Cows will typically experience a 30 to 35% reduction in feed intake during the final two to three weeks prior to calving. Blood fatty acids at calving are negatively related to feed intake and positively related to incidence of postpartum metabolic disorders. Feed and manage cows to maximize feed intake during the transition period. Over conditioned cows are likely to have poor appetites, but d...

1 Synchronous Up/Down Counter with Period Independent of Counter Size Mircea R. Stan, Wayne P. Burleson [email protected] Abstract| The theory and practice of up-only (or downonly) prescaled counters is well understood both in industry and in the academia but until now it was not known if the design of a prescaled up/down binary counter is possible. This paper presents the theory behind...

The unit commitment (UC) problem is a very important problem in the power industry [1]. It seeks to minimize system-wide operational costs of power generators by providing an optimal schedule of power production while meet the demand and other technical constraints. By the combinatorial nature of the operational constraints, UC problem is difficult to solve to optimality for practical large-sca...

Here it is shown that chaotic oscillations can appear after a series of period doublings in radiating diffusion flames when the activation temperature is high enough. It is also shown that period doubling cascades appear typically in very small regions and that they may not be observable if one starts with small perturbations of a steady flame.

We prove that the period doubling operator has an expanding di rection at the xed point We use the induced operator a Perron Frobenius type operator to study the linearization of the period dou bling operator at its xed point We then use a sequence of linear operators with nite ranks to study this induced operator The proof is constructive One can calculate the expanding direction and the rate ...

We show that the greedy spanner algorithm constructs a (1+ )-spanner of weight −O(d)w(MST) for a point set in metrics of doubling dimension d, resolving an open problem posed by Gottlieb [11]. Our result generalizes the result by Narasimhan and Smid [15] who showed that a point set in d-dimension Euclidean space has a (1+ )-spanner of weight at most −O(d)w(MST). Our proof only uses the packing ...

In this paper, we study the linear structure of sets A ⊂ Fn2 with doubling constant σ(A) < 2, where σ(A) := |A+A| |A| . In particular, we show that A is contained in a small affine subspace. We also show that A can be covered by at most four shifts of some subspace V with |V | ≤ |A|. Finally, we classify all binary sets with small doubling constant.