nutritive value of rumen epithelial scraping (rep) was assessed using in sacco and in vivo procedures. concentrates were so formulated that 0% (a), 35% (b), 70% (c), and 100% (d) of soybean meal (sbm), were replaced (weight for weight) with rep. in a completely randomized design, 16 west african dwarf (wad) goats were randomly allocated to the experimental diets to assess feed intake and digest...

Being able to automatically mesh composite geometry is an important issue in the context of CAD-FEA integration. In some specific contexts of this integration, such as using virtual topology or Meshing Constraints Topology (MCT), it is even a key requirement. In this paper, we present a new approach to automatic mesh generation over composite geometry. The proposed mesh generation approach is b...

Feature modeling systems usually employ a boundary representation (b-rep) to store the shape information on a product. It has, however, been shown that a b-rep has a number of shortcomings, and that a cellular representation can be a valuable alternative. A cellular model stores additional shape information on features, including the feature faces that are not on the boundary of the product. Su...

The purpose of this work is to define a new algorithm for converting a CSG representation into a B-Rep representation. Usually this conversion is done determining the union, intersection or difference from two B-Rep represented solids. Due to the lack of explicit representation of surface boundaries, CSG models must be converted into B-Rep solid models when a description based on polygonal mesh...

Deep learning approaches have been shown to be capable of recognizing shape features (e.g. machining features) in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models certain circumstances, yet still issues when the intersect, and exploiting geometric topological information which comprises boundary representation (B-Rep) typical CAD model. This paper presents a novel hierarchical B-Rep graph encodes about surfa...

Sixty-three Friesian heifers were assigned to three different diets (21 per group) of 11 MJ ME per kg DM containing low crude protein (CP, 142 g CP per kg DM) with high rumen protected protein (REP, 270 g REP per kg CP) (diet A), high-CP (183 g CP per kg DM) with low-REP (133 g REP per kg CP) (diet B) and high-CP (182 g CP per kg DM) with high-REP (267 g REP per kg CP) (diet C) to obtain livewe...

Neutrophil elastase (NE) is a powerful serine protease capable of degrading most protein components of the extracellular matrix. We hypothesize that this elastase may play a significant role in lung cancer development and tested our hypothesis in a study of 348 primary lung cancer cases and 299 controls. Analysis of the entire gene using denaturing high performance liquid chromatography identif...

2 DNA helicases catalyze separation of double helical DNA into its complementary single strands, a process essential for DNA replication, recombination, and repair. The E. coli Rep protein, a superfamily 1 (SF1) DNA helicase, functions in DNA replication restart and is required for replication of several bacteriophages. Monomers of Rep do not display helicase activity in vitro; in fact, DNA unw...