The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of transportation and commingling on measures of the acute-phase protein response in newly weaned beef calves. Thirty-two (Exp. 1; average BW = 266 +/- 20.8 kg) and thirty-six (Exp. 2; average BW = 222 +/- 34.6 kg) Brahman-crossbred calves were randomly allotted to one of four treatments (2 x 2 factorial arrangement [transportation x com...

Adrizal, P.H. Patterson, R.M. Hulet, and R.M. Bates Department of Poultry Science, and Department of Horticulture, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 Abstract Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the potential of plant species to trap NH3 discharged from poultry houses. The four plant species (cedar, locust, poplar, and grass) used in experiment (Exp) 1 and four species (spr...

Two experiments were conducted to estimate standardized P retention (SPR) values of dicalcium phosphate (DCP), monocalcium phosphate (MCP), and monopotassium phosphate (MKP) in broilers. In total, ninety-six 22-d-old male broilers with similar BW (780 g average) were used in each experiment. The chicks were randomly allotted to 1 of 4 treatments (P-free, DCP, MCP, or MKP diets) with 6 replicate...

The Gaussian kernel encourages similarity between inputs based on their Euclidean distance. Because we’re not dealing with probabilities which must sum to 1, we can omit the normalization constant found in the Gaussian distribution. But the shape is the same: we strongly encourage similarity among nearby inputs, while as inputs get further away, we encourage similarity by an amount that decreas...

Lemma 2. For any r∗ ∈ (r, r̃) and ε > 0, there exist η̄ > 0 and ρ̄ < r/r∗ such that for any (η, ρ) < (η̄, ρ̄), conditions (3)-(2) below admit a solution (x0, x̂, θ0, θ00) that satisfies θ0 ≤ θ00, |x0 − x∗| < ε, ̄̄θ0 − θ∗ ̄̄ < ε, ̄̄θ00 − θ∗∗ ̄̄ < ε, and x̂ < −1/ε. 1−Ψ(x−θ σ ) = r − (r − ρr∗)[Ψ(x 0−θ0 σ )−Ψ(x 0−θ00 σ )] (1) 1−Ψ( x̂−θ0 σ ) = r + [r∗ρ+ r∗(1− ρ) exp( r ∗−r η )− r][Ψ( x̂−θ 0 σ )−Ψ( x̂−θ 00 σ )] (2) θ0...

The implication-realisation model of melodic expectancy (Narmour, 1990) posits two independent cognitive systems: one which reflects the top-down influences of acquired stylistic knowledge; and another which consists of innate melodic schemata based on the Gestalt principles. While there exists empirical support for both aspects of the model, the results presented here question the need to invo...

In two experiments, a computerized on-demand feeding system coupled with a PIT tag monitoring device was used to continuously record the triggering activity by ca. 50 individual sea bass for 55 days (Exp. 1, initial average body weight and coefficient of variation, CV: 299 g, 15%) and 69 days (Exp. 2, 157 g, 13%). Each group was stocked in 1 m3 tanks and exposed to a water temperature of 21 ± 1...

in this paper, we propose and study exp-kumaraswamy distribution. some of its properties  are derived, including the density function, hazard rate function, quantile function, moments,  skewness  and kurtosis.   adata set isused to illustrate an application of the proposed distribution. also, we obtain a new distribution by transformation onexp-kumaraswamy distribution.   new distribution is an...