A study was conducted to determine the effects of adherent Lactobacillus culture on growth performance, intestinal microbial population, and serum cholesterol level of broilers. Four dietary treatments, consisting of the basal diet (control), basal diet + 0.05, 0.10, or 0.15% Lactobacillus culture (LC), were fed to 2,000 Arbor Acres broiler chicks from 1 to 42 d of age (DOA). The chicks were ra...

A compressive sensing joint sparse representation direction of arrival estimation (CSJSR-DoA) approach is proposed for wireless sensor array networks (WSAN). By exploiting the joint spatial and spectral correlations of acoustic sensor array data, the CSJSR-DoA approach provides reliable DoA estimation using randomly-sampled acoustic sensor data. Since random sampling is performed at remote sens...

In this paper, we present a low complexity, yet accurate adaptive algorithm for the tracking of two-dimensional (2-D) direction of arrival (DOAs) based on a uniform rectangular array (URA). The new algorithm is a novel hybrid of tracking and beamforming processes by making use of three stages of one-dimensional (1-D) DOA tracking algorithms — in a hierarchical tree structure — to determine the ...

This paper address the joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) and time delay (TD) estimation problem, which is a key technique for accurate indoor localization in next generation WiFi and 5G networks. We propose an efficient approximate maximum likelihood (AML) algorithm for this problem, which updates the DOA and TD parameters alternatingly. Then, we present closed-form Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for jo...

The popular ESPRIT algorithm provides a computationally eficient approach for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in situations where the sensor array is composed of two identical translated subarrays. One of the key advantages of ESPRIT is that the subarrays need not be calibrated in order to obtain the DOA estimates. In this paper, the problem of DOA estimation using sensor arrays composed ...

BACKGROUND Drug abuse is a frequent factor in emergency department (ED) visits. Although commonly performed, qualitative testing of urine for drugs of abuse (u-DOA) is inherently limited in its ability to establish the identity, timing or dose of substances used. Previous studies have demonstrated these limitations, but their designs cannot be used to determine whether the results of u-DOA test...

The same-object advantage (SOA) effect is usually cited as evidence for object-based attention. However, the different-object advantage (DOA) effect, which appears to be the opposite of the SOA effect, has also been reported by some researchers. The present study was designed to resolve this apparent inconsistency. As the SOA effect has been well documented, here we focus on exploring when and ...