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Merino Superfine
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/324318David Jones squatting down beside a bale of Fletcher Jones Merino Superfine wool. Inscribed on reverse: Launch of Signature Collection Melb. Zoo. May 1979175451
Sub-item: [2012.0031.00719] "Merino Superfine
Selection for growth, muscling and fatness alters the maternal performance and intermediary metabolism of Merino ewes
No full textThere is growing interest in selectively breeding Merinos with higher growth and muscling and lower fatness. The effects of selection for these traits on ewe intermediary metabolism, body composition, reproduction and milk production and on lamb birthweight, survival and growth were studied in a series of experiments and analyses.
Ewes with higher genetic propensity for early growth had higher mature weight, reproductive rate, lamb birthweight, ewe milk production and lamb growth rate. Ewes with higher growth also had a higher circulating level of growth hormone during lactation.
Ewes with higher genetic propensity for muscling had a higher reproductive rate and produced lambs that were lighter at birth, but this did not result in lower lamb survival. Ewes with higher muscling maintained a higher condition score which may be at least partly attributed to a lower response to adrenaline at the level of the muscle in these higher muscled ewes. Similarly higher muscled ewes had lower growth hormone concentration in lactation which would result in lower mobilisation of tissues. In addition peripheral tissues were less responsive to insulin in high muscled ewes and blood glucose levels were also higher during the non-breeding state in high muscled ewes.
The genetic fatness of ewes was positively associated with lamb birthweight but only when nutrition was restricted suggesting that ewes with a higher genetic propensity for fatness can buffer lamb birthweight under periods of poor nutrition. Ewes with higher genetic fatness had lower circulating growth hormone and a greater response to insulin providing potential mechanisms for the observed higher fatness. Furthermore, response to adrenaline at the level of liver was greater in ewes with higher fatness suggestive of a higher capacity for gluconeogenesis. The combined results of this work suggest that actively selecting Merino ewes to have higher growth, muscling and fatness is likely to have positive reproduction and therefore economic outcomes
The validation of the THAM-3 (Test de Habilidades Metalingüísticas n. 3, Lasagabaster, Merino, & Pinto 2015)
No full textThis paper describes the statistical analyses performed to validate the THAM-3, a metalinguistic ability test for late adolescence and adulthood, translated from the original Italian version TAM-3 (Pinto & Iliceto 2007) into Spanish (Pinto, Titone, & Gonzales Gil 2000 ; Lasagabaster, Merino, & Pinto 2015) with partial adaptations. The test consists of three subtests : Comprehension, Acceptability and Figurative language, and its scoring system is based on the distinction between Linguistic (L, measuring metalinguistic awareness at the implicit level) and Metalinguistic (ML, measuring metalinguistic awareness at the explicit level) scores. One hundred and fifty students recruited at the University of Valladolid in Soria (Spain), aged 18 to 37 years (mean age = 21.1 ; SD = 2.7), took the THAM-3 and Raven’s SPM38 (Raven, Raven, & Court 1998). Skewness and Kurtosis as measures of the shape of the distribution showed that the data were normally distributed. Reliability analyses, measured by Cohen’s Kappa (Cohen 1960) and Cronbach’s alpha, presented relatively adequate estimates. The correlations between all the THAM-3 measures and the SPM38 scores
were statistically significant. The results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA, Brown 2006) supported the theoretical two-factor structure of the original test, assigning the ML subtests’ scores to the corresponding Metalinguistic latent factor, the L subtests’ scores to the corresponding Linguistic latent factor, and explaining the inter-correlations between the observed variables. The final model provided a good fit to the empirical data, although only the Metalinguistic factor emerged as a unitary construct, whereas the Linguistic factor proved poorer. On the basis of these results, the THAM-3 can be considered as a valid measure of metalinguistic abilities for all subjects having Spanish as their first language
Cineastes israelians davant la Guerra: David Perlov i els seus hereus
No full textConferència d'Imma Merino, professora de cinema de la Universitat de Girona dins del cicle de conferències "El món jueu a la gran pantalla. El cinema com a eina i com a pretext" programat per l’Institut d’Estudis Nahmànides i la Càtedra Ferrater Mora de Pensament Contemporani de la Universitat de Girona durant el primer semestre del 2025. El cicle proposa explorar l'associació entre el cinema i el món jueu contemporani. Imma Merino en aquesta conferència se centra en la figura del cineasta David Perlov i el cineastes israelians en general8062.mp4
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Finding Western Australia\u27s most profitable merino flocks
No full textWether trials across Western Australia are showing significant differences in Merino flock productivity, which have important implications for whole-farm profitability. David Windsor reports on how wool growers in the 21 st century can maximise productivity by combining superior management skills with the best available genetic material
Finding Western Australia\u27s most profitable merino flocks
No full textWether trials across Western Australia are showing significant differences in Merino flock productivity, which have important implications for whole-farm profitability. David Windsor reports on how wool growers in the 21 st century can maximise productivity by combining superior management skills with the best available genetic material
Author Correction: Human neutrophils phagocytose and kill Acinetobacter baumannii and A. pittii
No full textAdrián Fernández was omitted from the author list in the original version of this Article. This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplementary Information file. The updated Author List now reads: María Lázaro-Díez, Itziar Chapartegui-González, Santiago Redondo-Salvo, Chike Leigh, David Merino, David San Segundo, Adrián Fernández, Jesús Navas, José Manuel Icardo, Félix Acosta, Alain Ocampo-Sosa, Luis Martínez-Martínez & José Ramos-Vivas The Author Contributions section now reads: J.R.V. conceived the experiments, J.R.V and D.S.S. designed the experiments, M.L.D., I.C.G., S.R.S., C.L., D.M., A. F., F.A., A.O.S., J.M.I. and J.R.V. performed the experiments, M.L.D., I.C.G., J.N., F.A., J.M.I. L.M.M. and J.R.V. analyzed the data, A.O.S., D.S.S., J.N., F.A., J.M.I. contributed with reagents/materials/analysis tools, J.R.V. wrote the paper. All authors reviewed the manuscript.1,244,379Q1Q1SCI
An archaeological perspective on the nineteenth century development of land, landscape and sheep farming in the Karoo
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The nineteenth century was one of considerable change within the Cape Colony. There was the change from Dutch VOC control to a British government early in the nineteenth century which exposed small scale Trekboer sheep farmers of the Karoo to a wider mercantile capitalism, especially with the adoption of Merino sheep for the global export market. This thesis charts the early nineteenth century history of colonial Trekboer society into the Karoo with a specific focus on the region to the north of the Roggeveld Mountains and west of the Nieuweveld Mountains. Of particular importance in this history is the change in land rights whereby title deeds and ownership were introduced by the British early in the nineteenth century. The distribution and chronology of title deeds are explored in this area of the Karoo using GIS to map and determine the chronological spread of deeded farms and possible links with environmental and ecological variability. While some correlations can be made under the assumption that better areas were claimed earlier in the nineteenth century other factors were also important. In particular the spread of Merino sheep, for wool production, from the Eastern Cape accounts for some of the geographic emphasis in title deed chronology, while technological innovations may underpin others. Furthermore, the thesis also examines the relationship between the title deeds and the distribution of corbelled buildings, a unique nineteenth century vernacular architecture associated with the Trekboer farmer
Reply to the Comment by David W. Morrow on 'Self-accelerating dolomite-for-calcite replacement: Self-organized dynamics of burial dolomitization and associated mineralization'
No full textWe welcome David W. Morrow's Comment to our article Merino and Canals (2011) (MC-2011 hereafter), in which we presented a new model of burial dolomitization. Morrow raises several questions and sees conflicts of some of the model's parts with published experiments
La transferibilidad de los permisos de maternidad y paternidad en la encrucijada. Entrevista con Patricia Merino
No full textWe present a dialogue held in the fall of 2019 with Patricia Merino, master`s degree in feminist studies from the Complutense University of Madrid, is the author of the essay Maternidad, igualdad y fraternidad: las madres como sujeto político en las sociedades postlaborales and, is the spokeswoman for the Platform of Feminist Mothers for the Expansion of Transferable Permits too. We talked with her about feminism and PETRA's trajectory and its political goals, about the mothers as a political subject as well as of the need for more support for parenting and childhood. We address, especially, the critical stance that PETRA supports against the approval of Royal Decree-Law 6/2019, which extended to 4 months the non-transferable paternity rights in the Spain.Presentamos un diálogo realizado en el otoño de 2019 con Patricia Merino, Máster en Estudios Feministas por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, autora del ensayo Maternidad, igualdad y fraternidad: las madres como sujeto político en las sociedades postlaborales y portavoz de la Plataforma de Madres Feministas por la Ampliación de los Permisos Transferibles. Hablamos de feminismo, de la trayectoria de la PETRA y sus objetivos políticos, de las madres como sujeto político, así como de la necesidad de más ayudas a la crianza y a la infancia. Abordamos, especialmente, la postura crítica que sostiene la plataforma PETRA frente a la aprobación del Real Decreto-ley 6/2019, que ampliará progresivamente hasta los 4 meses los derechos de paternidad intransferibles en España
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