Milk was obtained from two captive bred cheetahs. The nutrient content was 99.6 g protein; 64.8 g fat; and 40.21 g lactose per kg milk. Small amounts of oligosaccharides, glucose, galactose and fucose were noted. The protein fraction respectively consisted of 34.2 g caseins per kg milk and of 65.3 g whey proteins per kg milk. Very little variation in milk composition among the individual cheeta...

We investigate possible improvements to the existing algorithm for classifying EL TBoxes. We present a modified algorithm based on the well-known linear closure algorithm from relational databases. Despite its better worst-case complexity, surprisingly it turns out that this algorithm does not perform well in practice. We discuss optimizations to the existing algorithm and evaluate them using o...

a Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA b Department of Research and Conservation, Memphis Zoo, Memphis, TN 38112, USA c Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199004, Russia d Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33004, USA e Department o...

In South Africa, cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) occur as a relictual, unmanaged population of ‘free-roamers’, managed metapopulation across fenced reserves, and in various captive facilities. To ensure that the Cheetah Metapopulation Project (CMP) is not at risk losing overall genetic variation to drift or inbreeding, we propose interventions, including exchanges between free-roamers supplementatio...

Large service providers use load balancers to dispatch millions of incoming connections per second towards thousands servers. There are two basic yet critical requirements for a balancer: uniform distribution the across servers, which requires support advanced balancing mechanisms, and per-connection-consistency (PCC), i.e, ability map packets belonging same connection server even...

Within a large carnivore guild, subordinate competitors (African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, and cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus) might reduce the limiting effects of dominant competitors (lion, Panthera leo, and spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta) by avoiding them in space, in time, or through patterns of prey selection. Understanding how these competitors cope with one other can inform strategies for thei...

Background on Cheetah Paprika (CP) Extension services provided by CP consist of preliminary meetings to market paprika seed to farmers and teach them about the growing process, additional group trainings about farming techniques, individual support for growers provided by the field assistants, and information about grading and marketing the crop. The farmer receives extension services and a pac...