An'outline of the recentAgricultural Research Council (UK) proposals for assessing protein requirements of ruminants (ARC, 1980), is presented, The importance of considering both rumen degradable protein (RDP) and rumen undegradable protein (WYP) is n&d, Calculations of the protein requirements and formulation of rations for (i) a high yielding' cow in early lactation and (ii) a growing/fatteni...

Abstract—Hardware accelerators integrating to general purpose processors are increasingly employed to achieve lower power consumption and higher processing speed, however, energy consumption of high performance accelerators has become a great issue on large scale parallel computer system. We have investigated the applicability of Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) circuits as a part of superconductivity...

Here we report a benchmark of the effect of bootstrap cut-off values of the RDP Classifier tool in terms of data retention along the different taxonomic ranks by using Illumina reads. Results provide guidelines for planning sequencing depths and selection of bootstrap cut-off in taxonomic assignments.

Eight ruminally cannulated lactating cows from a study on the effects of dietary rumen degraded protein (RDP) on production and N metabolism were used to compare 15N, total purines, amino acid (AA) profiles, and urinary excretion of purine derivatives (PD) as microbial markers for quantifying the flow of microbial protein at the omasal canal. Dietary RDP was gradually decreased by replacing sol...

The very young open cluster (OC) NGC2244 in the Rosette Nebula was studied with field-star-decontaminated 2MASS photometry, which shows the main-sequence (MS) stars and an abundant pre-MS (PMS) population. Fundamental and structural parameters were derived with colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs), stellar radial density profiles (RDPs) and mass functions (MFs). Most previous studies centred NGC224...

The research problem considered in this dissertation, in its most broad setting, is a stochastic shortest path problem in the presence of a dynamic learning capability (SDL). Specifically, a spatial arrangement of possible-obstacles needs to be traversed as swiftly as possible, and the status of the obstacles may be disambiguated (at a cost) en route. No efficiently computable optimal protocol ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the combination of sorafenib and gefitinib in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN In this dose-escalation trial, patients received oral sorafenib (200-400 mg) twice daily with gefitinib (250 mg orally) once daily to identify the recommended dose for phase II trials (RDP; part A). The pharmacokinetics of the RDP were characterized further ...

PURPOSE Previously we proposed the use of compressed sensing (CS) techniques to recover partially sampled data in PET imaging (Valiollahzadeh et al IEEE MIC 2012). Here we compare the effect of various penalizing functions on the accuracy of the recovered activity concentration (AC) in PET imagesMethods: The recovery of partially sampled data using CS techniques requires minimizing a cost funct...

Abstract We investigated the industrial applicability of multifunctional flame-retardant epoxy gelcoats based on flame retardants containing phosphorus (P), in particular ammonium polyphosphate (APP, which acts solid phase), resorcinol bis(diphenyl phosphate) (RDP, mainly gas phase) and their combination. It was possible to apply most formulations via spraying with use a diluent, while RDP were...