The use of bedded hoop barns in finishing systems for beef cattle has not been widely researched. In this management system, beef cattle are confined to hoop barns throughout finishing, and bedding is used to absorb animal waste, which results in minimal effluent. The objective of this study was to compare the performance and carcass characteristics of finishing beef steers (n = 1,428) managed ...

A study was conducted to document the physical environment and growth performance of nursery pigs in hoop structures compared with pigs reared in confinement nurseries. A series of six trials involving a total of 1,440 nursery pigs were conducted at two Iowa State University research farms from December 1999 to August 2000. Regardless of season, the confinement pigs grew faster and consumed mor...

AIMS The aim of this study is to investigate how the myocardial bridge oppression affects the hoop stress of mural coronary artery. METHODS The "myocardial bridge - coronary artery" simulative device records the hoop stress which is changed by adjusting the external pressure of the simulated coronary artery and the oppression degree of the respectively. RESULTS Simulation experiment in vitr...

The objective of this review paper is to document extensive bedded indoor and outdoor pig production in the United States, which has expanded due to growing niche markets for natural and organic pork. Bedded hoop (tentlike) barns are used for finishing pigs and gestating sows. Seasonal outdoor farrowing and some indoor bedded farrowing systems coupled with group lactation are used also. Most na...

and Implications Four groups of early weaned pigs (19 days of age) from the ISU Southwest Swine Research Farm, Atlantic, IA were delivered to the Hoop Research Complex at the ISU Rhodes Research Farm, Rhodes, IA, in late May and early June 1998. Three groups of pigs (n=552) were placed in three (30–ft × 60 ft) deep bedded hoop structures. The fourth group (n=159) was placed in a mechanically ve...

We report the result of comparison between two reaction coordinates [on the potential energy surface of the first excited state (S(1))] produced by CASSCF and these energies recalculated by MRMP2 in the Z to E photoisomerization of penta-2,4-dieniminium (PDI) as the minimal model of the retinal protonated Schiff base (RPSB). One coordinate is the S(1) state minimum-energy-path (MEP) in mass-wei...

Hollow nonwood baseball bats have performance advantages over wooden bats. The hollow barrel bats act as a spring or trampoline during the bat-ball collision. The trampoline effect can occur at different natural frequencies known as hoop modes. To examine the effect of the hoop mode on the bat-ball collision, modal analysis and performance measurements were performed on a sample of hollow nonwo...

Introduction During the summer and fall of 1997, the Hoop Research Complex was developed at the Iowa State University (ISU) Rhodes Research Farm for comparing hoop structures to confinement for swine finishing. The site consists of three hoop structures and one modular confinement building. The hoops, each 30 ft × 60 ft, are oriented north/south. The south end of each hoop has a concrete floor ...

Resonance Raman studies of visual pigment analogues regenerated with 10-D, 10,l 1-D2, 11-D, 1 1,12-D2, 12-D, 15-D, and 20,14-D4 isotopic derivatives of retinal have been used to assign the intense hydrogen outsf-plane (HOOP) vibrations in the spectra of rhodopsin, isorhodopsin, and bathorhodopsin. Low temperature 77 K photostationary steady-state experiments show that the unique 853-, 875-, and...

In this paper swarm intelligence based PID controller tuning is proposed for a nonlinear ball and hoop system. Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Artificial bee colony (ABC), Bacterial foraging optimization (BFO) is some example of swarm intelligence techniques which are focused for PID controller tuning. These algorithms are also tested on perturbed ball and hoop model. Integral square error (...