With the increasing age and cost of operation of the existing NCI SEER platform core technologies, such essential resources in the fight against cancer as these will eventually have to be migrated to Grid based systems. In order to model this migration, a simulation is proposed based upon an agent modeling technology. This modeling technique allows for simulation of complex and distributed serv...

Forage crops are the staple ingredients of dietary rations fed to ruminant animals. They provide the animal with a large source of dietary fiber, critical for normal functioning of the rumen and its associated microenvironment (Driehuis and Oude Elferink, 2000). The preservation of forage crops into a fermented feedstuff known as silage has been an important practice in agriculture, especially ...

The objective of the study was to monitor the filling and emptying of bag silos at three research farms to determine the variation in density and losses in pressed bag silos. Twenty five bags were filled over the 2000 harvest season, and 15 of those bags have been completely emptied. Dry matter (DM) densities in alfalfa silages were approximately 200 kg/m when the crop was at 40% DM, and densit...

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Clinicians and hospital administrators rely on healthcare information systems (HIS) for decisionmaking. Typically, HIS need to aggregate data from a network of geographically dispersed healthcare facilities and specialized departments of medical practice. However interoperability issues in the data arise from the diversity of infrastructure, specialized practices, underlying systems, procedures...

This study was carried out to determine the effects of actic acid bacterial inoculant on the fermentation and aerobic stability of sunflower silages. Sunflower was harvested at the milk stage. Inoculant-1174 (Pioneer®,USA) was used as homofermentative lactic acid bacterial inoculant. Inoculant was applied 6.00 log10 cfu/g silage levels. Silages with no additive served as controls. After treatme...