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Emollient Formulations and Skin Barrier Practices in the Context of Eczema and Food Allergy Prevention

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The skin is far from a passive shield; it functions as a dynamic “living barrier” whose structural and immunological integrity is paramount in preventing atopic dermatitis (AD) and the subsequent progression of the atopic march toward food allergy (FA).
Klaudia Ryczaj, Donald Y. M. Leung, Carina Venter, Barbara Sozańska, Helen A. Brough   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investment Analysis of Alternative Dairy Systems under MILC [PDF]

Three dairy systems, 120-cow grazing, 120-cow conventional, and 600-cow concentrated, were evaluated by internal rate of return (IRR) accounting for the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC).
Peterson, William C., Moody, Darren E., Eberle, Phillip R., Rendleman, C. Matthew   +3 more
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Maternal Perinatal Gut Microbiome Is Shaped by Traditional Farming Lifestyle and Associated With Early Childhood Atopic Disease

Allergy, EarlyView.
We assessed whether the maternal perinatal gut microbiome and serum SCFA and cord blood SCFA differ between traditional farming and urban dyads. Women following a farming lifestyle had increased microbial diversity, several differentially abundant bacterial species and functional pathways, and increased circulating SCFA. Overall maternal gut microbiome
Erin C. Davis, Courtney M. Jackson, Nichole S. Diaz, Jazmine Susana, Ashley Nelson, Richard Insel, Antti E. Seppo, Kirsi M. Järvinen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Dietary, Economic, and Social Practices of a Neolithic Funnel Beaker Community in Wanna, Germany, Through Raw Material and Organic Residue Analyses of Pottery

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study details the analysis of an assemblage of Funnel Beaker pottery from Wanna in Northern Germany investigated using petrographic, geochemical, and organic residue analyses. The analyses revealed specialized production of pottery vessels for funerary contexts, but that domestic and funerary pottery were used intensively to process ...
I. L. Wiltshire, K. Struckmeyer, A. Behrens, M. Mennenga, M. Roffet‐Salque   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiology of lameness in dairy cows [PDF]

Four visits were made to 50 dairy farms in England and Wales between February 2003 and February 2004 and a further three visits to 42 of these farms between February 2005 and February 2006. At each visit the locomotion of all cows was scored (15,597 cows,
Barker, Zoe Elizabeth
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What Endocrinologists Should Know About Iodine: Population Deficiency, Individual Excess and Misinformation in the United Kingdom

Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Iodine deficiency, once considered eliminated in the United Kingdom, has re‐emerged, particularly among women of reproductive age, in whom requirements are increased during pregnancy and lactation. The declining consumption of dairy and white fish, the emerging use of unfortified plant‐based milk alternatives, and the absence of a national ...
Peter N. Taylor, Malcolm Prentice, Sarah Bath, Emilie Combet, Nadia Schoenmakers, Vicki E. Smith, Fraser W. Gibb, Nicola Zammitt, Onyebuchi Okosieme, Kristien Boelaert, John Lazarus, Mark Vanderpump   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selective Breeding in Organic Dairy Production [PDF]

, 2009
Organic dairy farming started to take off in the early 1990s, when the European Union laid down organic standards for animal production. Until now, however, only incidental steps have been taken towards organic breeding and organic farmers mainly use ...
Nauta, W.J., Nauta, Wytze
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From Coase to culture? Visible Hands Build Equilibria

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay proposes that the classic distinction between firms and markets in Ronald Coase's 1937 paper ‘The nature of the firm’ (Economica, vol. 4, pp. 386–405) be gracefully retired, having been duly celebrated for its field‐launching contribution to organizational economics.
Robert Gibbons
wiley   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Management Techniques to Improve Silage Quality

, 2017
This presentation, which was given on February 16th during the 71st Annual Convention : 2017 Virginia State Feed Association & Nutritional Management “Cow” College, describes management techniques to improve silage quality, specifically packing, sealing,
Muck, Rich
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