To investigate the impact of cimaterol (CIM) on muscle protein turnover, carcass and muscle composition, muscle cathepsin B + L activity and meat tenderness, 21-d-old broiler chickens (n = 88) were assigned to dietary treatments of either 0 or 1 ppm CIM. Fractional synthesis rates (FSR), fractional accretion rates (FAR), proximate composition and collagen content were determined in the breast m...

Healthcare in the United States is expensive and becoming more so every year. Policy and decision makers increasingly need information on costs, as well as effectiveness and safety, in order to formulate health-care strategies that are both clinically effective and financially responsible. Many people believe the benefits of complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) exceed its costs. Surveys...

In the network economy, successful information management practices rely on rich, relevant and accurate information from and about firm stakeholders (Alavi and Leidner 2001; Deighton, Peppers, and Rogers 1994). Marketing scholars and practitioners have explored the development of successful stakeholder information management practices (Blattberg, Glazer, and Little 1994) and customer informatio...

UNLABELLED Conventional imaging modalities (CIMs) have limited sensitivity and specificity for detection of metastatic prostate cancer. We examined the potential of a first-in-class radiofluorinated small-molecule inhibitor of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), N-[N-[(S)-1,3-dicarboxypropyl]carbamoyl]-4-(18)F-fluorobenzyl-l-cysteine ((18)F-DCFBC), to detect metastatic hormone-naïve (HNP...

Families of coupled solitons $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric physical models with gain and loss in fractional dimension settings without cross-interactions modulation (CIM), are reported. Profiles, powers, stability areas, propagation dynamics the obtained investigated. By comparing results CIM, we find that area model CIM is much broader than one CIM. Remarkably, oscillating can also exist same coeff...

Model transformation is one of the main issues and key elements in Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Computation Independent Model (CIM) to Platform Independent Model (PIM) transformation is the first transformation in MDA and it is very important in designing high quality software. Several CIM to PIM transformation approaches have emerged, they have not been objectively analysed yet. In this pa...

This paper outlines present and future directions for software in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. The three major CIM components -production management, data management, and communications management -are described in terms of software available today and future software based on emerging international standards. Key standards efforts such as product data exchange, open s...

Good organizational structure design is increasingly important in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environments. It can reduce problems due to the changing roles of organizational units and information technologies. This paper presents observations about organizational structures for CIM and discusses the basic approaches. An initial framework for evaluating CIM organizational structures...

Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) and myopathy (CIM) are major complications of severe critical illness and its management. CIP/CIM prolongs weaning from mechanical ventilation and physical rehabilitation since both limb and respiratory muscles can be affected. Among many risk factors implicated, sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and multiple organ failure appear to play a cr...

A robust sparse least-mean mixture-norm (LMMN) algorithm is proposed, and its performance is appraised in the context of estimating a broadband multi-path wireless channel. The proposed algorithm is implemented via integrating a correntropy-induced metric (CIM) penalty into the conventional LMMN algorithm to modify the basic cost function, which is denoted as the CIM-based LMMN (CIM-LMMN) algor...