Six bioassays were conducted to determine the ideal ratios of several amino acids relative to Lys. Young male crossbred chicks were fed diets based on corn gluten meal and synthetic amino acids that could be made singly deficient in Lys, Trp, Thr, Ile, or Val. Diets for all assays contained 3,400 kcal ME/kg, and L-glutamic acid was used to make all diets (within and among assays) equal in crude...

As a significant tool in ecological studies, the species accumulation curve or the collector's curve is the graph of the expected number of detected species as a function of sampling effort. The problem of estimating the species accumulation curve based on an empirical data set arising from quadrat sampling is studied in a nonparametric binomial mixture model. It will be shown that estimating t...

Co-channel interference is a major factor in limiting the capacity and link quality in cellular communications. As the co-channel interference is modeled by lognormal distribution, sum of the co-channel interferences of neighboring cells is represented by the sum of lognormal Random Variables (RVs) which has no closed-form expression. Assuming independent, identically distributed (iid) RVs, the...

The dual of an algebraic curve C in RP defined by the polynomial equation f(x, y, z) = 0 is the locus of points ( ∂f ∂x (a, b, c) : ∂f ∂y (a, b, c) : ∂f ∂z (a, b, c) ) where (a : b : c) ∈ C. The dual can alternatively be defined geometrically as the image under reciprocation of the envelope of tangent lines to the curve. It is known that the dual of an algebraic curve is also an algebraic curve...

The global enumerative invariants of a variation of polarized Hodge structures over a smooth quasi-projective curve reflect the global twisting of the family and numerical measures of the complexity of the limiting mixed Hodge structures that arise when the family degenerates. We study several of these global enumerative invariants and give applications to questions such as: Give conditions und...

The relationship between weight change and risk of hip fracture is still controversial. We searched PubMed and Embase for studies on weight change and risk of hip fracture. Eight prospective studies were included. The weight loss studies included 85592 participants with 1374 hip fractures, and the weight gain studies included 80768 participants with 732 hip fractures. Weight loss is more likely...

The cumulative growth of a plant is the result of interrelated processes, and response to selection for changes in the annual growth curve requires many physiological adjustments. Selection to modify the entire annual growth curve may therefore not be as effective as linear models may predict. Periodic growth of a population of Nicotiana tabacum L. was estimated to have heritabilities increasin...

In this paper, a proposed wireless transmission model by concatenation of turbo codes and Spiral curve phase precoding is introduced. It is a novel ISI-combating method for BPSK signals through multipath fading channel. Simulation results show that Spiral curve phase precoding with binary turbo codes achieves the better gain at high SNR compared to that of Viterbi equalizer with the same turbo ...