OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that very low birth weight infants fed by continuous nasogastric gavage (CNG) would achieve full enteral feedings (100 kcal/kg/d) at an earlier postnatal age and have less feeding intolerance (FI) than infants fed by intermittent bolus gavage (IBG). METHODS Eighty infants were stratified by birth weight (700 to 1000 g and 1001 to 1250 g) and randomized into CN...

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) discharge management limits the development of sector, because RAS do not automatically result in low nutrient emissions. Research has helped develop such as wetlands and woodchip bioreactors that have been adopted by Danish commercial model trout farms. To further concept, we modelled built a novel “zero-discharge” recirculating system with an annual cap...

A rise in the fat concentration of human milk within the syringe was noted towards the end of continuous infusion but not with intermittent bolus gastric feeding. The rise in the former was reduced most simply and effectively by using an eccentric nozzle syringe and tilting the pump up at an angle of between 25 degrees and 40 degrees.

effect of intermittent mash-pellet feeding programs on broilers performance, ascites susceptibility and economic yield was studied using 480 broilers in six treatments and five replicates of 16 chicks per pen were used in a completely randomized design. treatments including: 1. mash feed, 2. heated-mash feed, 3. mash feed in starter and grower and pellet feed in finisher, 4. mash feed in starte...

Treatment of rats with either intermittent bolus i.v. injections or continuous i.v. infusions of the same sublethal daily dose of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) results in decreased food intake and decreased nitrogen balance compared to saline-treated control rats. After 4 days of treatment, rats treated with intermittent bolus doses of TNF develop tolerance to the nutritional effects and consume ...

conclusions patients receiving a cpvb in addition to tpvb after ldf reconstruction experienced similar pain to those receiving tpvb alone. a larger, randomized clinical trial is warranted to fully determine the benefits of using cpvb in addition to tpvb for this procedure. results a total of 22 patients were included in this study (11-cpvb and 11-tpvb). the mean nrs pain score of cpvb patients ...

Continuous fermentations were carried out with a recombinant flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain in an airlift bioreactor. Once operating under steady state at a dilution rate of 0.45 h(-1), the bioreactor was contaminated with Escherichia coli cells. The faster growing E. coli strain was washed out of the bioreactor and the recombinant, slower growing flocculating S. cerevisiae strain r...

This study is pertaining to the production of penicillin G acylase (PGA) by Bacillus subtilis 8105MU331 in which PGA gene, under the control of thermal-induced promoter, was integrated. The key process parameters including induced-temperature, induced-time, and culture temperature were optimized in flask culture. A three-stage cultivation process was developed for PGA production with the expres...

conclusions overall, the results of this study indicate that intermittent exercise reduces the plasma leptin level. in addition, this reduction is significantly correlated to the glucose level in the blood. the continuous exercise was shown to have no effects on the plasma leptin level, and there was no relationship between the glucose and leptin levels. results the results demonstrated that se...