In this research, 272977 test day records collected from 659 herds during years 2001 to 2011 by the Iranian animal breeding center were used. In the first section the ability of different models to predict daily milk yield from alternative milk recording was tested. The result showed that a complex model including noon milking time plus the effect of lactation curve of Ali and Schaeffer functio...

Although very accurate in representing the material anisotropy, finite element analysis based on direct use of a polycrystal model is CPU-intensive (Guan et al., 2006a). In the present study, this Taylor-type polycrystalline model was firstly used to predict the anisotropy coefficients of Yld96 yield function. Then this phenomenological anisotropic yield function was implemented into ABAQUS/Sta...

to study the including rhizobium treatment (strain numbers of 133, 116 & combination of them) along with 100% nitrogen fertilizer application and a check (no inoculation & no fertilizer) on certain agronomical and physiological traits of three common bean cultivars (viz. bahman, darkhshan & sayiad) a field experiment was performed at research station of university of tehran (karaj-iran) in 2010...

Tree mapping grammars are used in natural language generation (NLG) to map non-linguistic input onto a derivation tree from which the target text can be trivially read off as the terminal yield. Such grammars may consist of a large number of rules. Finding errors is quite tedious and sometimes very time-consuming. Often the generation fails because the relevant input subtree is not specified co...

Neutralization of Acidic Sulfur Species by Calcite in Mineral Aerosols Collected in China and Japan Studied by Ca K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure Spectroscopy X-ray absorption near-edge structure studies at the calcium K-edge have been used to show that acidic sulfur species in the atmosphere (e.g., H2SO4), mainly released by human activities, can be neutralized by the calcite prese...

OBJECTIVES To audit the diagnostic yield and cost implications of the use of a 'liver screen' for inpatients with abnormal liver function tests. DESIGN We performed a retrospective audit of inpatients with abnormal liver function tests. We analysed all investigations ordered including biochemistry, immunology, virology and radiology. The final diagnosis was ascertained in each case, and the d...