Different protein-energy ratios in feedlot diets may effect several combinations of amounts of amino acids and glucose available for absorption in the small intestine. ln this regard, the effect of protein concentration and degradation, and energy content of the diet were studied in two 4 x 4 Latin Square trials with ruminal and duodenally fistulated steers. In the first trial, steers were fed ...

Massive distributed cooperative computing in networks involves marshaling large collections of network nodes possessing the necessary computational resources. In order for the willing nodes to act in a concerted way they must first discover one another. This is the general setting of the Resource Discovery Problem (RDP). There are solutions for this problem that achieve impressive efficiency in...

One primiparous and 3 multiparous lactating Holstein cows fitted with ruminal and duodenal cannulas were used in a 4 x 4 Latin square design to determine the efficacy of adding urea to a corn silage-based diet on ruminal fermentation and microbial protein synthesis. Dietary treatments were 0, 0.3, 0.6, and 0.9% urea in diet dry matter (DM); urea was manually top dressed and incorporated into th...

Background Robotic distal pancreatectomy (RDP) has a better or comparable surgical outcome when compared with laparoscopic (LDP). However, whether the for these procedures in local, low-volume hospitals are those of typically larger centers described published reports remains unclear.

The block adjustment method can correct systematic errors in the bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) satellite system and effectively improve accuracy of InSAR-generated Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Presently, non-parametric methods, which use polynomial to model DEMs, are most frequently used spaceborne InSAR-DEM adjustment. However, methods not directly related physical...

This paper proposes Canicula, a locality-aware overlay multicast system. Its overlay network is constructed by node clustering based on network coordinate. According to the experimental results of both RDP and packets loss rate on PlanetLab, it shows that the performance of locality-aware overlay multicast is better than the other prevailing overlay multicast.

Abbreviations: MDR: Multi-Drug Resistant; ATCC: American Type Culture Collection; NBPC 30: Negative Breakpoint Combo 30; MIC: Minimum Inhibitory Concentration; OTUs: Operational Taxonomic Units; NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information; MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis; PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction; RDP: Ribosomal Database Project; HBMEC: Human Brain Microvascular End...