two studies were conducted to evaluate the correlation between growth performance of chicks fed full fat soybean (ffsb) extruded at 145, 155 and o 165 and laboratory quality tests. in biological study, one hundred and forty four d-old male broiler chicks were divided into 12 groups including 3 treatments with 4 replicates of 12 chicks each and fed three diets containing 15 % ffsb extruded at 14...

BACKGROUND Dietary supplements-defined as vitamins and minerals, herbal products, tissue extracts, proteins and amino acids, and other products-are purchased to improve health and prevent disease. Little has been published, however, about the characteristics of either the products or the people who use them. METHODS Consecutive customers visiting two health food stores during a 15-day period ...

this study was carried out on 1330 infants, from one to 24 months old, suffering from diarrhoea and moderate to severe dehydration who were hospitalized in bahrami childrens' hospital over a period of eleven months. fifteen percent of them had signs of shock and 36% had marasmus. nine percent of treated children required readmission to hospital within 24 hours of discharge and 8% were hospitali...

We’re back in the Milgrom-Weber affiliated interdependent values model. Today, we’re going to compare first-price to ascending auctions. Milgrom and Weber spend a bunch of time and notation demonstrating the existence of a symmetric equilibrium in the first-price auction. For our purposes, we’re going to just accept that it exists, since we don’t need a closed-form expression for bidding functi...

The cells of the intestinal epithelium provide a selectively permeable barrier between the external environment and internal tissues. The integrity of this barrier is maintained by tight junctions, specialised cell-cell contacts that permit the absorption of water and nutrients while excluding microbes, toxins and dietary antigens. Impairment of intestinal barrier function contributes to multip...

More than a decade of research has demonstrated that faces evoke prioritized processing in a core face network of three brain regions. However, whether these regions prioritize the detection of global facial form (shared by humans and mannequins) or the detection of life in a face has remained unclear. Here, we dissociate form-based and animacy-based encoding of faces by using animate and inani...