A study was conducted to compare the testicular morphology and semen quality of three strains (FUNAAB-Alpha, ISA brown and Bantam) of chickens. A total of 45, thirty four week old cocks were used for the six months study. Semen samples were collected weekly by abdominal massage technique and semen volume, colour, pH, motility, percentage live, normal and sperm concentration were evaluated. Test...

In recent years several authors have investigated binary search trees with minimal internal path length. In this paper we propose relaxing the requirement of inserting all nodes on one level before going to the next level. This leads to a new class of binary search trees called ISA[k] trees. We investigated the average locate cost per node, average shift cost per node, total insertion cost, and...

Intelligent speed adaptation (ISA) has been shown to be an effective measure for road safety improvement. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using ISA systems, particularly with the dynamic speed control, to manage congestion and reduce energy/emissions. The effectiveness of the dynamic ISA system relies on its speed control strategies. This paper presents the development of a p...

—PLX is a compact, fully subword-parallel instruction set architecture (ISA) for very fast multimedia processing. This paper adds floating-point instructions to PLX for 3D graphics processing, which is essential for applications such as games and digital content creation. Based on an analysis of the 3D graphics pipeline from an ISA point of view, we show the operations and data types needed. We...

Modern GPPs implement specialized instructions in the form of ISA extensions aiming to increase performance emerging applications. These impose a significant overhead area and power processor because their specific datapaths (e.g. hardware for SIMD FP may represent more than half core area). Considering that some devices (e.g., edge computing), must be as energy- area-efficient possible, sporad...

Recently, we have experienced an emergence of comparative “Internet Shopping Agents” (ISAs) that allow consumers to costlessly search across many online retailers and buy at the lowest price. An ISA can be thought of as an institution that creates all or nothing type of competition in the following sense: Because consumers see all the retail prices with a single search, a retailer of a homogeno...

Analysis of urban distribution and its expansion using remote sensing data has received increasing attention in the past three decades, but little research has examined spatial patterns of urban distribution and expansion with buffer zones in different directions. This research selected Hangzhou metropolis as a case study to analyze spatial patterns and dynamic changes based on time-series urba...

Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) is an important infectious disease in Atlantic salmon farming causing recurrent epidemic outbreaks worldwide. The focus of this paper is on tracing the spread of ISA among Norwegian salmon farms. To trace transmission pathways for the ISA virus (ISAV), we use phylogenetic relationships between virus isolates in combination with space-time data on disease occurren...

Diasteriomeric isosaccharinic acid (ISA) is an important consideration within safety assessments for the disposal of the United Kingdoms' nuclear waste legacy, where it may potentially influence radionuclide migration. Since the intrusion of micro-organisms may occur within a disposal concept, the impact of ISA may be impacted by microbial metabolism. Within the present study we have establishe...

In their article, Shimamura et al. report that incomplete stent apposition (ISA) was observed in all 38 everolimus-eluting stents (EES) and all 39 sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (measuring 315+ 94 mm and 0.50+0.24 mm in EES and 308+ 119 mm and 0.95+ 0.70 mm in SES), that it persisted in 26% of EES and 38% of SES at 8–12 months although the size of t...