OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of farrowing month (FM), parity and sex on the growth performance of Berkshire swine raised in alternative production systems. METHODS A total of 40 farrowing records from 27 sows and 1,258 body weight (BW) records from 274 piglets collected over a two-year period were used for the analysis. The BWs were recorded at b...

Canola sensitivity to delayed sowing date should be managed in such a way that the observance of crop rotation with less reduced in seed yield. The research was conducted to evaluate the yield variation of Hyola401 hybrid, affected by sowing date and nitrogen fertilizer treatments. In this study, the effect of planting date and different levels of nitrogen fertilizers on effective characteristi...

The major technical challenge is to design the individual weight measuring point without using load cell or pressure sensor, since it will increase cost of the equipment. So our system incorporates low cost optical based weight measurement. In addition to this, we measure the severity of loss of sensation in the foot by introducing Vibro-tactile threshold sensation technique. By using this tech...

Despite recent rules from amateur wrestling sport-governing bodies intended to discourage extreme weight loss measures, wrestling culture still includes varied methods to make weight, including holding a headstand position immediately before stepping on the scale. The procedure, according to the notion, will reduce reported mass anywhere between 250 and 500 g (weight between 2.45 and 4.89 N). T...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare physical activity outcome expectations related to cancer survival with traditional physical activity outcome expectations in breast and colon cancer survivors
. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey
. SETTING Canada and the United States. SAMPLE 146 participants
. METHODS Self-reported survey instruments and height and weight measurement. The online survey was comp...

This paper addresses the problem of handling skewed class distributions within the case-based learning (CBL) framework. We rst present as a baseline an information-gain-weighted CBL algorithm and apply it to three data sets from natural language processing (NLP) with skewed class distributions. Although overall performance of the baseline CBL algorithm is good, we show that the algorithm exhibi...

The success of learning as well as the learning speed of an artificial neural network (ANN) strongly depends on the initial weights. If problem or domain specific knowledge exists, it can be transferred to the ANN by means of a special choice of the initial weights. In this paper, we focus on the choice of a set of initial weights, well suited to fast and robust learning of all particular probl...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of generalized pair weights an $[n, k]$ -linear code over finite field notation="LaTeX">$\mathbb {F}_{q}$ and notation="LaTeX">$r$ -equiweight codes, where notation="LaTeX">$1\le r\le k-1$ . Some...