One hundred twenty crossbred steers (450 lb, +/37 lb) were stratified by weight and randomly assigned to one of two feeding blocks. The cattle grazed dormant rangeland for 56 days from October 12 through December 7. Each block was supplemented three times a week with the equivalent of 7 days of dried corn distiller’s grains (DDG) at 0, 0.25, 0.50, or 0.75% body weight (BW)/d on a dry matter bas...

In this study, we tested the hypothesis according to which chitosan reduces lipid digestion by blocking the access of lipases to ingested fat. Because lipase action takes place mostly at interfaces, we produced Langmuir films of 1,2-didecanoyl-glycerol (DDG), which is the substrate for human pancreatic lipase (HPL). The experimental assays were carried out in acidic medium, at pH 3.0, to ensure...

β-D-3'-Azido-2',3'-dideoxyguanosine (3'-azido-ddG) is a potent inhibitor of HIV-1 replication with a superior resistance profile to zidovudine. Recently, we identified five novel 6-modified-3'-azido-ddG analogs that exhibit similar or superior anti-HIV-1 activity compared to 3'-azido-ddG in primary cells. To gain insight into their structure-activity-resistance relationships, we synthesized the...

Optimizing the use of distiller grain (DG) is becoming increasingly important as ethanol production increases. Dairy-beef production is a system that has the potential to use large amounts of DG. Threehundred and twenty Holstein steers (420.7 + 71.5 lbs initial wt.) were fed finishing diets at the University of Illinois Beef Research Unit. Forty pens were each randomly assigned to ten treatment...

An experiment was conducted to determine the influence of adding graded levels of microbial phytase to corn, distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), high-protein distillers dried grains (HP-DDG), and corn germ on the standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of P. A second objective was to develop regression equations to predict the response of adding phytase to each of these ingredie...

Software pipelining is becoming widely used as a loop execution model for microprocessors supporting a high instruction level parallelism. In this paper we describe a heuristic method for software pipelining, named Graph Traverse Software Pipelining (GTSP), that divides the scheduling problem in two phases: scheduling on a graph and code generation. The first phase encapsulates the NP-complete ...

It is generally accepted that diet modification provides beneficial effects on the management of diabetes. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of diet modification on nutrient intake and quality of life in a large sample of diabetic patients. This study was conducted using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV and V (2007-2010). A total of 2,484 of d...

The classic theory of differential geometry concerns itself with smooth curves and surfaces. In practice, however, our experiments can only measure a finite amount of data, and our simulations can only resolve a finite amount of detail. Discrete differential geometry (DDG) studies discrete counterparts of classical differential geometry that are applicable in this discrete setting, and converge...

In many real-world scenarios, we often deal with streaming data that is sequentially collected over time. Due to the non-stationary nature of environment, distribution may change in unpredictable ways, which known as concept drift literature. To handle drift, previous methods first detect when/where happens and then adapt models fit latest data. However, there are still cases some underlying fa...