The NRC (1996) changed from the factorial protein system to a metabolizable protein (MP) system for beef cattle. In the MP system, dietary crude protein (CP) is subdivided into degraded intake protein (DIP) and undegraded intake protein (UIP). The quantity of microbial protein produced in the rumen dictates DIP requirements. Steam-flaked corn is the predominant grain used in the diets of finish...

The Cisco Group on the Eastern Shelf of the Midland Basin is composed of fluvial, deltaic, shelf, shelf-margin, and slope-tobasin carbonate and siliciclastic rocks. Sedimentologic and stratigraphic analyses of 181 meter-to-decimeter-scale depositional sequences exposed in the up-dip shelf indicated that the siliciclastic and carbonate parasequences in the transgressive systems tracts (TST) are ...

Formation micro imager (FMI) can directly reflect changes of wall stratums and rock structures. Conventionally, FMI images mainly are analyzed with manual processing, which is extremely inefficient and incurs a heavy workload for experts. Iranian reservoirs are mainly carbonate reservoirs, in which the fractures have an important effect on permeability and petroleum production. In this paper, a...

Neste trabalho apresentamos um método de eletroforese capilar simples e de baixo custo para determinação ultra-rápida de princípios ativos presentes em três formulações farmacêuticas diferentes: (i) escopolamina (SCO) e dipirona (DIP); (ii) orfenadrina (ORP), cafeína (CAF) e DIP; (iii) mepiramina (MEP), CAF, DIP e ácido ascórbico (AA). O método proposto é baseado em eletroforese capilar com det...

The 5 September 2012 M(w) 7.6 earthquake on the Costa Rica subduction plate boundary followed a 62-y interseismic period. High-precision GPS recorded numerous slow slip events (SSEs) in the decade leading up to the earthquake, both up-dip and down-dip of seismic rupture. Deeper SSEs were larger than shallower ones and, if characteristic of the interseismic period, release most locking down-dip ...

BACKGROUND Significant bacteriuria (SBU) and urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in patients with spina bifida and neuropathic detrusor sphincter dysfunction. Laboratory agar plated culture is the gold standard to establish SBU. It has the disadvantage of diagnostic and subsequent therapeutic delay. Leukocyte esterase tests (LETs) and dip slides proved to be useful in the general populat...

We have developed a new automatic dip-picking method that is superior to the dip-scan method in several aspects. In our method, we estimate the dip of an event through the relative time-shift between neighboring traces. The optimal time-shift is deened to be the minimizer of a non-quadratic objective function that measures the discrepancies between the neighboring traces after these traces are ...