Effects of Supplementing High or Low Quality Forages with Corn or Corn Processing Co-Products Upon Digestibility of Dry Matter and Energy by Steers

A digestibility trial, utilizing eight crossbred steers weighing initially 741 lbs. was conducted in an 8 x 8 Latin square design. High-fiber corn by-products were compared with corn as energy sources when fed in mixed diets with either lowor high-quality forage. Ground, dry corn stover and ground alfalfa hay were both fed alone or with corn grain, dried corn gluten feed (CGF), and dried corn distillers grains plus solubles (DDG) in a 1:1 ratio (dry basis). Total tract dry matter digestibility (DMD) was increased for both forages when fed with concentrates. Total tract DMD was similar in stover-based and alfalfa-based diets fed with CGF and DDG. However, stover+corn was lower in DMD than either stover+CGF and stover+DDG. Conversely, alfalfa+corn was higher in DMD than alfalfa+CGF or alfalfa+DDG. Feeding stover with corn tended to decrease digestibility of neutral detergent fiber (NDF), while feeding stover with CGF or DDG increased NDFD. There was no effect upon NDF digestion of alfalfa-based diets when fed with any of the concentrates. Feeding either forage with a concentrate increased digestible energy (DE). Stover+CGF and stover+DDG were similar in DE and were both higher in DE than stover+corn. Alfalfa+DDG tended to be higher than alfalfa+CGF and was similar to alfalfa+corn in DE. Alfalfa+CGF was lower in DE compared with alfalfa+corn. Results are interpreted to indicate that stover is more susceptible to negative feed interactions caused by corn grain than is alfalfa. Additionally, highfiber corn co-products fed with stover resulted in a positive associative effect but essentially had no associative effect when fed with alfalfa.

A comparison of open-source segmentation architectures for dealing with imperfect data from the media in speech synthesis

Traditional Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems have been developed using especially-designed non-expressive scripted recordings. In order to develop a new generation of expressive TTS systems in the Simple4All project, real recordings from the media should be used for training new voices with a whole new range of speaking styles. However, for processing this more spontaneous material, the new systems must be able to deal with imperfect data (multi-speaker recordings, background and foreground music and noise), filtering out low-quality audio segments and creating mono-speaker clusters. In this paper we compare several architectures for combining speaker diarization and music and noise detection which improve the precision and overall quality of the segmentation.

Determining divergence times with a protein clock: Update and reevaluation

A recent study of the divergence times of the major groups of organisms as gauged by amino acid sequence comparison has been expanded and the data have been reanalyzed with a distance measure that corrects for both constraints on amino acid interchange and variation in substitution rate at different sites. Beyond that, the availability of complete genome sequences for several eubacteria and an archaebacterium has had a great impact on the interpretation of certain aspects of the data. Thus, the majority of the archaebacterial sequences are not consistent with currently accepted views of the Tree of Life which cluster the archaebacteria with eukaryotes. Instead, they are either outliers or mixed in with eubacterial orthologs. The simplest resolution of the problem is to postulate that many of these sequences were carried into eukaryotes by early eubacterial endosymbionts about 2 billion years ago, only very shortly after or even coincident with the divergence of eukaryotes and archaebacteria. The strong resemblances of these same enzymes among the major eubacterial groups suggest that the cyanobacteria and Gram-positive and Gram-negative eubacteria also diverged at about this same time, whereas the much greater differences between archaebacterial and eubacterial sequences indicate these two groups may have diverged between 3 and 4 billion years ago.

Novello's glee-hive : a collection of popular glees and madrigals in vocal score, with ad lib. accompaniment for the pianoforte.

Contains 83 glees and madrigals for various combinations of voices, with optional piano accompaniment.

Für das Totenfest: O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen;

On cover: Choralkantaten ... No. 2; on p. [1]: Choralkantate Nr. 3.

Six duos pour voix égales pouvant être chantés en chœur avec accompagnement de piano.

Cover title.

Quinze mélodies et deux choeurs : pour voix de femmes /

With piano accompaniment.

Agnus Dei : a deux voix (soprano et baryton) /

Biographical notes in French, English and German.

Valse from the Serenade for string instruments, op. 48 /

Caption title.

371 vierstimmige Choralgesaenge.

At head of cover title: Edition Breitkopf. Nr. 10.

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double stringed orchestra (Curwen ed.)

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Beethoven, including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works.

"Systematic catalogue of all the original works by Ludwig von Beethoven, as published by T. Haslinger, from Vienna": v. 2, p. 377-384.

Kirchengesänge für den Männerchor, aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, mit deutschem Text, nach dem Kirchenjahr geordnet, gesammelt und bearb.

Vol.2, without ed. statement, has imprint: Nürnberg, J.P. Raw.

The Choral tribute : a collection of new church music, for choirs, singing schools, conventions, &c. /

Includes indexes.

Ouvertüre zur Oper Euristeo,

For string orchestra, with bass realized for piano.