Bacillus subtilis var. natto N21 (BS) and different lactic acid bacteria were applied to produce two-stage fermented feeds. Broilers were fed these feeds to select the best fermented feed. The selected fermented feed was pelleted and investigated for its effects on growth performance, carcass traits, intestinal microflora, serum biochemical constituents, and apparent ileal nutrient digestibilit...

This contribution describes an automatic method to retrieve the diffuse radiometric surface model of moving persons or other objects along with the object geometry using a multi-camera system. The multi-camera equipped studio allows synchronised capture of the foreground action and a visual hull computation is then used to compute a 3D model of that scene. The diffuse surface reflection paramet...

The creation of the personal computer during the late 1970s and early 1980s is heralded as a time that people were liberated by computers as tools for everyone. The proliferation of affordable and relatively powerful computers changed the landscape of computing across the globe. This chapter looks at the introduction of one machine, the BBC Microcomputer, and its influence on the culture of com...

For a graph G and a subgraph H (called backbone graph) of G, a backbone k-coloring of G with respect to H is a proper vertex coloring of G using colors from the set {1, 2, . . . , k}, with an additional condition that colors for any two adjacent vertices in H must differ by at least two. The backbone chromatic number of G over H, denoted by BBC(G,H), is the smallest k of a backbone k-coloring a...

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The aim of the present study was to further characterize the PK/PBAN receptors and their interaction with various PK/PBAN peptides in order to get a better understanding of their ubiquitous and multifunctional nature. Two cloned receptors stably expressed in Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells were used in this study: a Heliothis peltigera pheromone gland receptor (Hep-PK/PBAN-R) (which stimulate...

Given a graph G and a spanning subgraph T of G, a backbone k-colouring for (G,T ) is a mapping c : V (G)→ {1, . . . ,k} such that |c(u)− c(v)| ≥ 2 for every edge uv ∈ E(T ) and |c(u)− c(v)| ≥ 1 for every edge uv ∈ E(G) \E(T ). The backbone chromatic number BBC(G,T ) is the smallest integer k such that there exists a backbone k-colouring of (G,T ). In 2007, Broersma et al. [2] conjectured that B...