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Winter Grazing and Feeding Systems in Western Canada
Beef cow calf producers in Western Canada are looking for methods of extending the grazing season into the winter in order to lower winter feed costs. Dry beef cows were early or late weaned and grazed during the early months of winter on late seeded barley swaths (Hardlum vulgare L.) and compared to cows fed barley silage and free choice barley straw in a feeding yard. The swath grazed barley was late seeded in June and swathed in the silage stage in mid September. Cows successfully swath grazed for three winters from mid November until mid to late February with no major differences in animal performance The swath grazing system has less labour, less stored feeding and handling costs and less manure hauling costs than cows wintered on stored feeds in a feeding yard
Ultrasound image reconstruction from compressed measurements using approximate message passing
Quantifying the relative contribution of ante- and post-mortem factors to the variability in beef texture
This study aims to investigate the relative contribution of ante- and post-mortem factors to the final quality of beef. In all, 112
steers (four breed-crosses) were arranged in a 2 3 2 3 2 factorial experimental including production system, growth implant
and b-adrenergic agonist strategies. Carcasses were suspended by the Achilles tendon or the aitch bone and meat was aged for
2/6/13/21/27 days (longissimus muscle) or 2/27 days (semimembranosus muscle). Meat quality traits related to beef texture were
measured. Statistical analyses were developed including ante- and post-mortem factors and their relative contribution to the
variability observed for each measured trait was calculated. The main factor responsible for the variability in sarcomere length was
the suspension method (91.1%), which also influenced drip-loss (44.3%). Increasing the percentage of British breeds increased
(P , 0.05) the intramuscular fat content in longissimus muscle, but only when implants were not used. Thus, the breed-cross,
implant strategy and their interaction were responsible for .58% of the variability in this trait. The variability in instrumental and
sensory tenderness was mainly affected by post-mortem factors (carcass suspension, ageing time and their interaction), explaining
generally , 70% of the variability in these traits. Breed-cross was the second most important effect ( ,15%) when carcass
suspension was not considered in the model, but still ageing time was responsible for a much larger proportion of the variability
in tenderness (.45%). In conclusion, post-mortem handling of the carcasses may be much more effective in controlling beef
tenderness than pre-mortem strategies
On the classification of conditionally integrable evolution systems in (1+1) dimensions
We generalize earlier results of Fokas and Liu and find all locally analytic
(1+1)-dimensional evolution equations of order that admit an -shock type
solution with .
To this end we develop a refinement of the technique from our earlier work
(A. Sergyeyev, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen, 35 (2002), 7653--7660), where we
completely characterized all (1+1)-dimensional evolution systems
\bi{u}_t=\bi{F}(x,t,\bi{u},\p\bi{u}/\p x,...,\p^n\bi{u}/\p x^n) that are
conditionally invariant under a given generalized (Lie--B\"acklund) vector
field \bi{Q}(x,t,\bi{u},\p\bi{u}/\p x,...,\p^k\bi{u}/\p x^k)\p/\p\bi{u} under
the assumption that the system of ODEs \bi{Q}=0 is totally nondegenerate.
Every such conditionally invariant evolution system admits a reduction to a
system of ODEs in , thus being a nonlinear counterpart to quasi-exactly
solvable models in quantum mechanics.
Keywords: Exact solutions, nonlinear evolution equations, conditional
integrability, generalized symmetries, reduction, generalized conditional
symmetries
MSC 2000: 35A30, 35G25, 81U15, 35N10, 37K35, 58J70, 58J72, 34A34Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX 2e, now uses hyperre
The nonabelian Liouville-Arnold integrability by quadratures problem: a symplectic approach
A symplectic theory approach is devised for solving the problem of
algebraic-analytical construction of integral submanifold imbeddings for
integrable (via the nonabelian Liouville-Arnold theorem) Hamiltonian systems on
canonically symplectic phase spaces
Local and nonlocal solvable structures in ODEs reduction
Solvable structures, likewise solvable algebras of local symmetries, can be
used to integrate scalar ODEs by quadratures. Solvable structures, however, are
particularly suitable for the integration of ODEs with a lack of local
symmetries. In fact, under regularity assumptions, any given ODE always admits
solvable structures even though finding them in general could be a very
difficult task. In practice a noteworthy simplification may come by computing
solvable structures which are adapted to some admitted symmetry algebra. In
this paper we consider solvable structures adapted to local and nonlocal
symmetry algebras of any order (i.e., classical and higher). In particular we
introduce the notion of nonlocal solvable structure
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Upper tropospheric ozone production from lightning NOx-impacted convection: Smoke ingestion case study from the DC3 campaign
©2015. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. As part of the Deep Convective Cloud and Chemistry (DC3) experiment, the National Science Foundation/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Gulfstream-V (GV) and NASA DC-8 research aircraft probed the chemical composition of the inflow and outflow of two convective storms (north storm, NS, south storm, SS) originating in the Colorado region on 22 June 2012, a time when the High Park wildfire was active in the area. A wide range of trace species were measured on board both aircraft including biomass burning (BB) tracers hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and acetonitrile (ACN). Acrolein, a much shorter lived tracer for BB, was also quantified on the GV. The data demonstrated that the NS had ingested fresh smoke from the High Park fire and as a consequence had a higher VOC OH reactivity than the SS. The SS lofted aged fire tracers along with other boundary layer ozone precursors and was more impacted by lightning NOx (LNOx) than the NS. The NCAR master mechanism box model was initialized with measurements made in the outflow of the two storms. The NS and SS were predicted to produce 11 and 14ppbv of O3, respectively, downwind of the storm over 2days. Sensitivity tests revealed that the ozone production potential of the SS was highly dependent on LNOx. Normalized excess mixing ratios, ΔX/ΔCO, for HCN and ACN were determined in both the fire plume and the storm outflow and found to be 7.0±0.5 and 2.3±0.5pptvppbv-1, respectively, and 1.4±0.3pptvppbv-1 for acrolein in the outflow only
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