This study was conducted to investigate the effects of garlic powder (GP) black seed (BS) and plant premix (GP and BS) in the diet on broiler growth performance and intestinal morphology. included 480 Hubbard broiler chicks(day-old). There were 4 treatment groups each consisting of 3 replicates. The four dietary treatments consisted of a control (basal diet), basal diet +0.5% GP, basal diet +0....

A new lignan glucoside was isolated from defatted sesame seed flour and its structure was established as sesamolinol diglucoside [2-(3-methoxy-4-(O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-->6)-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside)phenoxyl)-6-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-cis-3,7-dioxabicyclo-(3.3.0)-octane] by mass and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. A quantitative analysis of 65 sesame seed samples showed that thi...

A computer vision system was used to evaluate seed coat and cotyledon cracks in soybeans. White light in the front-lighting mode with a black background for the soybeans was the best condition for acquiring video images of soybeans suitable for subsequent processing. Image processing algorithms were developed using the software supplied with the vision system computer. Crack detection was most ...

I examine the role of programming parameters in determining the accuracy of Genetic Programming for option pricing. I use Monte Carlo simulations to generate stock and option price data needed to develop a Genetic Option Pricing Program. I simulate data for two different stock price processes – a Geometric Brownian process and a JumpDiffusion process. In the jump-diffusion setting, I seed the G...

We describe a solitonic solution-generating technique for the five-dimensional General Relativity. Reducing the five-dimensional problem to the four-dimensional one, we can systematically obtain single-rotational axially symmetric vacuum solutions. Applying the technique for a simple seed solution, we have previously obtained the series of stationary solutions which includes S-rotating black ri...

Background & Aim: Despite valuable medicinal properties of safflower, breeding new varieties and development of the crop culture area has been limited due to the lack of genetic variation for some crucial characteristics as resistance to diseases and pests like safflower fly. In this study, populations of wild safflower, C. oxyacanthus were collected from western, central and ...

Cone and seed characteristics of Anatolian black pine were investigated in a clonal seed orchard for two years, 2002 and 2006. The orchard, originated from Kastamonu-Karadere seed stand was established in 1993 by using 1 year-old grafts in an area of 13 ha, at Hanönü-Günlüburun, northern Turkey and includes 30 clones. The results showed that, significant variation exists among clones for 14 of ...

Among the promising medicinal plants, Nigella sativa, also known as Black seeds and Black cumin, has been called the “Blessed Seed” for its miraculous curing ability. Present study has been carried out to evaluate anti-oxidant properties at different germination stages of seeds of Nigella sativa. The level of antioxidant enzymes, SOD and CAT decreased gradually in the samples from first day to ...

The present work focused on identification of allelochemicals from the leaf leachates of Gmelina arborea and analyzing its influence on the germination of red gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea in terms of the levels of some important germination enzymes like acid phosphatase, catalase, peroxidase, and amylase. The study showed that allelopathic effects were more predominant in chickpea...

Primordial stars are likely to be very massive ≥ 30 M⊙, form in isolation, and will likely leave black holes as remnants in the centers of their host dark matter halos in the mass range 10 − 10 M⊙. Such early black holes, at redshifts z∼ 10, could be the seed black holes for the many supermassive black holes found in galaxies in the local universe. If they exist, their mergers with nearby super...