Sentence examples for closed flocks from inspiring English sources

As SCOPS control is not prescriptive and a range of different diagnostics are available, best and worst case scenarios were presented, comparing the cheapest methods (e.g. egg counts without larval culture) and management situations (e.g closed flocks not requiring quarantine treatments) with the most laborious and expensive.

Although fights were registered only in the last third part of the experiment, this probably represents the social relationships throughout the experiment because dominance rank is known to be consistent at long-term (between seasons) in closed flocks [42].

Using a genetic-epidemiological model that model that relates PrP genotypes only to scrapie susceptibility, Woolhouse et al. [8] predicted that scrapie will be eliminated within decades or centuries in closed flocks without human intervention.

The CV of the assay was assumed to be 3%; the penetrance values are proportional to the probability of an assay value of 0.675 given the genotype As the stud Merino sheep industry is likely to use a test for the genotype at the Agouti locus, small, highly selected and relatively closed flocks were simulated.

Fearing a window will close, Cubans flock to the U.S. Cuba ordering its dissidents to skip meeting with Obama.

We assumed the flock closed for ewes renewal.

When it closed and vacationers started flocking to the ocean beaches, Sea Cliff's reputation as a resort town flagged.

Roads are closed to traffic as locals flock to buy unshelled peanuts directly from the farmers, or sample them prepared in different ways: boiled, roasted, or salted.

A 1950 "Aylesbury Duckling Day" campaign to boost the reputation of the Aylesbury duck had little effect; by the end of the 1950s the last significant farms had closed, other than a single flock in Chesham owned by Mr L.

Hours after the maker of Twinkies, Hostess Brands, announced its plans to close forever, people flocked to stores to fill their shopping baskets with boxes of Twinkies, which are cream-filled sponge cakes, and other snacks made by the company — Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and Zingers.

And by 1972, the monks of the Newark Abbey closed the school and decamped with their dwindling flock to the suburbs as well.