Postnatal muscle growth is dependent on satellite cell (SC) proliferation, differentiation and fusion to increase the DNA content of existing muscle fibres and thereby the capacity to synthesize protein. The purpose of the present study was to examine the ability of isolated SCs from low, medium and high weaning weight litter mates of pigs to proliferate and differentiate, and to affect protein...

Both breed and production systems are responsible for production efficiency and quality traits of pork. Effects of breed and production system within breed on growth, body fatness, and adipose tissues traits were assessed in the pure Basque (B, nonselected, local French) and conventional Large White (LW) breeds, reared either in a conventional (C, slatted floor), alternative (A, indoor straw be...

Statistical relational AI and probabilistic logic programming have so far mostly focused on discrete models. The reasons for this is that one needs to provide constructs succinctly model the independencies in such models, also efficient inference.
 Three types of are important represent exploit scalable inference hybrid models: conditional elegantly modeled Bayesian networks, context-speci...

We suppose that there are both particles with negative energies described by LW and particles with positive energies described by LF , L = LF + LW , LF is equivalent to Lagragian density of the conventional QED, LW and LF are symmetric, independent of each other before quantization and dependent on each other after quantization. From this we define transfomation operators and quantize free fiel...

An effective development of a dual composite right/lefthanded (D-CRLH) leaky-wave (LW) structure for dual-polarized antenna application is presented. The dual-polarized antenna consists of a two-section 3-dB rat-race hybrid and two symmetrical substrate integrated waveguide lines. Each of the waveguide lines is periodically loaded with 15 transverse slots and 15 longitudinal slots. The dualpola...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of use of any advance directives was 26% in 112 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit (CCU)/intensive care unit (ICU) in an academic medical center. MATERIAL AND METHODS We investigated in 2 community hospitals the prevalence of use of advance directives (AD), health care proxy (HCP), legal guardian (LG), and living will (LW) in 512 patients hospitalized in ...

The effect of residual yolk removal at hatch on growth and feeding behavior was assessed in lines of chickens divergently selected for low (LW) or high (HW) 56-day body weight. At hatch chicks were assigned to 1 treatment: removal of the residual yolk (R) or no surgery (I). Twenty-four chicks per line (12 I and 12 R) were assigned to an all-mash regimen (M) and 48 per line (24 I and 24 R) to a ...

8 Cloud radiative kernels and histograms of cloud fraction, both as functions of cloud top 9 pressure and optical depth, are used to quantify cloud amount, altitude, and optical depth 10 feedbacks. The analysis is applied to doubled CO2 simulations from eleven global climate 11 models in the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project. 12 Global, annual, and ensemble mean longwave (LW) and sho...

BACKGROUND The crista terminalis (CT) has been identified as the posterior boundary of typical atrial flutter (AFL) in the lateral wall (LW) of the right atrium (RA). To study conduction properties across the CT, rapid pacing was performed at both sides of the CT after bidirectional conduction block was achieved in the cavotricuspid isthmus by radiofrequency catheter ablation. METHODS AND RES...