Accordingly, the standards are not tied back to the The application-to-application exchange of business data, known as electronic data interchange (EDI), has not fulfilled the expected potential. The focus for the development of EDI standards should be shifted from the interchange file to the information contained within the business process. The use of object oriented techniques to model the s...

Ten ruminally cannulated lactating Holstein cows that were part of a larger trial studying the effects of feeding different proteins on milk production were used in a replicated 5 x 5 Latin square to quantify flows of microbial and rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) in omasal digesta. Cows were fed total mixed rations containing (dry matter basis) 44% corn silage, 22% alfalfa silage, 2% urea, and...

The objectives of this experiment were to measure intestinal digestibility of AA in the rumen-undegraded protein fraction (RUP-AA) of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and fish meal (FM) samples and to determine whether these feeds contain a constant protein fraction that is undegradable in the rumen and indigestible in the small intestine, as assumed in the French Institut National ...

Recent tests of a 250 m/m structured packing in a 1.22 m diameter column have produced some unanticipated results. Using two quite different systems, mass transfer performance in a relatively short 1.69 m bed was significantly better than previous results in a longer 3.78 m bed. No bed length effect was found on pressure drop. Two different severe vapor maldistributions were studied using a vac...

In the last twenty years, elaborate models have been developed to formulate diets with greater accuracy in meeting the protein and amino acid requirements of lactating dairy cattle. Models for feeding protein to dairy cattle in the USA evolved from basic crude protein (NRC, 1978) to more complex systems based on rumen undegraded protein (RUP) and intestinal digestion of RUP (NRC, 2001). The NRC...

Scenarios in which authenticated encryption schemes output decrypted plaintext before successful verification raise many security issues. These situations are sometimes unavoidable in practice, such as when devices have insufficient memory to store an entire plaintext, or when a decrypted plaintext needs early processing due to real-time requirements. We introduce the first formalization of the...

Modern software development business, as a very dynamic and often risky process, imposes new approaches to planning and organisation of the work. At present, a typical team can apply one of the agile methodologies, among which RUP and XP are the most common. They are both well-established and proven in practice, but nowadays it is clear that they cannot respond to all the new challenges separat...

Flow-directed pulmonary artery occlusion is posited to enable partitioning of vascular resistance into small and large vessels. As such it may have a role in assessment for pulmonary endarterectomy. To test if the occlusion technique distinguished small from large vessel disease we studied 59 subjects with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), idiopathic pulmonary arterial hype...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of ruminal protein degradability and supplementation frequency on intake, apparent digestibility, N retention, and nutrient flux across visceral tissues of lambs fed a low-quality forage diet. In both experiments, wethers were fed a basal diet of mature crested wheatgrass hay (4.2% CP) for ad libitum consumption plus 1 of 4 supplements: 1) ...

Rapid body growth during the prepubertal period may be associated with reductions in mammary parenchymal growth and subsequent milk yield. The objective of this study was to test effects of dietary rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) and administration of recombinant bovine somatotropin (bST) during the prepubertal period on mammary growth and milk yield of dairy heifers. Seventy-two Holstein heif...