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
Sesquilinear form basis of , a sesquilinear form is represented by a matrix , by the column vector , and by the column vector : The components of are given by . A complex Hermitian form (also called a symmetric sesquilinear form), is a sesquilinear form such that The standard Hermitian form on is given (again, using the "physics" convention of linearity in the second and conjugate linearity in the first variable) by More generally, the inner product on any complex Hilbert space is a Hermitian form. A vector space with a Hermitian form is called a Hermitian space. The matrix representation