A two-year dairy study was conducted under irrigation at Lincoln, Canterbury, comparing 1. Moderate stocking rate (MSR, 3.9 cows/ha; comparative (CSR) of 89 kg live weight (LWT)/t DM (dry matter) offered; 150 nitrogen (N) fertiliser/ha/year; grain supplementation 0.55 t DM/cow/year; wintering cows off- farm); or 2. Low (LSR, 2.9 CSR 91 LWT/t grazing diverse pasture (Italian ryegrass, plantain, ...

Moisture damage of asphalt mixtures is a major distress affecting the durability pavements. The loaded wheel tracking (LWT) test gaining popularity in determining moisture because its ability to relate laboratory performance field performance. However, accuracy LWT’s “pass/fail” criteria for screening limited. objective this study was evaluate capability LWT identify susceptibility with differe...

Aflatoxins (AF) are a class of mycotoxins that impair poultry health and performance by causing immune suppression, liver damage, and changes in serum chemistry. The toxic effects of AF can be efficiently counteracted by some adsorbents. The aim of this study was to investigate fully characterized clay adsorbents in a feeding trial with broiler chickens to correlate in vitro and in vivo AF deto...

Abstract. Valley infills are essential for understanding changes in hydrology and landscape. Anthropogenic activities proven by prehistoric settlement remains, which mark distinct sediments soils as usable land during certain time periods. In 2009 2018/19, excavations the Saxonian Archaeological Heritage Office were conducted Elbe valley between Meißen Dresden, preceding construction of two nat...

Ninety-eight commercial crossbred lambs, average weight 55.1 kg (+/- 4.95), were used to evaluate bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) as a prediction method for fat-free tissue from live lambs and lamb carcasses. Lambs were transported to the abattoir, restricted from feed for 10 h, weighed (LWt), and measured for body resistance (Rs, ohms), body reactance (Xc, ohms), and distance between de...

In this paper the perceptual quality and robustness in LWT domain and DWT domain is evaluated for the gray-scale image. The proposed technique is based on Lifting Wavelet Transform and Discrete Wavelet Transform (LWT-SVD) domain for embedding the gray-scale image to the color host image. Fibonacci-Lucas Transform is used to scramble the watermark image for security reason. YUV, YIQ and YCbCr co...

This paper presents a robust copyright protection scheme based on Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). We have used fractal decoding to make a very compact representation of watermark image. The fractal code is presented by a binary image. In the embedding phase of watermarking scheme, at first, we perform decomposing of the host image with 2D-LWT transform, t...

The antimicrobial, mechanical, physical and structural properties of chitosan-gallic acid films. Manuscript version of a work that was subsequently published in LWT – Food Science and Technology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may ...

The effect of the energy density (ED) of feeds offered as a choice on the diet selection of sheep, and the relationship between the rumen environment and the diet selected from feeds of different ED were investigated in two experiments. In the first experiment two feeds, L and H, and their mixture M (3:1 w/w) were formulated. All feeds had similar calculated metabolizable protein:metabolizable ...