Conformation scores can account for more than 20% of cattle price variation at Australian livestock sales. However, there are limited available references which define genetic factors relating objective live developmental traits to carcass composition. Weaning and post-weaning weight, height, length, girth, muscle (ratio of stifle to hip width) and fat depth of 1202 progeny from mature Hereford...

A series of supersonic wind tunnel tests on an ogive-cylinder body were performed to investigate the pressure distribution, the boundary layer profiles, and the flow visualization at various angles of attack. All tests were conducted in the trisonic wind tunnel of the Imam Hossein University. The theoretical shock angle at different model positions compared well with those we obtained via Schi...

a set $wsubseteq v(g)$ is called a resolving set for $g$, if for each two distinct vertices $u,vin v(g)$ there exists $win w$ such that $d(u,w)neq d(v,w)$, where $d(x,y)$ is the distance between the vertices $x$ and $y$. the minimum cardinality of a resolving set for $g$ is called the metric dimension of $g$, and denoted by $dim(g)$. in this paper, it is proved that in a connected graph $...

DISCLAIMER: Everything that follows is of a preliminary nature. We give a new invariant for finitely generated groups, called the girth. Several results which indicate that the girth of a group might possibly be a quasi-isometry invariant are proved. We also compute the girth in several instances and speculate on the relation of girth to the growth of groups.

A slimming system consisting of a garment, a lipolytic cream, and brief exercise was tested for either the tummy or the legs to see how they can alter body composition and girth. There were 151 female subjects in this single blinded randomized study divided into six groups and participated for 6 weeks. There were three lifestyle groups (LS).

Cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) is a key element of D-type cyclin holoenzymes. It is involved in the regulation of the G1-phase of the cell cycle and is considered to be an important candidate gene for selection of body measurement traits through marker-assisted selection. We cloned the promoter sequence of this gene in bovines and found it to share high similarity with that of the human CDK6 ...

BACKGROUND Valid and practical methods based on health-related criteria for obesity screening in children and adolescents are not available. Arbitrarily defined body mass index (BMI) cutoffs have been proposed to select adolescents at high risk of developing obesity in adulthood. OBJECTIVE We assessed the usefulness of BMI, triceps skinfold thickness, and upper arm girth for screening for obe...

BACKGROUND Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is commonly used in medical applications, but scientific studies of its efficacy and the mechanism by which it causes loss of fat from fat cells for body contouring are lacking. This study examined the effectiveness and mechanism by which 635–680 nm LLLT acts as a non-invasive body contouring intervention method. METHODS Forty healthy men and women ag...

This study assessed the potential of carbon stock and carbon sequestration rates in Van Panchayat forests at an altitude of 15001800m. The Total forest biomass was 308.3 t ha -1 , of the total biomass tree layer contributed the most, followed by herbs and shrubs. The forest litter biomass varied between 5.4 t ha -1 (in rainy season) and 6.6 t ha -1 (in winter season). Maximum Carbon sequestrati...