Of 700 animal feed samples, 32 (4.5%) harbored Salmonella. The highest percentage of contamination was found in sheep feed and local protein. A total of 17 Salmonella serotypes were identified. The most frequent serotypes were Salmonella meleagridis. S. bornum, S. montevideo, and S. drypool. S. bornum was isolated for the first time in Iraq and from both local feed and its ingredients. The comm...

OBJECTIVES Industrial food animal production (IFAP) operations adversely impact environmental public health through air, water, and soil contamination. We sought to determine how state permitting and agriculture agencies respond to these public health concerns. METHODS We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with staff at 12 state agencies in seven states, which were chosen based ...

Iterative learning control is a feedforward control technique applied to systems or processes that operate in a repetitive fashion over a fixed interval of time to improve tracking/regulation performance in response to reference inputs/disturbance inputs that are repeatable in each cycle. In this paper, learning control is applied to coil-to-coil gauge and tension control during the thread-up p...

This thesis proposal discusses control of dynamic systems and its relation to time. Although much research has been done concerning control of dynamic systems and decision making, little research exists about the relationship between time and control. Control is defined as the ability to keep a target system/ process in a desired state. In this study, properties of time such as fast, slow, over...

Spring barley is grown on about half of the Norwegian cereal area. The rest of the area is equally divided between wheat and oats. Most years the domestic production provides 70%-80% of the domestic market for bread wheat. Barley and oats are mainly grown for animal feed. During the years 2008-2012, severe epidemics of Fusarium head blight have led to increased mycotoxin contamination of cereal...

Fine metallic screens are important sub-systems in propellant tank systems of spacecrafts due to their application as filter devices. The flow resistance has to be known for a proper design of tank and feed line systems. In this paper the flow resistance of application-relevant metallic screens is investigated experimentally. The weave types “dutch twilled weave” (DTW) and “broad mesh” (BM) wer...

The information stored in animal feed databases is highly variable, in terms of both provenance and quality; therefore, data pre-processing is essential to ensure reliable results. Yet, pre-processing at best tends to be unsystematic; at worst, it may even be wholly ignored. This paper sought to develop a systematic approach to the various stages involved in pre-processing to improve feed datab...

The present report summarizes the work conducted during the internship on Feedforward Control of the Magnetic Levitation Setup. Different feedforward strategies, specifically tailored for this setup, are developed and reviewed. These feedforward methods explicitly take the intrinsic position-dependent behavior of the magnetic levitation setup into account. Additionally, closed-loop stability of...

We address the problem of unsupervised matching of schema information from a large number of data sources into the schema of a data warehouse. The matching process is the first step of a framework to integrate data feeds from thirdparty data providers into a structured-search engine’s data warehouse. Our experiments show that traditional schemabased and instance-based schema matching methods fa...