Maize-soybean meal diets with 0, 100, 200 and 300 g/kg double zero rapeseed meal (‘00’ RSM) with and without an enzyme mixture (xylanase, pectinase, cellulase) at a level of 1.6 g/kg were evaluated with 624 day-old broiler chicks for 5 weeks. The birds were randomly allocated to eight dietary treatments with three replicates of 26 birds each. Average daily gain (ADG) and feed intake (FI) were r...

High-resolution stereo satellite imagery is widely used in environmental monitoring, topographic mapping, and urban three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. However, a critical issue in these applications using high-resolution stereo satellite imagery is to improve the accuracy of point geo-positioning. This paper presents a framework for comparison of the performance of the three-dimensional (3D...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate preoperative T and N staging and retroperitoneal surgical margin (RSM) involvement in colon cancer using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). METHODS In this retrospective study, preoperative MDCTs of 141 patients with colon adenocarcinoma were evaluated in terms of T and N staging and retroperitoneal surgical margin involvement by two observers. Results were...

Finite element (FE) models are widely used to predict the dynamic characteristics of aerospace structures. These models often give results that differ from the measured results and therefore need to be updated to match the measured data. FE model updating entails tuning the model so that it can better reflect the measured data from the physical structure being modeled 1. One fundamental charact...

AIMS Probiotic milk-based formulations were spray-dried with various combinations of prebiotic substances in an effort to generate synbiotic powder products. METHODS AND RESULTS To examine the effect of growth phase and inclusion of a prebiotic substance in the feed media on probiotic viability during spray-drying, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG was spray-dried in lag, early log and stationary ph...

The extraction of catfish (Clarias gariepinus) bone gelatin was optimized by using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) involving 4-factors, 5-levels Central Composite Design (CCD). The optimum conditions for extraction were produced by a pre-treatment of 3.35% HCl for 14.5 h along with hot water extraction at 67.23°C for 5.2 h. Results showed that the predicted yield by RSM (61.81%) was closely ...

Let RsM denote the Singer construction on an unstable module M over the Steenrod algebra A at the prime two; RsM is canonically a subobject of Ps⊗M , where Ps = F2[x1, . . . , xs] with generators of degree one. Passage to A -indecomposables gives the natural transformation RsM → F2⊗A (Ps⊗M), which identifies with the dual of the composition of the Singer transfer and the Lannes-Zarati homomorph...

Abstract: Robust design (RD), implemented in statistical and mathematical procedures to simultaneously minimise the process bias and variability, is widely used in many areas of engineering and technology to represent complex real-world industrial settings. For RD modelling and optimisation, response surface methodology (RSM) is often utilised as an estimation method to represent the functional...

Recurrent spontaneous miscarriage (RSM), defined as ≥2 clinically detectable pregnancy losses before 20 weeks of gestation with the same partner. Many studies have been suggested abnormal natural killer (NK) cell activity can be a high chance division linked with RSM. Aberrant expression of angiogenic cytokines during implantation window in women with RSA is one of the key factors that adversel...