In terms of pellet mill operations, the conditioning process has greater influence on pellet quality than does die specification. A great deal of attention must be paid to steam quantity and control, moisture content, retention time and mixing action within the conditioner. In general, most feed manufacturers have not optimized the conditioning process but try to solve pellet quality issues usi...

The description logic SHOIN (D) has attracted considerable interest as the foundation of the W3C standard Web Ontology Language variant, OWL-DL. Pellet is a sound and complete tableau reasoner for SHOIN (D) and incorporates a number of key features such as conjunctive ABox query, axiom pinpointing, rules, E-connection reasoning, and novel optimizations for nominals. In this paper we summarize P...

We report here on magnetite- and wustite-encrusted and geometrically oriented microbial-like structures (MLS) attached to the surfaces of hematite (alpha-Fe(2)O(3)) crystals in a banded iron formation. Field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging showed a 3-D network of MLS arranged in 1 microm x approximately 20 microm coccoidal-like chain...

Effects of 2 pellet diameters for piglets pre- and postweaning on feed intake, BW, and feed-related behavior were studied in 3 experiments. In Exp. 1, 19 litters were provided with pellets of 2 and 12 mm in diameter in a choice-feeding setup from d 4 of lactation onward. From d 4 to 18, piglets preferred the 12-mm diameter pellet over the 2-mm diameter pellet (519 vs. 168 g/pen; P < 0.001). In ...

T HE volume o’ f literature considering the food habits of owls approaches prodigious proportions (see Earhart and Johnson, 1970). Much of this information has been derived from analysis of the pellets of non-digestible matter which these raptors egest periodically. A number of authors have reviewed this technique and its applications (Craighead and Craighead, 1956; Errington, 1930, 1932; Fishe...