BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile vasculitis and may cause coronary artery abnormalities. Due to the higher incidence in Asian countries, most pediatricians in Taiwan are familiar with KD. However, there are still some patients being diagnosed 10 days after the onset of the illness and not receiving a highly effective therapy. In this study, we analyzed the risk factors and c...

The objective of this work was to describe a novel in vitro system based on the subtraction of ammonia pools obtained with and without rumen fluid inoculum to determine the soluble protein fraction of feeds and their degradability, with adjustments for microbial contributions and bacterial contamination. Four corn-milling coproducts were used in this study as random factors. The feeds (Fd) were...

Five barrows with an average initial BW of 45 kg and fitted with a T-cannula at the distal ileum were fed 5 diets to determine the standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of AA in corn (Zea mays) distillers' dried grains (DDG), DDG with solubles (DDGS), high-protein DDG (HPDDG) and high-protein DDGS (HPDDGS). On a DM basis, the test ingredients contained 33.7% CP, 19.2% ADF, and 53.1% NDF for DD...

A 2(3) factorial arrangement of treatments was used to study main effects and interactions between particle size of prairie hay (chopped vs ground), two levels of feed intake (60 and 90% of ad libitum) and ruminal degradability of protein sources [dry corn gluten feed (DCGF) vs dry distillers grains (DDG)] on ruminal and total tract digestion in eight ruminal- and duodenal-cannulated steers. St...

1 Dry distillers grains improved gain and efficienicy relative to corn. Heifers supplemented daily consumed more hay and gained faster, but were not more efficient than those supplemented three times weekly. Summary An experiment was conducted with 120 crossbred heifers to determine the value of dry distillers grains (DDG) in high-forage diets, and to evaluate the effect of supplementing daily ...

We define a class of dynamic Markovian games, directional dynamic games (DDG), where directionality is represented by a strategy-independent partial order on the state space. We show that many games are DDGs, yet none of the existing algorithms are guaranteed to find anyMarkov perfect equilibrium (MPE) of these games, much less all of them. We propose a fast and robust generalization of backwar...

Duplicate detection consists in determining different representations of real-world objects in a database. Recent research has considered the use of relationships among object representations to improve duplicate detection. In the general case where relationships form a graph, research has mainly focused on duplicate detection quality/effectiveness. Scalability has been neglected so far, even t...

The modern, fuel ethanol industry is growing at an explosive rate in the USA. This growth is resulting in a concomitant increase in availability of “new” Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDG/S). Even though many industrial applications are being pursued, for the foreseeable future, this product will be fed to animals. This “new DDG/S” is quite different than product described by “old book...

This paper is concerned with superconvergence properties of the direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) method for one-dimensional linear convection-diffusion equations. We prove, under some suitable choice of numerical fluxes and initial discretization, a 2k-th and (k + 2) -th order superconvergence rate of the DDG approximation at nodes and Lobatto points, respectively, and a (k + 1) -th order of...

Large knowledge bases that are intended for applications such as CAD, corporate repositories or process control will have to be shared by multiple users. For these systems to scale up, to give acceptable performance and to exhibit consistent behavior, it is mandatory to synchronize user transactions using a concurrency control algorithm. The transactions in knowledge bases often access a large ...