Three feeding groups were used: the control (SOY) was fed diets without rapeseed products, and the two experimental groups were fed with either 10% rapeseed meal (RSM) or with 12% OO rape seeds (PFRS). Half of the boars from each group were slaughtered after 1 or 2 years. In RSM and PFRS boars steroid-3-beta-ol-dehydrogenase activity was high, whilst Leydig cells were not numerous after 1 year....

An experiment was conducted to determine protein quality in processed protein sources using the content of AA, -methylisourea (OMIU)-reactive Lys, Maillard reaction products (MRP), and cross-link products; the standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of CP and AA; and growth performance in growing pigs as criteria. Differences in protein quality were created by secondary toasting (at 95°C for 30 ...

The role of PKC and RhoA/ROCK pathways in the phasic activities in the rectal smooth muscles (RSM) in the basal state is not known. We examined this issue by determining the effects of PKC inhibitors (calphostin C and Gö-6850) and a ROCK inhibitor (Y-27632) on the slow-rate (~3/min) and fast-rate (~25/min) phasic activities. We also examined the corresponding signal transduction cascades and th...

Classifier combining techniques have become popular for improving weak classifiers in recent years. The random subspace method (RSM) is an efficient classifier combining technique that can improve classification performance of weak classifiers for the small sample size (SSS) problems. In RSM, the feature subsets are randomly selected and the resulting datasets are used to train classifiers. How...

Optimization plays a key role in environmental engineering parameters since the best system performance mainly is on optimum point or optimum range. The majority of wastewater treatment processes are multi-variable and optimization through the classical method is inflexible, unreliable and time-consuming. Thus, response surface methodology (RSM), as a very efficient design and widely used techn...

This paper introduces an original 2-valued semantics for Normal Logic Programs (NLP), important on its own. Nevertheless, its name draws attention to that it is inspired by and generalizes Stable Model semantics (SM). The definitional distinction consists in the revision of one feature of SM, namely its treatment of odd loops over default negation. This single revised aspect, addressed by means...