A 2(3) factorial arrangement of treatments was used to study main effects and interactions between particle size of prairie hay (chopped vs ground), two levels of feed intake (60 and 90% of ad libitum) and ruminal degradability of protein sources [dry corn gluten feed (DCGF) vs dry distillers grains (DDG)] on ruminal and total tract digestion in eight ruminal- and duodenal-cannulated steers. St...

1 Dry distillers grains improved gain and efficienicy relative to corn. Heifers supplemented daily consumed more hay and gained faster, but were not more efficient than those supplemented three times weekly. Summary An experiment was conducted with 120 crossbred heifers to determine the value of dry distillers grains (DDG) in high-forage diets, and to evaluate the effect of supplementing daily ...

We define a class of dynamic Markovian games, directional dynamic games (DDG), where directionality is represented by a strategy-independent partial order on the state space. We show that many games are DDGs, yet none of the existing algorithms are guaranteed to find anyMarkov perfect equilibrium (MPE) of these games, much less all of them. We propose a fast and robust generalization of backwar...

Duplicate detection consists in determining different representations of real-world objects in a database. Recent research has considered the use of relationships among object representations to improve duplicate detection. In the general case where relationships form a graph, research has mainly focused on duplicate detection quality/effectiveness. Scalability has been neglected so far, even t...

The modern, fuel ethanol industry is growing at an explosive rate in the USA. This growth is resulting in a concomitant increase in availability of “new” Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDG/S). Even though many industrial applications are being pursued, for the foreseeable future, this product will be fed to animals. This “new DDG/S” is quite different than product described by “old book...

This paper is concerned with superconvergence properties of the direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) method for one-dimensional linear convection-diffusion equations. We prove, under some suitable choice of numerical fluxes and initial discretization, a 2k-th and (k + 2) -th order superconvergence rate of the DDG approximation at nodes and Lobatto points, respectively, and a (k + 1) -th order of...

Large knowledge bases that are intended for applications such as CAD, corporate repositories or process control will have to be shared by multiple users. For these systems to scale up, to give acceptable performance and to exhibit consistent behavior, it is mandatory to synchronize user transactions using a concurrency control algorithm. The transactions in knowledge bases often access a large ...

The hippocampus, including the dorsal dentate gyrus (dDG), and cortex engage in bidirectional communication. We propose that low-frequency activity in hippocampal-cortical pathways contributes to brain-wide resting-state connectivity to integrate sensory information. Using optogenetic stimulation and brain-wide fMRI and resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI), we determined the large-scale effects of spati...

Objetivou-se avaliar o desempenho de codornas japonesas na fase cria em função dos níveis inclusão DDG milho dieta. Foram utilizadas 720 poedeiras (Coturnix japonica) com 1 dia vida até 21 dias idade, distribuídas delineamento inteiramente casualizado cinco tratamentos e seis repetições, 24 por unidade experimental. Os utilizados foram: dieta controle 0% DDG, 5% 10% 15% 20% DDG. Foi avaliado co...

Human genes responsible for inherited diseases are important for the understanding of human disease. We investigated the degree of polymorphism and divergence in the human disease genes to elucidate the effect of natural selection on human disease genes. In particular, the effect of disease dominance was incorporated into the analysis. Both dominant disease genes (DDG) and recessive disease gen...