Formulation of Broiler Finishing Rations by Quadratic Programming

A Continuous Quadratic Programming Formulation of the Vertex Separator Problem

The Vertex Separator Problem (VSP) for a graph is to find the smallest collection of vertices whose removal breaks the graph into two disconnected subsets of roughly equal size. In a recent paper (Optimality Conditions For Maximizing a Function Over a Polyhedron, Mathematical Programming, 2013, doi: 10.1007/s10107-013-0644-1), the authors announced a new continuous bilinear quadratic programmin...

Ammonium Chloride and Ammonium Sulfate in Cattle Feedlot Finishing Rations

T WO levels of ammonium chloride or of ammonium sulfate were added to the rations of commercial feeder cattle. The rations were made isonitrogenous, essentially isocaloric and to contain the same level of calcium, phosphorus and salt. Total gains were essentially the same for all lots, varying only 15.6 lb (7.1 kg) over a 112 day feeding period. Feed conversion was increased only on the ration ...

Elastoplastic Torsion by Quadratic Programming

A fItrite element scheme (together with a conjugate gradient algorithmj is demonstrated to be a very effective method for analyzing general elastoplastic torsion of prismatic bars posed as quadratic programming problems. Solutions for bars with elliptical and Sokolovsky’s oval cross-sections are presented. The solutions for the elliptical bars agree with the existing elastic and limit plastic s...

Quadratic bi-level programming problems: a fuzzy goal programming approach

This paper presents a fuzzy goal programming (FGP) methodology for solving bi-level quadratic programming (BLQP) problems. In the FGP model formulation, firstly the objectives are transformed into fuzzy goals (membership functions) by means of assigning an aspiration level to each of them, and suitable membership function is defined for each objectives, and also the membership functions for vec...

Formulation of Rations with Optimal Cations and Anions for Lactation