An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that field peas may replace soybean meal in diets fed to growing and finishing pigs without negatively influencing pig performance, carcass quality, or pork palatability. Forty-eight pigs (initial average BW 22.7 +/- 1.21 kg) were allotted to 1 of 3 treatments with 2 pigs per pen. There were 8 replications per treatment, 4 with barrows and 4 wi...

Light-induced inhibition of stem growth is a common phenomenon in plants. Particularly well investigated is the case of peas, Pisum sativum, mainly thanks to the work of Lockhart. Lockhart showed that growth of Alaska peas, a tall variety, was retarded when plants were transferred from darkness to low-intensity light but that, after a period of inhibition, the plants resumed growth at a rate eq...

In the experiments presented the effects of transmitting information derived from the growth hormone gibberellic acid (GA) to peas over a distance of some meters have been measured. Transmission of the biochemical characteristics of GA was achieved through a carrier wave of approximately 6.78 MHz running along a copper wire comparable to a strip line from the gibberellic acid as the source of i...

Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) have been widely used in micro- and nanopositioning applications due to their fine resolution, rapid responses, and large actuating forces. However, a major deficiency of PEAs is that their accuracy is seriously limited by hysteresis. This paper presents adaptive model predictive control technique for reducing hysteresis in PEAs based on autoregressive exogenous m...

equal amounts of carbohydrates from various foodstuffs do not increase blood glucose to the same extent. this study was carried out, therefore, in 1996 at the national nutrition and food technology research institute in tehran to determine the glycemic index of split pease, rice (binam), kidney beans, green peas, “lavash” bread and broad bean kernels. diabetic subjects were studied in a clinica...

In this paper we present PEAS, a randomized energy-conservation protocol that seeks to build resilient sensor networks in the presence of frequent, unexpected node failures. PEAS extends the network lifetime by maintaining a necessary set of working nodes and turning off redundant ones, which wake up after randomized sleeping times and replace failed ones when needed. The fully localized operat...

Whole field peas were fed at 0, 10, 20, and 30% of DM to 139 yearling steers (British cross; 409 ± 31 kg of initial BW) for a 119-d finishing period. Carcass data and Choice grade strip loins (n = 98) were collected from a commercial abattoir in Lexington, Nebraska. Consumer sensory and Warner-Bratzler shear force analyses were performed on 2.5-cm strip steaks. No differences (P ≥ 0.17) were ob...

The Rhizobium leguminosarum h o s t-range (Sym) plasmid, pJB5JI, is a 130 Mdal conjugative plasmid which carries the genes for host-specificity (i.e., for peas) and some of the genes for ni trogen-fixation. We have t ransferred plasmid pJB5JI into different species of Rhizobium and examined the symbiotic propert ies of the result ing transconjugants. The donor strain R. leguminosarum 6015 (pJB5...

Price will dictate inclusion rates, but increasing availability of this grain legume is resulting in pricing that is competitive with other feeds. In creep feeds, 30 percent to 50 percent field peas appears to be optimum for animal performance. Commercial feed manufacturers are including peas in a number of commercial products for their nutrient density, palatability and competitive price, and ...