The continuous spread of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as combined heating and power (CHP), diesel generators, boilers and renewable energy sources provide an effective solution to energy related problems to serve the power and heat demands with minimum cost. Moreover, the DERs may play a significant role for supplying power and heat in rural areas, where grid electricity is not avai...

Not all nutrients in farm animal’s diet are fully digested by animals own digestive enzymes as a consequence important nutrients are unavailable to the animal. But supplementation of enzymes to farm animals has shown to increase the digestibility of poorly digested diets to a much greater extent. By targeting specific anti-nutrients in certain feed ingredients, feed enzymes allow especially pig...

The specific growth rate (SGR) of a cohort of 2000 tagged juvenile European sea bass was measured in a common tank, during two sequential cycles comprising three-weeks feed deprivation followed by three-weeks ad libitum re-feeding. After correction for initial size at age as fork length, there was a direct correlation between negative SGR (rate of mass loss) during feed deprivation and positive...

SWFP ensures the secure broadcasting of web feeds’ content over a local network or the Internet. The protocol is built to ensure a secure channel to enterprises that broadcast news and information to their employees through web feeds. The protocol also ensures the legitimacy of the readers.

The effect of the substitution of imported raw materials (corn and soyabeans) by local food resources (barley, white sorghum, triticale and horse bean) on the parameters of faciesfermentation and digestibility in the rumen of sheep was evaluated. Four Sicilo-Sarde rams 4.8±0.5 years of age with an average live weight of 45.25±3.5 kg, permanently canulated in the rumen and housed in individual c...

In their article ‘Freshwater savings from marine protein consumption’ (2014 Environ. Res. Lett. 9 014005), Gephart and her colleagues analyzed how consumption of marine animal protein rather than terrestrial animal protein leads to reduced freshwater allocation. They concluded that future water savings from increased marine fish consumption would be possible. We find the approach interesting an...

We introduce a new type of lexical structure called lexical system , an interoperable model that can feed both monolingual and multilingual language resources. We begin with a formal characterization of lexical systems as “pure” directed graphs, solely made up of nodes corresponding to lexical entities and links. To illustrate our approach, we present data borrowed from a lexical system that ha...

Feed efficiency, as defined by the fraction of feed energy captured in products, has more than doubled for the US dairy industry in the past 100 years. This increased feed efficiency resulted from increased milk production per cow achieved through genetics, nutrition, and management with the desired goal being greater profitability. With increased milk production per cow, more feed is consumed ...

To determine the true digestible phosphorus (TDP) requirement of growing pigs, two experiments were designed with the experimental diets containing five true digestible P levels (0.16%, 0.20%, 0.23%, 0.26% and 0.39%) and the ratio of total calcium to true digestible P (TDP) kept at 2:1. In Experiment 1, five barrows (Duroc×Landrace×Yorkshire) with an average initial body weight of 27.9 kg were ...