(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.
Buddhist
Definition:
(n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(2) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
(3) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(4) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
(5) The rioting in Lashio started on Tuesday after reports that a Muslim man had splashed petrol on a Buddhist woman and set her on fire.
(6) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
(7) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
(8) We found out that she’s a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist.
(9) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.
(10) Both Buddhist monks and police can be seen through much of the footage – the monks often taking part in the violence, the police watching immobile as it progresses.
(11) The latter rivalry may play an important role in social relations within and among Buddhist monasteries.
(12) The only souls around are a small group of Buddhist pilgrims, lighting incense at the rear of the spectacular Khmer temple.
(13) They have been persecuted for years by the government and nationalist Buddhists.
(14) His remark should be seen in the context of the tension between Buddhists and Muslims after serious violence in south-western Rakhine (Arakan) state in 2012 , and last year in Meiktila , a city in central Burma, which claimed more than 200 lives and drove tens of thousands from their homes.
(15) There's either a complete lack of capacity or a failure of political will because Buddhist monks are involved."
(16) This article provides a cultural interpretation of female prostitution in contemporary lowland Buddhist Thai society.
(17) The actor was asked about recent cases of self-immolation by Tibetan Buddhist monks protesting against China .
(18) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(19) A proverb of the Buddhist religion often quoted by physicist Richard Feynman encapsulates the whole discussion, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
(20) After living in a refugee camp and two years as a Buddhist monk, he came to the UK in 1987.