The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of chop length and inoculation of barley silage on feeding behavior, rumen fermentation, and growth performance of finishing feedlot steers. Barley forage (22-35% DM) was chopped to a theoretical chop length (TCL) of either 1.0 (short chop; SC) or 2.0 cm (long chop; LC) and ensiled without or with an esterase-producing bacterial inocula...

PURPOSE Using concurrent tumor samples from different anatomical sites, we compared expression of the therapeutic targets CD25 and CD30 in T-cell lymphoma (TCL). EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We examined levels of CD25 and CD30 by flow cytometry in tumor cells from peripheral blood and lymph node in 13 cutaneous TCL patients and by immunohistochemistry in concurrent lymph node and skin biopsy specimens...

BACKGROUND To compare the clinical effectiveness of ultrasound-guided needle release of the transverse carpal ligament (TCL) with and without corticosteroid injection in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). METHODS From June 2016 to June 2017, 49 CTS patients (50 wrists) were included in this study. Twenty-five wrists were treated with ultrasound-guided needle release of the TCL plus corticosteroid ...

A large Swiss bank needed to collect, combine, process, and distribute financial market data from various 3rd party data sources to a large number of internal and external clients – the typical integration task at which scripting languages excel. The bank uses an implementation of CORBA as their standard enterprise-wide middleware for distributed applications. We describe how we designed and bu...

Tcl is designed to be a powerful general-purpose scripting language and is often referred to as a glue language, to glue together various parts of an application. Often, these “various parts,” or components, are realized as C code that is registered with the interpreter as a custom command. It is easy to imagine these components as being distributed – a custom command could cause some sort of r...

This letter proposes an enhanced sufficient battery model (ESBM) as well a binary search algorithm for improved inner-approximation of the aggregate flexibility thermostatically controlled load (TCL) arrays. Compared with previous work on generalized models, our ESBM preserves merits being and reduces conservativity. Moreover, unlike works ignoring coupling constraints (e.g., regarding distribu...

Mobile-agent systems must address three security issues: protecting an individual machine, protecting a group of machines, and protecting an agent. In this chapter, we discuss these three issues in the context of D’Agents, a mobile-agent system whose agents can be written in Tcl, Java and Scheme. (D’Agents was formerly known as Agent Tcl.) First we discuss mechanisms existing in D’Agents for pr...

We describe an online system that provides a framework for the rapid creation of high performance, database driven web sites based on content from XML files. The software that “glues” the content to the presentation is written in Tcl. The proposed architecture uses a pool of persistent Tcl engines to substantially improve performance and robustness as compared to traditional server-side program...

Medusa is an applications environment for distributed multimedia which has been designed and developed at the Olivetti Research Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K. The software building blocks, or modules, are written in C++, while the applications that create networks of modules and make useful things with them are written in Tcl/Tk/Tcl-DP.

Cancer cell vaccines with strong specificity and low tolerance have been revealed to be a promising option for oncology treatment. Various antigen forms, including tumor cell lysate and glutaraldehyde-fixed tumor cells, have been intensively used in cancer vaccine preparation. However, the most effective antigen form has not yet been identified. In the present study, the antitumor efficiency of...