A comparative slaughter trial was conducted with 36 F1 Nellore x Red Angus calves (12 steers, 12 bulls, and 12 heifers), averaging 274 kg of BW, to assess the net requirements of protein and energy for growth and maintenance. Three cattle from each group (i.e., steers, bulls, and heifers) were slaughtered at the beginning of the trial to determine the initial body composition. The remaining cal...

The high β operating regime of spherical tokamaks (ST), such as in NSTX and MAST, make them attractive fusion devices. To attain the high β’s, there is a need to heat and to drive currents in ST plasmas. While ST plasmas are overdense to conventional electron cyclotron (EC) waves, electron Bernstein waves (EBW) offer an attractive possibility both for heating and for driving plasma currents. We...

Audio classification has applications in a variety of contexts, such as automatic sound analysis, supervised audio segmentation and in audio information search and retrieval. Extended Baum-Welch (EBW) transformations are most commonly used as a discriminative technique for estimating parameters of Gaussian mixtures, though recently they have been applied in unsupervised audio segmentation. In t...

The native plant microbiome is composed of diverse microbial communities that influence overall health, with some species known to promote growth and pathogen resistance. Here, we show the antibacterial promoting activities autoclaved culture metabolites (ACM) from endophytic bacteria (NEB). These NEB were isolated a papaya cultivar (var. Cariflora) tolerant bacterial crown rot (BCR) caused by ...

At the EC-19 workshop there were ten presentations in the topic of diagnosing and heating plasmas with Electron Cyclotron Emission (ECE) and Electron Bernstein Wave (EBW). Innovations continue in designs of ECE systems while tried-and-true instruments still provide adequate data to explore new areas of research. Heterodyne radiometers and Michelson interferometers carry on as the bedrock of ECE...

Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems use statistical models of spoken language. These models are typically learned from corpora comprising many hours of transcribed speech. While a variety of machine learning approaches have been applied to this learning task, the optimal learning strategy is unknown. This thesis focusses upon a relatively recent and successful approach, the applic...

A mathematical model was developed to investigate the impact of level of Teladorsagia circumcincta larval pasture contamination and anthelmintic treatment on genetic parameter estimates for performance and resistance to parasites in sheep. Currently great variability is seen for published correlations between performance and resistance, with estimates appearing to vary with production environme...

The goal of this research was to develop empirical equations to predict chemical and physical compositions of the carcass and the body using the composition of the 9th- to 11th-rib section (rib(9-11)) and other measurements. A database (n = 246) from 6 studies was developed and comprised 37 bulls (BU), 115 steers (STR), and 94 heifers (HF), of which 132 were Nellore (NEL), 76 were NEL × Angus c...

The 316L thick plate electron beam welding (EBW) has been widely used in fusion test reactor manufacturing. Therefore, the numerical simulation of 50 mm austenitic stainless steel by two heat sources and experimental on microstructure residual stress have studied this article. In study, traditional source model (3D Gaussian source) composite (double ellipsoid superimposed 3D were proposed to si...