This study examined the relationship of feed efficiency and performance with feeding behavior, blood metabolic variables, and various body composition measurements in growing beef heifers. Individual DMI and growth were measured in yearling Limousin x Holstein-Friesian heifers [n = 86; initial BW = 191.8 (SD = 37) kg] fed a TMR diet comprising 70:30 concentrate:corn silage on a DM basis (ME of ...

Residual feed intake (RFI) is defined as the difference between the observed ADFI and the ADFI predicted from production and maintenance requirements. The objectives of this study were to evaluate RFI as a selection criterion to improve feed efficiency and its potential to reduce N and P excretion in 4 pig breeds. Data were collected between 2000 and 2009 in French central test stations for 2 d...

The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between health and production traits in chickens. The data were obtained from a closed, fully pedigreed, commercial broiler line. Records included measurements of body weight (BW), residual feed intake (RFI), percent breast meat (PBM), and two health traits (H1 and H2) from 13,665 birds and 1,524 hens with progeny records. Productio...

The relationship between heat stress, meat quality, and residual feed intake (RFI) is unknown in growing steers. To address this issue, high RFI (HRFI) and low RFI (LRFI) individuals were compared by assessing RFI in 48 Angus-sired steers during a 70-d feeding trial conducted during July through September to identify steers with calculated RFI at least 2 SD apart. The association of RFI with in...

O UR capacity to exploit the electromagnetic spectrum allows us to probe the universe and disseminate information. As these goals are intertwined, so are the shared resources afforded to each. Careful management of the electromagnetic spectrum results in the ability to perform precise remote measurements of the Earth and the cosmos, while using the same spectrum to send high-powered communicati...

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) can have adverse effects on commercial electronics. Current properties of high performance integrated circuits (IC’s), such as very small feature sizes, high clock frequencies, and reduced voltage levels, increase the susceptibility of these circuits to RFI, causing them to be more prone to smaller RFI levels. Besides, recent developments of mobile devices and...

Recently Ramana Athrea published a new algorithm ([1]) based on the difference at fringe rates of a source in the sky and ground-based RFI. His algorithm works only for ground-based and constantamplitude RFI during a solution interval. We modified his algorithm to include a possible change of the RFI’s amplitude during the solution interval and developed another algorithm based on Högbom CLEANi...

The objective of this project was to investigate the effects of selecting sires for residual feed intake (RFI) on the performance of their daughters. Bulls with low or high estimated breeding values (EBV) for RFI were selected from the Angus Society of Australia sire summary and mated to Angus cross commercial cows at the Kansas State University Cow-Calf Unit in 2005 and 2006. The average EBV o...

The objective of this project was to investigate the effects of selecting sires for residual feed intake (RFI) on the performance of their daughters. Bulls with low or high estimated breeding values (EBV) for RFI were selected from the Angus Society of Australia sire summary and mated to Angus cross commercial cows at the Kansas State University Cow-Calf Unit in 2005 and 2006. The average EBV o...

Effective radio frequency interference (RFI) cancellation for spectroscopic applications can take place using time averaged spectra. An RFI “reference signal,” constructed from the cross power spectrum of the signals from the two polarizations of a reference horn pointed at the source of the RFI signal, in combination with cross power spectra with the signals from the Parkes telescope, allows c...