objective: the experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of germinated barley on performance and egg quality in laying hen. methods: one hundred and twenty laying hens, 44-weeks old, lohmann lsl hens were used in this experiment. birds were assigned randomly to the groups, each of which consisted of 20 birds (4 replicate cages each containing 5 birds). the experiment w...

this study evaluated the effects of artichoke leaf powder on growth performance and physicochemical properties of japanese quailfrozen meat after 3 monthstorage. a total of 240 japanese quail chicks (1 d old) were raised over a 42-d experimental period. the experiment was performed as a completely randomized design with 4 replicates of 15 quails in each, using a 4 × 2 factorial arrangement with...

objective: the protein quality of earthworm meal was evaluated and compared to that of soybean meal (sbm) in two experiments using broiler chicks.  methods: the protein quality of earthworm meal was evaluated and compared to that of soybean meal (sbm) in two experiments using broiler chicks. results: the results of experiment 1 indicated that there were no significant differences between earthw...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mushroom waste and probiotic levels on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality in broiler chickens. a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement with two levels of probiotic supplementation (0 and recommended rate) and three levels of mushroom waste inclusion (0%, 3%, and 6%) was used in a completely randomized design using male broi...

In this paper, a general concept called n+k/n method is introduced. In n+k/n method, a special mapping function is defined to map an intermediate set with n+k bits into n bits information set. In the embedding process, the intermediate set is embedded into cover image rather than embedding the information set. If the distance between the features of cover image and the bits of intermediate set ...

Most publications on surrogate models have focused either on the prediction quality or on the optimization performance. It is still unclear whether the prediction quality is indeed related to the suitability for optimization. Moreover, most of these studies only employ lowdimensional test cases. There are no results for popular surrogate models, such as kriging, for high-dimensional (n > 10) no...

conclusions a high prevalence of sleep disorder was found in this population, specifically among female students. analysis of the relationship between sleep disorder and academic performance indicates a significant relationship of psqi scores with marital status, habitat, smoking, physical activity, and academic performance. results a total of 177 respondents, with a response rate of 55%, were ...

investigations are carried out to evaluate the performance of a low heat rejection (lhr) diesel engine consisting of air gap insulated piston with 3-mm air gap, with superni (an alloy of nickel) crown and air gap insulated liner with superni insert with different operating conditions of crude jatropha oil with varied injection timing and injection pressure.  performance parameters of brake ther...