ABSTRACT Forage cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica Mill) is an important forage resource in the Northeast region of Brazil due to its adaptation edaphoclimatic conditions region, mainly drought periods. The objective this work was assess effects diets with combined different sources fibers on dry matter and water intakes, digestibility, microbial protein production, balance nitrogen compounds, perfor...

Cattle in Pakistan have traditionally been raised for producing bullocks except breeds such as Sahiwal and Red Sindhi which are established milch breeds. General production system is low-input extensive system with crossbreds mainly raised under intensive high input system in the cattle/buffalo colonies to sustain the demand of milk especially during summer, the slump period in buffalo milk. Al...

This study was conducted at Sarsha Upazila in Jessore district of Bangladesh to capture a scenario of productive and reproductive performances of different genotypes such as Holstein-Friesian cross, Sahiwal cross, Sindhi cross with local, and indigenous dairy cows. Data were collected by live survey on 100 cows, divided into 4 groups each consists of 25 animals. Results shows that age at first ...

[7-bit encoding, transliteration] We propose a general strategy for deriving 7-bit encodings for texts in languages which use an alphabetic non-Roman script, like Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit and many other Indic scripts, and for which there is some transliteration convention using Roman letters with additional diacritical marks. These schemes, which we will call \meta-transliterations", are based...

Discriminating between certain non-native contrasts can be difficult. The Perceptual Assimilation Model [1] predicts that when two non-native phones are assimilated to the same native language category, as equally good or poor versions, discrimination should be poor (a single-category assimilation). However, it is not known to what extent visual and/or clearly articulated speech might assist cr...