Three experiments were conducted to determine the value of pearl millet grain, grown at either Purdue University or the University of Nebraska, as a substitute for corn in the diets of young pigs. In Exp. 1, 24 crossbred barrows, average initial weight of 20.7 kg, were used to evaluate nutrient digestibility of both sources of pearl millet compared with corn. Nitrogen digestibility was similar ...

Let F be a class of n-dimensional binary vectors, i.e., functions f : X → {0, 1} where X = [n] ≡ {1, . . . , n} with a VC-dimension V C(F) = d. The classical result of Sauer says that the complexity of F is bounded as |F| ≤ d i=0 n i ≡ S(d, n). How does the complexity decrease as one further constrains the subset of allowed functions in F ? The paper defines a constraining parameter for binary ...

background : association between body mass indexes (bmi) and blood pressure have been observed, but remains poorly understood. bmi is shown to be a measure of overweight status and is applicable to all populations. in this cross-sectional study we have examined the relationship between the bmi and blood pressure in school age children.   methods: this study comprised of 486 boys and 463 girls a...

Background: Consumption of dark chocolate has been often hypothesized to have a role in the prevention of chronic diseases. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of consumption of dark chocolate (DC) on serum oxidative stress and blood pressure (BP) in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS). Methods: An 8-week parallel randomized clinical trial involving 114 patients with ...

Four experiments involving 265, 410, 894, and 554 sows (Exp. 1 to 4, respectively) were conducted to determine the effect of spray-dried plasma (SDP) at 0 or 0.25% (Exp. 1 and 2) and 0 or 0.50% (Exp. 3 and 4) in lactation diets on average daily feed disappearance (FD), sum of sow BW, fetal and placental loss from d 110 gestation to weaning (SWL), litter size at weaning, litter weight at weaning...

AIMS To compare effectiveness of a 1-year weight loss program in moderately and severely obese patients. METHODS The study sample included 311 obese patients participating in a weight loss program, which comprised a 12-week weight reduction phase (low-calorie formula diet) and a 40-week weight maintenance phase. Body weight and glucose and lipid values were determined at the beginning of the ...

Background. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) has been shown to be an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in patients with morbid obesity. However, it is unclear just how effective the LRYGB procedure is on T2DM for patients with BMI less than 35 kg/m(2). We report one obese patient with T2DM who did not meet the current NIH criteria for morbid obesity surgery. T...

BACKGROUND Leisure time physical activity reduces the risk of premature mortality, but the years of life expectancy gained at different levels remains unclear. Our objective was to determine the years of life gained after age 40 associated with various levels of physical activity, both overall and according to body mass index (BMI) groups, in a large pooled analysis. METHODS AND FINDINGS We e...

Let O ≤ ‖S‖. It has long been known that O (0) = ∫∫ 2 −1 π dΨ ∪ · · · ∩ 12 ⊂ lim −→ Ei,ε→e j ( b(ψ), . . . , y ) ≥  1 Q̂(l) : tan (p−1) < e ∑ U′′=−∞ ∫∫∫ exp ( 1− i ) dA 