The effects of maternal nutrition on offspring wool production (quality and quantity) were evaluated. Primiparous Rambouillet ewes (n = 84) were randomly allocated to 1 of 6 treatments in a 2 × 3 factorial design. Selenium treatment [adequate Se (ASe, 9.5 μg/kg of BW) vs. high Se (HSe, 81.8 μg/kg of BW)] was initiated at breeding, and maternal nutritional intake [control (CON, 100% of requireme...

Rarely observed in the wild, the existence of the Andean mountain cat (Oreailurus jacobita) has been established based on only 3 skulls and 14 museum skins. The Andean mountain cat's evolutionary relationship to other felids based on morphological characters is largely contradictory, with evidence aligning it with South American small spotted cats (ocelot lineage) or alternatively with pantheri...

Hydrogen Sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a colorless gas with a characteristic odor of rotten eggs. It naturally occurs in the gases from volcanoes, sulfur springs, undersea vents, swamps, stagnant bodies of water, and in crude petroleum and natural gas. Additionally, bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes release hydrogen sulfide during the decomposition of sulfur-containing proteins and by the...

We consider the problem of broadcasting in the presence of linearly bounded number of transient faults. For some fixed 0 <IX < 1 we assume that at most zi faulty transmissions can occur during the first i time units of the broadcasting algorithm execution, for every natural i. In a unit of time every node can communicate with at most one neighbor. We prove that some bounded degree networks are ...

In chemical industries, process operations are usually comprised of several discrete operating regions with distributions that drift over time. These complexities complicate outlier detection in the presence of intrinsic process dynamics. In this article, we consider the problem of detecting univariate outliers in dynamic systems with multiple operating points. A novel method combining the time...

van Ooyen, A., J. van Pelt, M.A. Comer and F.H. Lopes da Silva, Long-lasting transients of activation in neural networks, Neurocomputing 4 (1992) 75-87. The question has been investigated whether long-lasting transients of activatio~ (i.e. slow waves), observed to occur in the intact cerebral cortex (EEG "delta" waves and "K" complexes) as well as in isolated tissue cultured in vitro, can also ...