叉车轮胎的非正常磨损及预防

叉车的使用因素、行车机构技术状况、驾驶技术等影响叉车轮胎的非正常磨损，应通过加强轮胎维护、提高底盘维护质量、合理选择和搭配轮胎等加以预防。     

撕扯振动式嫩板栗脱蒲机试验研究

撕扯振动式嫩板栗脱蒲机脱蒲的剥净率和损伤率受各种因素的影响,为了得到较高的剥净率和较低的损伤率,需要根据不同的工艺参数进行优化。以撕扯振动式嫩板栗脱蒲机为研究对象,研究锯齿式辊子与沟槽式辊子之间间距、柔性振动辊子转速及倒入嫩板栗个数对脱蒲率的影响,采用单因素试验和正交试验方法安排撕扯振动式嫩板栗脱蒲机脱蒲试验。结果表明:单因素试验中锯齿形辊子与沟槽式辊子间间距为50mm时脱蒲效果最好;在正交试验中,锯齿形辊子与沟槽式辊子间间距为50mm、柔性振动辊子转速为560r/min、脱蒲时倒入嫩板栗个数为40个时效果最好。     

Intraocular melanoma in an alpaca

A case of primary intraocular melanoma in an alpaca is reported. This patient also presented with a mild normocytic, normochromic anemia and hypoproteinemia. These can be markers of an immunodeficiency syndrome associated with llamas. Although this patient did not appear to have clinical signs of this syndrome, its presence needed to be ruled out as animals affected with this syndrome are subject to recurrent severe debilitating diseases and death. To our knowledge, intraocular melanoma has not been previously reported in an alpaca.     

Schirmer tear test results in normal horses and ponies: effect of age,season, environment,sex, time of day and placement of strips

Tear production was evaluated in 39 horses and 29 ponies using Schirmer tear test strips to determine whether diurnal or weekly fluctuations occur, whether location of strip placement has an effect, if values are the same for both eyes in an animal and whether sex, age, stabling vs. pasture and winter vs. summer had an effect. There was no test in which the raw score was less than 10 mm, although there were many occasions where tear wetting exceeded 35 mm. Analysis of the raw (continuous) scores by linear regression provided no evidence that signalment, housing or season or location of strip placement affected results. The distribution of tear test scores for a 'population' of eyes did not differ when the right eye was compared with the left eye or when the same eye was compared at different times on the same day. Individual test wetting values for opposing eyes measured at the same time, and also wetting values for the same eye measured at different times on the same day sometimes differed substantially. In winter maximum tear wetting exceeded 35 mm more frequently in the STT I than in the STT II even in housed horses and ponies, but there was no consistent significant difference. There appears to be wide variability in the STT I in normal horses and ponies.     

Schirmer Tear Test in Clinically Normal Asian Elephants

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