[Clinical studies of patients with spinal cord metastases].

Eighty-one patients with spinal-cord tumors are hospitalized in the Clinic of Emergency Neurology and Neurosurgery over the period 1988 through 1997. Of the total number, 74 patients of which 25 presenting metastases from neoplasms with primary location out of the central nervous system, are subjected to operation. There are 4 tumors involving the cervical segment, 1--cervicothoracic, 17--thoracic, 1--thoracolumbar, and 2--lumbar segment.

[Effect of different lighting regimens in the commercial raising of breeders].

Studied was the effect of illumination of varying length and intensity under the industrial raising of broilers. It was found that the use of an illumination programme with an interrupted light regime and low intensity of light affected the live weight, feed intake per unit of produce, and morbidity and mortality rate. The economic effect produced with the introduction of an illumination programme with an interrupted light of low intensity after the first week of BTR-3 regulation consisted in the increase in the production results in the conditions of industrial broiler arising.

[Effect of the lighting regimen during the raising of breeding and market laying hens].

Studied was the effect of illumination intensity on the physiologic state of the body, growth and development, egg laying capacity and the economic effectiveness in the raising of growing stock laying hens and adult ones in three-tier cell batteries of the BKM-3 and BHK-H types. The content of hemoglobin, total protein, calcium, inorganic phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, and erythrocyte count. Determined was also the content of some fat-soluble vitamins in the liver as well as the glycogen level in the liver and muscles and the amount of blood sugar.