Chicken egg yolk is a rich source of nutrients providing high quality proteins, vitamins, minerals, carotenoids and antioxidants. Chicken egg yolk, recovered from whole egg within 24 hours post-lay has been utilized as a starting material in the preparation of a dietary supplement that has been demonstrated to lead to gains in muscle mass in a human clinical study. Further, an oil derived from ...

Vector quantisation, a widely used technique in low-bit rate coding of speech signals, is highly sensitive to errors in the transmitted codeword caused by noise in the transmission channel. This paper describes an e cient index assignment algorithm, based on Hall's solution to the quadratic assignment problem, used to re-order the codebook such that the e ect of transmission errors is minimised...

Yi i.i.d. ∼ pθ∗ , i = {1, . . . , n} where θ∗ ∈ Θ. We can view pθ∗ as a member of a parametric class of distributions, P = {pθ}θ∈Θ. Our goal is to use the observations {Yi} to select an appropriate distribution (e.g., model) from P. We would like the selected distribution to be close to pθ in some sense. We use the negative log-likelihood loss function, defined as l(θ, Yi) = − log pθ(Yi). The e...

We prove, that for each r∈N, n∈N and s∈N there are a collection {yi}i=12s of points y2s0 is constant, depending only on r. Moreover, we ...

Egg yolk oil is a natural source of bioactive compounds such as DHA, fat–soluble vitamins, lutein, phospholipids and cholesterol. These important compounds are also found in breast milk: DHA for infant brain development, lutein for eye health, vitamins A and E to support developing cells. Egg yolk oil naturally contains vitamin D which is required for a normal bone development. Fatty acid profi...

Yolk steroids of maternal origin have been proposed to influence genetic sex determination in birds, based on sex differences in yolk steroid concentrations of peafowl eggs incubated for 10 days. More recent reports dispute this proposal, as yolk steroids in eggs incubated for 3 days do not show such sex differences. To date, research examining this phenomenon has only analysed incubated eggs, ...

In this study, 100 day-old broiler chicks were divided into two groups, A and B containing 50 birds each. Experimental infection with E. coli was given intra yolk to group A on day-1 of experiment, while group B was kept as control. Parameters studied were examination of yolk sac, yolk sac:body weight ratio, antibody titer against Newcastle disease virus (NDV) and analysis of fractional serum p...

Thyroid hormones (THs) are essential for the correct development of nearly every structure in the body from the very early stages of development, yet the embryonic thyroid gland is not functional at these stages. To clarify the roles of the egg yolk as a source of THs, the TH content in the yolk and the expression of TH regulator genes in the yolk sac membrane were evaluated throughout the 21-d...

in order to study and determine the most effective traits, drought tolerance indices and identify tolerant genotypes in terminal drought stress on the cowpea, an experiment was carried out based on an augment design in two separate conditions in the karaj farm, faculty of agriculture, tehran university in 2009. drought stress was imposed by cutting irrigation after flowering against normal irri...