A total of 288 broiler chickens (1 d old) were used in a 42-d growth trial to study the effects of chicory (Cichorium intybus) and nettle (Urtica dioica) with or without multi-enzyme on growth performance, carcass traits, and biochemical parameters. The corn-soybean based control diet and 8 experimental diets were fed to each of 3 pens of chickens (12 chickens/pen). Treatments were as follows: ...

This paper shows how a general technique, called lock-step search, used in dynamic graph algorithms, can be used to improve the running time of two problems arising in program veriication and communication protocol design. (1) We consider the nonemptiness problem for Streett automata: We are given a directed graph G = (V; E) with n = jV j and m = jEj, and a collection of pairs of subsets of ver...

BACKGROUND Central-line-associated blood-stream infection (CLABSI) is a highly consequential nosocomial infection. The most effective management includes the removal of the infected catheter. Retention of the catheter and antibiotic lock therapy (ALT) along with systemic antibiotics may be attempted only if there are unusual extenuating circumstances. CLABSIs due to Gram-negative bacteria (GNB)...

A spin lock comprised of radiofrequency pulses with alternating phase, (x) (-x)(x) (-x) , is proposed as a new technique to probe microsecond time-scale dynamics. A series of R1rho measurements using different pulse duration tp allows one to determine exchange rate, kex, the product p(a)p(b)(Delta omega(ab))2 involving populations of the exchanging species, p(a) and p(b), together with chemical...

1 CDMA The basic idea behind CDMA is to assign each user a signature (also called a code-word), s m (t). Users will use antipodal signaling (i.e., multiplying their signatures by ±1 to send data. Thus, what the receiver sees is (idealistically) r(t) = m b m s m (t) + w(t) where the b m are the users' bits (again, ±). We also generally assume that the system is interference limited so that the n...

E cient synchronization is an essential component of parallel computing The designers of traditional multiprocessors have included hardware support only for simple operations such as compare and swap and load linked store conditional while high level synchronization primitives such as locks barriers and condition variables have been implemented in software With the advent of directory based dis...

Infected tissues of roots and leaves of various grasses as well as soil around their rhizosphere were sampled from Fars, Golestan, Isfahan, Khorasan Shomali, Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran and Semnan provinces (Iran). Based on morphological characteristics and available keys, four species of Bipolaris including B. austreliensis, B. indica, B. micropus and B. spicifera, four species of Curvularia i...

As a sequel to the calculation of the CP-violating asymmetry in the decay rates of b → d l + l − and ¯ b → ¯ d l + l − , we address in this paper the asymmetry in exclusive channels ¯ B → π e + e − and ¯ B → ρ e + e − , using form factors from two different models. In the invariant mass region 1 GeV < √ s < M J/ψ , the partial width asymmetry in the channel ¯ B → π is −6% (−2%), and that in the...