background chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a devastating disease.while there is no cure for copd and the lung damage associated with this disease cannot be reversed, it is still very important to diagnose it as early as possible. objectives in this paper, we propose a novel method based on the measurement of air trapping in the lungs from ct images to detect copd and to evaluate...

One hundred and eighty (180) unsexed twenty-one day-old growing Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were fed for 28 days with diets in which maize was replaced cassava grit at 0, 25 50% or without β-glucanase supplementation. The birds randomly grouped into six treatments three replicates of ten per replicate. Diet 1 the control while 2 3 had their contents respectively. Diets 4, 5 6 s...