Sentence examples for maintenance pig from inspiring English sources

Alyeska Pipeline Service, which operates the much larger trans-Alaskan pipeline, performs the procedure every three years, and also runs a "maintenance pig" through the pipeline at least every 14 days, testified Kevin Hostler, Alyeska's president, at the hearing.

Longissimus from maintenance CMH pigs also tended to have less drip loss than that from control pigs (4.06% versus 5.31%).

Ardeid wading birds are the primary maintenance hosts, pigs are the main amplifying hosts, and Culex mosquitoes are the primary mosquito vectors.

However, although porcine skin offers a closer anatomical comparison to human skin than loose-skinned rodents, and heals primarily through re-epithelialisation with minimal contraction, the cost involved in the breeding and maintenance of pigs poses a formidable barrier to research, as does their poor genetic tractability.

The swine industry should continue to invest in the maintenance of healthy pig populations aiming to reduce the need for medical treatment [ 14].

Percentage drip loss of longissimus at 24 h postmortem was less (P<0.05) for pigs fed maintenance and late load CMH compared to pigs fed early load CMH (4.06 and 4.15% versus 5.76%).

She said that unless warm oil was flushed through the system soon, engineers were concerned that water separating from standing oil in the pipeline could gather as ice around a mechanical maintenance device called a "pig" that is currently in the pipeline.

Such extensive concerted evolution suggests that, at least in mouse and guinea pig, both maintenance of sequence homogeneity and increased gene dosage are important for these species.

Results for pigs fed early load CMH were inconsistent compared to pigs fed maintenance or late load CMH.

Following the 10 exposures and then 48 h of ad libitum maintenance diet, the guinea pigs were re-acclimated to the 14-h overnight fast, 4-h choice test (using two containers of maintenance diet) and 6-h of a single container of maintenance diet for four days.

Endometrial synthesis of prostaglandins (PG) is essential for the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy in pigs [ 27, 28].