the current study was conducted to evaluate effects of sequential or wet feeding programs subsequent to and early meal feeding regime on performance, carcass characteristics and humoral immunity in broiler chicks. 192 ross 308 chicks (seven-day old) were allocated to four treatments at four replicates (12 chicks per plot) based on a completely randomized design. treatments were included: contro...

In an experiment on sequential rent seeking, we find that the theoretically predicted first-mover advantage does not exist empirically. Rather, a second-mover advantage can be observed. Though the subgame perfect equilibrium can not prevail in experiment, individual behavior is highly reasonable nevertheless, such that subjects appear to play a reduced form of the original game. We also observe...

As parallel machines become more widely available, many existing algorithms are being converted to take advantage of the improved speed offered by such computers. However, the method by which the algorithm is distributed is crucial towards obtaining the speed-ups required for many real-time tasks. This paper presents three parallel implementations of the Douglas-Peucker line simplification algo...

This is another in a series of invited tutorial, status and survey papers that are being regularly solicited by the PTGIT Committee on Special Papers. We invited Profess01 Fano to commit to paprr his elegant but, unelaborate explanation of the principles of sequential decoding, a scheme which is currently contending for a position as the most practical implementation to dale of Shannon’s theory...

We investigate the thermopower of single molecules weakly coupled to metallic leads. We model the molecule in terms of the relevant electronic orbitals coupled to phonons corresponding to both internal vibrations and to oscillations of the molecule as a whole. The thermopower is computed by means of rate equations including both sequential-tunneling and cotunneling processes. Under certain cond...

The compressed sensing NMR (CS-NMR) is an approach to processing of nonuniformly sampled NMR data. Its idea is to introduce minimal l(p) -norm (0 < p ≤ 1) constraint to a penalty function used in a reconstruction algorithm. Here, we demonstrate that 2D CS-NMR spectra allow the full spectral assignment of near-symmetric β-cyclodextrin derivatives (mono-modified at the C6 position). The applicati...

The binding of paramagnetic rare earth ions to yeast tRNA(Phe) shifts some resonances in the low-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum that have been assigned to ring nitrogen protons of specific Watson-Crick base pairs. The changes in the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum as the tRNA is titrated with Eu(3+) indicate that 4 (or 5) Eu(3+) ions are tightly bound, that the metal binding is i...

Singular-spectrum analysis (SSA) is a powerful technique of time series analysis. SSA is based on a singular value decomposition of a ‘trajectory matrix’ obtained from the original time series with subsequent reconstruction of the series. A methodology of change-point detection in time series based on sequential application of the singular-spectrum analysis is proposed and studied. The underlyi...