Two experiments were conducted to evaluate effects of barley grains particle size on ruminal pH and ammonia concentration of rams (experiment 1) and carcass characteristics (experiment 2) of male lambs fed high urea diet. Treatments in two experiments were (1: basal diet + whole barley grains, 2: basal diet + ground barley grains with a 5 mm screen, 3: basal diet + ground barley grains with a 3...

Two silver samples, coarse grained (c-Ag, grain size 300730 nm) and nanocrystalline (n-Ag, grain size 5576 nm), are compressed in a diamond anvil cell in separate experiments. The pressure is increased in steps of 3 GPa and the diffraction pattern recorded at each pressure. The grain size and compressive strength are determined from the analysis of the diffraction line-widths. The grain size of...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to investigate the effect of corn grain particle size on ruminant fermentation and blood metabolites in Holstein steers fed total mixed ration (TMR) as a basal diet to explain fundamental data of corn grain for cattle in Korea. METHODS Four ruminally cannulated Holstein steers (body weight 592±29.9 kg) fed TMR as a basal diet were housed individually in an a...

In this paper a statistical model of grain size distribution is proposed. It is su¢ ciently simple to be studied analytically. The resulting grain size distribution does not contain …tting parameters and describes reasonably well the experimental data. The statistical model is based on the suggested in the paper tessellation condition, the necessary and su¢ cient condition for a set of grains t...