Ruminally protected choline (RPC) was evaluated in two experiments. In Exp. 1, beef steers (n = 160; average initial BW = 350.9 kg) were fed a 90% concentrate diet with either 0, .25, .5, or 1.0% RPC (DM basis) for 112 to 140 d. Feeding .25% RPC increased ADG 11.6% compared with 0% RPC, but responses diminished with increasing RPC level (cubic response, P < .10). Daily DMI was not affected by R...

Particle filtering is a very popular technique for sequential state estimation. However, in high-dimensional cases where the state dynamics are complex or poorly modeled, thousands of particles are usually required for real applications. This paper presents a hybrid sampling solution that combines RANSAC and particle filtering. In this approach, RANSAC provides proposal particles that, with hig...

Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) [3] has been popular in regression problem with samples contaminated with outliers. M-estimator, Hough transform, and others had been utilized before RANSAC. However, RANSAC does not use complex optimization as like M-estimator. It does not need huge amounts of memory as like Hough transform to keep parameter space. RANSAC is simple iteration of two steps: hypot...

Fiber reinforced Polymers (FRP) have widely used for the purposes of enhances strength and ductility of concrete columns. Proper design of such hybrid columns, however, requires a better recognition of the behavior of concrete columns confined with FRP. In this paper, the influence of FRP thickness, concrete compressive strength, and column size on the performance of eccentrically loaded reacti...

Remote procedure call (RPC) is the most popular paradigm used today to build distributed systems and applications. As a consequence, the term RPC has grown to include a range of vastly diierent protocols above the transport layer. A resulting problem is that programs often use diierent RPC protocols, cannot be interconnected directly, and building a solution for each case in a large heterogeneo...

Remote procedure call (RPC) is the most popular paradigm used today to build distributed systems and applications. As a consequence, the term “RPC” has grown to include a range of vastly different protocols above the transport layer. A resulting problem is that programs often use different RPC protocols, cannot be interconnected directly, and building a solution for each case in a large heterog...

A new algorithm is proposed to accelerate the RANSAC model quality calculations. The method based on partitioning joint correspondence space, e.g., 2D-2D point correspondences, into a pair of regular grids. grid cells are mapped by minimal sample models, estimated within RANSAC, reject correspondences that inconsistent with parameters early. technique general. It works arbitrary transformations...

Introduction: During hemorrhagic shock (HS), the kidneys are one of the primary target organs involved. Oxidative stress is shown to be enhanced in different models of acute kidney injury (AKI). Remote ischemic preconditioning (RPC) by brief limb ischemia is considered to be a safe method to protect different organs from further damage. In this study, we investigated the effects of brief hind l...

Reactive Powder Concrete (RPC) is an ultra high performance concrete which has superior mechanical and physical properties. The RPC is composed of cement and very fine powders such as crushed quartz (100–600 μm) and silica fume with very low water/binder ratio (W/B) (less than 0.20) and Super Plasticizer (SP). The RPC has a very high compressive and tensile strength with better durability prope...