This experiment was done to investigate microbial contamination and in situ disappearance rates of dry matter (DM), N and 15N of fresh labeled ryegrass. Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) were labeled with 15N during growth in a glasshouse, harvested at 4th leaves stage and were incubated up to 34 h in situ in the rumen of 3 individually housed sheep. The animals were fed 800 g/d chopped alfal...

As a result of crude oil desulfurisation, elemental sulfur is significant by-product the petrochemical industry with millions tonnes produced annually, and portion remains unused. The use this feedstock for generation new materials has seen increased growth, though such that utilise inverse vulcanisation have limited practicality in everyday applications due to their poor mechanical properties....

In infrared astronomy, an observed image from a chop and nod process can be considered as the result of passing the original image through a highpass filter. Here we propose a restoration algorithm which builds up a tight framelet system that has the highpass filter as one of the framelet filters. Our approach reduces the solution of restoration problem to that of recovering the missing coeffic...

We have developed a technique for precise measurement of small magnetic fields using nonlinear magneto-optic rotation (NMOR). The technique relies on the resonant laser beam being chopped. During the on time, the atoms are optically pumped into an aligned ground state (Δm= 2 coherence). During the off time, they freely precess around the magnetic field at the Larmor frequency. If the on-off mod...

According to EU legislation pigs must have access to rooting material, and the aim of the study was to quantify growing pigs’ preferences among six different rooting materials. The relative attractiveness of six rooting materials was assessed in an operant conditioning set-up using concurrent schedules of reinforcement. Twelve pigs were tested with all six combinations of the reference material...