A meta-analysis was performed to determine the influence of cereal grain type and corn grain harvesting and processing methods, dietary starch, rumen-digestible starch, and forage NDF concentrations on intake, digestion, and lactation performance by dairy cows using a data set comprising 414 treatment means from 102 peer-reviewed journal reports from 2000 to 2011. Categories for corn processing...

A novel Silicon Sacrificial Layer Dry Etching (SSLDE) technique using sputtered amorphous or LPCVD polycrystalline silicon as sacrificial layers and a dry fluorine-based (SF6) plasma chemistry as releasing process is reported with a detailed experimental study of the release etching step. The process is capable of various applications in surface micromachining process, and can be applied in fab...

The development of an optimized recipe for the processing of a MQW AlGaInN based oxide stripe laser diode grown on c-plane sapphire has been investigated. Two processing sequences involving Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) were compared. The first relied on the use of SiO2 as a dry etch-mask, whereas in the second, the use of nickel was utilized. The critical step of smooth and vertical mirror format...

INTRODUCTION Endotoxin exposure associated with organic dust exposure has been studied in several industries. Coffee cherries that are dried directly after harvest may differ in dust and endotoxin emissions to those that are peeled and washed before drying. The aim of this study was to measure personal total dust and endotoxin levels and to evaluate their determinants of exposure in coffee proc...

a model capable of predicting the minimum content of aflatoxin m1 (afm1) in iranian while brine cheese has been developed using a chemometric approach to determine the optimum processing conditions. renneting temperature, cut size, stirring time, press time, curd size and saturated brine ph were all regarded as process variables. three-dimensional response surface and contour plots were drawn. ...