Trace minerals (TM) are vital to health and growth of livestock, but low dietary concentrations and dietary antagonists may reduce mineral status and feeder cattle TM status is usually unknown at arrival. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of TM status on response to mineral injection in beef cattle. Forty steers were equally assigned to diets for an 84-d depletion period: co...

In [1] we present an extension of Prime Event Structures by a mechanism to express dynamicity in the causal relation. More precisely we add the possibility that the occurrence of an event can add or remove causal dependencies between events and analyse the expressive power of the resulting Event Structures w.r.t. to some well-known Event Structures from the literature. This technical report con...

In [1] we present an extension of Prime Event Structures by a mechanism to express dynamicity in the causal relation. More precisely we add the possibility that the occurrence of an event can add or remove causal dependencies between events and analyse the expressive power of the resulting Event Structures w.r.t. to some well-known Event Structures from the literature. This technical report con...

The phenolic pKa of fluorescein varies depending on its environment. The fluorescence of the dye varies likewise. Accordingly, a change in fluorescence can report on the association of a fluorescein conjugate to another molecule. Here, we demonstrate how to optimize this process with chemical synthesis. The fluorescence of fluorescein-labeled model protein, bovine pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase...

Hi folks. A strong and unique point of BLUe's format system is its indexing on the fly. Be it for a total document or just for a chapter. One of the requisites for indexing on the fly is the possibility to sort within T E X. Sorting has always been an important topic in computer science. In T E X I needed sorting on several occasions especially for sorting numbers such as citation lists, words ...

The Australian Standard for safety-critical systems development, Def(Aust) 5679, was first released in 1998. As part of the release of Issue 2 (Department of Defence 2008) of the Standard, guidance material has been prepared to assist those who need to apply the Standard. The guidance is made up of three main parts: a case study that demonstrates how the Standard can be applied to an example sa...

Stars are gravitationally stabilized fusion reactors changing their chemical composition while transforming light atomic nuclei into heavy ones. The atomic nuclei are supposed to be in thermal equilibrium with the ambient plasma. The majority of reactions among nuclei leading to a nuclear transformation are inhibited by the necessity for the charged participants to tunnel through their mutual C...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS DEFICIENS (DEF)- and GLOBOSA (GLO)-like proteins constitute two sister clades of floral homeotic transcription factors that were already present in the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of extant angiosperms. Together they specify the identity of petals and stamens in flowering plants. In core eudicots, DEF- and GLO-like proteins are functional in the cell only as heterodim...