It is known that extraction of some grasses with neutral detergent (ND) increases the in vitro digestibility [Kennedy, P.M., Lowry, J.B., Conlan, L.L., 1999. J. Sci. Food Agric. 79, 544]. Here, we report experiments which de®ned the contribution of ND components to digestibility increases. Substrates were prepared from spear grass (Heteropogon contortus) by boiling at neutral pH in solutions of...

The objectives of this study were to determine how feeding diets that differed in dietary neutral detergent fiber (NDF) concentration and in vitro NDF digestibility affects dry matter (DM) intake, ruminal fermentation, and milk production in early lactation dairy cows. Twelve rumen-cannulated, multiparous Holstein cows averaging 38 +/- 15 d (+/-standard deviation) in milk, and producing 40 +/- ...

The damped oscillating structures recently revealed by a three parametric formula from the proton “effective” form factor data extracted of measured total cross section σtotbare(e+e−→pp¯) still seem to have an unknown origin. conjectures their direct manifestation quark-gluon structure indicate that they are not specific only and neutron, but be one’s own, similar other hadrons. Therefore, osci...

Sixty Holstein cows were assigned to two treatments at 21 d before calving and were group-fed a prepartum diet with or without yeast culture. After parturition, cows were individually fed one of five treatments for 140 d: 1) 21% forage neutral detergent fiber (NDF) without yeast culture, 2) 21% forage NDF with yeast culture, 3) 17% forage NDF without yeast culture, 4) 17% forage NDF with yeast ...

The low digestibility of fiber in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) limits dry matter intake and energy availability ruminant animal production systems. Previously, plants were identified for or high rapid (16 h) potential (96 vitro neutral detergent (IVNDFD) plant stems. Here, two cycles bidirectional selection 16 h 96 IVNDFD carried out. resulting populations evaluated total herbage, percentage st...

The National Drug File Reference Terminology (NDF-RT) presents a large set of drug classes which can potentially be used in clincal settings. Using semantic web technologies such as XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and RDF (Resource Description Framework), the drug classes in NDF-RT were enriched for the purpose of comparison to themselves and to drug classes in other terminologies. Methods and...

Objective. Improve the nutritional value of mechanized sugarcane residues inoculating the fungus Fomes sp. EUM1. Materials and methods. The fungus Fomes was inoculated according to a 0, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3% (w/v) treatment and incubated at a temperature of 35°C for 7, 10 and 13 days. It was obtained DM, OM, CP, ash, NDF and ADF and the effective degradation of DM, NDF and ADF, with an experimenta...

During 2006 and 2007, forages from 3 individual hay harvests were utilized to assess the effects of spontaneous heating on concentrations of fiber components, 48-h neutral detergent fiber (NDF) digestibility (NDFD), and in situ disappearance kinetics of NDF for large-round bales of mixed alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.). Over the 3 harvests, 96 large-round b...