In several areas with a high density of animal production, manure is no longer exclusively considered as a fertiliser. In order to limit the production or a more environmental friendly use, efforts are done to reduce the mineral excretion. In such a context, both from governmental side as for the producer a reliable calculation of the on farm production is useful. Based on the input (feed) outp...

The evolution of disease requires a firm understanding of heterogeneity among pathogen strains and hosts with regard to the processes of transmission, movement, recovery, and pathobiology. In this chapter, we build on the basic methodologies outlined in the previous chapter to address the question of how to model the invasion and spread of diseases in heterogeneous environments, without making ...

J.S. Bell’s work has convinced many that correlations in violation of CHSH inequalities show that the world itself is non-local, and that there is an apparently essential conflict between any sharp formulation of quantum theory and relativity. Against this consensus, this paper argues that there is no conflict between quantum theory and relativity. Quantum theory itself helps us explain such (o...

A fifty (56) six day feeding trial was conducted with a view to assess the performance of growing rabbits fed graded levels of Senna occidentalis seedmeal(SOSM).Five experimental diets were compounded to contain Senna occidentalis seedmeal at concentration of 0, 2.5, 5 7.5 and 10% respectively. Twenty (20) growing rabbits of mixed sexes were randomly allotted to five dietary treatments in a ran...

In December, 1932, a disease presenting many of the characteristic features of small pox in man appeared in a colony of rabbits maintained for the study of problems of constitution and quickly assumed epidemic proportions with a high mortality in certain classes of animals. The nature of the disease and the origin of the outbreak were obscure, but the picture presented indicated that the diseas...

Introduction. It is the purpose of this paper to give some weaker analogues for polyhedral manifolds of well-known properties of combinatorial manifolds. This is now possible primarily because of the recent work of Mazur [3 ; 4] and M. Brown [l ]. A crucial issue in this area is the extent to which these analogues may be improved for arbitrary triangulated manifolds. We shall prove a theorem wh...

Quantum theory is a tremendously successful physical theory, but nevertheless suffers from two serious problems: the measurement problem and the problem of interpretational underdetermination. The latter, however, is largely overlooked as a genuine problem of its own. Both problems concern the doctrine of realism, but pull, quite curiously, into opposite directions. The measurement problem can ...

We have constructed a new speech data corpus, using the utterances of 100 elderly Japanese people, to improve speech recognition accuracy of the speech of older people. Humanoid robots are being developed for use in elder care nursing homes. Interaction with such robots is expected to help maintain the cognitive abilities of nursing home residents, as well as providing them with companionship. ...

Numerical solutions for Sommerfeld model in nonrelativistic case are presented for the scattering of a spinless extended charged body in a static Coulomb field of a fixed point charge. It is shown that differential cross section for extended body preserves the form of the Rutherford result with multiplier, not equal to one (as in classical case), but depending on the size of Sommerfeld particle...