Animal Breeding Projects in Russia

Software Packages in Animal Breeding

Six packages for solving mixed model equations and estimating variance components by REML are compared. Each has a unique strength. Meticulously finished DFREML is the only one that implements hypothesis testing for variance component estimates. MTDFREML is a comprehensive, relatively easy to install and simple to use package for analyses of experimental data. PEST, the only semi-commercial pro...

Random Regression in Animal Breeding

Precision animal breeding.

We accept that we are responsible for the quality of life of animals in our care. We accept that the activities of man affect all the living things with which we share this planet. But we are slow to realize that as a result we have a duty of care for all living things. That duty extends to the breeding of animals for which we are responsible. When animals are bred by man for a purpose, the aim...

Selection from Animal Breeding

“Great Projects” Politics in Russia History’s Hardly Victorious End

The article addresses the problem of political identity in contemporary Russia by engaging with and extending the temporal scope of the constructivist analysis conducted by constructivist Ted Hopf. It suggests that the “great projects” politics of contemporary Russia, which are linked to the specificity of the country’s political identity and seem to be similar to that of the late-Soviet period...