Size distribution of barley kernels

Microflora of barley kernels.

Numbers and kinds of microflora were determined in 160 samples of barley grown in different regions of the United States; microflora were more abundant in the grains grown in the central states than in those grown in the western states. During steeping and germination in micromalting equipment, the number of colonies of filamentous fungi increased from two to five times, colonies of yeasts from...

Effects of barley grain particle size on dairy cow performance

Mono-Size Distribution Index (MSDI): A new criterion for the quantitative description of size distribution

Graphical size distribution is widely used in different fields of science and studies related to powders, droplets, bubbles, and pores. However, in some condition it may also be necessary to express the size distribution quantitatively. In spite of there being several suggested ways to quantify size distribution in the literature, some of these approaches are not applicable for many methods and...

Kernels of minimum size gossip schemes

The main part of gossip schemes are the kernels of their minimal orders. We give a complete characterization of all kernels that may appear in gossip schemes on simple graphs with a minimum number of calls. As consequences we prove several results on gossip schemes, e.g. the minimum number of rounds of a gossip scheme with a minimum number of calls is computed. Moreover, in the new context we g...

Boundary Kernels for Distribution Function Estimation

• Boundary effects for kernel estimators of curves with compact supports are well known in regression and density estimation frameworks. In this paper we address the use of boundary kernels for distribution function estimation. We establish the ChungSmirnov law of iterated logarithm and an asymptotic expansion for the mean integrated squared error of the proposed estimator. These results show t...