An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of different pre-starter diets on the performance, digestive organs and carcass characteristics of broilers. One hundred and fifty day-old broiler chicks were divided into five groups with three replicates having ten chicks each. During first ten days the birds were fed on five experimental pre-starter diets formulated with different metaboliza...

Staphylococcus carnosus is used as a starter culture in meat fermentation, where it contributes to color formation and produces aromatic compounds. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of an S. carnosus subsp. utilis strain, LTH 7013, isolated from South Tyrolean ham, with potential application as a starter culture.

The influence of the environmental parameters on the traffic noise in the sea is studied with the help of a simplified model based on normal-mode propagation at a single frequency. The results show significant variation of the traffic noise spectrum level among the various seasons of the year. The differences are more pronounced when the bottom consists of soft sediments.

In the present paper we discuss various aspects of the 't Hooft model for two-dimensional QCD in the limit of infinite number of colours in the Coulomb gauge. The properties of mesonic excitations are addressed, with special attention paid to the pionic one. The twofold role of the pion is discussed: being a genuine q ¯ q state it is also a Goldstone boson of two-dimensional QCD. In particular,...

This work establishes the exact exponent for the soft-covering phenomenon of a memoryless channel under the total variation metric. The exponent, established herein, is a strict improvement (in both directions) on bounds found in the literature. This complements the recent literature establishing the exact exponent under the relative entropy metric; however, the proof techniques have significan...

In some processes at the LHC, theoretical precisions of 1% are desired. With an eye toward such precisions, we introduce the theory of the simultaneous YFS resummation of QED and QCD to compute the size of the expected resummed soft radiative threshold effects in precision studies of heavy particle production at the LHC. Our results, that the soft QED threshold effects are at the level of 0.3% ...

A trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of fat emulsifier on fat utilization in broiler chickens using 240 days old chicks which were divided into 24 replicates in a 3×2 factorial arrangement under Completely Randomized Design (CRD). Experimental diets were formulated using 1, 2 or 3% fat with or without fat emulsifier (Lecithin) at 350 mg kgG1. The trial lasted for 35 days and was divided...

The paper presents a study on a nine-phase permanent magnet synchronous starter-alternator for automotive applications, analyzing different converter topologies, detailing the simulation programs and discussing the results in different operating conditions, from entire healthy machine to several faulted phases. The comparison between the two converter topologies controlling the multiphase machi...