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One involved the test firing of a chemical artillery shell, another the burning of 160 U.S. gallons (600 liters) of a nerve agent in an open-air pit and in the third a jet aircraft spraying nerve agent in a target area about 27 mi (43 km) west of Skull Valley. The third event is usually connected to the Skull Valley sheep kill.
Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a United States Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah and 13 miles (21 km) south of the 2,624-square-mile (6,800 km 2) Utah Test and Training Range.
The Australian Sheep-Goat Scale (ASGS) is a questionnaire conceived by Michael Thalbourne to determine the extent to which the respondent believes in the paranormal.The description "Australian" is given because the test was devised in Adelaide, South Australia, and to distinguish it from other nations' instruments (such as the Icelandic Sheep-Goat Scale).
The test is based on the capacity of an individual's serum to lyse sheep erythrocytes coated with anti-sheep antibodies (preferably rabbit IgG). The individual's serum is diluted until a minimum concentration of 50% of the sheep's red blood cells are lysed. This is recorded as the CH50.
A sheepdog trial – also herding event, stock dog trial or simply dog trial — is a competition or test of the working abilities of dogs of herding breeds.It is a type of dog sport that emerged in the 1860s in New Zealand.
E-rosetting is used in the identification of T cells where a T cells CD2 surface protein is bound to a sugar based LFA-3 homologue on the surface of a sheep red blood cell. [1] Because the LFA-3 homologue is only present on the surface of sheep red blood cells other species red blood cells can not be used in this type of rosetting. [citation ...
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No treatment is available for affected sheep. [25] A test performed by sampling a small amount of lymphatic tissue from the third eyelid is now available. [27] In the UK in 2001, the Blair ministry implemented a National Scrapie Plan, which encouraged breeding from sheep that are genetically more resistant to scrapie. This is intended to ...