Much attention has been given to the development of botanical insecticides to provide effective natural control of cattle ectoparasites without harming animals, consumers, and environment. This study evaluated the efficacy of a commercial neem cake in controlling Haematobia irritans infestation on cattle. The study was conducted at the Embrapa Southeast Cattle Research Center (CPPSE), in São Ca...

Little is known about the effects of common cooking processes on cocoa flavanols. Antioxidant activity, total polyphenols (TP), flavanol monomers, and procyanidin oligomers were determined in chocolate frosting, a hot cocoa drink, chocolate cookies, and chocolate cake made with natural cocoa powder. Recoveries of antioxidant activity, TP, flavanol monomers, and procyanidins ranged from 86% to o...

cmc polymer is used as an additive to decrease water loss and mud-cake-thickness in mud drilling. in this study, the effect of cmc and cmc nanoparticles on water loss and mud-cake-thickness in mud drilling is investigated. cmc nanoparticles are made by using of ball milling and their size is measured by particle size analyzer. cmc and cmc nanoparticles which were prepared by hamilton batch mixe...

We analyze a class of proportional cake-cutting algorithms that use a minimal number of cuts (n − 1 if there are n players) to divide a cake that the players value along one dimension. While these algorithms may not produce an envy-free or efficient allocation—as these terms are used in the fair-division literature—one, divide-and-conquer (D&C), minimizes the maximum number of players that any ...

This question was posed as a challenge problem during the MEGA-conference. The prize, a large cake, was to be divided among the submitters towards a solution of the problem. This explains the name of this article. It turned out that it is not very easy to say something nontrivial about this problem, so the number of submissions to the problem was very small indeed, one. The prize winner subsequ...

This experiment investigated the effect of olive cake in the feed of weaned Pramenka lambs on their daily gain, carcass traits and on the chemical composition of different groups of muscles. For that purpose, 45 male lambs were divided into three groups with 15 lambs each and fed separately for 50 days. The first group (control) was fed a commercial concentrate, while the second and third (test...

Given a cake and two players with different measures of cake value, we describe a practical procedure that yields a superfair partition. That is, each player receives more than half of the cake, according to his measure. The players need not reveal their measures, and the procedure resists strategic play. The procedure is easily modified to partition something undesirable (a “chore”) in a super...

We characterize methods of dividing a cake between two bidders in a way that is incentive-compatible and Pareto-efficient. In our cake cutting model, each bidder desires a subset of the cake (with a uniform value over this subset), and is allocated some subset. Our characterization proceeds via reducing to a simple one-dimensional version of the problem, and yields, for example, a tight bound o...

A 69-year-old Japanese man with no history of abdominal surgery was referred to our hospital with the chief complaints of abdominal pain and vomiting. A physical examination of the abdomen revealed mild epigastric tenderness. The pertinent laboratory data included a WBC count of 14,900/μL, a C-reactive protein level of 0.96 mg/dL, and a normal chemistry panel. An abdominal radiograph suggested ...

introduction: proteins are vital substances for health since they provide nitrogen, amino acids and the energy required for normal body performance. however, the applications of proteins are limited due to their certain properties, such as their low solubility. the enzymatic hydrolysis of proteins is an extensively used approach to produce bioactive peptides and promote the chemical, functional...