Putting Dairying on a War Footing

Putting glycobiology on a structural footing.

www.sciencedirect.com Carbohydrates and their conjugates represent the largest and most varied class of biological macromolecules. While protein and DNA are stuck with their linear arrangement of a limited repertoire of monomers, sugars can be linked to each other (or proteins, lipids) through a range of linkages giving rise to a bewildering and confusing set of tree-like molecules. Consequentl...

VIEWPOINT A Solid Footing for a Quantum

Q uantum secure communication relies on sharing of entangled states between parties. Over short distances (less than 100 km), these states can be distributed by sending photons over optical fibers, but losses in those fibers limit long-distance sharing. One solution is to use a sequence of “quantum repeaters” along the optical fiber connection [1]. These devices can store the quantum informatio...

A field investigation of vertical footing response on sand

Enhancing pasture-based dairying with supplementary feeds

New Zealand dairy farmers are increasingly using supplementary feeds in an attempt to overcome the quantitative and nutritional limitations of pasture. The use of rolled maize grain and pasture silage supplements was evaluated on a farmlet basis for two seasons. Supplementary feeding resulted in 88 and 82 g milksolids (MS)/kg dry matter (DM) at stocking rates of 3.24 and 4.48 Friesian cows/ha r...

Stochastic neural field equations: a rigorous footing

We here consider a stochastic version of the classical neural field equation that is currently actively studied in the mathematical neuroscience community. Our goal is to present a well-known rigorous probabilistic framework in which to study these equations in a way that is accessible to practitioners currently working in the area, and thus to bridge some of the cultural/scientific gaps betwee...