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
Hasse invariant of a quadratic form Hasse invariant of a quadratic form In mathematics, the Hasse invariant (or Hasse–Witt invariant) of a quadratic form "Q" over a field "K" takes values in the Brauer group Br("K"). The name "Hasse–Witt" comes from Helmut Hasse and Ernst Witt. The quadratic form "Q" may be taken as a diagonal form Its invariant is then defined as the product of the classes in the Brauer group of all the quaternion algebras This is independent of the diagonal form chosen to compute it. It may also be viewed as the second Stiefel–Whitney class of "Q". The invariant may be computed for