Four experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of dried distillers grains + condensed distillers solubles (DDG+CDS) supplements on measures of performance of beef heifers, and apparent dry matter (DM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and crude protein (CP) digestibility of beef steers. In Exp. 1, heifers supplemented with DDG+CDS blocks (SweetPro; SP) for 42 d had lesser free-choice sup...

Based on a novel numerical flux involving jumps of even order derivatives of the numerical solution, a direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) method for diffusion problems was introduced in [H. Liu and J. Yan, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 47(1) (2009), 475-698]. In this work, we show that higher order (k≥4) derivatives in the numerical flux can be avoided if some interface corrections are included in the ...

In this paper we present Fourier type error analysis on the recent four discontinuous Galerkin methods for diffusion equations, namely the direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) method (Liu and Yan in SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 47(1):475–698, 2009); the DDG method with interface corrections (Liu and Yan in Commun. Comput. Phys. 8(3):541–564, 2010); and the DDG method with symmetric structure (Vidden and...

A divisible design graph (DDG for short) is a graph whose adjacency matrix is the incidence matrix of a divisible design. DDGs were introduced by Kharaghani, Meulenberg and the second author as a generalization of (v, k, λ)-graphs. It turns out that most (but not all) of the known examples of DDGs are walk-regular. In this paper we present an easy criterion for this to happen. In several cases ...

In order to program multithreaded architectures e ectively compiler support to automatically partition programs into threads is essential. This paper proposes a remote-path based thread partitioning framework, which can generate low-level threads from procedural programs automatically. The framework has been implemented in the EARTH-C compiler, which uses Data Dependence Graph (DDG) as an inter...

Two experiments were conducted to compare corn, dried distillers’ grains (DDG), and pelleted soybean hulls (SH) as supplements for cattle grazing bermudagrass. In Exp. 1, 66 crossbred steers (306 ± 3.2 kg) were stratified by weight and allotted randomly to six 2.4-ha bermudagrass pastures for a 107-d study. One of three supplement treatments (corn, DDG, or SH) was assigned randomly to each past...

Beta-TrCP, the F-box protein of the SCF(beta-TrCP) ubiquitin ligase (SCF, Skp1/Cul1/F-box protein), recognizes the doubly phosphorylated DSG motif (DpSGPhiXpS) in various SCF(beta-TrCP) target proteins. The Cdc25A phosphatase, a key cell-cycle regulator in vertebrate cells, undergoes a rapid ubiquitin-dependent degradation in response to genotoxic stress. Beta-TrCP binds to the DSG motif of hum...

BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile vasculitis and may cause coronary artery abnormalities. Due to the higher incidence in Asian countries, most pediatricians in Taiwan are familiar with KD. However, there are still some patients being diagnosed 10 days after the onset of the illness and not receiving a highly effective therapy. In this study, we analyzed the risk factors and c...

The objective of this work was to describe a novel in vitro system based on the subtraction of ammonia pools obtained with and without rumen fluid inoculum to determine the soluble protein fraction of feeds and their degradability, with adjustments for microbial contributions and bacterial contamination. Four corn-milling coproducts were used in this study as random factors. The feeds (Fd) were...

Five barrows with an average initial BW of 45 kg and fitted with a T-cannula at the distal ileum were fed 5 diets to determine the standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of AA in corn (Zea mays) distillers' dried grains (DDG), DDG with solubles (DDGS), high-protein DDG (HPDDG) and high-protein DDGS (HPDDGS). On a DM basis, the test ingredients contained 33.7% CP, 19.2% ADF, and 53.1% NDF for DD...