A simulation study was conducted to address the issue of how purely additive (simple) genetic architecture might impact on the efficacy of parametric and non-parametric genomic prediction methods. For this purpose, we simulated a trait with narrow sense heritability h2= 0.3, with only additive genetic effects for 300 loci in order to compare the predictive ability of 14 more practically used ge...

apermanent anti-graffiti clear polyurethane coating, using a silicone additive, was prepared and studied. various techniques, such as contact angle measurements and edx were employed to characterize and investigate thesurface properties of the coatings. the results revealed that with inclusion of silicon additive to clear coating, according to wu method, surface free energy was decreased from 4...

A fuzzy approach is proposed here for restoring color images that are corrupted with additive noise. The proposed fuzzy approach consists of two sub-filters, where the first fuzzy sub-filter computes the fuzzy distances between the color components of the central pixel and its neighborhood using Gaussian combination membership function, and the second sub-filter corrects the pixels where color ...

Although Cox proportional hazards regression is the default analysis for time to event data, there is typically uncertainty about whether the effects of a predictor are more appropriately characterized by a multiplicative or additive model. To accommodate this uncertainty, we place a model selection prior on the coefficients in an additive-multiplicative hazards model. This prior assigns positi...

Assume that binary rank-dependent expected utility (subjective expected utility is a special case) holds for gains and losses separately and that a commutative binary operation of joint receipt on consequences and gambles is linked to binary gambles via the rational property of segregation. This implies that utility U of joint receipt is either itself additive or is an exponential transformatio...

to estimate combining ability and the model of gene action for some quantitative characters, 5 different rice genotypes were used for producing a half diallel hybrids. to consider 7 quantitative traits, hybrids and their corresponding parents were evaluated based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at the rice research station of amol, iran in 2007. mean squares regard...

In clonally propagated crops, non-additive genetic effects can be effectively exploited by the identification of superior genetic individuals as varieties. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a clonally propagated staple food crop that feeds hundreds of millions. We quantified the amount and nature of non-additive genetic variation for three key traits in a breeding population of cassava from...

Perception of faces and voices plays a prominent role in human social interaction, making multisensory integration of cross-modal speech a topic of great interest in cognitive neuroscience. How to define potential sites of multisensory integration using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is currently under debate, with three statistical criteria frequently used (e.g. super-additive, m...