New procedures have been developed for the continuous measurement of energy expenditure in finisher pigs. Energy expenditure is measured from oxygen consumption calculated as the product of cardiac output and the difference in blood oxygen content between arterial and mixed venous blood (Fick principle). Key features of this approach have been the use of new technology to measure cardiac output...

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a genetic disorder characterised by hypo-/hyperpigmentation, increased sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV)-radiation and an up to 2000-fold increased skin cancer risk. Cells from XP-patients are defective in nucleotide excision repair (NER) responsible for repair of UV-induced DNA damage. This defect accounts for their mutator phenotype but does not predict their incre...

The reaction of furylacrylic acid with cyclopentadiene in toluene gave the expected Diels-Alder endo-and exo-adductsin -1 : 1 ratio. The adducts were separated by iodolactonization method to provide 3-endo-(2'-furyl) bicyclo 12.2.11 hept-5-ene- 2-exo-carboxylic acid and 3-exo-(2'-fury1)bicyclo 12.2.11 hept-5-ene-2-endocarboxylic acid. Esterification of these acids by MeI / HMPA gave the exp...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product (XP, Diamond V, Cedar Rapids, IA) on in vitro ruminal fermentation of single forage and mixed diets. In Exp. 1, an in vitro test was used to determine the effects of various concentrations (0, 1, 2, and 3 g/L) of XP on ruminal fermentation of the major forage sources of China (rice straw...

Introducing Extreme Programming (XP) to an industrial software development team usually involves technical and professional aspects as well as social and organizational ones. The introducing of a new software development method in general and XP in particular into a software project team that operates in the army emphasizes and extends these issues. In this paper we present a process through wh...

Rosenthal [R] introduced the Lp space Xp in 1971. Among its interesting properties are that it contains and is contained in isomorphs of lp ⊕ l2, but is not isomorphic to a complemented subspace of lp⊕ l2. These properties have made Xp rather resistant to standard approaches to classifying its complemented subspaces. For example it was first proved that Xp was primary in [JO2] where the device ...

XP is a culture not a method. As a culture, XP has significant appeal to those seeking a more humane and effective way to develop software. Recognition of XP as a culture, and establishing mechanisms for expanding that culture, is essential for success. However, characterization of XP as a culture, by outsiders, is a significant threat to adoption, unless the XP community acknowledges being a c...

Cellulase production by a Cellulomonas sp., isolated in 1985 from forest humus soil along the border of the Caspian Sea in Iran, was investigated. This strain secreted endo-and exo-cellulases in the culture medium, but some of the enzymes produced remained cell membrane bound. Cell bound enzymes were released by various treatments. The highest amount of endo-glucanase (up to 95%) and exo-gl...