Two analyses, cubic and piecewise random regression, were conducted to model growth of crossbred cattle from birth to about two years of age, investigating the ability of a piecewise procedure to fit growth traits without the complications of the cubic model. During a four-year period (1994-1997) of the Australian "Southern Crossbreeding Project", mature Hereford cows (N = 581) were mated ...

In the present study, a modified Structure Function was introduced. In this modified Structure Function model, the coefficient of model was computed dynamically base on the coherent structure in the flow field. The ability of this Modified Structure Function was investigated for complex flow over a square cylinder in free stream and a low aspect ratio cylinder confined in a channel. The Results...

We use Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) data in order to impose constraints on higher-order modified gravity, and particular on: (i) $f(G)$ Gauss-Bonnet $f(P)$ cubic gravities, arising respectively through the of quadratic-curvature $G$ term, cubic-curvature combination, (ii) string-inspired quadratic gravity coupled dilaton field, (iii) models with quartic curvature corrections, (iv) running vac...

Milk yield records (305d, 2X, actual milk yield) of 123,639 registered first lactation Holstein cows were used to compare linear regression (y = β(0) + β(1)X + e), quadratic regression, (y = β(0) + β(1)X + β(2)X(2) + e) cubic regression (y = β(0) + β(1)X + β(2)X(2) + β(3)X(3) +e) and fixed factor models, with cubic-spline interpolation models, for estimating the effects of inbreeding on milk yi...

This paper deals with the modeling of G1 bifurcation. A branch-blending strategy is applied to model the bifurcation such that the coherence among the individual branching segments is characterized. To achieve this, bicubic Bézier patches are first used to generate three half-tubular surfaces by sweeping operations. The bifurcation modeling is then converted to a problem of filling two triangul...