The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of dietary rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) and bovine somatotropin (bST) during the period from weaning until puberty on body weight (BW) and skeletal growth rates and age at puberty. Fifty-one Holstein heifers at 90 d of age were randomly assigned to 4 treatment groups consisting of 0.1 mg/kg BW per day of bST and 2% added dietary RUP...

In the last two decades, the only inorganic non-oxide materials that have attracted significant attention for incorporation in low power electrochromic displays are those belonging to the metal hexacyanoferrate (HCNF) family. In the HCNF family, Prussian Blue (PB) is by far the most studied electrochromic material. In contrast, Ruthenium Purple (RuP) has not been explored for electrochromic dis...

Ruminally undegraded protein (RUP) values of blood meal (n = 2), hydrolyzed feather meal (n = 2), fish meal (n = 2), meat and bone meal, and soybean meal were estimated using an in situ method, an inhibitor in vitro method, and an inhibitor in vitro technique applying Michaelis-Menten saturation kinetics. Degradation rates for in situ and inhibitor in vitro methods were calculated by regression...

The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a saleable product from Rational/IBM.The RUP unifes the entire software development team and seeks to optimizethe productivity of each and every team member by putting the...

Four ruminally and duodenally cannulated Suffolk wether lambs (34.5 +/- 2.0 kg initial BW) were used in a 4 x 4 Latin square-designed experiment to examine the effects of ruminal protein degradability and supplementation frequency on site and extent of digestion in lambs consuming a low-quality forage diet. Wethers were fed a basal diet of mature crested wheatgrass hay (4.2% CP) for ad libitum ...

Adequate predictions of rumen-degradable protein (RDP) and rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) supplies are necessary to optimize performance while minimizing losses of excess nitrogen (N). The objectives of this study were to evaluate the original Cornell Net Carbohydrate Protein System (CNCPS) protein fractionation scheme and to develop and evaluate alternatives designed to improve its adequacy ...

This position paper summarises some critical arguments on the Rational Unified Process (RUP). In particular, claims advertising the RUP e.g. to be iterative and architecture-centric are discussed and its core concepts like phase, iteration, workflow and milestone are investigated. It is argued that their definitions and relationships to each other lack clear structure and are too complex and ov...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a new paradigm aiming to solve problems that are not adequately addressed by the Object-Oriented paradigm. Therefore, it seems appropriate to adapt software processes showing when and how crosscutting concerns should be considered. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is one of the most widely used software development processes focusing on object-or...

We consider upward planar drawings of directed graphs in the plane (UP), and on standing (SUP) and rolling cylinders (RUP). In the plane and on the standing cylinder the edge curves are monotonically increasing in y-direction. On the rolling cylinder they wind unidirectionally around the cylinder. There is a strict hierarchy of classes of upward planar graphs: UP ⊂ SUP ⊂ RUP. In this paper, we ...