An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of graded levels of β-glucanase supplementation to barley (Hordeum vulgare)-based diets on the digestibility of DM, GE, N, and AA for growing-finishing pigs. Eight pigs (initial BW: 53.3 ± 3.2 kg) were each fitted with a simple T-cannula at the distal ileum and allotted to a replicated 4 × 4 Latin square design with 4 diets and 4 periods in ea...

We study the physical conditions, elemental abundances, and kinematics of the high-velocity clouds (HVCs) along the sight lines toward active galaxies HE 0226–4110 and PG 0953+414 using Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer data. No 21-cm H I emission is detected in these clouds, but our observations reveal multiple components of HVC absorption i...

We present a galaxy group catalogue spanning the redshift range 0.1 . z . 1 in the ∼ 1.7 deg COSMOS field, based on the first ∼ 10, 000 zCOSMOS spectra. The performance of both the Friendsof-Friends (FOF) and Voronoi-Delaunay-Method (VDM) approaches to group identification has been extensively explored and compared using realistic mock catalogues. We find that the performance improves substanti...

This paper describes a corpus of nearly 10K French-Chinese aligned segments, produced by postediting machine translated computer science courseware. This corpus was built from 2013 to 2016 within the MACAU project, by native Chinese students. The quality, as judged by native speakers, is adequate for understanding (far better than by reading only the original French) and for getting better mark...

In statistical machine translation, the currently best performing systems are based in some way on phrases or word groups. We describe the baseline phrase-based translation system and various refinements. We describe a highly efficient monotone search algorithm with a complexity linear in the input sentence length. We present translation results for three tasks: Verbmobil, Xerox and the Canadia...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are common, heritable neurodevelopmental conditions. The genetic architecture of ASDs is complex, requiring large samples to overcome heterogeneity. Here we broaden coverage and sample size relative to other studies of ASDs by using Affymetrix 10K SNP arrays and 1,168 families with at least two affected individuals, performing the largest linkage scan to date wh...