A group of231 alfalfa hay sample results received by a commercial lab over 4 years of hay testing in the San Joaquin Valley of California were examined for the relationship between various lab results. ADF2 and NDF were linearly related in this data set (90% of the variation in NDF is explained by the ADF value = R2). There was a very poor relationship between ADF value and CP (R 2 of 26%), whi...

Eight ruminally and duodenally cannulated beef steers (374 +/- 11 kg) were used to evaluate effects of advancing season and grazing treatment (season-long; SL or twice-over rotation; TOR) on dietary composition (Exp. 1 and 2), intake, site and extent of digestion, and microbial efficiency (Exp. 2) of native range. In Exp. 1, six 11-d sample collections were conducted from early June to mid-Nove...

Solving inverse scattering problems by numerical methods requires investigating the number of independent pieces information that can be reconstructed stably. To this end, we address evaluation Number Degrees Freedom (NDF) far-zone scattered fields for some strip geometries under first-order Born approximation. The analysis is performed employing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) operator in t...

The IBA DataFurnace (NDF) is a general purpose program for analysis of IBA data. It currently includes Rutherford backscattering (RBS), elastic (non-Rutherford) backsscattering (EBS), elastic recoil detection analysis (ERDA), non-resonant nuclear reaction analysis (NRA), and particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE). Here we discuss recent developments in the advanced physics capabilities implemen...

We propose Neural Deformable Fields (NDF), a new representation for dynamic human digitization from multi-view video. Recent works proposed to represent body with shared canonical neural radiance fields which links the observation space deformation estimations. However, learned is static and current design of not able large movements or detailed geometry changes. In this paper, we learn deforma...

The objective of this study was to determine how harvest maturity of whole-crop cereals commonly used in swath grazing systems in western Canada affects yield, chemical composition, and in situ digestibility. We hypothesized that the increase in yield with advancing maturity would not offset the decline in digestibility and, thus, the yield of effectively degradable DM (EDDM) would decline with...