Chemical assessments of forage clearly determine the forage quality; however, traditional methods of analysis are somehow time consuming, costly, and technically demanding. Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) has been reported as a method for evaluating chemical composition of agriculture products, food, and forage and has several advantages over chemical analyses such as conducting c...

la langue maternelle peut jouer un rôle significatif dans l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. cet article s'intéresse aux difficultés des apprenants/étudiants iraniens dans l'emploi du participe présent et du gérondif. a cet égard, on peut se rendre compte que la plupart de ces erreurs trouvent leur origine dans l'absence de ces deux points grammaticaux en persan. dans la traduction des tex...

The aim of this paper was to identify pre-slaughter factors that modify total and insoluble collagen contents in bovine muscle to construct a model of collagen dynamics. The meta-analyses were performed with primary data of total (n = 1165) and insoluble (n = 1145) collagen contents from INRA experiments obtained from different muscles in young bulls, cows and steers. According to both the bibl...

Background: Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) is a toxic compound that could be found in milk and dairy products. AFM1 is the principle hydroxylated derivative of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), formed in liver and excreted into the milk in the mammary glands of both human and lactating animals that have been fed with AFB1 contaminated diet. To the best of our knowledge, there is no report on stability of AFM1 during p...

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing emphasize the importance of documenting and describing the procedures followed in developing valid test content. As a result, the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations, the testing agency responsible for administering the National Board Dental Examination Part I and Part II, routinely communicates information about the validity ...

Three statistical/mathematical analyses are carried out on isochore sequences: spectral analysis, analysis of variance, and segmentation analysis. Spectral analysis shows that there are GC content fluctuations at different length scales in isochore sequences. The analysis of variance shows that the null hypothesis (the mean value of a group of GC contents remains the same along the sequence) ma...

The paper presents the results of analyses of samples of manure from a pig farm located near Piła, Poland performed between June 2011 and May 2012 using a single sampling system. The statistical analyses of the average content of chemical and biological oxide demands, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and dry mass in the slurry in various seasons allowed us to draw conclusions concerning...

Our user experience research is foremost applied research targeting product development and end-user evaluation carried out in close co-operation with media content development companies. The essence of this paper is to present our exploration of methods for capturing the uniqueness of end-users’ subjective experiences of media content. Both method triangulation during data collection and data ...

The potassium content of the skin of Rana pipiens is found to be 132 m.g. per cent. This is roughly of the order of magnitude of the content of potassium in nerve. Analyses were also made of the skin for Na, Ca, Mg, Cl, S, and P.

To explore the effectiveness of using flipped classroom approach, a group of 40 male 10th graders in the city of Babol, selected randomly through cluster sampling, was assigned to two classes one of which was taught using the said approach while in the other the traditional method was implemented. Both groups were pre- and post-tested on computer self-efficacy and classroom perception and then ...