An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of roughages on the utilization of dietary nitrogen, energy and fiber by gravid swine. Water consumption, backfat depletion, pregnancy weight gain, and reproductive performance were used as response criteria. Metabolism assays, employing 18 crossbred sows (second or third parity), were initiated at days 0 (prior to breeding), 30 and 80 postcoi...

Lightweight cryptographic primitives are essential for securing pervasive embedded devices like RFID tags, smart cards, and wireless sensor nodes. In this paper, we present a lightweight stream cipher WG-8, which is tailored from the well-known Welch-Gong (WG) stream cipher family, for resource-constrained devices. WG-8 inherits the good randomness and cryptographic properties of the WG stream ...

Using climate scenarios from only 1 or a small number of global models (GCMs) in change impact studies may lead to biased assessment due large uncertainty projections. Ensemble means projections derived multi-GCM ensemble are often used as best estimates reduce bias. However, it is time consuming run process-based (e.g. hydrological and crop models) using numerous scenarios. It would be interes...

Climate is one of the single most important factors affecting watershed ecosystems and water resources. The effect of climate variability and change has been studied extensively in some places; in many places, however, assessments are hampered by limited availability of long-term continuous climate data. Weather generators provide a means of synthesizing long-term climate data that can then be ...

The Drosophila segment polarity gene wingless (wg) is required in the regulation of engrailed (en) expression and the determination of cell fates in neighboring cells. This paracrine wg activity also regulates transcription of wg itself, through a positive feedback loop including en activity. In addition, wg has a second, more direct autoregulatory requirement that is distinct from the en-depen...

This preliminary document is an evolution of the scope document that was distributed before and discussed at the 1st joint meeting of the three CPSoS Working Groups (WG) in Düsseldorf on Jan. 31, 2014. It contains elements that were put forward by the WG members in the meeting , results of interviews with experts in the application fields, and some clarifications on issues that were discussed d...

Wnt signaling pathways are important for multiple biological processes during development and disease. Wnt proteins are secreted factors that activate target-gene expression in both a short- and long-range manner. Currently, little is known about how Wnts are released from cells and which factors facilitate their secretion. Here, we identify a conserved multipass transmembrane protein, Evenness...

Metodologie e tecnologie per la gestione di dati e processi su reti Internet e Intranet Sommario In order to pose eeective queries to Web sites, some form of site data model must be implicitly or explicitly shared by users. In this paper we propose WG-log, a query language which allows the description of data manipulation primitives via (sets of) graph(s). The use of WG-log for queries allows g...