(1) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
(2) Conformation and condition scores were similar for crossbred groups among spring-born calves, whereas conformation and condition scores decreased as proportion of Brahman breeding increased among fall-born calves.
(3) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
(4) The digestion rate in Brahmans were similar irrespective of whether the diet was supplemented or not.
(5) Other findings included: small seminal vesicles in 1.6% of examinations (Brahman breed highest with 8.6%, P less than .001), enlarged ampullae, 1.9%, 'soft' testicles, 3.4% and small testicles, 7.5%.
(6) Half of 16 bulls and 16 steers (Angus or Angus x Brahman) aged 9 mo and weighing 290 kg were treated with an implant (200 mg trenbolone acetate and 24 mg estradiol).
(7) Morpho-behavioural distances between three endogamous Muslim groups (Sunni, Shia and Bohra) and one Hindu group (Brahman) of Madhya Pradesh, separately for males and females, were estimated.
(8) Comparisons of general combining abilities revealed that Angus, Hereford, and Jersey generally had lower maturing rates of EBWT relative to LWT and that Brahman and Holstein had higher maturing rates.
(9) The estimated Brahman direct additive effect on birth weight was 4.6 kg greater than Hereford.
(10) When the lower-N Pangola grass was supplemented there was a significant increase in intake by both breeds with the magnitude of the response in Herefords (42%) (P less than 0.001) being greater than that in Brahmans (15%) (P less than 0.05).
(11) Grade Brahman calves weighed more (P less than .01) at birth and gained more (P less than .01) preweaning than B calves, although sheath areas were not different.
(12) Values for lifetime total number of calves weaned were as follows: Hereford, 4.54; Red Poll, 5.45; Hereford x Red Poll, 4.45; Red Poll x Hereford, 5.49; Angus x Hereford, 5.98; Angus x Charolais, 5.57; Brahman x Hereford, 6.96; and Brahman x Angus, 6.22.
(13) These data indicated that genotype X environment interactions are important in beef production and increased proportions of Brahman breeding were advantageous in a spring-calving program but not in a fall-calving program.
(14) Calf birth weight was lower (P less than .05) in Angus- than Holstein- and Brahman-service-sire groups (30.6 vs 36.1, 43.4 kg).
(15) There were no differences (P greater than .10) in seminal E2 concentration among peripuberal Angus (n = 8), Hereford (n = 8) and Brahman (n = 17) bulls.
(16) For maintenance-adjusted feed intake, progeny of Simmental and Limousin dams were less efficient than those of Polled Hereford and Brahman dams.
(17) The Mongoloid Tibetan women had the highest mean age at marriage (18.2 years) and Brahmans had the lowest (14.2) years.
(18) Postpartum mean concentrations (P less than .05) and response curves of PGFM were lower (P less than .01) in the Angus- than in the Holstein- or Brahman-service-sire groups.
(19) In Brahmans, important causes of perinatal and postnatal losses were from unknown causes, and in Sahiwals from bottle teats, unknown causes and factors influenced by the cow.
(20) All 18 2-year-old Brahman bulls grazing in a paddock containing Castanospermum australe trees were diagnosed as heterozygotes for Pompe's disease by measurement of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase activity.
Vedanta
Definition:
(n.) A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end or substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes two years after the BSC stripped another Vedanta subsidiary of a safety award after the Observer drew its attention to the firm's involvement in one of the worst industrial tragedies in India's recent history.
(2) The Church of England last week said it had sold its £3.8m stake in Vedanta after mounting pressure to disinvest.
(3) Multinational mining group Vedanta Resources has had two British safety awards – including one endorsed by the UK's Health and Safety Executive – suspended after campaigners drew attention to controversies including a fatality at the group's operations in Orissa, India.
(4) The immediate crisis facing Vedanta however, is the setback to its plans for expansion in the aluminium sector.
(5) Awards to Vedanta have been immediately withdrawn by the British Safety Council (BSC) in response to findings thrown up by a broader Observer analysis of deaths of workers at all FTSE 100 mining groups.
(6) But the long-drawn-out controversy over Vedanta's mining project also reflects Delhi's failure to devise an effective development policy for millions of forest-dwelling tribes in central and eastern India.
(7) Vedanta was accused of rushing ahead with the mining project without obtaining the consent of the tribal groups, a charge denied by the company.
(8) He was now reading Zen and Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and Advaita Vedanta, and putting in long hours of meditation.
(9) Among the other campaign groups attacking the company was Survival International which continued to highlight Vedanta's efforts to mine bauxite in India's Niyamgiri hill , which an indigenous tribe considers to be sacred.
(10) In addition, Martin Currie Investment Management sold its £2.3m stake last year, and BP's pension fund reduced its holdings in Vedanta because of "concerns about the way the company operates".
(11) Vedanta had the highest death toll, with 67, followed by Anglo American with 20, Kazakhmys with 17 and ENRC with 12.
(12) N C Saxena, who headed the government's inquiry committee, was emphatic in his condemnation of Vedanta's mining project.
(13) Aviva added that those concerns had depressed the share price of Vedanta, which mines predominantly in India , Zambia and Australia.
(14) "Our effort is to bring the poor tribal people into the mainstream," Vedanta Aluminium's chief operating officer, Mukesh Kumar, said.
(15) Amnesty International published a report last year claiming that a Vedanta refinery in the same area had polluted rivers, damaged crops and disrupted the lives of the Dongria Kondh tribe in the Niyamgiri Hills.
(16) Like the Na'vi tribe in Cameron's blockbuster Avatar , who are desperately trying to stop humans from mining under their sacred 'home tree' in Pandora, the Dongria Kondh are trying to stop Vedanta from opening its mine on the mountain they worship.
(17) In the case of Vedanta's Lanjigarh aluminium refinery, the fatality occurred after the application had been processed, but the BSC had not been informed.
(18) In October, a government agency charged with promoting guidelines on ethical corporate behaviour for multinational companies adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that Vedanta had "failed to engage the Dongria Kondh in adequate and timely consultations about construction of the mine".
(19) I hope that the Church's decision helps Vedanta to make the right choice and drop plans to mine."
(20) On the same day as a protest march in Zambia we launched a supporter action and secured UK media coverage to put pressure on Vedanta.