The effects of fumonisin B-glucose reaction products in swine diets was examined. Pigs were fed diets containing 528 micromol of total fumonisin B/kg (FB), 528 micromol of total FB-glucose adducts/kg (FB-G, 122 micromol of unreacted FB/kg), or 0 micromol of total FB/kg for 15 days to test the efficacy of the FB-G reaction products in detoxifying FB. Weight gain in FB pigs was lower than in FB-G...

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (A. ferrooxidans, formerly Thiobacillus ferrooxidans) is the Gram-negative, acidophilic, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium that obtains its energy from the oxidation of ferrous iron, elemental sulphur, or partially oxidized sulphur compounds (Leduc and Ferroni, 1994; Rohwerder et al., 2003), even hydrogen or formate in anoxic conditions (Drobner et al., 1990; Pronk ...

The existence of glucose conjugates of fumonisin B₂ (FB₂) and fumonisin B₃ (FB₃) in corn powder was confirmed for the first time. These "bound-fumonisins" (FB₂ and FB₃ bound to glucose) were identified as N-(1-deoxy-D-fructos-1-yl) fumonisin B₂ (NDfrc-FB₂) and N-(1-deoxy-D-fructos-1-yl) fumonisin B₃ (NDfrc-FB₃) respectively, based on the accurate mass measurements of characteristic ions and fra...

We present a study of the luminosity and color properties of galaxies selected from a sample of 57 low-redshift Abell clusters. We utilize the non-parametric dwarf-to-giant ratio (DGR) and the blue galaxy fraction (fb) to investigate the clustercentric radial-dependent changes in the cluster galaxy population. Composite cluster samples are combined by scaling the counting radius by r200 to mini...

In this paper, we study a parametric class of stochastic processes to model both fast and slow anomalous diffusions. This class, called generalized grey Brownian motion (ggBm), is made up of self-similar with stationary increments processes (H-sssi) and depends on two real parameters α ∈ (0, 2) and β ∈ (0, 1]. It includes fractional Brownian motion when α ∈ (0, 2) and β = 1, and time-fractional...

With the exploding size of genome databases it is becoming increasingly important to devise search procedures that extract relevant information from them One such procedure is particularly e ective in nding new distant members of a given family of related sequences start with a multiple alignment of the given members of the family and use an integral or fractional consensus sequence derived fro...

In series double quantum dot with finite bias, strong current suppression by spinselection rule is expected. Before the current becomes zero starting from a certain initial condition, the transient current flows through the system. We theoretically argue this excess current, under which condition, becomes a simple fraction of charge quantum after being integrated in time. We also propose a sche...

This talk summarizes the quenched calculation of fB and fBs presented in [1]. The heavy quark is simulated using an O(1/M) improved NRQCD action, and the tadpole improved clover action is used for the light quarks. The axial current includes the O(1/M) corrections in one-loop perturbation theory and the O(1/M) ones at tree-level. We discuss the various systematic effects and consistency checks ...

Corn samples and different dry-milled fractions collected from an industrial mill in Argentina were analysed. Average contaminations were FB(1) 1540 microg kg(-1), FB(2) 716 microg kg(-1) and FB(3) 152 microg kg(-1) in whole corn; FB(1) 135 microg kg(-1), FB(2) 39.1 microg kg(-1) and FB(3) 10.2 microg kg(-1) in corn grits; FB(1) 358 microg kg(-1), FB(2) 122 microg kg(-1) and FB(3) 45.9 microg k...

While laptops and other Internet accessible technologies facilitate student learning in the classroom, they also increase opportunities for interruptions from off-task social networking sites such as Facebook (FB). A small number of correlational studies have suggested that FB has a detrimental effect on learning performance, however; these studies had neglected to investigate student-engagemen...