Behavioural Engagement of Holstein Friesian Dairy Cattle with Different Mounting Techniques for Salt Licks as Environmental Enrichment.

With increasing numbers of dairy farms adopting zero-grazing systems, there is a growing need for indoor environmental enrichment methods. Enrichment is necessary to meet industry requirements and fulfil behavioural motivations, such as oral manipulation. This study evaluated the magnitude with which Holstein Freisen cows would interact with salt lick enrichment blocks based on the mounting design.

The Chick Embryo Model as an Educational Tool to Explore the Effect of Alcohol on Cardiovascular Development.

In development the interrelationship between physiology and anatomy is challenging as learners must appreciate how physiological processes and anatomical structures change over time. In addition, the dynamic relationships between structure and function are often concealed largely due to the inaccessibility of the embryo in higher-order organisms. This makes it difficult for students to appreciate normal intricate balances or interpret physiological consequences of developmental disruptions to normal embryological development.

Exposure to second-language accent prompts recalibration of phonemic categories.

We examine how first-language (L1) Spanish listeners with varying levels of experience with English recalibrate their phonemic category boundaries following exposure to second-language (L2), American-English-accented Spanish. Specifically, we examine changes to voice onset time boundaries, which are often positively shifted when produced by American-English-accented Spanish speakers (as compared to L1 Spanish speakers). Our results demonstrate that listeners make adjustments to their phonemic category boundaries following exposure to accented words with the critical sounds in onset position (e.

Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC.

This Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in 262  μb^{-1} of ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collision data at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.36  TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that exploits the properties of clusters of hits reconstructed in the innermost silicon detector layers is introduced to study highly ionizing particles in heavy-ion data.

Structured Exercise Therapy Increases Endogenous Antioxidants to Repair Muscle Strength and Health in Porcine Ischemic Myopathy Model of Peripheral Artery Disease.

The mechanisms of structured exercise therapy (SET) in peripheral artery disease (PAD) are not clear. We have developed an SET module for our large animal model of ischemic myopathy. We hypothesized that SET would increase muscle strength and walking distance in this model.