Seventy postpuberal dairy heifers were assigned to remain untreated (n = 26) or to receive the Syncro-Mate-B (SMB) treatment (n = 44). Untreated heifers were inseminated at 12 hr after detection of estrus, while SMB-treated heifers were inseminated either at 48 hr after implant removal (group 1) or at 12 hr after detection of estrus (group 2). Jugular blood was collected at regular intervals fr...

The simulated moving bed (SMB) process has been extensively used in industrial separations for binary and pseudo-binary separations. In pseudo-binary mixtures because the desired component is the most or least retained, the other components do not have to be separated. The UOP Parex process for p-xylene purification is an example. When non-target components have similar adsorption behaviors, th...

Two experiments were conducted to assess the effect of buck exposure to synchronize estrus in mature and pre-pubertal norgestomet-treated crossbred (criolloxdairy breeds) goats. In experiment 1, 100 mature goats (25 per group) under range conditions were either teased at 48 or 24h before Sincromate-B (SMB; 9 days treatment of 2mg norgestomet) implant withdrawal. A third group was exposed to buc...

Abstract. Recent work has identified complex perennial supraglacial stream and river networks in areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) ablation zone. Current surface mass balance (SMB) models appear to overestimate meltwater runoff these compared in-channel measurements discharge. Here, we constrain SMB using hillslope routing model (HRR), a spatially explicit flow used terrestrial hydrology,...

We present a new parameterisation that relates surface mass balance (SMB: the sum of surface accumulation and surface ablation) to changes in surface elevation of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) for the MAR (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional: Fettweis, 2007) regional climate model. The motivation is to dynamically adjust SMB as the GrIS evolves, allowing us to force ice sheet models with SMB simulat...

Global climate models suggest that Antarctic snowfall should increase in a warming climate and mitigate rises in the sea level. Several processes affect surface mass balance (SMB), introducing large uncertainties in past, present and future ice sheet mass balance. To provide an extended perspective on the past SMB of Antarctica, we used 67 firn/ice core records to reconstruct the temporal varia...

In chemical reaction networks (CRNs) with stochastic semantics based on continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs), the typically large populations of species cause combinatorially large state spaces. This makes the analysis very difficult in practice and represents the major bottleneck for the applicability of minimization techniques based, for instance, on lumpability. In this paper we present syn...

Mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet over the past decade has caused the impression that the ice sheet has been behaving anomalously to the warming of the 1990s. We have reconstructed the recent (1866–2005) surface mass-balance (SMB) history of the Greenland ice sheet on a 5 5 km grid using a runoff-retention model based on the positive degree-day method. The model is forced with new datasets...

The separation of dilute binary mixtures of proteins by salt aided ion-exchange simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatography is optimized with respect to throughput, desorbent consumption and salt consumption. The optimal flow-rate ratios are analytically determined via an adopted "triangle theory". Azeotropic phenomena are included in this procedure. The salt concentrations in the feed and recycl...

BACKGROUND Because neither the incidence and risk factors for rhabdomyolysis in the ICU nor the dynamics of its main complication, i.e., rhabdomyolysis-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) are well known, we retrospectively studied a large population of adult ICU patients (n = 1,769). METHODS CK and sMb (serum myoglobin) and uMb (urinary myoglobin) were studied as markers of rhabdomyolysis and A...