HCCR breeding blankets optimization by changing neutronic constrictions

Changing paradigms in plant breeding.

Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Plant Sciences, Graduate School of Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Dreyenlaan 2, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.K.); and Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Department of Plant Sciences, Graduate Schools of Experimental Plant Science and Production Ecology and Resource Conservation, P.O. Box 386, Wageningen University, 6700 AJ Wagening...

Selecting Features by Learning Markov Blankets

In this paper I propose a novel feature selection technique based on Bayesian networks. The main idea is to exploit the conditional independencies entailed by Bayesian networks in order to discard features that are not directly relevant for classification tasks. An algorithm for learning Bayesian networks and its use in feature selection are illustrated. The advantages of this algorithm with re...

How is genomics changing cattle breeding ?

Abstract Text: Genomic selection offers considerable flexibility to increase genetic trends in dairy cattle breeding, through a decrease in generation interval, an increase in selection intensity, and an increase in reliability for females and for low heritability traits. It is also an opportunity for more sustainable breeding, in terms of breeding goal and genetic variability. With a shorter g...

Pharyngeal constrictions.

From a fiberscope, the tip of which was swung from left to right in the pharynx, cinefilm frames were obtained which showed the cross-sectional shape of pharyngeal constrictions in back vowels. This information was combined with the information offered by X-ray pictures of the same subject phonating the same vowels on a different occasion. The results agree to a reasonable extent with previousl...

Convexical Blankets