three experiments were conducted to study the chemical composition and the effect of variety, cultivation area as well as enzyme supplementation on the apparent and true metabolisable energy of triticale. in the first experiment, the precision-fed rooster assay was employed to determine the true metabolisable energy corrected for nitrogen in triticale. in the second and third experiments, total...

Until now, there have been various studies concerning bottle-fed and breast-fed children. Prevalence of allergic manifestations like eczema and asthma among bottle-fed children is much higher than healthy controls. In this study, we found that respiratory infection for breast-fed children was 3.1%, whereas in bottle-fed children it was 25.1%for gut disorders, 9.2% in breast-fed vs.13.1 % f...

introduction: this study aimed to assess the incidence of breastfeeding-associated hypernatremia and related risk factors among hospitalized hyperbilirubinemic neonates. methods: this prospective study was conducted at nemazee hospital affiliated to shiraz university of medical sciences during one year to determine the association between hypernatremia (serum sodium concentration of >150 meq/l)...

In this issue of The Oncologist, we begin a series of articles that consider the often problematic challenge of understanding and applying genomic information to the practice of oncology. Bardia et al. [1] describe the genomic findings from a patient with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer after progression on hormonal therapy. In this case, tumor profiling revealed an ESR1 mutation ...

Optimal productivity of S. cerevisiae cultures can be achieved through the regulation of the ethanol concentration at a low value. In this study, a robust control strategy is developed, which requires very little knowledge about the process, i.e. only one yield coefficient and the on-line measurement of the ethanol concentration. A Youla parametrization is selected in order to reject asymptotic...

A process comprising two-step fed-batch cultivation has been investigated for the production of ectoines using the halophilic bacterium Halomonas boliviensis DSM 15516(T). The first cultivation was performed under optimal conditions for cell growth and resulted in cell mass concentration of about 41 g l(-1) after 24 h of cultivation. During the second cultivation at higher salt concentration, a...

The present study was designed for the production and optimization of the C12-C14 sophorolipid, using the yeast Candida bombicola ATCC-22214. The fermentation was carried under fed-batch culture conditions i.e., maintaining 15% coconut oil and 10% glucose as hydrophobic and hydrophilic carbon sources, respectively. A maximum yield 54.0 g/L (in 234 h) was achieved. A significant antimicrobial ac...

In monitoring and controlling wastewater treatment processes, on-line information of nutrient dynamics is very important. However, these variables are determined with a significant time delay. Although the final effluent quality can be analyzed after this delay, it is often too late to make proper adjustments. In this paper, a neural network approach, a software sensor, was proposed to overcome...

The objectives of these studies were to predict the effects of roasting and extrusion temperatures of whole soybeans (SB) on intestinal protein digestibility in cattle. Intestinal digestibility was assessed with a two-stage in vitro or in situ ruminal incubation/precision-fed cecectomized rooster bioassay. In Exp. 1, whole SB (raw SB or SB roasted to 141, 149, or 157 degrees C exit temperature ...

sunn pest, eurygaster integriceps put., is the most important pest of wheat and barley in most producing regions of iran, including lorestan province. spatial distribution and fixed precision sequential sampling plans of sunn pest by the use of two quadrate sizes 0.25 and 0.5 m2 were investigated in rainfed wheat fields in borujerd during 2004 and 2005. based on r square of regression, taylor&a...