The butterfly universe photo was made using water sprayed on glass that had been treated with Dupont’s Rain X, which allows the droplets to be much larger than normal. The droplets become wide-angle lenses when you place an object underneath the sprayed glass. The droplets are then photographed with a macro lens. In this picture, I placed an 8 10 photo of a monarch butterfly underneath the glas...

The objective of this study was to compare carcass and meat quality between Barbarine lambs raised on rangelands and those reared indoors. A total of 24 weaned male lambs (23.2 kg) were allotted into two groups. The first group (GS) grazed pasture dominated by natural shrubs and was supplemented with 100 g of concentrate. The second group (HS) received oat hay and 200 to 300 g supplement of the...

Constrained independent component analysis (CICA) is capable of eliminating the order ambiguity that is found in the standard ICA and extracting the desired independent components by incorporating prior information into the ICA contrast function. However, the current CICA method produces constraints that are based on only one type of prior information (temporal/spatial), which may increase the ...