Milking labor is a large cost on any dairy farm. Milking routine and parlor design affect the efficiency of milking and the number of cows milked per day for years after construction is completed. This publication discusses ways to
improve milking efficiency, drawing largely on time-motion studies initiated by Dennis...
Heceta Bank is a large reef on the edge of the central Oregon continental shelf that supports a wide variety of commercial fisheries. Using the research submersible Delta, we studied fish abundances on Heceta Bank and the relationship between species composition of fish assemblages and bottom types. Cluster analysis indicated...
The Ventura basin is an elongate sedimentary trough extending from the San Gabriel fault west into the Santa
Barbara Channel. West of Ventura it contains over 4 km of severely deformed Pliocene and Pleistocene clastic
strata. The north-dipping Red Mountain reverse fault system, which forms the northern boundary of the...
Shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing is a widely applicable tool for characterizing the functions that are encoded by microbial communities. Several bioinformatic tools can be used to functionally annotate metagenomes, allowing researchers to draw inferences about the functional potential of the community and to identify putative functional biomarkers. However, little is...
The purpose of this work was to develop a dynamic partial order model of II electrolyte solutions which avoids inconsistencies present in the Debye-1-Iuckel and 1n related theories. It is shown that our results are consistent with activity coefficient data in aqueous electrolyte solutions. The main features of our work...
The accumulation of excessive fat is a serious concern in both
the livestock production and human health fields. Obesity is a
condition of excessive energy storage in the form of body fat
( triacylglycerols ). The cellular basis for obesity is not yet
understood but numerous factors have been suggested....