Pigs were weaned at 16 to 20 days of age and fed diets containing either dried whey or 6% dried porcine solubles (DPS), partially replacing dried whey protein, and one of two combinations of feed additives (either ZnO + CSP 250 or CuSO4 + Mecadox) in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement. The diets were fed for 2 weeks and followed by a common diet for 3 weeks. Feeding the DPS-containing diet during we...

Tools for building production systems encounter the problem of low performance, and many researchers are working on the improvements of performance of these tools. This paper proposes a distributed approach for inferring production systems. The resulting distributed production systems are expected to be built over distributed systems with broadcast capability, and production rules on different ...

We will present two self-paced reading studies that provide new evidence on the incrementality of semantic interpretation, in particular with regard to the notion of discourse complexity as introduced by Gibson's distance-based dependency locality theory (DLT; cf. Gibson, 1998, 2000). More specifically, we will focus on the contribution of referential processing on sentence complexity. The expe...

The aim of this study was to compare the two types of drug-eluting stents with histological analysis in porcine coronary restenosis model. Pigs were randomized into two groups in which the coronary arteries (12 pigs, 12 coronaries in each group) had either biolimus-eluting stent with biodegradable polymer (BPS) or sirolimus-eluting stent with durable polymer (DPS). Radiological analysis was per...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates isolated effects of vection and optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) on visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) provoked by rotating optokinetic drum patterns. BACKGROUND VIMS was the subject of recent standardization activities, but the effects of OKN have not been studied in the absence ofvection. METHOD Experiment 1 suppressed OKN by eye fixation and examined VIM...

Synaptic vesicle (SV) release is spatially and temporally regulated by a network of proteins that form the presynaptic active zone (AZ). The hallmark of most AZs is an electron-dense projection (DP) surrounded by SVs. Despite their importance for our understanding of triggered SV release, high-resolution analyses of DP structures are limited. Using electron microscopy, we show that DPs at Caeno...

AIMS This research sought (a) to investigate the similarities and differences in how pharmaceutical services are provided by community pharmacies (CPs) and dispensing doctor practices (DPs) and (b) to identify the issues relevant to determining the quality of pharmaceutical services in these settings. BACKGROUND UK pharmaceutical services, including dispensing prescriptions and public health ...

Since the adoption of Abney’s (1987) influential proposal that noun phrases are (at most) DPs, the hypothesis that not all noun phrases in all languages are DPs has been widely debated. A particularly interesting case in this respect is presented by Slavic languages lacking overt articles such as Russian or Serbo-Croatian: are noun phrases in such languages ever DPs, always DPs, or sometimes DP...

Currently valid itch intensity scales, such as the visual analogue scale (VAS), are indispensable, but they can be influenced by the patient's overall health status. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Dynamic Pruritus Score (DPS), a new instrument comparing reduction in current pruritus with a defined earlier time-point. Eighty-one randomly selected adults...