The maintenance requirement of the fattening cockerel with a note on a proposed new method for the determination of the surface area of birds

1930 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Southgate

(1) The maintenance requirement of Light Sussex cockerels has been found by a feeding trial and comparative slaughter method. The maintenance requirement found was 22.1 calories per sq. m. of surface per hour. The net energy of the ration fed (Sussex ground oats: whole dried milk = 13 : 3) was 1.8 calories per gm.(2) A new method of determining the surface area of birds is described.(3) The value of K in the equation area = K has been found by this method to be 9.3.

2007 ◽  
pp. S99-S105
Author(s):  
J Růžička ◽  
P Nový ◽  
F Vávra ◽  
L Bolek ◽  
J Beneš

This paper presents a new method for the determination of the volume, surface area and depth of skin defects. The method is based on the description of a spatial defect using a pyramid (made, for example, from injection needles), which is placed over the defect. The projection of the pyramid on to the defect is photographed using a digital camera and subsequently compared with the projection of the same pyramid on to a sheet of grid paper. The defect is mathematically reconstructed on a computer, and an optimal body shape describing the defect is found, using a number of simplifications and assumptions. The method was then validated using a plaster mold of a real foot with 19 defects simulating real wounds. These plaster wounds were molded using alginate hydrocolloid, and the volume, surface area and depth were measured and compared with the results of the pyramid projection by means of regression analysis.This method correlates in all variables with correlation coefficients higher than 0.9. It can be concluded that the projection pyramid method correlates well with the reference mold method and can be used with good results for a whole range of variables.


1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 903-905
Author(s):  
J. M. Rodriguez ◽  
C. Rodriguez

A new method is proposed, based on a certain property of the spreading pressure, for determining the specific surface area of those solids which, when adsorbing gases isothermically, do so according to the type II isotherm of the Brunauer classification.


1932 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 418-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Deighton

The unsatisfactory nature of empirical formulae for the determination of surface area in metabolism work, especially with reference to pigs, is discussed, and the conclusion reached that the actual estimation of the area is the only satisfactory method where an accuracy greater than ± 10 per cent. is desired.It is pointed out that surface area is to some extent variable in animals and that direct determinations are from this point of view less satisfactory than might have been thought.A new method is proposed for estimating the surface area of a pig in a definite standing position depending on mathematical and photographic conditions only, and therefore applicable to the living animal, and to the same animal at different times during its life. Full sets of computations are given and one case is noted where the method affords a correct estimate as between two pigs where the formulae are all clearly wrong.


1960 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
P WEST ◽  
G LYLES
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1977 ◽  
Vol 37 (02) ◽  
pp. 210-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Margalit ◽  
E Gidron ◽  
Y Shalitin

SummaryThe term “effective activator” of plasminogen is proposed, to denote the resultant of activator-antiactivator interaction, and a method for the determination of the level of these activators is described. By adding axcess plasminogen to the euglobulin fraction of plasma the influence of the level of endogenous plasminogen and of the antiplasmin is eliminated. It is shown that the level of fibrinogen has very little bearing on the results. An effective activator unit is defined as equal to 1 CTA unit of urokinase activity on a fibrinogen-plasminogen substrate.


1964 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Shamash ◽  
A Rimon

SummaryA new method for the assay of plasmin inhibitors in human plasma is described. The method consists of determination of the caseinolytic activity of a standard plasmin solution before and after incubation with the inhibitor, with lysine added to the mixture as a stabilizer of plasmin. Using this method, it was found that plasma contains enough inhibitors to inactivate 30 caseinolytic units of plasmin, or 10 times the normal amount of plasminogen in human plasma.


1969 ◽  
Vol 62 (1_Suppl) ◽  
pp. S95-S112 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. W. M. Schuurs

ABSTRACT Various techniques for sensitising erythrocytes and latex particles with gonadotrophins, particularly with HCG, are described. The haemagglutination inhibition reactions are generally interpreted by means of »erythrocyte settling patterns«. By a new method of evaluating these patterns a relatively precise quantitative determination is possible. Latex agglutination inhibition reactions on slides are particularly suitable as rapid qualitative tests. In cases where the maximum attainable sensitivity of the agglutination inhibition tests is insufficient, e. g. for determining LH concentrations in urine, the hormone in the test fluid has to be concentrated or extracted. An alternative method is a modified haemagglutination inhibition test for large volumes which is applicable to unconcentrated urine. Due to non-specific inhibitions the above-mentioned tests cannot be applied to unprocessed serum. Agglutination inhibition tests with HCG are already well advanced, pregnancy diagnosis being their main application. Now that highly purified HCG is available, a satisfactory specificity for these tests can be attained. If the immune system for HCG is used for estimating LH, it has to meet additional specificity requirements. Furthermore, the measure of cross-reaction and the choice of standard merit special attention. Finally, a literature survey is given of test systems in which LH and FSH were used as antigens.


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