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Impact of Feeding Palm Oil to Finishing Cattle on Performance, Carcass, and Meat Characteristics
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This finishing study evaluated the effect of feeding palm oil products on performance and carcass characteristics, and beef quality measures. Dietary treatments included no supplemental fat or feeding: crude palm oil, crude high-oleic palm oil (HOPO), refined, bleached, and de-odorized palm olein oil (RBD olein), or tallow. Supplemental fat was included at 3.5% of diet dry matter. Cattle fed diets containing supplemental fat had improved feed conversion compared to no supplemental fat. Feeding cattle crude palm oil resulted in improved F:G compared to cattle fed RBD olein, with steers fed tallow and crude HOPO being intermediate and not being different from crude palm or RBD olein. There were no differences in carcass characteristics. Feeding palm oil products could offer cost-effective alternatives to traditional fat supplementation
Effects of Particle Size Difference in Two Different Sweet Bran Products on Total Tract Digestibility and Rumen pH
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Seven ruminally fistulated heifers were utilized in a 6 x 7 row-column design to evaluate two different Sweet Bran particle size products (1.8 or 2.5 mm) included at 13%, 18%, or 23% of the diet (DM) on total tract digestibility and rumen fermentation parameters. The treatment design was a 2 x 3 factorial. Rumen pH was reduced and organic matter digestibility tended to be reduced with the small particle size when Sweet Bran was included at 13% of the diet. Both NDF digestibility and dietary digestible energy concentration tended to improve with the larger particle size. The large particle size of Sweet Bran appears to aid in improving diet digestibility and moderating rumen pH, which is more marked with low dietary inclusions (less than 18%)
Evaluation of Renergy on Finishing Steer Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Liver Abscess Prevalence and Severity
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A feedlot study evaluated the effects of Renergy™ (Selko USA) and Rumensin® (Elanco Animal Health) on growth performance, carcass traits, and liver abscess severity in finishing beef cattle. Using a 2 × 2 factorial design, cattle were fed one of four diets: control (no additive), Renergy, Rumensin, or both additives combined. A significant interaction between Renergy and Rumensin was observed for feed conversion, with a tendency for interaction in dry matter intake (DMI). Cattle fed Renergy tended to have lower DMI and lower average daily gain, though DMI did not differ between cattle fed both additives and those fed no additives. Rumensin had no effect on cattle performance. Neither additive influenced liver abscess incidence or severity. These results suggest that Renergy and Rumensin impacted feed efficiency and carcass traits without affecting liver health, with Renergy reducing intake and gain, and Rumensin having more notable effects on carcass composition
Diffendal Receives Wisherd Award for University Service
Full text linkEven though he’s retired, Robert Diffendal seems to be working everywhere.
The professor emeritus in the School of Natural Resources retains offices in three buildings. He reports to work at the Center for Great Plains Studies five days a week for about four hours a day. His list of volunteer activities around the state goes on and on, affecting, by his count, 21,088 people since 2003, when he stepped away from full-time faculty work. He capped 2024 at Nebraska Innovation Campus, where he received the Wisherd Award for Outstanding Service to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Chosen by the Emeriti and Retirees Association, the award recipient gets $500 donated in their honor to the ERA Scholarship Fund, which goes to a sophomore or junior based on need. The association chooses each year’s Wisherd recipient from almost 600 members for their volunteer service.
Diffendal has traveled the state to give talks on fossils, minerals and rocks. He has led field trips, edited articles and books, published maps and reports, served on graduate and other university committees, taught courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, attended national meetings of geological societies, traveled to archeological and geological sites around the world, served as a volunteer curator of the invertebrate paleontology collections of the University of Nebraska State Museum and taught grade schoolers at the SCORE Science Camp in Imperial.
“I’m everywhere,” Diffendal, now 84, said in regards to the vast reach of his service
The Need for Collaboration in Nigerian Libraries
No full textThis paper depicts the importance of collaboration of libraries in mitigating the challenges facing the Nigerian Library System. It explains that libraries are facing financial set back as a result of low subvention, currency devaluations, hiking prices of books, journals and databases and changing nature of the library users which always lead to increasing client expectations, changing technologies etc., and these threats can only be overcome through library collaboration. The paper examined three forms of collaborations that exist in Library system. The paper revealed areas for collaboration which includes cooperative acquisition, cooperative cataloguing, cooperative referencing, staff development, library exchange and librarian and library user networks, resource sharing and inter-library loan. The paper also stated the benefits of collaboration as increased human cooperation, exposure of librarians to global library practices and significant reduction in operational costs. The paper further enumerated the challenges of collaboration in libraries which are inadequate funding, proliferation of informal collaboration, high competition in library profession, leadership issues, lack of structured library development policies, among others. The paper therefore recommends that government through its agencies and library bodies such as Ministry of Education, Nigerian Union of Universities and Nigerian Library Association should enact and monitor favourable collaborative policies among Nigerian Library System. Again, library leadership should come up with alternative sources of library funding, also by engaging donor agencies and non-governmental agencies to support libraries
Staff Attitude, Library Policies and Service Delivery in University Libraries in Ogun State, Nigeria
Full text linkUniversity library services aim to meet the information needs of the university community, fostering learning and research. Quality service, particularly in tangible aspects and reliability, leads to user satisfaction. Staff attitude significantly impacts library service utilization, as does library policy, which guides library operations. The study adopted survey research design. The study population comprised 80,247 university library users in Ogun State, Nigeria. A sample size of 1,513 was determined using the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) method. Universities were stratified into federal, state, and private categories, and respondents were purposively selected. The findings indicate high-quality service delivery in university libraries in Ogun State, Nigeria, in terms of tangibles (Mean = 3.23, SD = 0.77) and reliability (Mean = 3.20, SD = 0.82). Respondents agreed that staff attitude and library policies were positive (Mean = 2.89, SD = 0.93; Mean = 3.10, SD = 0.88respectively). Staff attitude and library policies significantly influenced service delivery (R2= 0.253, β= 0.503, t = 18.411, p\u3c0.05; R2= 0.322, β= 0.568, t = 21.822, p\u3c0.05, respectively). In conclusion, staff attitude and library policies significantly impact service delivery in university libraries in Ogun State, Nigeria. Recommendations include hiring qualified staff with a user-centric approach, continuous user needs assessment, and fostering a positive disposition. Additionally, staff attitude and library policies should be actively utilized for enhancing library services
Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research (August 25, 2022)
No full textEnsuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research (August 25, 2022
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Influence of Attitude as a catalyst on the Productivity Level of Cataloguers in Tertiary Institutions’ Libraries in Edo State, Nigeria
Full text linkAs soon as librarians are productive based on their positive attitude, it is expected that libraries will perform optimally. In circumstances where catalogers are less productive or lack a good attitude, the long-lasting effect will be felt by end users. It is in this regard, that this study investigates the influence of attitude as a catalyst on the productivity level of catalogers in tertiary institutions’ libraries in Edo State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. The population was comprised of 81 catalogers in Edo State. The study made use of a total enumeration sampling technique. The reliability coefficients of the constructs of this study are as follows: productivity (0.71) and attitude (0.78). A validated questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study revealed that there was a significant influence of attitude on the productivity of catalogers (Adj. R2 = 0.100; p
Keywords: attitude, productivity, cataloging, classificatio
Green Project Finance for Infrastructure and Building Construction: Instruments and Benchmarks
No full textIt is counterintuitive that both the practice and research on green project finance for infrastructure and building construction are ascendant and still have limited precedents, considering that individually, the two parts (i.e., project finance and sustainability in the built environment) are both familiar to the communities. To narrow the gap and facilitate the financing of the built environment’s sustainable transformation, this study systematically reviews the common instruments for financing green infrastructure and building projects. Benchmarking questions distinguishing the profile of green project finance from common construction project finance are developed based on the literature review and then are used for empirical benchmarking with comprehensive financial data. In addition to yielding affirmative answers to the benchmarking questions, the benchmarking indicates that there is no evidence providing green project finance of infrastructure and building construction the immunity from the common critic, that is, greenwashing