In ovo feeding (IOF), injecting dietary components into the amnion about 1 d prior to internal pipping, may enhance growth by altering glycogen status. This hypothesis was evaluated with 5 IOF solutions containing protein, β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB), and carbohydrate. Four IOF treatments were arranged as a factorial of 2 levels of egg white protein (EWP; 0 and 18%) and 2 levels of HMB (0 ...

In the paper the causal relationships between money and other macroeconomic variables such as output, interest rate, prices and exchange rate in Croatia were analysed. The basic principle of Grangercausality analysis is to test whether past values of monetary variable help to explain current values of output. Multivariate causality tests were performed in a vector autoregression (VAR) model. Th...

the ple2scx vector was developed for the stable expression of exogenous genes in the protozoan parasite leishmania. the ple2scx construct contains three independent selection markers: herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (hsv-tk), cytosine deaminase (cd) and streptothericin acetyltransferase gene (sat) in multiple cloning site, flanking by 5’ and 3’ untranslated regions of the previously clone...

conclusions patients with apd may have very different symptoms requiring immediate care; therefore, being informed about this condition is necessary for the physicians in emergency and obstetrics and gynecology departments. also a positive history of such condition in a pregnant woman necessitates precautions in the management of her pregnancy due to the potential of anaphylactic events. introd...

This paper presents a new recurrent neural network (RNN) structure called ENEM for dynamic system identification. ENEM structure is based on Elman network and NARX neural network. In order to show the performance of ENEM for system identification, the results were also compared to the results of Elman network, Jordan network and their modified models. The identification results of linear and no...

Battery and energy management methodologies have been proposed to address the design challenges of driving range and battery lifetime in Electric Vehicles (EV). However, the driving behavior is a major factor which has been neglected in these methodologies. In this paper, we propose a novel context-aware methodology to estimate the driving behavior in terms of future vehicle speeds and integrat...

AIM Preterm infants have difficulty oral feeding. We hypothesized that a specific sucking and swallowing exercises vs. no intervention accelerate the attainment of independent oral feeding through a faster maturation of infants' oral feeding skills (OFS). METHODS Very low birthweight infants were randomized to a control, sucking and swallowing groups. Sucking consisted of active sucking on a ...

Simple Recurrent Networks (SRNs) have been widely used in natural language processing tasks. However, their ability to handle long-term dependencies between sentence constituents is somewhat limited. NARX networks have recently been shown to outperform SRNs by preserving past information in explicit delays from the network’s prior output. However, it is unclear how the number of delays should b...

Abstract—This paper presents an optimization method for reducing the number of input channels and the complexity of the feed-forward NARX neural network (NN) without compromising the accuracy of the NN model. By utilizing the correlation analysis method, the most significant regressors are selected to form the input layer of the NN structure. An application of vehicle dynamic model identificati...