Animal welfare law requirements for calf, swine and laying hen husbandry--experiences from Thüringen

Results of an analysis are presented, concerning the situation of animal welfare in keeping and housing of calves, pigs and laying hens. It is observed, that stockholders are making great efforts to follow the animal welfare regulations. Remaining problems of animal welfare in farms are described.     

Doping modulation by electric currents in lithium niobate during crystal growth

The segregation coefficient of impurities being effective during crystal growth of LiNbO₃ from the melt can be influenced by electric currents through the growing interface. Examples are given for chromium dopings where the changes in concentration can easily be measured by optical methods. The effect can be used to mark the growing interface, to superimpose time markers during growth, and to generate periodic and aperiodic doping structures. Indications are given that the effect is due rather to electrochemical processes at the interface than to a change in growth rate caused by the Peltier effect.     

Einfluß der chemischen Zusammensetzung und der Abkühlungsbedingungen auf den Gefügezustand von Gußeisen mit rd. 3% C und 14% Cr für Walzen

Abguß von drei Walzenkörpern aus verschleißfestem Gußeisen mit 2,95 bis 3,16% C, rd. 0,8% Si, rd. 0,8% Mn, rd. 0,14% P, rd. 0,014% S, rd. 14% Cr, rd. 0,35% Mo und rd. 0,5% Ni. Abkühlgeschwindigkeit nach dem Abguß. Rechnerische Ermittlung der chemischen Zusammensetzung und der Mengenanteile der sich ausscheidenden Gefügebestandteile. Metallographische Gefügeuntersuchungen. Abstand der Sekundärarme der Mischkristalldendriten sowie Länge und Dicke der Carbidteilchen als Kenngrößen zur zahlenmäßigen Gefügebeschreibung. Einfluß der Abkühlungsbedingungen auf den Zustand des Primär- und des Sekundärgefüges.     

Orthogonality of information structures

Summary In the mathematical framework of data spaces the paper develops some important general principles of information structuring. These principles are related to the notions of redundancy of information, completeness of a set of access paths, information sharing and compounding, and virtual access to information. The results are relevant to both sequential and concurrent processing.This research is supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-77-C-0536 through the University of Southern CaliforniaA version of this paper was presented at the Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 15–17, 1977     

Importance-driven feature enhancement in volume visualization

This paper presents importance-driven feature enhancement as a technique for the automatic generation of cut-away and ghosted views out of volumetric data. The presented focus+context approach removes or suppresses less important parts of a scene to reveal more important underlying information. However, less important parts are fully visible in those regions, where important visual information is not lost, i.e., more relevant features are not occluded. Features within the volumetric data are first classified according to a new dimension, denoted as object importance. This property determines which structures should be readily discernible and which structures are less important. Next, for each feature, various representations (levels of sparseness) from a dense to a sparse depiction are defined. Levels of sparseness define a spectrum of optical properties or rendering styles. The resulting image is generated by ray-casting and combining the intersected features proportional to their importance (importance compositing). The paper includes an extended discussion on several possible schemes for levels of sparseness specification. Furthermore, different approaches to importance compositing are treated.     

Structure–function relationship of fermented skate skin gelatin-derived bioactive peptides: a peptidomics approach

Food Science and Biotechnology - In this study, we investigated the multi-functionality of bioactive peptides derived from fermented skate (Raja kenojei) skin gelatin hydrolysates. The extracted...