This study was conducted to investigate the response of broiler chickens diets containing cashewnut testa (CNT). Two hundred and four (204) day-old unsexed Arboracre chicks were randomly allotted dietary treatment consisting three replicates seventeen each. The treatments consists a control other with CNT included at 5, 10, 15% as substitute for wheat offal in diet. Cashewnut had 1.5, 20.0, 54....

Evaluating the fit of a structural equation model via bootstrap requires a transformation of the data so that the null hypothesis holds exactly in the sample. For complete data, such a transformation was proposed by Beran and Srivastava (1985) for general covariance structure models and applied to structural equation modeling by Bollen and Stine (1992) . An extension of this transformation to m...

two forage species alfalfa (medicago sativa), and sainfoin (onobrychis viciifolia scop.), at two consecutive growing season (spring and summer), were studied for their chemical composition and in vitro gas production characteristics. data on cumulative gas production (ml gas/g dm) were fitted to the non-sigmoidal model, and for evaluation of model, the concordance correlation coefficient (ccc) ...

Twelve species of micro-organisms, representing ten diffe.rent. genera, were used in feeding experiments t.o determine t.heir relative value as foods for larvae of oysters (C1'a~.Yosft·ea. vll'ginica) and clams (Ventts 1ne1'ce'lUtru,,). booM'ySM galba'na and Monochrysls lutheri were approximately equal in value as foods for either species of larvae, and were the best single foods for oyster lar...

BACKGROUND The gut microbiota of breast-fed and formula-fed infants differ significantly, as do the risks for allergies, gut dysfunction, and upper respiratory tract infections. The connections between breast milk, various formulas, and the profiles of gut bacteria to these childhood illnesses, as well as the mechanisms underlying the effects, are not well understood. METHODS We investigated ...

Previous studies of dietary isotope discrimination have led to the general expectation that a consumer will exhibit enriched stable isotope levels relative to its diet. Parasite-host systems are specific consumer-diet pairs in which the consumer (parasite) feeds exclusively on one dietary source: host tissue. However, the small numbers of studies previously carried out on isotopic discriminatio...