Fourteen yearling standardbred horses were used to test the hypothesis that hay and grain fed as a complete total mixed ration (TMR) cube diet (C) would result in greater average daily gain (ADG), feed efficien...Fourteen yearling standardbred horses were used to test the hypothesis that hay and grain fed as a complete total mixed ration (TMR) cube diet (C) would result in greater average daily gain (ADG), feed efficiency (gain to feed ratio, G/F) and apparent digestibility in horses on the TMR diet compared to horses fed the same weight and proportion of hay cubes and grain fed separately (diet HG). Both diets consisted of 75% forage and 25% ground oats. The forage in both the plain hay cubes and the complete cubes was 80% alfalfa and 20% endophyte-free tall rescue. An additional hypothesis that stomach ulceration would not differ between horses fed either of the two diet treatments was also tested by comparing upper gastric endoscopies before and after 70 days of feeding the experimental diets. Horses fed diet C had greater ADG (P 〈 0.046) while G/F between the two treatments was not significantly different (P 〉 0.065) but showed a trend to be higher in the horses consuming diet C. Apparent digestibility of dry matter and crude protein was not different between the diet treatments, and no major gastric ulceration was found in horses consuming either diet treatment. The results of this study found that a complete cubed diet of 75% hay and 25% oats did not cause stomach ulceration while achieving an acceptable growth rate in yearling horses.展开更多
Abstract:A space-filling polyhedron is a polyhedron which 'tile' space, analogous to the way of certain polygons tiled the plane. The cube is the unique space-filling platonic solid. If we make line connections the...Abstract:A space-filling polyhedron is a polyhedron which 'tile' space, analogous to the way of certain polygons tiled the plane. The cube is the unique space-filling platonic solid. If we make line connections the center with the vertices in the certain cube, the cube is divided into six pyramids. And if we glued six pyramids to the faces of the cube, we obtain a 'rhombic dodecahedron'. Since cubes are packing a space, rhombic dodecahedra are also space-filling polyhedra and a rhombic dodecahedron is divided into two regular tetrahcdra and one regular octahedron. In this study, we present how rhombic dodecahedron can be split into tetrahedra and octahedron. In this process, we can research a variety of divisions of regular polyhedron.展开更多
A computational investigation of the unsteady separation behavior of rigid bodies in Mach-4 flow is carried out. Two rigid bodies, a sphere and a cube, initially stationary, centroid axially aligned, are released and ...A computational investigation of the unsteady separation behavior of rigid bodies in Mach-4 flow is carried out. Two rigid bodies, a sphere and a cube, initially stationary, centroid axially aligned, are released and thereafter fly freely according to the aerodynamic forces experienced. During the separation process, the smaller cube can experience different types of movement and our principal interest here is the non-dimensional transverse velocity of it. The separation behavior is investigated for interactions between a sphere and a cube with different mass ratio and a constant initial distance between them. The qualitative separation behavior and the final transverse velocity of the small body are found to vary strongly with the mass ratio but less sensitive to the initial distance between the two bodies. At a critical mass ratio for a given distance, the smaller body transit from entrainment within the flow region bounded by the larger body's shock to expulsion and the accumulated transverse velocity of the small body is close to maximum. This phenomenon is the so-called ‘shock-wave surfing' phenomenon noted by Laurence & Deiterding for two spheres at hypersonic Mach numbers. Then we investigate the separation behavior of a sphere interaction with a rotary cube and with a non-rotary cube for a given mass ratio and different distance between them. The rotary is found to increase the likelihood of ‘surfing'. Only at a certain initial distance for a given mass ratio the rotary effect of cube can be neglectable.展开更多
文摘Fourteen yearling standardbred horses were used to test the hypothesis that hay and grain fed as a complete total mixed ration (TMR) cube diet (C) would result in greater average daily gain (ADG), feed efficiency (gain to feed ratio, G/F) and apparent digestibility in horses on the TMR diet compared to horses fed the same weight and proportion of hay cubes and grain fed separately (diet HG). Both diets consisted of 75% forage and 25% ground oats. The forage in both the plain hay cubes and the complete cubes was 80% alfalfa and 20% endophyte-free tall rescue. An additional hypothesis that stomach ulceration would not differ between horses fed either of the two diet treatments was also tested by comparing upper gastric endoscopies before and after 70 days of feeding the experimental diets. Horses fed diet C had greater ADG (P 〈 0.046) while G/F between the two treatments was not significantly different (P 〉 0.065) but showed a trend to be higher in the horses consuming diet C. Apparent digestibility of dry matter and crude protein was not different between the diet treatments, and no major gastric ulceration was found in horses consuming either diet treatment. The results of this study found that a complete cubed diet of 75% hay and 25% oats did not cause stomach ulceration while achieving an acceptable growth rate in yearling horses.
文摘Abstract:A space-filling polyhedron is a polyhedron which 'tile' space, analogous to the way of certain polygons tiled the plane. The cube is the unique space-filling platonic solid. If we make line connections the center with the vertices in the certain cube, the cube is divided into six pyramids. And if we glued six pyramids to the faces of the cube, we obtain a 'rhombic dodecahedron'. Since cubes are packing a space, rhombic dodecahedra are also space-filling polyhedra and a rhombic dodecahedron is divided into two regular tetrahcdra and one regular octahedron. In this study, we present how rhombic dodecahedron can be split into tetrahedra and octahedron. In this process, we can research a variety of divisions of regular polyhedron.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11372068)the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Project)(Grant No.2014CB-744104)
文摘A computational investigation of the unsteady separation behavior of rigid bodies in Mach-4 flow is carried out. Two rigid bodies, a sphere and a cube, initially stationary, centroid axially aligned, are released and thereafter fly freely according to the aerodynamic forces experienced. During the separation process, the smaller cube can experience different types of movement and our principal interest here is the non-dimensional transverse velocity of it. The separation behavior is investigated for interactions between a sphere and a cube with different mass ratio and a constant initial distance between them. The qualitative separation behavior and the final transverse velocity of the small body are found to vary strongly with the mass ratio but less sensitive to the initial distance between the two bodies. At a critical mass ratio for a given distance, the smaller body transit from entrainment within the flow region bounded by the larger body's shock to expulsion and the accumulated transverse velocity of the small body is close to maximum. This phenomenon is the so-called ‘shock-wave surfing' phenomenon noted by Laurence & Deiterding for two spheres at hypersonic Mach numbers. Then we investigate the separation behavior of a sphere interaction with a rotary cube and with a non-rotary cube for a given mass ratio and different distance between them. The rotary is found to increase the likelihood of ‘surfing'. Only at a certain initial distance for a given mass ratio the rotary effect of cube can be neglectable.