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 form, it follows that, for all , It also follows that is a fixed point of the map . The fixed points of this map from a subgroup of the additive group of . A -Hermitian form is reflexive, and every reflexive -sesquilinear form is -Hermitian for some . In the special case that is the identity map (i.e., ), is commutative, is a bilinear form and . Then for the bilinear form is called "symmetric", and for is called "skew-symmetric". Let be the three dimensional vector space over the finite field , where is a prime power. With respect