I also think it's interesting that dogs with a heritage of being bred for looks have more reliable markers
than breeds with a closer history to function — such as Jack Russell Terriers and Catahoula's.
What stood out in the results was that bracheocephalic breeds — the ones with short noses and bulging eyes - had more health issues
than breeds with longer noses and mix - breed dogs.
Labs also have personality and physical traits that may make them more prone to certain conditions — a Labrador Retriever who loves to swim may develop an ear infection more often
than a breed with a pricked ear.
An easygoing, gentle, typically submissive breed may be easier to place sooner, without extensive testing and training
than a breed with a more difficult temperament.
Goldens also have personality and physical traits that may make them more prone to certain conditions — a Golden Retriever who loves to swim may develop an ear infection more often
than a breed with a pricked ear.
Not exact matches
This type of subtle manipulation usually
breeds resentment more
than productivity, so you're better off clearly explaining the reasons behind your actions and being straightforward
with your employees when problems do come up.
Once you know how to interact
with this rare
breed of hard - working human, then you will have a better shot at getting your company covered
than those who don't treat journalists
with appreciation or respect.
And herein lies a very broad and «mushy middle,» says McKenna,
with the effect, in many cases, being the same: «It's still using smaller -
than - treatment doses, or sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics,» which creates a literal
breeding ground for resistant microbial strains.
«The guys and gals Boyden acquired are best of
breed,» says Mark Surrette, a former Halifax - based Odgers partner
with more
than 30 years in the business.
Top Dog Tips and
Breeding Business both recommend the feeder and it has more
than 1,600 reviews on Amazon
with a solid 4.3 - star rating.
Technology at this new
breed of hotel is both pervasive and personal,
with an emphasis on using your own devices rather
than a provided (and oftentimes outdated and clunky) in - house device.
And it started in the dark net as a form of payment, and if you really think about it, that's actually the perfect
breeding ground for bitcoin and blockchain to start because where else do you need to enforce trust
with nefarious individuals
than on the dark net?
-- it's OK if the girl is older
than 9 and likely to be able to conceive (
with apologies for perhaps being offensive: «old enough to bleed, old enough to
breed»)-- it's OK if the girl says it's OK (and what are the chances an indoctrinated child is going to say No!?)
The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled
with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often
than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end
breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.
Thus comparison
with those who are more fortunate
than ourselves
breeds envy and resentment.
Thank goodness — that's one pretty sick cult — the kids get raised to be
breeding stock — girls to marry unquestioningly the old man being rewarded
with another young bride, the boys to be very obedient in hopes they'll get a bride, rather
than kicked out (when you have polygamy, you have to maintain a very high female to male ratio — guess how they do that).
Without the growth group, anxiety from direct encounters
with injustice -
bred rage often produces defensiveness rather
than openness to new understanding.
The new barley has taken thirteen years to be been developed through selective
breeding, which has resulted in a barley
with 10,000 times less gluten
than regular barley.
«Rice is an incredibly special crop providing more
than half of the planet
with food every day,» said Dr. Eero Nissilä, head of IRRI's Plant
Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division and convenor of RG7.
Those
with mild sensitivities to gluten may have luck eating this ancient grain as berries or ground into flour because it contains a different genome of gluten
than modern wheat, and it has not been much changed by selective
breeding over the millennia (note: spelt is not genetically engineered — a completely different process from selective
breeding).
Global snacking firm Pladis has revealed its insights into «the new
breed of snackers» in the UK,
with younger consumers snacking more
than any previous generation.
Down the course he came, quick, all out, skiing desperately but
with the tiny shade of caution which more
than six years of topflight international racing had
bred into his muscles and mind and feet.
He argued that because athletes
with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges
than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and
breeding top academics to compete
with the rest of the world.
Each year, more
than 250,000 visitors interact
with costumed historians, experience up - close demonstrations of early American trades, and meet heritage
breed farm animals.
Finally, under new Racing, Pari - mutuel Wagering and
Breeding Law § 1330 - a, any current gaming licensee who spends more
than $ 1,000 supporting or opposing the November referendum on casino gambling must file their expenditure reports
with the Gaming Commission as well as
with the state Board of Elections.
More generally, our previous research has also found little evidence that the 2010 reforms had increased parliamentarians» engagement
with the committee system in terms of attendance or turnover, nor that they had encouraged a new
breed of parliamentarian (e.g. younger, less biddable, more rebellious, representing Parliament rather
than government, and focused on scrutiny rather
than climbing the ministerial ladder (see here, here and here)-RRB-.
With the competition from new gaming venues, many expect an ongoing slide in VLT revenue, which will ultimately mean less for the harness people including New York farmers who have more
than 1,000
breeding mares.
Specifically, they found that in warmblood horses, which are
bred for equestrian sport, mares exposed to stallions
with dissimilar MHC alleles were more likely to get pregnant
than those exposed to MHC - similar males.
But more
than 220 years ago, this same
breed of mosquito was spreading a different and deadly epidemic right here in Philadelphia and just like Zika, this epidemic is seeing a modern resurgence,
with Brazil at its epicenter.
After more
than 20 years of genetic experimentation, researchers have discovered how to
breed malaria - resistant mosquitoes that are unable to infect humans
with their bites.
When looking at nests rather
than the overall population, protection significantly improved
breeding activity,
with annual increases of 8 percent in nesting success (meaning the
breeding pair had at least one young) and 13 percent in the average number of young per occupied nest.
These modified mice had significantly smaller testes and lower sperm counts
than their normal counterparts — and when the group
bred them
with normal females, they found that the litter size was around half normal.
Scarcity
breeds opportunity Trisha Gura, 03 April Science done
with serious resource constraints can be more varied, open, and passionate
than ordinary science.
With this map of genetic variation in hand, the scientists could then estimate how big the population of passenger pigeons once was — typically, a small population will have less genetic variation
than a larger one because it derives from a smaller pool of ancestors who
bred successfully.
Using genetic analyses of more
than 50 horse
breeds, along
with the pedigrees of three stallions that founded English Thoroughbreds, researchers traced the Y chromosomes of modern horses back hundreds of years.
For example, we can observe that when males are significantly bigger
than females in modern primates, males are likely to live in groups
with breeding access to several females.
Similarly, old veteran males are less likely to desert
than are younger males
with fewer years of previous
breeding experience.
«
With artificial insemination, male
breeding animals can produce more
than one hundred thousand offspring.»
Mice
bred to carry a gene variant found in a third of ALS patients have a faster disease progression and die sooner
than mice
with the standard genetic model of the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes
bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces
with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger
than in females.
When Bäckhed and Gordon
bred mice lacking a functional FIAF gene, the mice were more
than 50 % flabbier
than mice
with the gene intact.
Males also mated more frequently
with fertile females
than pregnant ones or those outside of the
breeding cycle.
He found that to begin
with juvenile birds abandoned cooperative
breeding, leaving home earlier and
breeding sooner
than their counterparts back on Cousin.
Compared to 1990, the number of tests involving animals
bred with harmful genetic defects rose by 28 000, to 170 000, and transgenic creatures were subjected to 62 000 procedures, 14 000 more
than in 1990.
Fast reactors
with an elegant ability to «
breed» more fissile materials
than they consumed in fuel, seemed destined to play a major part in helping the world to solve its energy needs.
Certainly possible in Australia where there are large areas of relatively undisturbed forest
with plenty of potential prey... there have been consistent sightings in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney over many decades which suggest that rather
than just an isolated zoo escapee or over grown pet there may be a
breeding population, which would be a bit of a worry for us bush walkers!
The team then
bred the mice and checked their offspring for DNA mutations.The mice born to males that breathed unfiltered air had up to 2.8 times more mutations in particular stretches of noncoding DNA
than did mice
with fathers that breathed filtered air, or clean air at a rural site.
By identifying genes that boost artemisinin yield, plants
with a winning genotype can be recognised much earlier
than with conventional
breeding, fast ‐ tracking the process.
With commercial hybrid
breeds like beefalo, that
breeding took lots of trial and error over more
than a hundred years.
The fieldwork revealed that adult animals were more likely to get infected, which makes sense because they are in closer contact
with each other — through fighting for mating and
breeding, for example —
than are juveniles.