Colostrum Colostrum Colostrum (known colloquially as beestings, bisnings or first milk) is the first form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals (including many humans) immediately following delivery of the newborn. Most species will generate colostrum just prior to giving birth. Colostrum contains antibodies to protect the newborn against disease. In general, protein concentration in colostrum is substantially higher than in milk. Fat concentration is substantially higher in colostrum than in milk in some species, e.g. sheep and horses, but lower in colostrum than in milk in some other species, e.g. camels and humans. In swine, fat concentration of
Modular form The situation with modular forms is precisely analogous. Modular forms can also be profitably approached from this geometric direction, as sections of line bundles on the moduli space of elliptic curves. If "f" is holomorphic at the cusp (has no pole at "q" = 0), it is called an entire modular form. If "f" is meromorphic but not holomorphic at the cusp, it is called a non-entire modular form. For example, the j-invariant is a non-entire modular form of weight 0, and has a simple pole at i∞. Other common generalizations allow the weight "k" to not be an integer,