Influence of sward height, daily timing of concentrate supplementation, and restricted time for grazing on forage utilization by lactating beef cows     

Gekara OJ  Prigge EC  Bryan WB  Nestor EL  Seidel G 《Journal of animal science》2005,83(6):1435-1444

To establish the effect of sward height, concentrate feeding time, and restricted time for grazing on forage utilization by grazing cattle, 32 crossbred beef (24 Angus and eight Hereford) cows (632 kg BW) and calves (104 kg BW) were grouped by weight and calving date. They were assigned randomly to two sward height treatments (4 to 8 or 8 to 12 cm), replicated four times. The herbage comprised mainly Kentucky bluegrass, orchardgrass, some forbs, and white clover. The cows were restricted to 12 h/d grazing (0700 to 1900) or unrestricted to 24 h/d grazing and fed a concentrate supplement (4.1 kg DM.cow(-1).d(-1), approximately 0.65% of BW or 33% of total DMI) either at 0700 or 1800. The experiment was repeated over three 15-d periods in May, June/July, and August 2000. The herbage on high sward height pasture was higher (P = 0.06) in NDF and ADF and lower (P < 0.01) in CP than low sward height herbage. For cows restricted to 12 h/d grazing, supplementing at 0700 as opposed 1800 resulted in greater (P = 0.04) forage DMI (8.6 vs. 8.1 kg/d), whereas cows that were unrestricted showed little change (8.2 kg/d at 0700 vs. 8.4 kg/d at 1800). Supplementing at 1800 as opposed to 0700 resulted in greater (P = 0.03) herbage DM digestibility (67.7 vs. 64.5%) for cows on high sward height, whereas cows on low sward height exhibited minimal differences (65.4% at 1800 vs. 66.3% at 0700). Cows restricted to 12 h/d grazing and supplemented at 0700 as opposed to 1800 resulted in greater (P = 0.06) digestible DMI (5.0 vs. 4.7 kg/d), whereas unrestricted cows exhibited the opposite response (4.6 kg/d digestible DMI at 0700 vs. 4.9 kg/d at 1800). Supplementing at 1800 as opposed to 0700 increased the time spent grazing to a greater (P = 0.09) extent for restricted than for unrestricted cows. When forage availability or grazing time was limiting (due to a low forage allowance and restricted access to forage, respectively) supplementing concentrates at 0700 resulted in greater forage utilization and intake rate because of increased forage DMI, DM digestibility, and digestible DMI. However, when forage or grazing time was not limiting, supplementing concentrates at 1800 resulted in greater forage utilization because of increased forage DM digestibility.  相似文献   

Pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasonographic evaluation of hepatic veins during variable hemodynamic states in healthy anesthetized dogs     

Smithenson BT  Mattoon JS  Bonagura JD  Abrahamsen EJ  Drost WT 《American journal of veterinary research》2004,65(6):734-740

OBJECTIVES: To quantify direction and velocity of blood flow in hepatic veins in dogs under different hemodynamic conditions by use of pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasonography. ANIMALS: 10 healthy dogs. PROCEDURE: Dogs were anesthetized, and venous flow velocities in the quadrate lobe were measured. Arterial blood pressure, right atrial pressure, pulmonary artery pressure, and cardiac output were measured simultaneously. The timing of each waveform during the cardiac cycle was used to identify velocity profiles. Peak waveform velocities were measured during conditions of light anesthesia with isoflurane (baseline; period 1), cardiovascular depression following administration of high-dose isoflurane and esmolol i.v. (period 2), cardiovascular depression with crystalloid volume expansion (period 3), and high cardiac output induced with dobutamine (period 4). Hemodynamic measurements and maximum waveform velocities were compared among the 4 periods by use of an ANOVA and univariate and multivariate linear regression. RESULTS: During each study period, 4 distinct, low-velocity waves were identified. Mean velocities recorded during period 1 were as follows: retrograde atrial contraction a-wave, 7.3 cm/s; antegrade systolic S-wave, 15.0 cm/s; retrograde venous return v-wave, 2.7 cm/s; and antegrade diastolic D-wave, 11.4 cm/s. Mean S:D ratio was 1.27. During periods 3 and 4, S-wave velocity increased; D-wave velocity was highest during period 4. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Consistent hepatic venous velocity profiles were observed in healthy dogs under different hemodynamic conditions. These findings provide baseline values that may be useful in evaluating clinical cases, but further study involving healthy, awake dogs and dogs with cardiac and hepatic diseases is required.  相似文献   

The Emperor Seamounts: southward motion of the Hawaiian hotspot plume in Earth's mantle     

Tarduno JA  Duncan RA  Scholl DW  Cottrell RD  Steinberger B  Thordarson T  Kerr BC  Neal CR  Frey FA  Torii M  Carvallo C 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,301(5636):1064-1069

The Hawaiian-Emperor hotspot track has a prominent bend, which has served as the basis for the theory that the Hawaiian hotspot, fixed in the deep mantle, traced a change in plate motion. However, paleomagnetic and radiometric age data from samples recovered by ocean drilling define an age-progressive paleolatitude history, indicating that the Emperor Seamount trend was principally formed by the rapid motion (over 40 millimeters per year) of the Hawaiian hotspot plume during Late Cretaceous to early-Tertiary times (81 to 47 million years ago). Evidence for motion of the Hawaiian plume affects models of mantle convection and plate tectonics, changing our understanding of terrestrial dynamics.  相似文献   

Serologic responses to eastern and western equine encephalomyelitis vaccination in previously vaccinated horses     

Waldridge BM  Wenzel JG  Ellis AC  Rowe-Morton SE  Bridges ER  D'Andrea G  Wint R 《Veterinary therapeutics : research in applied veterinary medicine》2003,4(3):242-248

A prospective study was performed to determine the serologic response of previously vaccinated horses to revaccination against eastern and western equine encephalomyelitis (EEE and WEE). Horses responded variably to each antigen, and some horses had low or undetectable antibodies 6 months after vaccination. Some horses did not develop increasing titers to EEE or WEE despite recent vaccination. Geometric mean titers peaked 2 weeks after revaccination and were significantly increased from before revaccination. Except for one horse, EEE:WEE titer ratios ranged from 0.25 to 2.0. Regular vaccination against EEE and WEE did not interfere with testing for Saint Louis encephalitis.  相似文献   

Molecular diversity of Brazilian strains of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2)     

de Castro AM  Cortez A  Heinemann MB  Brandão PE  Richtzenhain LJ 《Research in veterinary science》2008,85(1):197-200

Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) is associated with a broad range of syndromes. In this study, eight pig tissue samples from two Brazilian states were analyzed using six PCR primer pairs amplifying a 1705-bp fragment of the PCV-2 genome. The NJ distance-based method was used for the phylogenetic analysis with the eight field strains herein, 15 GenBank sequences and using PCV-1 as an out-group. This yielded two major clusters (A and B) for this viral species, with the Brazilian strains segregating with European and Asian sequences. Nucleotide identity was 99.7 to 100% among the sequences. This information can be used in further studies of pathogenesis related to PCV-2 in Brazil.  相似文献   

Effects of Postharvest Processing on Texture Profile Analysis of Cooked Rice     

Elaine T. Champagne  Brenda G. Lyon  Bong Kee Min  Bryan T. Vinyard  Karen L. Bett  Franklin E. Barton  Bill D. Webb  Anna M. McClung  Karen A. Moldenhauer  Steve Linscombe  Kent S. McKenzie  David E. Kohlwey 《Cereal Chemistry》1998,75(2):181-186

The effects of drying conditions, final moisture content, and degree of milling on the texture of cooked rice varieties, as measured by texture profile analysis, were investigated. Instrumentally measured textural properties were not significantly (α = 0.05) affected by drying conditions, with the exception of cohesiveness. Cohesiveness was lower in rice dried at lower temperatures (18°C or ambient) than in that dried at the higher commercial temperatures. Final moisture content and degree of milling significantly (α = 0.05) affected textural property values for adhesiveness, cohesiveness, hardness, and springiness; their effects were interdependent. The effects of deep milling were more pronounced in the rice dried to 15% moisture than that dried to 12%. In general, textural property values for hardness were higher and those for cohesiveness, adhesiveness, and springiness were lower in regular-milled rice dried to 15% moisture than in that dried to 12%. In contrast, hardness values were lower and cohesiveness, adhesiveness, and springiness values were higher in deep-milled rice dried to 15% moisture than in that dried to 12% moisture. Deep milling resulted in rice with lower hardness values and higher cohesiveness, adhesiveness, and springiness values.  相似文献   

Synthesis and herbicidal activity of 1,4-benzoxazin-3-one sulfonylureas     

Janet E. Anderson  Stephen Bell  Wayne M. Best  Peter F. Drygala  Keith G. Watson  Ian B. Bryan 《Pest management science》1996,46(2):131-138

A series of 1,4-benzoxazin-3-ones with a sulfonylurea group attached at either the 5 or 8 position have been synthesised and found to show moderate herbicidal activity. Similarly, a series of 1,4-benzothiazin-3-ones, including some of the related S-oxides and S-dioxides, with a sulfonylurea group linked at the 8 position, have been prepared and been found to be herbicidal. In both series of compounds many substituent variations were made but none of the compounds showed any useful crop selectivities.  相似文献   

Nonparametric machine learning for mapping forest cover and exploring influential factors     

Liu  Bao  Gao  Lei  Li  Baoan  Marcos-Martinez  Raymundo  Bryan  Brett A. 《Landscape Ecology》2020,35(7):1683-1699

Context

The contribution of forest ecosystem services to human well-being varies over space following the dynamics in forest cover. Use of machine learning models is increasing in projecting forest cover changes and investigating the drivers, yet references are still lacking for selecting machine learning models for spatial projection of forest cover patterns.

Objectives

We assessed the ability of nonparametric machine learning techniques to project the spatial distribution of forest cover and identify its drivers using a case study of Tasmania, Australia.

Methods

We developed, evaluated, and compared the performance of four nonparametric machine learning models: support vector regression (SVR), artificial neural networks (ANN), random forest (RF), and gradient boosted regression trees (GBRT).

Results

The results demonstrated that RF far outperformed the other three models in both fitting and projection accuracy, and required less computional costs. GBRT outperformed SVR and ANN in projection accuracy. However, RF exhibited serious overfitting due to the full growth of its decision trees. The influence rankings of explanatory variables on spatial patterns of forest cover were different under the four models. Land tenure type and rainfall were identified among the top four most influential variables by all four models. The ranking produced by the RF model was significantly different with topographic factors associated with land clearing and production costs (elevation and distance to timber facilities) being the two most influential variables.

Conclusions

We encourage practitioners to consider nonparametric machine learning methods, especially RF, when facing problems of complex environmental data modelling.

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Laboratory experiments on the variation of soil erosion under simulated rainfall     

Rorke B. Bryan  Shiu-Hung Luk 《Geoderma》1981,26(4):245-265

Samples from three Canadian Gray-Brown Luvisols were subjected to simulated rainfall in a small laboratory erosion plot. Although great care was taken to control all major factors known to influence erosion, considerable varaibility in wash loss, splash loss and runoff was observed during 60-min rainfall tests, with coefficients of variation ranging up to 28.8%. Attempts were made to isolate the source of variability by examining rainfall intensity, bulk density, various aggregate size and stability parameters and surface microrelief. The results suggest that much of the observed variability is related to complex interactions of aggregation, microrelief, runoff and rain splash. Some of these interactions were examined in detail. The experiments suggest the existence of an inherent variability in soil erosion studies which is difficult or impossible to eliminate. Results were used to plot curves showing the increase in precision of soil erosion prediction with increased test replication under controlled experimental conditions and changes in relationships with increasing test duration.  相似文献   

Effect of frequency of administration of exogenous porcine growth hormone on growth and carcass traits and ovarian function of prepubertal gilts.     

K A Bryan  D R Hagen  J M Hammond 《Journal of animal science》1992,70(5):1454-1463

Three experiments were conducted to examine relationships among dose and frequency of administration of exogenous porcine growth hormone (pGH) on growth traits and ovarian function of prepubertal gilts. In Exp. 1, gilts were treated with 0 or 5 mg of pGH daily for 42 d or 5 mg of pGH daily on alternate weeks over a 42-d period. In Exp. 2, gilts were treated with 0, 2.5, or 5 mg of pGH daily for 31 d or daily on alternate weeks for 31 d. In Exp. 3, gilts received 5 mg of pGH daily on either wk 1, 3, and 5 or wk 2, 4, and 6 during a 42-d period. In all experiments, ADG increased dramatically and feed efficiency improved markedly during treatment with pGH, and both traits declined rapidly during periods when treatment was withdrawn. Gilts treated with pGH daily on alternate weeks tended to be more similar (P greater than .05) to control gilts for growth rate, feed efficiency, and carcass measurements than to gilts that received continuous daily administration of pGH during the entire duration of the experiments. Increased concentrations of estradiol and insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I in follicular fluid and serum, decreased concentrations of IGF-II in follicular fluid, and increased weights of ovaries were evident as both dose and frequency of exogenous pGH administration increased. Therefore, gilts are extremely sensitive to administration and withdrawal of exogenous pGH during the finishing phase of the production cycle and can respond within 7 d to changes in exogenous pGH treatment regimens. Alternate weekly administration of exogenous pGH in vivo may improve follicular function, as indicated by relationships among IGF-I and IGF-II, estradiol, and progesterone, but fails to improve overall growth and carcass traits compared with controls.  相似文献