 1956 and H. canachites Fallis and Bennett, 1960, are declared synonyms of Haemoproteus mansoni Castellani and Chalmers, 1910.

scholarly journals Storage and Condition of Biomass Influence to Biosorption of Lead (II) and Zinc(II) by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Biomass

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Jasmidi Jasmidi ◽  
Eko Sugiharto ◽  
Mudjiran Mudjiran
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Atomic Absorption ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Final Concentration ◽  
Biomass Storage ◽  
Lead And Zinc ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Biomass Influence ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Zinc Storage

The influence of length and condition of Biomass Storage on the biosorption of lead and zinc that present together in a solution by Saccharomyces cerevisiae biomass were studied. In this experiment, variables of length and condition of biomass storage were examined. Concentration of lead and zinc were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometric (AAS) using air-acetilene as atomizing flame. Loading of lead and zinc on the biomass were determined as the difference between the initial and the final concentration of lead and zinc in the solution. Biosorption of lead and zinc were influenced by condition and storage of the biomass. Storage of biomass in the room temperature for one week cause an increasing uptake. Storage for longer period result in decrease of lead and zinc uptake. Storage of biomass in a freezer up to 2 weeks increased the uptake of lead, but did not influence the uptake of zinc. Storage for longer period decreased the uptake of both of lead and zinc. For all condition the uptake of lead higher than the uptake of zinc by Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

scholarly journals The principal magnetic susceptibilities of neodymium sulphate octahydrate at low temperatures

1939 ◽  
Vol 170 (941) ◽  
pp. 266-271 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Energy Levels ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crystalline Field ◽  
Cubic Symmetry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

The magnetic and other related properties of neodymium sulphate have been the subject of numerous investigations in recent years, but there is still a remarkable conflict of evidence on all the essential points. The two available determinations of the susceptibility of the powdered salt at low temperatures, those of Gorter and de Haas (1931) from 290 to 14° K and of Selwood (1933) from 343 to 83° K both fit the expression X ( T + 45) = constant over the range of temperature common to both, but the constants are not the same and the susceptibilities at room temperature differ by 11%. The fact that the two sets of results can be converted the one into the other by multiplying throughout by a constant factor suggested that the difference in the observed susceptibilities was due to some error of calibration. It could, however, also be due to the different purity of the samples examined though the explanation of the occurrence of the constant factor is then by no means obvious. From their analysis of the absorption spectrum of crystals of neodymium sulphate octahydrate Spedding and others (1937) conclude that the crystalline field around the Nd+++ ion is predominantly cubic in character since they find three energy levels at 0, 77 and 260 cm. -1 .* Calculations of the susceptibility from these levels reproduce Selwood’s value at room temperature but give no agreement with the observations-at other temperatures. On the other hand, Penney and Schlapp (1932) have shown that Gorter and de Haas’s results fit well on the curve calculated for a crystalline field of cubic symmetry and such a strength that the resultant three levels lie at 0, 238 and 834 cm. -1 , an overall spacing almost three times as great as Spedding’s.

scholarly journals Kenaf Fibre Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: Effect of Cyclic Immersion on Tensile Properties

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Haniffah ◽  
S. M. Sapuan ◽  
K. Abdan ◽  
M. Khalid ◽  
M. Hasan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Tensile Properties ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Tensile Modulus ◽  
Polypropylene Composites ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Kenaf Fibre ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Number Of Cycles

This research studied the degradation of tensile properties of kenaf fibre reinforced polypropylene composites due to cyclic immersion into two different solutions, as well as comparison of the developed composites’ tensile properties under continuous and cyclic immersion. Composites with 40% and 60% fibre loadings were immersed in tap water and bleach for 4 cycles. Each cycle consisted of 3 days of immersion and 4 days of conditioning in room temperature (28°C and 55% humidity). The tensile strength and modulus of composites were affected by fibre composition, type of liquid of immersion, and number of cycles. The number of immersion cycles and conditioning caused degradation to tensile strength and modulus of kenaf fibre reinforced polypropylene composites. Continuous and cyclic immersion in bleach caused tensile strength of the composites to differ significantly whereas, for tensile modulus, the difference was insignificant in any immersion and fibre loadings. However, continuous immersion in the bleach reduced the tensile strength of composites more compared to cyclic immersion. These preliminary results suggest further evaluation of the suitability of kenaf fibre reinforced polypropylene composites for potential bathroom application where the composites will be exposed to water/liquid in cyclic manner due to discontinuous usage of bathroom.

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