A 10- to 21-d chick bioassay was conducted to determine the absolute retention value (ARV) for 2 different defluorinated phosphates (DF-1 and DF-2) and a reagent grade dicalcium phosphate (DCP). The total and test P in excreta regressed on feed P levels were subjected to general straight-line (linear), 1-slope broken-line, 2-slope broken-line, and polynomial regression methods to find the best ...

Two experiments were conducted to compare values for the standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) and the relative bioavailability of P in dicalcium phosphate (DCP) and distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) when fed to growing pigs. In Exp. 1, the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD), the basal endogenous P loss (EPL), and the STTD of P in DCP and DDGS were determined. Eighteen...

Background A 3D Dual Cardiac Phase (3D-DCP) scan was proposed to obtain systolic and diastolic images with equivalent quality and scan time compared to the 3D single cardiac phase acquisition (Uribe et al, Radiology 2008). In this work, we propose to accelerate the acquisition and reconstruction of the 3D-DCP approach by sharing information from the outer k-space of both cardiac phases using Ra...

This paper continues the results of “Domination Cover Pebbling: Graph Families.” An almost sharp bound for the domination cover pebbling (DCP) number, ψ(G), for graphs G with specified diameter has been computed. For graphs of diameter two, a bound for the ratio between λ(G), the cover pebbling number of G, and ψ(G) has been computed. A variant of domination cover pebbling, called subversion DC...

We present a uniform construct of parallel programming for a set of image processing tasks based on our Distributed Computing Primitive (DCP) concept. Our target architecture is a heterogeneous computing network system consisting of various high performance workstations connected through a local area network. We show that DCP has advantages over non-primitive PVM-based parallel approaches in th...

We have synthesized two novel fluorescent 3-(4-diethylaminocinnamoyl) coumarins that exhibit fluorescence quenching upon exposure to a nerve agent simulant, diethylchlorophosphate (DCP), providing a basis for rapid and sensitive DCP chemosensing. Furthermore, these coumarin derivatives display two-photon fluorescence upon illumination with near-infrared laser pulses and their two-photon (TP) ab...

The study was designed to compare the growth performance, digestibility and concentration of phosphorous (P) and calcium (Ca) in blood plasma, tibia bone and excreta in juvenile birds fed different commercially available sources of inorganic P. Day-old Hubbard broiler chickens (180) were randomly assigned to one of 4 dietary treatments (A-D), replicated three times with 15 birds per cage. All d...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which children with a hospital admission related to assault or maltreatment or to a notified sexually transmitted infection (STI) have contact with the Western Australian Department for Child Protection (DCP), and to investigate injuries and conditions often associated with child maltreatment and subsequent contact with the DCP. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND S...

We estimated the genetic parameters related to feed intake (FI), feed efficiency traits (including feed conversion ratio (FCR) and residual feed intake (RFI) of digestible crude protein (DCP) and total digestible nutrients (TDN)), beef marbling score (BMS), melting point of fat (MP) and fatty acid composition. Fat and meat (Musculus trapezius) samples were taken from the carcasses of 863 Japane...