Cereal grains are the primary energy source in swine diets. Therefore, not only must producers be concerned about the composition of the grain, but also how it is processed so the pig can fully utilize the nutrients. Because feed represents 65 to 75 percent of overall production costs in a swine operation, improving the efficiency of feed utilization will have a tremendous impact on the cost of...

The aim of this study was to examine enzymatic modification of wheat bran, performed in a low-moisture process, and the reduction of bran particle size as means of improving the technological performance of wheat bran in expanded extrudates. Modification of bran by hydrolytic enzymes increased the crispiness and decreased the hardness and piece density of extrudates containing wheat bran and en...

Previous simulation experiments for the comparison of wavelet shrinkage denoising methods have failed to demonstrate significant differences between methods. Such differences have never been clearly demonstrated due to the use of qualitative comparisons or of quantitative comparisons that suffered from insufficient sample size and/or absent confidence intervals for the figure of merit

High-pressure homogenization was used to disperse starch particles in water and reduce the size from micro- to nanometer. The resultant starch colloids were characterized by particle morphology, mean size, size distribution, and zeta potential. Starch slurries were transformed from a mixture containing sediment, dispersion, and sol, to gel as a result of reduction of the particle size from 3-6m...

Adequate forage amounts in both physical and chemical forms are necessary for proper ruminal function in dairy cows. Under conditions in which total amounts of forage or particle size of the forage are reduced, cows spend less time ruminating and have a decreased amount of buoyant digesta in the rumen. These factors reduce saliva production and allow ruminal pH to fall, depressing activity of c...

Nanosizing is a suitable method to enhance the dissolution rate and therefore the bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. The success of the particle size reduction processes depends on critical factors such as the employed technology, equipment, and drug physicochemical properties. High pressure homogenization and wet bead milling are standard comminution techniques that have been already emp...

We study the asymptotic behavior of a class of methods for sufficient dimension reduction in high-dimension regressions, as the sample size and number of predictors grow in various alignments. It is demonstrated that these methods are consistent in a variety of settings, particularly in abundant regressions where most predictors contribute some information on the response, and oracle rates are ...

Despite a number of papers that discuss the advantages of increased size on risk levels in real estate portfolios there is remarkably little empirical evidence based on actual portfolios. The objective of this paper is to remedy this deficiency by examining the portfolio risk of a large sample of actual property data over the period 1981 to 1996. The results show that all that can be said is th...

Moving objects of interest (MOOIs) in surveillance videos are detected and encapsulated by bounding boxes. Since moving objects are defined by temporal activities through the consecutive video frames, it is necessary to examine a group of frames (GoF) to detect the moving objects. To do that, the traces of moving objects in the GoF are quantified by forming a spatiotemporal gradient map (STGM) ...

In this paper we address the question of given a set of ensemble members of a certain size is there a way to consistently reduce the number of ensemble members at a later stage in the assimilation cycles. An extension to this is given this reduction is it possible to reintroduce the ensemble members at a later time if the order of accuracy is decreasing, is also considered. To address this prob...