The objective of the present field study was to establish the beneficial effects of re-insemination of non-pregnant cows using ultrasonography 20 to 23 days after the artificial insemination. A total of 245 Japanese Black cows were artificially inseminated and early pregnancy diagnosis (EPD) was performed on 92 cows 20 days after insemination, using ultrasonography. The remaining 153 cows were ...

ÐAn electrophoretic deposition (EPD) technique is used to prepare porous alumina membranes. The deposition kinetics which are conventionally derived based on a mass conservation law have been modi®ed in terms of the thickness of the deposited layer. This modi®cation allows the porosity evolution of the membrane to be predicted under a variety of EPD processes. A transition in deposition from li...

We present an update of EPDNew (http://epd.vital-it.ch), a recently introduced new part of the Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) which has been described in more detail in a previous NAR Database Issue. EPD is an old database of experimentally characterized eukaryotic POL II promoters, which are conceptually defined as transcription initiation sites or regions. EPDnew is a collection of automa...

This study investigated the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of the natural polymer zein combined with bioactive glass (BG) particles. Through the deposition of various BG compositions, namely 45S5 BG and Cu-doped BG, this work sought to demonstrate the ability of the films to potentiate the formation of hydroxyapatite (HA) in contact with simulated body fluid (SBF). Following incubation in SBF...

Routing loops have recently re-emerged as an important issue in new carrier class Ethernet technologies such as IEEE 802.1aq. While they can waste resources through full link utilization, routing loops were originally mitigated in IP networks by TTL expiration, resulting in wasted resources before packets were dropped after a few seconds. In this paper a new mitigation approach based upon Early...

With the Assessment System for Sustainable Buildings for Federal Buildings (BNB), Germany is pioneering the implementation of certification systems for Sustainable Buildings in Europe. Using BNB methodology and tools, building products are not assessed as individual products, but looked at within the context of the entire building and its parts. The most important impacts of the building on the...