We obtain a complete characterization of all orthogonality preserving operators from a JB *-algebra to a JB *-triple. If T : J → E is a bounded linear operator from a JB *-algebra (respectively, a C *-algebra) to a JB *-triple and h denotes the element T**(1), then T is orthogonality preserving, if and only if, T preserves zero-triple-products, if and only if, there exists a Jordan *-homomorphism [Formula: see text] such that S(x) and h operator commute and T(x) = h•r(h) S(x), for every x ∈ J, where r(h) is the range tripotent of h, [Formula: see text] is the Peirce-2 subspace associated to r(h) and •r(h) is the natural product making [Formula: see text] a JB *-algebra. This characterization culminates the description of all orthogonality preserving operators between C *-algebras and JB *-algebras and generalizes all the previously known results in this line of study.

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The aim of this study was to determine the effects of experience early in life with cured weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) (low-quality roughage) or fresh oats (Avena sativa) (high-quality roughage) on voluntary intake and nitrogen retention when sheep ate a low-quality roughage 9 mo after initial exposure. From 1 to 5 mo of age, experienced wethers (EW) grazed cured weeping lovegrass, whereas inexperienced wethers (IW) grazed fresh oats (initial exposure). Then both EW and IW were fed sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) hay for 45 d, fresh weeping lovegrass for 105 d, and finally alfalfa hay for 120 d. Nine months after completion of the initial exposure EW and IW were offered sorghum hay (low-quality roughage), and, in addition, both groups were offered sorghum with ad libitum access simultaneously to alfalfa hay at six levels of availability. Experienced wethers ingested 15% more (P < .02) sorghum than IW. When given sorghum simultaneously with alfalfa at different levels of availability, EW ingested more (P < .10) sorghum than IW when only sorghum was freely available. Nitrogen retention was negative in both groups, but it was less negative in EW than in IW per unit of metabolic weight (P < .09) and per wether (P < .04). The results show that early dietary experience can have profound and persistent effects on consumption of foods low in nutritional quality, apparently through changes in critical physiological mechanisms.

It is established that every (not necessarily linear) 2-local *homomorphism from a von Neumann algebra into a C * -algebra is linear and a * -homomorphism. In the setting of (not necessarily linear) 2-local * -homomorphism from a compact C * -algebra we prove that the same conclusion remains valid. We also prove that every 2-local Jordan *homomorphism from a JBW * -algebra into a JB * -algebra is linear and a Jordan * -homomorphism.1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 47B49 46L40 (46L57 47B47 47D25 47A 15A99 16S50 47L30).