High-fiber content of distillers dried grains with soluble (DDGS) is partially responsible for its low ME, which may be increased with dietary inclusion of non-starch polysaccharidase (NSPase). Broiler chicks (7-d-old, 6 chicks/pen, 6–7 pens/diet) were randomly allotted to 4 treatments with free access to feed and water. Corn and DDGS (20%) diets were supplemented or not with a proprietary mixt...

A simple method is described whereby millimicromole amounts of extensively purified N5-methyltetrahydrofolatehomocysteine transmethylase (vitamin Blz transmethylase) can be chemically propylated to yield an inhibited vitamin Blz enzyme which is reactivated with light. The procedure consists of a short incubation of the enzyme with propyl iodide in the presence of reduced flavin mononucleotide a...

Recently, Majda and Souganidis have presented a rigorous asymptotic theory governing the large-scale renormalized ame front dynamics for a convection-reaction-di usion system involving KPP type chemistries and small scale turbulence. This theory is valid in the context of an in nitely thin reaction layer. Embid, Majda, and Souganidis have explored this rigorous theory within the context of a sh...

Mutations in the gene encoding 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2, 11beta-HSD2 (HSD11B2), explain the molecular basis for the syndrome of apparent mineralocorticoid excess (AME), characterized by severe hypertension and hypokalemic alkalosis. Cortisol is the offending mineralocorticoid in AME, as the result of a lack of 11beta-HSD2-mediated cortisol to cortisone inactivation. In this st...

A dose-response experiment with 6 dietary energy levels (2,600, 2,700, 2,800, 2,900, 3,000, 3,100 kcal of AME /kg) was conducted to study the effects of dietary energy on growth performance and carcass quality of White Pekin ducks from 2 to 6 wk of age. Six hundred 14-d-old White Pekin ducks were randomly divided to 6 dietary treatments, each containing 5 replicate pens with 10 males and 10 fem...

The trappingandtransport of sootaggregatesbetween a burningsuspendeddroplet and its  ame in a convectionfree (microgravity) environment are discussed. Many researchers have utilized the suspended droplet method for studyingdroplet combustion in microgravitywhere the intent is to create a spherically symmetric burning process. In the ideal case, soot particles are trapped in a spherical shell-l...

Changes in ow strain and mixture composition on the order of a ame time scale are characteristic of many practical combustion processes. Accurately predicting the unsteady reponse of burning to these changes requires detailed modeling of species transport and chemical kinetics. This thesis formulates a detailed one-dimensional computational model for arbitrary unsteady conditions of strain and ...

The aim of the study is to determine the angiogenesis effect of Astragalus membranaceus extract (AME) on myocardium of rats with MI in vivo and to study its possible mechanisms involved in vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGF), cluster of differentiation 34 (CD34) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). A Sprague-Dawley rat model of MI was established by ligation of the left anterior...

The genus Diaea Thorell, 1869 contains 75 known species with the type species D. dorsata (Fabricius, 1777). It is distributed worldwide, and about half of the species currently assigned to this genus are found in Australasia (Platnick 2014). Four Diaea species have been recorded from China, D. subdola O. P.-Cambridge, 1885, D. suspiciosa O. P.Cambridge, 1885, D. mikhailovi Zhang, Song & Zhu, 20...