Abstract Nine pregnant mares (18.2 ± 0.7 y; 493.82 13 kg BW) were used to test the hypothesis that dietary supplementation of arginine would enhance placental vascularity and nutrient transport throughout gestation in aged mares. Mares balanced by age, BW, stallion pairing, randomly assigned one two treatments consisting supplemental L-arginine (50 mg/kg BW; n=5) or L-alanine (100 n=4; isonitro...

The construction of attractors a dissipative difference equation is usually based on compactness assumptions. In this paper, we replace them with contractivity assumptions under which the pullback and forward are identical. As consequence, degenerate to unique bounded entire solutions. an application, investigate integrodifference equations popular models in theoretical ecology.

Adopting the pullback approach to Finsler geometry, the aim of the present paper is to provide new intrinsic (coordinate-free) proofs of intrinsic versions of the existence and uniqueness theorems for the Cartan and Berwald connections on a Finsler manifold. To accomplish this, the notions of semispray and nonlinear connection associated with a given regular connection, in the pullback bundle, ...

The aim of the present paper is to provide an intrinsic investigation of the fundamental properties of the most important geometric objects associated with the fundamental linear connections on a Finsler manifold. We introduce and investigate intrinsically the most general properties concerning the torsion tensor fields and the curvature tensor fields associated with a certain regular connectio...