Experiments were conducted to determine apparent ME (AME) and apparent nitrogen-corrected ME (AME(n)) of 21 meat and bone meal (MBM) samples and to develop regression equations for predicting energy value of MBM. One hundred ninety-eight 32-kg of BW barrows were used for the study. The 22 treatments consisted of 1 corn-soybean meal reference diet and 21 test diets in which 21 MBM samples replac...

The linear interaction energy method with continuum electrostatics (LIECE) is evaluated in depth on five kinases. The two multiplicative coefficients for the van der Waals energy and electrostatic free energy are shown to be transferable among different kinases. Moreover, good enrichment factors are obtained for a library of 40375 diverse compounds seeded with 73 known inhibitors of CDK2. There...

An experiment with 1,440 male Cobb 500 and 1,440 male Ross 308 broilers (14 to 35 d of age) was conducted to investigate the effects of diets having 4 levels of digestible methionine plus cysteine (SAA) on various performance criteria at 2 dietary protein levels (20.5 and 26.0%). Two corn-soybean meal/poultry by-product basal diets were formulated to contain 3,060 kcal/kg MEn and either 20.5 or...

Calorific contents of dried cells of several representative species of bacteria (gram-negative rods and gram-positive rods and cocci), two species of yeasts, and a filamentous fungus were determined by bomb calorimetry. The grand mean was 5,383 cal per g of ash-free dry weight. This value was then used to determine quantity of energy assimilated (E(a)) during growth. Subsequently, E(a) was empl...

It has been documented that 5-methylene-Meldrum's acid derivatives (1, 12 ) and their enols (2, 13) can undergo fragmentation to malonic anhydrides (4, 19 ), carboxyketenes (3, 16) and methyleneketene (5, 21 , 35 ), as well as cyclization to pyrrole-3-one and thiophene-3-one derivatives 11a,b (but not furan-3-ones 11c ) under the conditions of flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT). Here we report theo...

Application of alternative feedstuffs in swine diets will be dependent on characterization of their nutritive value. In 2 experiments, we determined the AA and energy utilization of Manitoba-grown zero-tannin faba beans (ZTFB) and co-fermented wheat and corn dried distillers grains with solubles (wcDDGS). Corn dried distillers grains with solubles (cDDGS) was also included for comparison. In Ex...

Three skeletal rearrangement channels for the norbornadiene (N*+) to the 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene (CHT*+) radical cation conversion, initialized by opening a bridgehead-methylene bond in N*+, are investigated using the quantum chemical B3LYP, MP2 and CCSD(T) methods in conjunction with the 6-311 +G(d,p) basis set. Two of the isomerizations proceed through the norcaradiene radical cation (NCD*+), ...

A 60-days feeding trail was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary digestible energy levels (DE) on kutum, Rutilus frisii kutum. Four is nitrogenous (35% protein) diets with digestible energy levels of 2500, 2600, 2700 and 2800kcal kg-1 was tested. Two hundred and forty advanced fry (2±0.4g) were randomly distributed in 12 fiberglass tanks of 400L capacity. Nutritional responses in terms ...

Due to their prevalence and roles in biological systems, single mismatches adjacent to G-U pairs are important RNA structural elements. Since there are only limited experimental values for the stability of single mismatches adjacent to G-U pairs, current algorithms using free energy minimization to predict RNA secondary structure from sequence assign predicted thermodynamic values to these type...

Protein-energy wasting (PEW) is associated with mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on maintenance hemodialysis. The correct diagnosis of PEW is extremely important in order to predict clinical outcomes. However, it is unclear which parameters should be used to diagnose PEW. Therefore, this retrospective observational study investigated the relationship between mortality a...