OBJECTIVE Fresh sugarcane has been a new roughage source for ruminant's in semiarid regions, a function of the decline of sugar and alcohol industry in recent years. However, there is little data published regarding lambs fed sugarcane associated with spineless cactus. This study evaluated the effect of sugarcane replacement with spineless cactus (0%, 33%, 66%, and 100%) in the diet of Santa In...

Preadult determinants of adult fitness and behaviour have been documented in a variety of organisms with complex life cycles, but little is known about expression patterns of genes underlying these adult traits. We explored the effects of differences in egg-to-adult development time on adult transcriptome and cuticular hydrocarbon variation in order to understand the nature of the genetic corre...

We apply the tadpole and cactus improvement methods to the measurement of the gluon condensate of 3D SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. The matching of the lattice measurement to the continuum MS scheme involves the subtraction of a series of lattice artifacts divergent up to four loop, which has recently appeared in the literature. The two tested improvement methods are found to significantly increase t...

We show how to utilize the cactus representation of all minimum cuts of a graph to visualize the minimum cuts of a planar graph in a planar drawing. In a first approach the cactus is transformed into a hierarchical clustering of the graph that contains complete information on all the minimum cuts. This approach is then extended to drawings in which the two vertex subsets of every minimum cut ar...

Cattle grazing has been a historic use of rangelands in Utah since pioneer settlement the mid-1800’s. Wright fishhook cactus is small globose endemic to an area 280,000 ha south–central and was listed as endangered October 1979, by U.S. Fish Wildlife Service (USFWS). By 2010, concerns were expressed that soil compaction proximity posed threat this species, though there no empirical data support...

Forbidden characterizations may sometimes be the most natural way to describe families of graphs, and yet these characterizations are usually very hard to exploit for enumerative purposes. By building on the work of Gioan and Paul (2012) and Chauve et al. (2014), we show a methodology by which we constrain a split-decomposition tree to avoid certain patterns, thereby avoiding the corresponding ...