This research characterized days dry (DD) for modern US Holsteins. This included investigation of factors influencing DD, summarizing variation in herd means as well as within-herd variation, and estimation of parameters related to DD. Data consisted of records initiated before 2003 from cows first calving after 1996. A total of 459,075 records from 295,067 cows in 3527 herds were included. The...

Objective Deficits in basic numerical skills, calculation, and working memory have been found in children with developmental dyscalculia (DD) as well as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This paper investigates cognitive profiles of children with DD and/or ADHD symptoms (AS) in a double dissociation design to obtain a better understanding of the comorbidity of DD an...

The DD Detector is a large general purpose detector for the study of short-distance phenomena in high energy antiproton-proton collisions, now in operation at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The detector focusses upon the detection of electrons, muons, jets and missing transverse momentum. We describe the design and performance of the major elements of the detector, including the tracking chamb...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the relationship between d-dimer (DD) and both proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine levels, and to confirm the association between DD status and outcomes in critically ill patients. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Medical ICU (MICU) of a tertiary care, academic medical center. PATIENTS Individuals admitted to the MICU. INTERVENTION...

“Highlights” calls attention to exciting advances in developmental biology that have recently been reported in Developmental Dynamics. Development is a broad field encompassing many important areas. To reflect this fact, the section spotlights significant discoveries that occur across the entire spectrum of developmental events and problems: from new experimental approaches, to novel interpreta...

This short paper gives a review of domain decomposition methods for parallel computations of large scale problems, with a focus on computational geology.

A multiscale modeling methodology that combines the predictive capability of discrete dislocation plasticity and the computational efficiency of continuum crystal plasticity is developed. Single crystal configurations of different grain sizes modeled with periodic boundary conditions are analyzed using discrete dislocation plasticity (DD) to obtain grain size-dependent stress-strain predictions...

We relate the decomposition over a; b] of a measure dd (on R) into absolutely continuous, pure point, and singular continuous pieces to the behavior of integrals b R a (Im F(x + ii)) p dx as # 0. Here F is the Borel transform of dd, that is, F(z) = R (x ? z) ?1 dd(x). x1. Introduction Given any positive measure on R with Z dd(x) 1 + jxj < 1; (1.1) one can deene its Borel transform by F(z) = Z d...

Genotype DD of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is not associated with an increased incidence of native renal diseases, although it could modulate progression to renal failure in patients who already display chronic lesions. Because its role in renal allograft degeneration is not well characterized, whether ACE genotype was associated with the prevalence of chronic allograft nephropathy ...

Plasmic degradation of crosslinked human fibrin produces unique degradation products. (DD)E complex and fragment DD, in which the DD moiety contains two fragment D molecules joined together by covalent bonds. In this study. fragment DD antigenic markers were studied using two different antisera: one against intact (DD)E complex, and the other against fragment DD that has been exposed to 3 M ure...