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 of a complex Hermitian form is a Hermitian matrix. A complex Hermitian form applied to a single vector is always real. One can show that a complex sesquilinear form is Hermitian iff the associated quadratic form is real for all . A complex skew-Hermitian form (also called an antisymmetric sesquilinear form), is a complex sesquilinear form such that Every complex skew-Hermitian form can be written as times a Hermitian form. The matrix representation of a complex skew-Hermitian form is a skew-Hermitian matrix. A complex skew-Hermitian form applied to a single vector is always pure imaginary. This section applies unchanged when