In this paper we present the Brown Dwarf, a distributed data analytics system designed to efficiently store, query and update multidimensional data over commodity network nodes, without the use of any proprietary tool. Brown Dwarf distributes a centralized indexing structure among peers on-the-fly, reducing cube creation and querying times by enforcing parallelization. Analytical queries are na...

A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary lipid sources on the reproductive performances of Hy-line Silver-Brown cockerels. Five different lipid sources namely fish oil, sunflower oil, high oleic acid sunflower oil, tallow and an equal (50:50) proportion of linseed and fish oil (representing the control diet), were used in formulating five isoenergetic and isonitrogenous diets (3...

We present a new estimate of the lithium abundance in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf LP944−20. Our analysis is based on a self-consistent analysis of low, intermediate and high resolution optical and near-infrared spectra. We obtain log N(Li) = 3.25 ± 0.25 using fits of our synthetic spectra to the Li I resonance line doublet profiles observed with VLT/UVES and AAT/SPIRAL. This lithium abund...

We present a new estimate of the lithium abundance in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf LP944−20. Our analysis is based on a self-consistent analysis of low, intermediate and high resolution optical and near-infrared spectra. We obtain log N(Li) = 3.25 ± 0.25 using fits of our synthetic spectra to the Li I resonance line doublet profiles observed with VLT/UVES and AAT/SPIRAL. This lithium abund...

We present a precise kinematic study of very young brown dwarfs in the Cha I cloud based on radial velocities (RVs) measured with UVES at the VLT. The kinematics of the brown dwarfs in Cha I are compared to the kinematics of T Tauri stars in the same field based on UVES measurements for very low-mass ones and based on RVs from the literature. In comparison with a former paper (Joergens & Guenth...

We discuss accretion and outflow properties of three very low-mass young stellar objects based on broad-band mid-resolution X-Shooter/VLT spectra. Our targets (FUTauA, 2M1207-39, and Par-Lup3-4) have spectral types between M5 and M8, ages between 1Myr and ∼ 10Myr, and are known to be accreting from previous studies. The final objective of our project is the determination of mass outflow to accr...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the effects of Bacillus subtilis CSL2 (B. subtilis CSL2) administration before Salmonella challenge on the fecal microbiota and microbial functionality of Hy-line Brown (HLB) laying hens. METHODS Fecal samples were collected from control (CON), Salmonella-infected (SAL) and Salmonella-infected, probiotic-treated (PRO) groups before and after Salmonella challe...

Molecular line opacity of LiCl in the mid-infrared spectra of brown dwarfs P. F. Weck Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4003 [email protected] A. Schweitzer Hamburger Sternwarte, Universitaet Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany [email protected] K. Kirby Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecu...

OBJECTIVE Insulin signaling plays pivotal roles in the development and metabolism of many tissues and cell types. A previous study demonstrated that ablation of insulin receptor (IR) with aP2-Cre markedly reduced adipose tissues mass and protected mice from obesity. However, multiple studies have demonstrated widespread non-adipocyte recombination of floxed alleles in aP2-Cre mice. These findin...