Dairy cows fed on perennial-ryegrass pasture produce higher-quality milk in terms of fatty-acid composition; however, they produce much less milk compared to dairy cows under other systems. The low dry-matter intake (DMI) has been identified as the main factor responsible for the lower milk production in pasture-based systems. To maximize milk production from those systems it is important to ma...

Few formal methods exist for evaluating digital musical instruments (DMIs). We propose a novel method of DMI evaluation using crowd-sourced tagging. Tagging is already used to classify websites and musical genres, which, like DMIs, do not lend themselves to simple categorization or parameterization. Using the social tagging method, participating individuals assign descriptive labels, or tags, t...

Using a two-good, two-country model, we examine macroeconomic adjustment by allowing for decreasing and increasing marginal impatience (DMI and IMI). In the reference case where both countries have IMI, a negative output shock in one country lowers the interest rate and both countries’ welfare levels in steady state, whereas, when either one country has DMI, the negative income shock raises the...

Objectives of this study were to characterize feed efficiency traits and examine phenotypic correlations with performance, ultrasound, and feeding behavior traits in growing bulls. Individual DMI and feeding behavior were measured in Angus (n = 214) and Brangus (n = 26) bulls (initial BW 368.4 ± 46.1 kg) fed a corn silage based diet (ME = 2.78 Mcal/kg) using a GrowSafe feeding system. DMI and 1...

In this study, the effect of desipramine (DMI) on phospholipid bilayers and parvoviral entry was elucidated. In atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, DMI was found to introduce disorder in cholesterol-rich phospholipid bilayers. This was manifested by a decrease in the deuterium order parameter S(CD) as well as an increase in the membrane area. Disordering of the membrane suggested DMI to d...

Single magnetic skyrmion dynamics in chiral magnets with a spatially inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is considered. Based on the relation between DMI coupling and skyrmion helicity, it is argued that the latter must be included as an extra degree of freedom in the dynamics of skyrmions. An effective description of the skyrmion dynamics for an arbitrary inhomogeneous DMI co...

Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) microscopy measurements of magnetic bubble domains demonstrate that Ar^{+} irradiation around 100 eV can tune the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in Pt/Co/Pt trilayers. Varying the irradiation energy and dose changes the DMI sign and magnitude separately from the magnetic anisotropy, allowing tuning of the DMI while holding the coercive field constant....

Desipramine (DMI) has been reported to induce glucocorticoid receptor-mediated signal transduction in recent studies. It has been suggested that a non-glucocorticoid receptor signaling pathway might play an important role in skin squamous carcinoma Ca3/7 cells. The aim of this study was to investigate the growth inhibitory effects of DMI on Ca3/7 cells by evaluating the mRNA expression of genes...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION Chemokine ligand 5 (CCL5) is a member of the CC-chemokine family expressed in various organs. It contributes to the migration of monocytes/macrophages into injured vascular walls by binding with its receptor chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5). Many studies have accessed the association between CCL5/CCR5 gene promoter polymorphisms and diabetic microvascular complications (DMI). Howev...

Opioid agonists inhibit DNA synthesis in C6 rat glioma cells that express opioid receptors, induced by desipramine (DMI). This inhibition was not observed in cells that were not treated with DMI, and thus did not express opioid-binding sites. Endothelin, a known mitogen, increased thymidine incorporation dose dependently (up to 1.7-fold) in DMI-treated C6 cells. This increase was reversed by an...