This study was designed to separate the effect of fermentation quality on voluntary intake of grass silage from other feed factors affecting intake. Variations in DMI were quantified, and the impact on intake was modeled. The relationships between individual silage components and intake were examined. A partially balanced changeover experiment with 30 Norwegian Red steers (137 +/- 16.4 kg of BW...

Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants were grown in soil supplemented with different Pb and Cd concentrations (2, 4, 6, 8 gKg for Lead and 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 gKg for Cadmium). Germination % was remained unaffected at low concentration of both metals as compared to control plants but at higher concentration of Cd i.e. 3g/Kg soil, germination was completely inhibited. Growth was also decreased as concentr...

CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 19, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2016 The editorial board of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal would like to present the last issue of 2016, addressing a wide variety of geriatric and gerontological topics. Dr. David Hogan and Dr. Montero-Odasso(1) call on the Canadian Geriatrics Society to develop a Falls and Fractures Special Interest Group, which is an attempt to syste...

Consider a study where the times of occurrences of a recurrent event for n units are monitored. For the ith unit, T(i1), T(i2), …, denote the successive event interoccurrence times and this unit is monitored over a random period [0, τ(i)] with τ(i) independent of the T(ij)s. Over this monitoring period, [Formula: see text] is the random number of event occurrences. The T(ij)s are independent an...

A total of sixty, 14-day old broiler chickens (Cobb-500) of either sex were used in this study to assess the effects of processed cassava tuber meals (0, 15, 30, and 45 gkg) on growth responses, meat yield, and profitability of boilers; rearing from day 14 to day 33 of ages. The experimental diets were iso-caloric and iso-nitrogenous in nature, and were supplied the broilers ad libitum througho...

Among other results, we rationally calculate the algebraic K-theory of any discrete cocompact subgroup of a Lie group G, where G is either O(n, 1), U(n, 1), Sp(n, 1), or F(4), in terms of the homology of the double coset space Gamma\G/K, where K is a maximal cocompact subgroup of G. We obtain the formula K(n)(ZGamma) [unk] [unk] congruent with [unk](i=0) (infinity)H(i)(Gamma\G/K; [unk](n-i)), w...

It is known that cardiovascular complications plays important roles in the development of diabetes mellitus (DM) and platelet dysfunction is one of the key reasons which led to microangiopathy. This study was designed to investigate the mitochondria function changes of platelet in DM rats and DM patients. The results showed that the platelets viability, platelet adenosine triphosphate (ATP) con...

We present a comprehensive study of the effects of third-order dispersion (TOD) on dispersion-managed (DM) solitons. The two main effects of TOD are creation of asymmetry of the DM soliton’s profile and generation of continuum radiation. Considering these two effects, we derive a conservative bound on the magnitude of TOD below which it will not have a significant detrimental effect on DM solit...

presence of maternal diabetes mellitus (dm) during pregnancy has important consequences for both mother and child. to determine maternal and fetal/neonatal complications of gestational dm and compare them with pre-gestational dm, a prospective study was performed in 100 diabetic women delivered in our hospital from january 2001 to april 2002. pregnancy outcome in 27 women with gestational dm an...