Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of slow-release urea (SRU) versus feed-grade urea on ruminal metabolite characteristics in steers and DMI, gain, and G:F in growing beef steers. Experiment 1 used 12 ruminally cannulated steers (529 +/- 16 kg of BW) to monitor the behavior of SRU in the ruminal environment. Compared with feed-grade urea, SRU decreased ruminal ammonia concen...

This paper investigates and improves an important algorithm that is used in the Traffic-Flow Analysis (TFA). TFA can be used for the fast and approximate (performance) analysis of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems. The method contains an algorithm for the spatial distribution of the traffic in the system. It is shown how the error of the spatial distribution can be measured...

We investigate and compare two forms of recursion on sets for querying nested collections. The rst one is called sri and it corresponds to sequential processing of data. The second one is called sru and it corresponds to data-parallel processing. A uniform rst-order translation from sru into sri was known from previous work. The converse translation is by necessity more diicult and we have obta...

Common recurrent neural network architectures scale poorly due to the intrinsic difficulty in parallelizing their state computations. In this work, we propose the Simple Recurrent Unit (SRU) architecture, a recurrent unit that simplifies the computation and exposes more parallelism. In SRU, the majority of computation for each step is independent of the recurrence and can be easily parallelized...

Species richness and productivity are two fundamental aspects of ecosystems. As a result, the relationship between species richness and productivity has been widely studied. A series of fertilisation experiments in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau were performed to study the relationship between species richness and productivity. In this paper, we present a novel indicator, i.e., space r...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the efficacy of a regular interdisciplinary stroke team approach on rehabilitation outcome. METHODS We compared a stroke rehabilitation unit (SRU) with regular interdisciplinary stroke team conferences with general rehabilitation ward (GRW) without such conferences in the same rehabilitation hospital. One hundred and seventy-eight patients within 3 months after stroke ...

In this study, faunal analysis of nematode communities in an aquic brown soil (silty loam Hapli-Udic Cambosols in Chinese Soil Taxonomy) of Northeast China was conducted through a single wheat growth season, aimed to assess nematode faunal response to the application of slow-release urea fertiliser. Three treatments (conventional urea CU, slow-release urea SRU and control NU) were installed, an...

INTRODUCTION There is a multiplicity of treatments currently available for patients with symptomatic refractory urodynamic idiopathic detrusor overactivity (SRU IDO). We have assessed patient treatment preferences and their outcomes over a 12-month period from January 1 2009 to December 31 2009. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective database of all patients with SRU IDO was reviewed for patien...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the number of thyroid nodule workups that could be eliminated and the number of malignant tumors that would be missed if the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) recommendations and the three-tiered system were applied to incidental thyroid nodules (ITN) detected at imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included ITN...

The main aim behind this paper is to develop, design and implement on-line fault diagnosis on real-time industrial processes with suitable performance measures. For this purpose, the system is modeled using Petri nets. The system considered for study here is the Sulphur recovery unit (SRU) of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL), Chennai. SRU is one of the most important units in the refini...