abstract background: premature neonates’ feeding is of great importance due to its effective role in their growth. these neonates should reach an independent oral nutrition stage before being discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit. therefore, the researcher decided to conduct a study on the effect of palady and cup feeding on premature neonates’ weight gain and their reaching full ora...

A genetic improvement program on the Creole goat of Guadeloupe is presently underway. It is a medium-sized meat breed with a traditional slaughter weight of 18 kg which can be reached at 6 to 18 months of age, depending on the system. Experiments are on-going at INRA upon the effects of diet, management conditions, helminth infestation on Creole kids with the aim of improving the goat meat prod...

The paper presents the control of a power supply feeding a quadrupole magnet of a booster synchrotron. The supply equipment is based on a switching architecture where current sharing and interleaving techniques are adopted to minimize the voltage/current ripple. Internal model principle is exploited in the control design to guarantee extremely accurate tracking of the sinusoidal current referen...

Two experiments were undertaken to study the effects of graded levels of dietary protein and energy on the performance of growing meat-type ducklings. The results of Experiment 1 indicated that meat-type ducklings. gave satisfactory weight gain and feed utilisation on starter and finisher diets containing 18 percent protein with 3.00 Meal ME/kg. There were no marked differences in performances ...

In this contribution, a novel version of the reduced-state maximum a posteriori probability/decision-feedback (MAP/DF) equalizer for intersymbol interference channels with long impulse responses is presented. The main feature of the proposed equalizer is that the soft statistics generated by the MAP receiver are employed to recursively compute a suitable index of the actual reliability of the (...

The influence of copper and zinc supplements on milk production performances and health indicators was tested in a 20week feeding trial, with 40 Holstein-Friesian lactating cows, divided in four groups (copper, zinc, copper-zinc and control). Correlations of the Cu and Zn plasma values with some animal performance criteria of health (body condition score and somatic cell counts) and production ...

Simulations of precision feeding (PF) in which gestating sows were individually fed a daily mixture two diets with different amino acid contents indicated reduction protein intake, feed costs, and environmental losses compared to conventional single diet (CF). These results have not been verified on farm. Thus, the objective present study was compare effect this PF strategy productive reproduct...

Sociolinguistic research has increasingly turned to examining the use of both the grammar and speech events of black speech by non-Blacks. This phenomenon called language crossing is defined as “the use of language varieties associated with social or ethnic groups that the speaker does not normally ‘belong’ to” (Rampton 1995:14). Although the literature has focused on phonological features, the...