A feedlot growth-performance trial and a metabolism trial were conducted to evaluate a dose response to ardacin (a glycopeptide antibiotic). Treatments consisted of an 88% concentrate finishing diet supplemented to contain (DM basis) 0, 8.25, 16.5., or 33 mg ardacin/kg. The growth-performance trial (129 d) involved 120 heifers and 120 steers in a randomized complete block design. There were no ...

This study examined the effect of acute hyperglycaemia, induced by intravenous glucose, on gall bladder motility. Six healthy volunteers were studied in random order on three occasions during normoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia with blood glucose concentrations stabilised at 8 and 15 mmol/l. Gall bladder volumes, measured with ultrasonography, were studied before and during infusion of stepwise i...

Statview 512+ is a powerful statistical analysis tool, written for the Macintosh computer, that combines the strengths of high-level statistical packages with the simplicity of the Macintosh interface. The program brings an extensive range of statistical functions into the hands of researchers and students who might otherwise not have access to this level of statistical computing. It is easy to...

Whirlpool is a hash function that operates on messages less than 2256 bits in length, and produces a message digest of 512 bits. Whirlpool uses the Miyaguchi-Preneel scheme with a 512 bit block cipher, and it is claimed to be collision resistant and one-way. The bit string to be hashed is always padded, and its length after padding is a multiple of 512. The message string is then divided into a...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES To develop an optimal scanning protocol for multislice spiral CT perfusion (CTP) imaging to evaluate hemodynamic changes in liver cirrhosis with diethylnitrosamine- (DEN-) induced precancerous lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into the control group (n = 80) and the precancerous liver cirrhosis group (n = 40). The control group rece...

BACKGROUND Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.4 may impair blood coagulation less than other HES solutions and, thus, may be used at larger doses without increasing the risk of postoperative bleeding. This study tested the hypothesis that volume replacement with 6% HES 130/0.4 at a dose of up to 50 ml/kg does not increase blood loss and transfusion requirements in elective coronary artery bypass s...

Let G be a finite group and k be a field of characteristic p. We investigate the homotopy category K(Inj kG) of the category C(Inj kG) of complexes of injective (= projective) kG-modules. If G is a p-group, this category is equivalent to the derived category Ddg(C(BG; k)) of the cochains on the classifying space; if G is not a p-group it has better properties than this derived category. The ord...

A total of 135 measurements of polyfructoside clearance as a measure of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) were made in 39 infants of 25.5-33 weeks' gestation, birth weight 720-2000 g, between the ages of 0.5 and 33 days. GRF was related to postconceptional age and increased exponentially from geometric mean 0.59 ml/min at 26 weeks' postconceptional age to 1.40 ml/min at 33 weeks. GFR in the firs...

In this paper, we examine the reliability of multi-path multi-stage interconnection networks (MINs) of different class. The bounded expressions for the time-dependent reliability for 16 x 16 Zeta Networks (ZTNs) and 16 x 16 Augmented Shuffle-Exchange Networks (ASENs) are derived. Furthermore, reliability upper bound and lower bound that is useful for the analysis of large networks is derived. T...