Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) has low and variable AA digestibility. The variability is often attributed to damage during the heating process, and it has been suggested that the damage happens to the soluble components of DDGS such as reducing sugars. Combining solubles and grains sometimes produces syrup balls (SB); their digestibility is unknown. The objective of this experimen...

Segmented Information Dispersal (SID) is a new combinatorial design which arises when constructing data organizations that provide erasure correction with certain properties. This paper deenes and studies SID designs. The problem of constructing SID designs is shown to be equivalent to the problem of constructing regular directed graphs with certain properties (collision-free digraphs). The gra...

In this paper, a problem associated with archival and retrieval of symbolic images with multiple instances of iconic objects, in/from symbolic image database (SID) invariant to image transformations is addressed. An efficient methodology to retrieve images similar to a query image at two levels of similarity from the SID is presented. The presented model takes O(log n) search time in worst case...

It is difficult to directly apply traditional speaker identification (SID) systems to cochannel speech, mixtures from two speakers. Previous work demonstrates that extraction of usable speech segments significantly improves SID performance if speaker assignment, or sequential organization of the segments, is known. We derive a joint computational objective for speaker assignment and cochannel S...

In the work reported here, an in-line sector-TOF (time-of-flight) tandem mass spectrometer with a coaxial detector was developed. An advantage of the present design is that the instrument implements both high-energy collision-induced dissociation (keV CID) and low-energy surface-induced dissociation (eV SID) with no hardware manipulations required to switch between the two activation methods. S...

Ileal digestibility of amino acids (AA) in dry-extruded expelled soybean meal (DESBM), co-extruded canola seed-pea blend (ECSP, 50:50 wt/wt basis), poultry by-product meal (PBPM), and feather meal (FM) were determined in broiler chicks. For each ingredient, 5 samples each collected on different occasions were evaluated. Birds (n = 180 for each sample) were fed a commercial starter diet from d 1...

In elderly population sepsis is one of the leading causes of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in the United States. Sepsis-induced delirium (SID) is the most frequent cause of delirium in ICU (Martin et al., 2010). Together delirium and SID represent under-recognized public health problems which place an increasing financial burden on the US health care system, currently estimated at 143-15...

ÐWe present a novel data organization for disk arraysÐSegmented Information Dispersal (SID). SID provides protection against disk failures while ensuring that the reconstruction of the missing data requires only relatively small contiguous accesses to the available disks. SID has a number of properties that make it an attractive solution for fault-tolerant video servers. Under fault-free condit...

For designing and testing embedded software, simulation tools have been used to keep pace with the rapid development of customized hardware parts. SID is a framework for building computer system simulations and SID is made for debugging, testing and verifying embedded software. Though, it is difficult for developers to use SID for their work. In this work, we developed an integrated virtual pla...