Probiotics were first used in animal feed in the 1970s. The FAO and WHO definition from 2001 is the most widely accepted: ‘Live microorganisms, which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host.’ This definition implies a direct relationship between the probiotic and the health of the person or animal that receives it. Probiotics registered for poultry feed fall in...

ion for IBs because if it is not defined clearly which leads to ambiguity in discussions and publications. In TALL, the agent-role diagram and the role-interaction diagram have been used to model agents, roles, and the (dynamic) interactions between them. However, the choice to draw the agent-role diagram at the instance level and to draw the role-interaction diagram at the type level is not sc...

Research in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is emerging, motivated by the need for improved road safety and environmental concerns. In Europe, many traffic fatalities occur each year and the transportation industry is one of the largest emitting industry of greenhouse gases. These problems can be mitigated by the use of vehicular networks, safety applications can directly affec...

In this thesis, we answer several questions about the behaviour of prover-verifier interactions under parallel repetition when quantum information is allowed, and the verifier acts independently in them. We first consider the case in which a value is associated with each of the possible outcomes of an interaction. We prove that it is not possible for the prover to improve on the optimum average...

Biometric authentication is a promising solution for secure authentication. However, the storage of biometric data may lead to security and privacy problems. A Helper Data System (HDS) is introduced to solve these problems. HDS offers the capability to extract information from noisy data while maintaining the confidentiality. There are two types of HDS, which are Fuzzy Extractor (FE) and Secure...

The experiment was investigated to survey of yield and yield components of sunflower cultivars under drought stress in 2012 in Kabootatabad of Esfahan farm. An experiment was conducted in split plot and was designed in randomized complete block with three replications. Irrigation was as main plots in 3 levels (control (normal irrigation), irrigation of 130 mm evaporation from pan evaporation, i...