The effect of five isonitrogenous diets (36.6% protein), formulated by replacing 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100% of fish meal (FM) with rice protein concentrate (RPC), was investigated on the growth and tail-muscle fatty acid (FA) quality of juvenile Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. The feeds were fed to shrimp (initial weight of 6.99 ± 0.08 g) five times daily to apparent satiation for 60 d...

There is no need to show the importance of the ltering tech niques to solve constraint satisfaction problems i e to nd values for problem variables subject to constraints that specify which combinations of values are consistent They can be used during a preprocessing step to remove once and for all some local inconsistencies or during the search to e ciently prune the search tree Recently in a ...

A new enhancement of RANSAC, the locally optimized RANSAC (LO-RANSAC), is introduced. It has been observed that, to find an optimal solution (with a given probability), the number of samples drawn in RANSAC is significantly higher than predicted from the mathematical model. This is due to the incorrect assumption, that a model with parameters computed from an outlier-free sample is consistent w...

A randomized model verification strategy for RANSAC is presented. The proposed method finds, like RANSAC, a solution that is optimal with user-controllable probability η. A provably optimal model verification strategy is designed for the situation when the contamination of data by outliers is known, i.e. the algorithm is the fastest possible (on average) of all randomized RANSAC algorithms guar...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Nuclear erythroid 2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) is an astrocyte-enriched transcription factor that has previously been shown to upregulate cellular antioxidant systems in response to ischemia. Although resveratrol preconditioning (RPC) has emerged as a potential neuroprotective therapy, the involvement of Nrf2 in RPC-induced neuroprotection and mitochondrial reactive oxygen s...

This article presents two new algorithms whose purpose is to maintain the Max-RPC domain filtering consistency during search with a minimal memory footprint and implementation effort. Both are sub-optimal algorithms that make use of support residues, a backtrack-stable and highly efficient data structure which was successfully used to develop the stateof-the-art AC-3 algorithm. The two proposed...

This paper compares the use of RANSAC for the determination of epi-polar geometry for calibrated stereo reconstruction of 3D data with more conventional optimisation schemes. The paper illustrates the poor convergence efficiency of RANSAC which is explained by a theoretical relationship describing its dependency upon the number of model parameters. The need for an a-priori estimate of outlier c...

Remote preconditioning (rPC) is the phenomenon whereby brief organ ischemia evokes an endogenous response such that a different (remote) organ is protected against subsequent, normally injurious ischemia. Experiments show rPC to be effective at evoking cardioprotection against ischemic heart injury and, more recently, neuroprotection against brain ischemia. Such is the enthusiasm for rPC that h...

Twenty four primiparous and multiparous Holstein cows on early lactation, beginning five weeks postpartum, were used for four weeks to investigate the effects of supplemention of rumen-protected choline (RPC) or vitamin E on milk yield, milk composition, dry matter intake, body condition score and body weight. The cows were randomly assigned to one of the following treatments: I)no supplement (...