In this part 2 of a two-part series, a K-State feedlot specialist provides a look into how environmental factors, including heat stress, coupled with the use of beta-agonists potentially affects cattle feed intake. Growing cattle that are ...
China's wetlands have shrinked nearly 9% since 2003 according to forestry officials. The country's food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages. China has more than 1/5 of the ...
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Minority and poor patients are more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer when they're diagnosed than white and richer patients do, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 26,000 patients in California who were diagnosed ...
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Elderly people who participate in "brain training" classes to keep their minds sharp continue to see positive benefits 10 years after the training, according to a new study. Even if they took only an initial set of classes aimed at ...
Researchers say they have pinpointed a preservative found in many popular wet wipes and baby wipes as the cause of allergic skin reactions in some children. Reports of reactions have ranged from disfiguring patches to crusting, swelling, ...
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Children and teenagers who are assaulted at school account for nearly 90,000 emergency-room visits in the United States each year, new research finds. Although school shootings garner much attention, it was rare for kids aged 5 to 19 to ...
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School drug tests don't deter teens from smoking marijuana, but creating a positive school environment might be effective, a new study suggests. About 20 percent of U.S. high schools have drug testing, but this approach is controversial ...
Politico reports that while Republican governors in Texas and Louisiana remain firmly in the no camp, others in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana and Oklahoma are giving the program a second look. News outlets also offer updates from ...
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This Editorial appears in the Jan. 13 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Washington, D.C., is often the butt of jokes for its year-after-year inaction. But this week - one filled with transportation events - ...
UBM Live Built Environment, organiser of Interiors UK, has announced that the show is set to become The Furniture Show at May Design Series by 2015. May Design Series 2014 will host close to 400 exhibitors, and The Furniture Show at May ...
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This story appears in the December 2013/January 2014 issue of iTECH, published in the Dec. 16 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. A new "blue paper" by the research department of investment bank Morgan ...
Tags: Trucking, Trucking News, Driverless Vehicles
There were a wide-variety of errors, faults, and general IT-related ooftas to choose from last week. But GM’s recall of 370 000 of its 2014 model year Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks, in order to update ...
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According to newly published results from a survey of pharmacy directors, drug shortages remain a serious problem for patient safety. Nearly half of the responding directors reported adverse events at their facilities due to drug shortages, ...
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Shanxi Province-based Chinese stainless steel producer Taigang Stainless Steel Co., a subsidiary of Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. (TISCO), has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 2.5 billion ($408 million) on ...
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According to the latest data from the China Iron and Steel Association, the daily average production of crude steel in China was expected to be around 1.96 million tons in the second half of December last year. This is the first time to ...
Tags: China Iron and Steel Association, daily average production, crude steel