I read with great interest the recent article reporting the relation between skeletal muscle mass and dysphagia in cancer patients by Hidetaka Wakabayashi et al. In criteria for the diagnosis of sarcopenia, loss of muscle mass, reduced handgrip strength, or gait speed is assessed as representative value of impaired muscle strength or physical performance. Assessment of oral motor and feeding fu...

Professional heifer growers and dairy producers are faced with the challenge of raising healthy calves, while still paying close attention to rearing costs and profit. Factors that may be considered in selecting a liquid feeding program may include the number of calves fed, economics and cash flow, nutritional characteristics, calf performance targets, resource availability (e.g. consistent sup...

Reconstructing the feeding mode of the latest common ancestor of deuterostomes is key to elucidating the early evolution of feeding in chordates and allied phyla; however, it is debated whether the ancestral deuterostome was a tentaculate feeder or a pharyngeal filter feeder. To address this, we evaluated the hydrodynamics of feeding in a group of fossil stem-group echinoderms (cinctans) using ...

Two larval foraging strategies in Drosophila melanogaster were identified, "rover" and "sitter." "Rovers" traverse a large area while feeding whereas "sitters" cover a small area. The difference between "rovers" and "sitters" was analyzed genetically by chromosomal substitutions between isogenic stocks. Differences in larval locomotor behavior ("crawling behavior") can be attributed to the seco...

We use simulation-based approach to find the optimal feeding strategy for cloned invertase expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a fed-batch bioreactor. The optimal strategy maximizes the productivity and minimizes the fermentation time. This procedure is motivated from Neuro Dynamic Programming (NDP) literature, wherein the optimal solution is parameterized in the form of a cost-to-go or p...

In many polygynous ruminant species, males decrease their food intake considerably during the rut. To explain this phenomenon of rut-reduced hypophagia, two main hypotheses, the Foraging-Constraint Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Hypothesis, have been proposed. In our research, we assessed the behavioral strategy of goitered gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa) through the rutting period. According to ...

With the continuous development of large-scale aluminum reduction cells, problem uniform distribution alumina concentration in cell has become more and serious for process. In order to achieve concentration, a data-driven distributed subspace predictive control feeding strategy is proposed this paper. Firstly, divided into multiple sub-systems that affect each other according position port. Bas...