the logistic, gompertz, richards and asymmetric logistic growth curve models were fitted to body weight data of local ghanaian chickens and french sasso t44 chickens. all four growth models provided good fit for each sex by genotype growth data with r2 values ranging from 86.7% to 96.7%. the rate constant parameter, k, ranged between 0.137 and 0.271 and were significantly different from zero fo...

Human activities in the recent years have considerably increased the rate of water pollution in many regions of the world. In this case study, the main sources of wastewater discharging into the Gargar River were identified. Using river and point source flow rates and water quality parameters measured along the river, the river water quality was simulated using a commonly used, one-dimensional ...

Programs with floating-point computations are often derived from mathematical models or designed with the semantics of the real numbers in mind. However, for a given input, the computed path with floating-point numbers may significantly differ from the path corresponding to the same computation with real numbers. As a consequence, developers do not know whether the program can actually produce ...

and case study submissions to the College of American Pathologists (CAP) 2016 Abstract Program will be accepted beginning on Friday, January 8 through 5 p.m. Central time Friday, March

using satellite altimetry derived mean sea level (msl), geopotential coefficients in terms of ellipsoidal harmonics from recent satellite gravimetry missions, gravity potential values over a grid consisting of 33,486 points at global sea areas are computed and the mean value of the gravity potential at msl is calculated as a new geoid’s potential value. in this way we have exactly followed the ...

various sources of geodetic, geological and geophysical information can improve our understanding about the crustal density. in this paper we propose a methodology for determination of crustal density based on terrestrial gravity observations, geopotential models, digital terrain models (dtm), geological maps and cross-sections, deep geophysical profiles, and geoid models. the method can be alg...

In many iterative schemes, the precision of each step depends on the computational effort spent on that step. A method of specifying a suitable amount of computation at each step is described. The approach is adaptive and aimed at minimizing the overall computational cost subject to attaining a final iterate that satisfies a suitable error criterion. General and particular cost functions are co...

We continue here the study of free extreme values begun in [3]. We study the convergence of the free point processes associated with free extreme values to a free Poisson random measure ([15], [2]). We relate this convergence to the free extremal laws introduced in [3] and give the limit laws for free order statistics.