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in this study 21721 pedigree records of iranian baluchi sheep registered during 30 years (1979 to 2008) at abasabad breeding station were used to estimate pedigree completeness level, inbreeding and average relationship coefficients of animals. during the studied years pedigree completeness level has a positive trend with the most recent cohort of lambs born in 2008 having pedigrees with 6.2 eq...

We give a characterization of translation ovoids of flock generalized quadrangles. Then we prove that, if q = 2e , each elation generalized quadrangle defined by a flock has a large class of translation ovoids which arise from semifields of dimension two over their left nucleus. Finally, we give some examples when q is odd. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. MSC (2000): Primary 51E12; Se...

Introduction We received a request from the owner of a communal flock of indigenous goats in the Northern Province to inseminate some of his does with Gorno Altai semen. The only income he derived from this flock was through the sale of live goats at Christmas. He wanted to embark on a cross-breeding programme in an attempt to create an additional source of income from the fibre that would pote...

This paper describes ongoing work on a system to animate and render large flocks of furry or woolly animals. An outside agent, the sheepdog, tries to control another group of agents (a flock of sheep) that observe two rules of flocking: cohesion and separation. We also describe our efforts to create realistic animations for the dog and sheep, using insights from animal gait studies, along with ...

cockaded woodpeckers fit most of the characteristics PECKERS used to describe nuclear members of foraging flocks, such' as conspicuous plumage and vocalization. They RICHARD R. SCHAEFER, Wildlife Habitat and aIso appear to be joined and foilowed more often than Silviculture Laboratory, Southern Research Station, they themselves join and follow other species. interest of researchers. Questions r...

Christian, especially Protestant, identity is often framed through the lens of belief, particularly belief understood as an interior orientation. Through examination non-denominational Protestant group, ‘Little Flock’, founded by Watchman Nee in early 20th century, we trace enduring aspects Little Flock theology contemporary Chinese practice. In particular, attend to conceptions and debates sur...

In Java, Indonesia, during March 2007-March 2008, 96 farms with scavenging ducks that were not vaccinated against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) were monitored bimonthly. Bird-level (prevalence among individual birds) H5 seroprevalence was 2.6% for ducks and 0.5% for chickens in contact with ducks. At least 1 seropositive bird was detected during 19.5% and 2.0% of duck- and chicken-fl...

Recently, performance controlled wireless sensor networks have attracted significant interest with the emergence of mission-critical applications (e.g. health monitoring). Performance control can be carried out by robust congestion control approaches that aim to keep the network operational under varying network conditions. In this study, swarm intelligence is successfully employed to combat co...