Profit from cattle enterprises is influenced by the value of sale animals, less the costs of their production. Ever-changing production and economic circumstances provide both threats and opportunities to cow-calf producers, bull breeders and feedlotters. Feeding strategies and other aspects of management typically require continuous betweenand within-year modification in order to optimize marg...

Enzymes are one of the most important biomolecules which has a wide range of applications in industrial as well as biomedical field. They are important due to their many useful properties. Their development, to a great extent, has been possible due to the availability of microbial sources. Microorganisms are of much attention because they can be produced economically and are amenable to genetic...

The Joint Picture Expert Group (JPEG) committee has been standardizing next-generation image compression, called JPEG XL, to meet the specific needs for a responsive web, wide color gamut, and high dynamic range. XL supports lossy lossless compression. A variable-sized discrete cosine transform (DCT) block is used partitioning method regarded as critical function performance of XL. current DCT ...

The history and origins of proficiency testing of clinical laboratories are reviewed. Since the introduction of proficiency testing in the late 1940s, dramatic improvement in laboratory performance has been demonstrated. Nonetheless, the poor performance found two decades earlier was summoned to support the passage of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 (CLIA '67).

We propose a novel methodology to design Block Cipher functions. This methodology is illustrated with the design of a specific block cipher function Maya. Our design philosophy is to derive the SBoxes themselves from the secret key. This makes breaking any round function equivalent to guessing all the key-bits. Advantages of our design include much larger key sizes in relation to the block size...

The employment of the Variable Block size motion estimation technique introduces a new optimization issue for the motion compensated transform coding. An increase in bit rate allocation is necessary to accommodate VBS motion vectors. An algorithm for adaptive selection of motion estimation block size is proposed for R-D optimal motion estimation. It avoids reduction in the block size in visuall...

The paper presented a novel method to speed up the likelihood computation of the speech recognition system based continuous Hidden Markov Model (CHMM). The block-diagonal covariance matrices were applied in the method and the technique to construct an optimal block-diagonal matrix was introduced. The experimental results demonstrated that the block-diagonal covariance matrices could achieve a l...

Objectives: Mirror therapy is a unique treatment with a touch of modality that is purported to improve the motor function of the affected limb in individuals with hemiplegia. Previous studies have focused on the neuro-physiological factors underlying the mechanism of the clinical effect of this technique. The present study aims to understand the mechanism using the rehabilitation method and neu...

the lut block (eastern iran) extends over 900 km in a north-south direction and is only 200 km wide in an east-west direction. it is confined by the nayband fault and shotori range on the west. the eastern edge is bordered by the sistan suture zone and nehbandan fault. the northern termination of lut block is the depression of kavir-e-namak and the great kavir fault. the makran arc, including t...