Two experiments were conducted to determine effects of supplemental ruminally degradable protein (RDP) vs. increasing amounts of supplemental ruminally undegradable protein (RUP) on intake, apparent digestibility, N retention, and nutrient flux across visceral tissues in lambs fed low-quality forage. Lambs were fed a basal diet of crested wheatgrass hay (4.2% CP) for ad libitum consumption, plu...

Editor's Note: The IBM Rational Unified Process,® or RUP,® offers software development organizations a framework for streamlining all activities related to the development lifecycle. Since its formal debut in 1996, RUP has evolved to support a variety of development requirements, including "systems engineering," or SE. In 2001, the first RUP Plug-In to support systems engineering was proposed b...

In experiment 1, 24 midlactation, multiparous Holstein cows were used in six 4 x 4 Latin squares to evaluate extruded-expelled cottonseed (EEC) as a source of ruminally undegradable protein (RUP). Diets were formulated to contain: 16% crude protein (CP), 35% RUP (SBM16); 18% CP, 35% RUP (SBM18); 16% CP, 40% RUP using EEC (EC16); and 16% CP, 40% RUP using a fishmeal-blood meal blend (FBM16). Mil...

Reproductive performance in young beef cows is often compromised due to a mismatch of physiological demands and suboptimal environmental conditions. Studies conducted at the Corona Range and Livestock Research Center from 2000 to 2007 evaluated 3 postpartum supplement strategies that varied in the amount of glucogenic potential (GP) supplied. Reproductive variables, milk production, and serum m...

Part I included a discussion of systems, the challenges facing the modern systems developer and how RUP SE addresses them, RUP SE Unified Modeling Language (UML)-based modeling and requirement specification techniques, and the use of UML semantics. This month, in Part II, we will focus on system architecture and introduce the RUP SE architecture framework, which describes the internals of the s...

Software industry is using various customized models such as Rational Unified Process (RUP), eXtreme Programming (XP) and SCRUM. XP and Scrum are most widely practiced and documented agile models. Both XP and Scrum work well for small projects whereas RUP is suitable for large projects. A fine integration of these models is required to deal with small, medium and large projects. This paper is w...

We present an approach to embedding a formal method into the Rational Unified Process (RUP). The purposes are: (a) to unify different views of UML, (b) to enhance RUP and UML with the formal method to improve the quality of software systems; and (c) to support effective use of the formal method for system specification and reasoning with the iterative and incremental approach in RUP. Our overal...

Object technology is a growing approach for the development of quality software. It provides a sophisticated environment to support good software engineering practice. Use of object technology should not be restricted to languages but should encompass full lifecycle support by use of an object-oriented (OO) development methodology or process. Integrated process-focused OO approaches to software...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of corn residue harvest method on animal performance and diet digestibility. Experiment 1 was designed as a 2 x 2 + 1 factorial arrangement of treatments using 60 individually fed crossbred steers (initial BW = 283; SD = 32 kg; n = 12). Factors were corn residue harvest method (highstem and conventional) and supplemental RUP at 2 concentrat...

RUP is a comprehensive software development process framework that has gained a lot of interest by the industry. One major challenge of taking RUP into use is to tailor it to specific needs and then to introduce it into a development organization. This study presents a review and a systematic assembly of existing studies on the tailoring and introduction of RUP. From a systematic search for stu...