Two studies were conducted to determine the true P digestibility (TPD) of black-eyed pea (BEP) and peanut flour (PNF) and the TPD response to phytase supplementation using the regression method. Sequential diets containing 115, 230, or 345 g of BEP/kg (experiment 1) and 115, 230, or 345 g of PNF/kg (experiment 2) without or with 1,000 units of phytase/kg were formulated. Chromic oxide was added...

Despite the considerable efforts to reconstruct the phylogeny of grasses, the relationships among the subfamilies Bambusoideae, Pooideae and Ehrhartoideae in the BEP clade remain unresolved. Here we completely sequenced three chloroplast genomes of representative species from Bambusoideae and Ehrhartoideae and obtained 19 additional chloroplast genome sequences of other grasses from GenBank. Us...

We study a multiuser detection system using code division multiple access (CDMA). We show that applying multistage hard decision parallel interference cancellation (HD-PIC) significantly improves performance compared to the matched filter system. In (multistage) HD-PIC, estimates of the interfering signals due to other users are used iteratively to improve knowledge of the desired signal. We us...

Ovarian hormones are associated with binge eating in women, however findings are limited by the lack of experimental control inherent in human studies. Animal research that manipulates ovarian hormone status and examines individual differences in extreme binge eating proneness is needed to model clinical phenotypes in humans and to confirm causal effects. The purpose of this study was to examin...

The bit error probability (BEP) for coherent detection of binary signals with dual-diversity predetection equal gain combining is derived using the Beaulieu series. In particular, we consider a correlated Rayleigh fading channel with unequal branch signal-to-noise ratios. The BEP expression is in terms of the power correlation coefficient of the branches, is easy to compute, and depicts clearly...

This paper presents an alternative method for determining exact expressions for the bit error probability (BEP) of modulation schemes subject to Nakagami-m fading. In this method, the Nakagami-m fading channel is seen as an additive noise channel whose noise is modeled as the ratio between Gaussian and Nakagami-m random variables. The method consists of using the cumulative density function of ...

It is important for visually impaired persons to have the opportunity to take lessons specialized for the visually impaired and novice PC users. From this viewpoint, we designed and implemented the UKK system, which guides the typing lessons with recorded sound and synthesized speech. We also investigated the usability of the popular e-mail tools that the visually impaired can use, and the Bili...

In this paper we compare two measures frequently used when assessing the service quality of a digital transmission system: the word error probability (WEP) and the bit error probability (BEP). These two measures are compared by their accuracy and the complexity to obtain them using a sample mean estimator. The results are suitable for simulated systems (by means of Monte Carlo simulations) as w...

BACKGROUND Treatment with bleomycin-etoposide-cisplatin (BEP) impairs renal function and increases the risk of late cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death. We investigated the influence of BEP on glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and assessed the importance of GFR changes on CVD and death in a large cohort of germ-cell cancer survivors. PATIENTS AND METHODS BEP-treated patients (N = 1206) were...