We hypothesized that, at a common age endpoint, adipose tissue from corn-fed steers would be less sensitive to insulin than adipose tissue from hay-fed steers. Angus steers were assigned to either a corn-based diet (n = 6) or hay-based diet (n = 6) and fed to common days on feed. Steers fed the corn-based diet had 2.44 cm of fat thickness over the 12th thoracic rib, whereas hay-fed steers had 1...

There are several examples of heuristic rules first proposed from empirical observation, which eventually earned physicochemical validity after the fundamental derivation of a posteriori. This may be the case of Sherwood’s plot – for which a sound rationalization from first principles, entailing enthalpy and mass balances, is provided here; it applies to (fine) chemicals undergoing concentr...

Meta-analyses combine the results of multiple studies of a common question. Approaches based on effect size estimates from each study are generally regarded as the most informative. However, these methods can only be used if comparable effect sizes can be computed from each study, and this may not be the case due to variation in how the studies were done or limitations in how their results were...

Dynamic and static behavior of the X-H-*-π interactions in X-H-*-π(C6H6) (X = F, Cl, Br, I, HO, MeO, H2N, MeHN and Me2N) is elucidated by QTAIM-DFA (QTAIM dual functional analysis), which we proposed recently, as the first step to clarify various types of X-H-*-π interactions. The asterisk * emphasizes the existence of the bond critical point (BCP) on the interaction in question. Total electron...

During winter, aerial surveys are used to estimate densities of ducks that occupy open-water habitats. However, such surveys are ineffective for sampling forest-dwelling species, especially Aix sponsa (Wood Ducks), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallards), and Lophodytes cucullatus (Hooded Mergansers). We evaluated fi xed-radius plot (FRP) and Reynolds and Goodrum variable-radius plot (VRP) methods for es...

p(t | x) t x x x = 0.8 = 0.5 = 0.2 Figure 7: Plot of the conditional probability densities of the target data, for various values of x, obtained by taking vertical slices through the contours in Figure 6, for x = 0:2, x = 0:5 and x = 0:8. It is clear that the Mixture Density Network is able to capture correctly the multimodal nature of the target data density function at intermediate values of ...