introduction: the aim of this study was to investigate weight gain during pregnancy and birth weight in rural regions of tabriz, a province in the northwest of iran. materials & methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted using routinely collected data of pregnant mothers from rural health centers. eight health centers were randomly selected in rural areas of tabriz. totally, 874 women aged ...

body weight (bw) and carcass traits are complex and important economic traits that may benefit from the implementation of mas. the objective of the current study was to identify qtl associated with bw and carcass traits in an experimental half-sib cross of japanese quails selected for bw at 4 weeks of age. body weight and carcass traits were measured in the f2 population. total f2 individuals a...

In this paper, for an odd prime p, by extending Li et al.'s construction [17], several classes of two-weight and three-weight linear codes over the finite field Fp are constructed from a defining set, then their complete weight enumerators determined using Weil sums. Furthermore, we show that some examples these optimal or almost with respect to Griesmer bound. Our results generalize correspond...