Ruman degradation is crucial in the supply of dietary nutrients to meet the nutrient demands of the anaerobic microbes and body tissues of ruminant animals. Therefore, it is essential to study the dynamics of rumen degradation of various feeds before their potential use to formulate nutritious diets for ruminant animals. Amongst many methods that have been used in the past, the in sacco method ...

A method has been developed to prepare fresh forages for in sacco and in vitro incubation by freezing and mincing to achieve a particle size distribution of dry matter (DM) similar to in vivo conditions. The method is described and data presented to indicate losses of nitrogen (N) during in sacco digestion and net yield of ammonia from proteolysis in vitro for 22 fresh and conserved forages. Gr...

Security protocols are expected to build secure communications over vulnerable networks. However, security protocols may contain potential flaws. Therefore, they need formal verifications. In this thesis, we investigate Paulson’s inductive approach and apply this formal approach to a classical cryptographic protocol which has not been previously verified in this way. We also investigate the mod...

the aim of the experiment was to determine the effect of different dry matter content and addition of silage inoculant on the ruminal protein degradability. alfalfa herbage was collected from two cuts and the fresh matter was sampled two times during each cut (with different dry matter content). during the preparation of experimental micro-silages, the chopped forage was treated with a microbia...

A study was undertaken on lucerne (LUC), ryegrass (RG), kikuyu (KIK), soybean meal (SBM), wheat grain (WG) and meat and bone meal (MBM) to determine the effect of animal species (sheep versus cattle) on in sacco degradation of dry matter (DM) and protein. The approach of cubic smoothing splines ®tted as a linear mixed model was used for the analysis of degradability of DM and protein of feeds. ...