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The weaning of piglets is often associated with digestive disorders, particularly diarrhea--postweaning colibacillosis (PWC)--which is caused by infection with enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli. It has been shown previously that a diet for newly weaned pigs based on cooked white rice and animal protein decreases the occurrence of PWC, whereas the addition of carboxymethylcellulose (CM...

Little literature is available concerning the mobility patterns of wheelchair users. Some generalized values of power wheelchair (PWC) use are available in terms of average distances and speeds over all subjects and days (Cooper 2002). However, the data lack the context of environment and do not identify how the movement is dispersed over time. Greater insight into PWC use and mobility patterns...

Two word-spotting experiments are reported that examine whether the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) is a language-speciŽc or languageuniversal strategy for the segmentation of continuous speech. The PWC disfavours parses which leave an impossible residue between the end of a candidate word and any likely location of a word boundary, as cued in the speech signal. The experiments examined cases wh...

Partial closure under weak composition, or partial -consistency for short, is essential for tackling fundamental reasoning problems associated with qualitative constraint networks, such as the satisfiability checking problem, and therefore it is crucial to be able to enforce it as fast as possible. To this end, we propose a new algorithm, called PWC, for efficiently enforcing partial -consisten...