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Evaluation of using Polyfam on broiler performance during mycotoxicosis
The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible protective effect of (polyfoam) 5g\kg of ration against the toxic effects of mixed mycotoxins in growing broiler chickens (ROSS-308). Total 100 chicks, one week age were divided into 5 equal treated groups. G1; fed a contaminated ration with mycotoxin and supplemented with polyfoam 5g/kg of ration and vaccinated with Gumboro vaccine at 15 and 22 days of age. G2; was fed a ration contaminated with mycotoxin and vaccinated with Gumboro vaccine at 15 and 22 days of age and not supplemented with polyfoam. G3; was fed intact ration and vaccinated with Gumboro vaccine at 15 and 22 days of age. G4; was only fed a contaminated ration with mycotoxins. G5; was fed intact broiler ration as a control group. The diet was naturally contaminated with many mycotoxins, the mycotoxins in feed was analyzed by ELISA and the level of mycotoxins were as follows: Aflatoxin B1 0.001 mg/kg, Dezoxivalenol 1.24 mg/kg, Zearalenone 0.068 mg/kg ,Ochratoxin 0.005 mg/kg ,T2 toxin 0.09 mg/kg, Fuminisen B1 0.2 mg/kg. Results showed that polyfoam significantly (P<0.05) protect chicken body weight, the severity of clinical signs, morbidity, and mortality rate. It was concluded that this preparation is protected chicken bioavailability parameters in comparison with the other groups and was recommended to use it as antitoxic material
Non-planar ABJM Theory and Integrability
Using an effective vertex method we explicitly derive the two-loop dilatation
generator of ABJM theory in its SU(2)xSU(2) sector, including all non-planar
corrections. Subsequently, we apply this generator to a series of finite length
operators as well as to two different types of BMN operators. As in N=4 SYM, at
the planar level the finite length operators are found to exhibit a degeneracy
between certain pairs of operators with opposite parity - a degeneracy which
can be attributed to the existence of an extra conserved charge and thus to the
integrability of the planar theory. When non-planar corrections are taken into
account the degeneracies between parity pairs disappear hinting the absence of
higher conserved charges. The analysis of the BMN operators resembles that of
N=4 SYM. Additional non-planar terms appear for BMN operators of finite length
but once the strict BMN limit is taken these terms disappear.Comment: 1+26 pages, uses axodraw.sty. v2: typos fixed, references added. v3:
more typos fixed, minor correction
Entropies, volumes, and Einstein metrics
We survey the definitions and some important properties of several asymptotic
invariants of smooth manifolds, and discuss some open questions related to
them. We prove that the (non-)vanishing of the minimal volume is a
differentiable property, which is not invariant under homeomorphisms. We also
formulate an obstruction to the existence of Einstein metrics on four-manifolds
involving the volume entropy. This generalizes both the Gromov--Hitchin--Thorpe
inequality and Sambusetti's obstruction.Comment: This is a substantial revision and expansion of the 2004 preprint,
which I prepared in spring of 2010 and which has since been published. The
version here is essentially the published one, minus the problems introduced
by Springer productio
Notions of Infinity in Quantum Physics
In this article we will review some notions of infiniteness that appear in
Hilbert space operators and operator algebras. These include proper
infiniteness, Murray von Neumann's classification into type I and type III
factors and the class of F{/o} lner C*-algebras that capture some aspects of
amenability. We will also mention how these notions reappear in the description
of certain mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and
the theory of superselection sectors. We also show that the algebra of the
canonical anti-commutation relations (CAR-algebra) is in the class of F{/o}
lner C*-algebras.Comment: 11 page
Generalized scaling function from light-cone gauge AdS_5 x S^5 superstring
We revisit the computation of the 2-loop correction to the energy of a folded
spinning string in AdS_5 with an angular momentum J in S^5 in the scaling limit
log S, J >>1 with J / log S fixed. This correction gives the third term in the
strong-coupling expansion of the generalized scaling function. The computation,
using the AdS light-cone gauge approach developed in our previous paper, is
done by expanding the AdS_5 x S^5 superstring partition function near the
generalized null cusp world surface associated to the spinning string solution.
The result corrects and extends the previous conformal gauge result of
arXiv:0712.2479 and is found to be in complete agreement with the corresponding
terms in the generalized scaling function as obtained from the asymptotic Bethe
ansatz in arXiv:0805.4615 (and also partially from the quantum O(6) model and
the Bethe ansatz data in arXiv:0809.4952). This provides a highly nontrivial
strong coupling comparison of the Bethe ansatz proposal with the quantum AdS_5
x S^5 superstring theory, which goes beyond the leading semiclassical term
effectively controlled by the underlying algebraic curve. The 2-loop
computation we perform involves all the structures in the AdS light-cone gauge
superstring action of hep-th/0009171 and thus tests its ultraviolet finiteness
and, through the agreement with the Bethe ansatz, its quantum integrability. We
do most of the computations for a generalized spinning string solution or the
corresponding null cusp surface that involves both the orbital momentum and the
winding in a large circle of S^5.Comment: 50 pages, late
Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search
Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification
properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter
searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search
results obtained using a target of low-radioactivity argon. DarkSide-50 is a
dark matter detector, using two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber,
located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The underground argon is
shown to contain Ar-39 at a level reduced by a factor (1.4 +- 0.2) x 10^3
relative to atmospheric argon. We report a background-free null result from
(2616 +- 43) kg d of data, accumulated over 70.9 live-days. When combined with
our previous search using an atmospheric argon, the 90 % C.L. upper limit on
the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section based on zero events found in
the WIMP search regions, is 2.0 x 10^-44 cm^2 (8.6 x 10^-44 cm^2, 8.0 x 10^-43
cm^2) for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c^2 (1 TeV/c^2 , 10 TeV/c^2).Comment: Accepted by Phys. Rev.
Network Geometry and Complexity
(28 pages, 11 figures)Higher order networks are able to characterize data as different as functional brain networks, protein interaction networks and social networks beyond the framework of pairwise interactions. Most notably higher order networks include simplicial complexes formed not only by nodes and links but also by triangles, tetrahedra, etc. More in general, higher-order networks can be cell-complexes formed by gluing convex polytopes along their faces. Interestingly, higher order networks have a natural geometric interpretation and therefore constitute a natural way to explore the discrete network geometry of complex networks. Here we investigate the rich interplay between emergent network geometry of higher order networks and their complexity in the framework of a non-equilibrium model called Network Geometry with Flavor. This model, originally proposed for capturing the evolution of simplicial complexes, is here extended to cell-complexes formed by subsequently gluing different copies of an arbitrary regular polytope. We reveal the interplay between complexity and geometry of the higher order networks generated by the model by studying the emergent community structure and the degree distribution as a function of the regular polytope forming its building blocks. Additionally, we discuss the underlying hyperbolic nature of the emergent geometry and we relate the spectral dimension of the higher-order network to the dimension and nature of its building blocks
The SOX experiment in the neutrino physics
SOX (Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino) is a new experiment that takes place at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and it exploits the Borexino detector to study the neutrino oscillations at short distance. In different phases, by using two artificial sources Cr-51 and Ce-144-Pr-144, neutrino and antineutrino fluxes of measured intensity will be detected by Borexino in order to observe possible neutrino oscillations in the sterile state. In this paper an overview of the experiment is given and one of the two calorimeters that will be used to measure the source activity is described. At the end the expected sensitivity to determine the neutrino sterile mass is shown
Light Yield in DarkSide-10: a Prototype Two-phase Liquid Argon TPC for Dark Matter Searches
As part of the DarkSide program of direct dark matter searches using liquid
argon TPCs, a prototype detector with an active volume containing 10 kg of
liquid argon, DarkSide-10, was built and operated underground in the Gran Sasso
National Laboratory in Italy. A critically important parameter for such devices
is the scintillation light yield, as photon statistics limits the rejection of
electron-recoil backgrounds by pulse shape discrimination. We have measured the
light yield of DarkSide-10 using the readily-identifiable full-absorption peaks
from gamma ray sources combined with single-photoelectron calibrations using
low-occupancy laser pulses. For gamma lines of energies in the range 122-1275
keV, we get consistent light yields averaging 8.887+-0.003(stat)+-0.444(sys)
p.e./keVee. With additional purification, the light yield measured at 511 keV
increased to 9.142+-0.006(stat) p.e./keVee.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in Astroparticle
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