(1) The kinds of audience investigated included the mate, unfamiliar females, other females and males with which subjects had had prior visual and auditory contact, and broody hens with and without young.
(2) Plasma concentrations of prolactin and corticosterone were determined in hourly samples collected over a 25-hr period from unrestrained turkey hens exhibiting incubation (broody) behavior.
(3) Under resting conditions thoracic skin temperature (Tths) and metabolic heat production (M) were significantly higher in broody than in non-broody hens, indicating a permanently increased conductance of the brood patch.
(4) The relation between metabolic rate and total peripheral resistance indicated more intense vasodilation for broody hens at the relatively low metabolic rates during moderate cooling, and more intense vasoconstriction for the broody hens at the high metabolic rates during stronger cooling.
(5) Body temperatures, metabolic rate, haemostatic parameters, and cardiovascular reactions to thoracic skin cooling were compared between incubating (broody) and non-broody Bantam hens.
(6) In broody hens, these coolings induced a large, immediate increase in M, no constriction of brood patch vasculature, and a decrease in colonic temperature (Tc).
(7) A higher thoracic skin temperature (Tths) for broody hens compared to non-broody hens suggests that brood patches are the probable site of this increased flow through arteriovenous anastomoses (AVAs).
(8) This treatment did not reduce broody behavior or have any beneficial effect on egg production.
(9) Under resting conditions, without thoracic skin cooling, cardiac output of broody hens was twice that of non-broody hens.
(10) Improved egg production was achieved both through an increase in the rate of egg production and through a reduction in broodiness.
(11) Hens also produced more (P less than .05) eggs when maintained under cyclic temperature conditions, although this observation was tempered by the fact that fewer hens were broody.
(12) Genetic changes in average clutch length, total days lost from broodiness, fertility, and response to cold stress did not have a major influence on semen production in the turkey.
(13) In addition, egg quality, broodiness, floor egg production, and poult weight data were obtained in Experiment 2.
(14) During moderate cooling, vasoconstriction in the feet and wattles of broody hens (but not of non-broody hens) freed non-nutrient blood flow for redistribution to the brood patches.
(15) Synthesis and release rates of prolactin and growth hormone (GH) in the anterior pituitary of laying and incubating broody chickens (Nagoya breed) were determined by a disc electrophoretic technique after in vitro incubation of anterior pituitaries with a labeled amino acid.
(16) In these hens, broodiness was disrupted on day 6 and feeding activity subsequently increased to levels of photorefractory hens.
(17) The RBC1 turkeys had linear increases in the percentage of broody hens during the first 84 and 180 days of production, the average length of the broody period, and the total number of days lost to broodiness during the 180-day period.
(18) When expressed as a deviation from RBC1, positive quadratic curvilinear changes were observed for E turkeys for number of clutches and broody periods, and days lost to broodiness during the first 180 days of production.
(19) Thoracic skin cooling from 35 to 25 degrees C decreased Tths less in broody than in non-broody hens.
(20) An assessment was made of the possible role of hypothalamic 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the regulation of prolactin secretion in broody bantam hens.
Sitting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sit
(a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
(n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
(n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
(n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
(n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.
(n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
(n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(4) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(5) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
(6) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(7) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(8) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(9) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(10) The inverse relation between PGE2 and NE for the difference in hormone concentrations between supine and sitting (r=-0.44, p less than 0.05) may be explained by an inhibitory effect of PGE2 on renal NE release, earlier observed in experiments in vitro.
(11) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(12) If there’s a fire in the house, you don’t sit there saying we’re going to wait until the fire commissioner comes,” she said.
(13) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(14) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(15) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(16) And it means the Foreign Office dealing with those in the Middle East and North Africa who are on the side of democracy and human rights, not sitting down to tea with torturers.
(17) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(18) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
(19) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
(20) On the 18th I will be sitting down to the university Christmas meal two hours after the results are passed on to me.