This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-tofinish, farrow-to-weanling, weanling-to-feeder, and mixed operations. Findings confirm appreciable differences in efficien...

Feeder cattle are fattened to become fed live cattle six months later. The U.S. feeder cattle industry is intensively competitive, so that market efficiency suggests feeder cattle prices should fully reflect feed prices and information on future fed cattle prices. Employing a long time series (1979-2004) of feeder cattle futures, live cattle futures, and local corn prices, we test whether compl...

The primary heat transport system of a typical CANDU®-6 nuclear power reactor contains 760 feeder pipes. These feeders carry the coolant between the inlet or outlet headers and the individual fuel channels. Inspection requirements that developed in feeders in the 1990’s led to rapid development of NDE technology to evaluate feeder integrity. The NDE technology had to deal with the complex and v...

A multi-state outbreak investigation of Salmonella Typhimurim cases associated with pet snakes and the frozen vacuum-packed rodents used to feed them identified a Texas frozen feeder rodent facility (Supplier A) as the source of the Salmonella-infected frozen rodents. Texas authorities collected samples directly from Supplier A. Seven Salmonella-positive samples out of 49 environmental swabs we...

On typical medium voltage feeder, Load side management means power energy consumption controlling at connected loads. Each load has various amount of reaction to essential parameters variation that collection of these reactions is mentioned feeder behavior to each parameter variation. Temperature, humidity, and energy pricing variation or major event happening and power utility announcing to th...

Deregulation eliminates the boundary of the territory of the monopoly power industry. Competition forces utilities to improve power quality as well as to reduce investment and operation costs. Feeder imbalance describes a situation in which the voltages of a three-phase voltage source are not identical in magnitude, or the phase differences between them are not 120 electrical degrees, or both. ...

Selective differentiation of cells morphologically identical with tissue mast cells at the light microscope level has been described by Ginsburg and Sachs (5) and Ginsburg and Lagunoff (4) in a mouse tissue culture system composed of a C3H feeder layer overplated with horse serum-sensitized C57BI lymphoid cells . Histochemical evaluation indicates that the granules of the tissue culturederived ...

Human hematopoietic stem cells (hHSCs) cannot be maintained in vitro for extended time periods because they rapidly differentiate or die. To extend in vitro culture time, researchers have made attempts to use human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) to create feeder layers that mimic the stem cell niche. We have conducted an array of experiments including adipocytes in these feeder layers that inhi...