Pistachio fruit components, including hulls (mesocarps and epicarps), seed coats (testas), and kernels (seeds), all contribute to variable aflatoxin content in pistachios. Fresh pistachio kernels were individually inoculated with Aspergillus flavus and incubated 7 or 10 days. Hulled, shelled kernels were either left intact or wounded prior to inoculation. Wounded kernels, with or without the se...

The objective of this study was to assess the effect of substituting corn with soybean hulls on the ingestive behavior and nitrogen balance of Santa Ines lambs. A total of 25 lambs with an initial body weight of 20±2 kg at approximately six months of age, sheltered individually in stalls (1.10 m×1.0 m), considering an entirely casual experimental delineation. Soybean hulls were substituted for ...

Depth and visual hulls are useful for quick reconstruction and rendering of a 3D object based on a number of reference views. However, for many scenes, especially multi-object, these hulls may contain significant artifacts known as phantom geometry. In depth hulls the phantom geometry appears behind the scene objects in regions occluded from all the reference views. In visual hulls the phantom ...

Let (X,Γ) be a uniform space with its uniformity generated by a set of pseudo-metrics Γ. Let the symbol “ ' ” denote the usual infinitesimal relation on ∗X, and define a new infinitesimal relation “ ≈ ” on ∗X by writing x ≈ y whenever ∗ρ(x, p) ' ∗ρ(y, p) for each ρ ∈ Γ and each p ∈ X. We call (X,Γ) an S-space if the relations ' and ≈ coincide on fin(∗X). S-spaces are interesting because their n...

Polycomb group (PcG) proteins have been shown to affect growth and development in plants. To further elucidate their role in these processes in rice, we isolated and characterized a rice mutant which exhibits dwarfism, reduced seed setting rate, defective floral organ, and small grains. Map-based cloning revealed that abnormal phenotypes were attributed to a mutation of the Fertilization Indepe...

Soybean hulls have been successfully fed to ruminant animals as an economical substitute for hay. This feedstuff is a source of highly digestible fiber that does not contain starch. The purpose of this trial was to evaluate soybean hulls as a replacement fiber in horse diets. Four cecally cannulated Quarter Horse geldings, aged 6 to 10 yr and averaging 502 kg, were used in a 4 x 4 Latin square ...

Effects of percentage of roughage on growth, serum urea N, NEFA, and IGF-1 concentrations and wool, carcass, and fatty acid (FA) characteristics were investigated in Rambouillet wether lambs (n = 33). Lambs were individually fed ad libitum pelleted diets for 98 d containing 40% dried distillers grains and other ingredients, with 10% (CSH10), 20% (CSH20), or 30% (CSH30) cottonseed hulls replacin...

In this paper, we provide an abstract characterization of the inverse hulls semigroups associated with Markov shifts. As application give example shifts that are not conjugate, but have isomorphic hulls.

We discuss a new type of weak factorization system. Although these systems provide (up to isomorphism) uniquely determined decompositions of morphisms, in general they do not constitute orthogonal factorizations and are not even functorial. Nevertheless, they arise naturally, as injective hulls or projective covers in comma categories. Surprisingly, often injective hulls and projective covers c...