1 Two trials were conducted to evaluate sesame seed meal (SSM) replacement of broiler diets ingredients. The 1 st trial included 5 major dietary treatments using 360 day old Ross commercial broilers: 1) Corn + soybean meal (SBM) "control diet"; 2) Corn + SSM; 3) Corn + [50% SBM + 50% SSM]; 4) Corn + [25% SBM + 75% SSM]; and 5) Corn + [75% SBM + 25% SSM]. Each treatment was then divided into 4 s...

In this paper, we propose the improved Statistical Synchronization Method (SSM-T) for parallel discrete event simulation. Criteria are given for the time-driven approach (SSM-T). It is proven, that the level of the output error can be guaranteed. SSM-T is implemented in the OMNeT++ discrete event simulation tool, which is a useful and widespread framework for creating various simulation models ...

This paper reports on an innovative combination of hard and soft methods – soft systems methodology and data envelopment analysis – in a project evaluating the performance of the basic research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Science. Problems in defining and agreeing appropriate inputs and outputs for DEA led to the use of SSM as a way or producing a comprehensive and systemic database of...

Checkland has said that the process of doing Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) provides the means by which an organisation can define itself through learning what it is which characterises the organisation. (Checkland and Scholes, 1990, 311-312) If the process of doing SSM is a learning system then in SSM an organisation has a means of instituting organisational learning. Respected authors (specif...

The performance of carbon rod (CR), titanium sheet (TS), stainless steel woven mesh (SSM) and copper sheet (CS) cathode materials are investigated in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for simultaneous electricity generation and Cu(II) reduction, in multiple batch cycle operations. After 12 cycles, the MFC with CR exhibits 55% reduction in the maximum power density and 76% increase in Cu(II) removal. ...

MOTIVATION In a gene regulatory network, genes are typically regulated by transcription factors (TFs). Transcription factor activity (TFA) is more difficult to measure than gene expression levels are. Other models have extracted information about TFA from gene expression data, but without explicitly modeling feedback from the genes. We present a state-space model (SSM) with hidden variables. Th...

This issue of Systemic Practice and Action Research, celebrating the work of Peter Checkland, in the particular nature and development of soft systems methodology (SSM), would not have happened unless the work was seen by others as being important. No significant contribution to thinking happens without a secondary literature developing. Not surprisingly, many commentaries have accompanied the ...

The effects of body size and feed intake on N digestibility, pancreas and Liver weight, and digestive enzyme activities in male broiler chicks were compared with those induced by dietary tannins. Four groups (SSM, ad lib., pair-fed and young) of sixteen birds each (2 weeks old) were used as experimental animals. They were fed on experimental diets for 4 weeks, except the young group which were ...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES An atlas-based automated liver segmentation method from three-dimensional computed tomographic (3D CT) images has been developed. The method uses two types of atlases, a probabilistic atlas (PA) and a statistical shape model (SSM). MATERIALS AND METHODS Voxel-based segmentation with a PA is first performed to obtain a liver region, then the obtained region is used as ...