________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The objective of this experiment was to determine whether faba bean could successfully be used in feeds for weaner pigs in the period 10 to 25 kg liveweight. An experiment was conducted using 48 weaner pigs (average weight 10 ± 0.42 kg) to determine the nutritive value of dehulled faba bean meal (Vicia fab...

To save energy of VLSI systems flip-flops (FFs) are grouped in Multi-Bit Flip-Flop (MBFF), sharing a common clock driver. The energy savings strongly depends the grouping. For 2-bit MBFFs the optimal grouping turns into a minimum cost perfect graph matching problem. For k-bit MBFFs the optimal grouping turns into a minimum cost exact k-covering problem. We show that due to their special setting...

This study estimates the effect of Medicare Advantage (MA) payments and State Medicaid policies on the choice by Medicaid eligible Medicare beneficiaries to either join a MA plan, remain in the fee-for-service (FFS) and enroll in Medicaid (dually enrolled), or remain in FFS Medicare without joining Medicaid. Individual plan choice was modeled using a multinomial logit. The sample includes Medic...

Agricultural Extension services are among the most important rural services in developing countries. The services are considered to be a key driver of technological change and productivity growth in agriculture. In Kenya, like in the rest of the developing economies, agricultural extension has largely been delivered through supply–driven approaches. Due to perceived low impact of agricultural e...

 This study was carried out to investigate the apparent digestibility coefficients (ADCs) value of protein, amino acid and energy and body amino acid composition of rainbow trout fed solvent extracted soybean meal (SBM) and full-fat soybean meal (FFS) partly replacing fish meal (FM) in diets. Five iso nitrogenous (average 50.36% crude protein) and energetic (4294 kcal/kg total energy) ...

introduction extended use of agricultural chemicals by farmers in transfer of technology model has threatened the safety of agricultural production. moreover, non- participatory nature of extension classes failed to motivate farmers to use less chemical inputs in the production process. in the early 1990s, participatory approaches proved to be effective in integrated pest management (ipm). the ...

We assess the current phenomenological status of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs) and study the effect of consistently including perturbative QCD (pQCD) evolution. Our goal is to initiate the process of establishing reliable, QCD-evolved parametrizations for the TMD PDFs and TMD FFs that can be used both to test TMD facto...

To more clearly understand the function of conserved bases of 4.5S RNA, the product of the essential ffs gene of Escherichia coli, and to address conflicting results reported in other studies, we have developed a new genetic system to characterize ffs mutants. Multiple ffs alleles were generated by altering positions that correspond to the region of the RNA molecule that interacts directly with...

A confusing variety of new and exotic fragmentation functions (FFs) is discussed recently, in particular in the context of the extraction of the third, leading twist – hitherto unknown – nucleon distribution function. This transversity distribution h1(x) (frequently also denoted δq(x) or ∆Tq(x)) involves a flip of quark chirality, and therefore, requires a second chiral-odd function to form a c...