One hundred twenty barrows (initially 59 kg) were used to determine the effects of dietary lysine and porcine somatotropin (pST) on growth performance and carcass characteristics of finishing pigs fed to heavy market weights (127 kg). Pigs were injected daily with either 4 mg of pST or a placebo and fed diets containing either .8, 1.0, 1.2, or 1.4% lysine in a 2 x 4 factorial arrangement. Perfo...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of pregrazing pasture herbage mass (HM) on CH4 emissions, ruminal fermentation, and ADG of grazing beef heifers at 2 stages of the grazing season. Thirty Limousin cross heifers were allocated to 1 of 2 target pregrazing HM treatments [a low HM (LHM) or high HM (HHM) treatment] for 126 d in a randomized block design experiment. Pasture herb...

Three 21-d experiments were conducted to determine the optimum standardized ileal digestible (SID) Ile:Lys ratio in 10- to 22-kg and 24- to 39-kg pigs. In Exp. 1, 144 Yorkshire pigs (initial BW = 10.2 kg) were assigned to 6 diets with 6 pens per treatment. Diets 1 to 5 were formulated to contain 5 graded SID Ile:Lys (44, 51, 57, 63, and 70%), 1.18% SID Leu, and 0.90% SID Lys (second limiting). ...

Funding: Fisheries Society of the British Isles; European Research Council (Grant Number(s): ERC AdG BioTIME 250189); The Leverhulme Trust RPG-2019-402).

Two studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of spray-dried blood meal and its pH on nursery pig performance. Spray-dried blood meal pH decreases as storage time increases prior to spray drying. In Exp. 1, addition of 2.5% spray-dried blood meal to the diet improved ADG and ADFI in nursery pigs (15.4 lb to 35.9 lb), but did not influence feed efficiency. In Exp. 2, the inclusion of 5% spr...

In this paper, we present an adaptation-guided similarity metric based on the estimate of the number of actions between states, called ADG (Action Distance-Guided). It is determined by using a heuristic calculation extracted from the heuristic search planning, called FF, which was the fastest planner in the AIPS’2000 competition. This heuristic provides an accurate estimate of the distance betw...

Processes that perform and distribute tasks over the Internet are known as “Web-Driven Process Workflow.” The UCI Travel Expense Process (TEP) and the Pacific Bell Applications Development Group (ADG) are two webdriven process workflows that exemplify process reuse by leveraging Endeavors, a research workflow process support system at the University of California at Irvine. This paper describes...

This paper presents the type system of the database programming language DBPL [SEM88] within the framework proposed in [ADG 89].

The use of an isolation box test (IBT) to characterize personality traits has been used in non-bovine species with success. We aimed develop IBT for dairy calves and determine if the behavioral responses were associated found from traditional tests (novel person, novel object, a startle tests) average daily gain (ADG; Kg/d) through weaning. Calf movement while was measured via accelerometers at...

The keratinase-producing microbes can readily change the feather waste into more bioavailable peptides and amino acids. This study aimed to improve two-stage fermented meal-soybean meal product (TSFP) quality with five selected Bacillus strains Saccharomyces cerevisiae Y10, as well investigate effects of TSFP on growth performance, blood biochemistry, immunity nursery pigs. In trial 1, 100 hybr...