A study using 51 wheat, 56 barley and 34 oat grain samples was conducted to investigate the feasibility of predicting the apparent metabolizable energy (AME) value of these cereals for poultry. Stepwise regression analyses were performed to evaluate the relationship of AME with starch, ether extract (EE), crude fiber (CF), soluble sugar (SS), ash and crude protein (CP) (for wheat and barley gra...

Although explicit and implicit knowledge of language learners are essential to theoretical and pedagogical debates in second language acquisition (SLA), little research has addressed the effects of instructional interventions on the two knowledge types (R. Ellis, 2005).This study examined the relative effectiveness of explicit and implicit types of form-focused instruction (FFI) on the acquisit...

0.1. Let g be a semi-simple Lie algebra. Given a root of unity (cf. Sect. 1.2), one can consider two remarkable Hopf algebras, Ul and ul, called the big and the small quantum group, respectively. Let Ul -mod and ul -mod denote the corresponding categories of modules. It is explained in [14] and [1] that the former is an analog in characteristic 0 of the category of algebraic representations of ...

This paper deals with the unsupervised labelling problem on sonar pictures. On the sea-bottom lies some natural or man made objects that we have to detect and classify. These objects are detected according to their projected shadows. Then, discriminant attributes extracted from the features of the shadow allow good neuronal classification. The first task consists in accurately detecting the pro...

Let {e, f, h} be a standard basis for g = sl2 such that [e, f ] = h, [h, e] = 2e, [h, f ] = −2f , ĝ the corresponding affine Lie algebra and L(l, j) the irreducible highest weight ĝ-module of level l with highest weight j. It is well known that the vacuum representation L(l, 0) has a natural vertex operator algebra (or chiral algebra) structure for any l 6= −2 (cf. [FZ]). If l is a positive int...