Written messages improve edible food waste behaviors in a university dining facility.

Background: Sustainability and going green have become popular trends among foodservice organizations. Despite this interest, foodservice operations still produce large amounts of edible food waste and contribute significantly to waste management problems.

Objective: The purpose of this operational study was to determine how to introduce food waste behavior change into a dining facility using a simple message-type intervention that requires little sustained administrative support and can provide optimum effect.

Predictors of arterial oxygen tension in anesthetized horses: 1,610 cases (1992-1994).

Objective: To identify factors associated with various arterial partial pressures of oxygen (Pao2) in anesthetized horses.

Design: Retrospective study.

Animals: 1,450 horses anesthetized a total of 1,610 times with isoflurane or halothane.

Effects of inhalation anesthetic agents on response of horses to three hours of hypoxemia.

Objective: To study the effects of inhalation anesthetic agents on the response of horses to 3 hours of hypoxemia.

Design: Controlled crossover study.

Animals: Five healthy adult horses.

Clinical applications of quantitative acid-base chemistry.

Stewart used physicochemical principles of aqueous solutions to develop an understanding of variables that control hydrogen ion concentration (H+) in body fluids. He proposed that H+ concentration in body fluids was determined by PCO2, strong ion difference (SID = sum of strong positive ion concentrations minus the sum of the strong anion concentrations) and the total concentration of nonvolatile weak acid (Atot) under normal circumstances. Albumin is the major weak acid in plasma and represents the majority of Atot.

Recovery of horses from inhalation anesthesia.

To study behavioral and cardiopulmonary characteristics of horses recovering from inhalation anesthesia, 6 nonmedicated horses were anesthetized under laboratory conditions on 3 different days, with either halothane or isoflurane in O2. Anesthesia was maintained at constant dose (1.5 times the minimum alveolar concentration [MAC]) of halothane in O2 for 1 hour (H1), halothane in O2 for 3 hours (H3), or isoflurane in O2 for 3 hours (I3).