an appropriate method to determine the hydraulic conductivity above water table is guelph permeameter. using this method, experiments can be carried out by one person in a short period. several investigators have commented on the systematic difference between the hydraulic conductivity obtained by guelph permeameter and shallow well pumping test (swpt) methods. therefore, the purpose of this re...

Growth curves are useful for describing the sigmoid shape of an animal's weight pattern over time. The purpose of the present study was to describe, for the first time, a complete growth curve for pasture-fed Angus cows in Uruguay and to analyze the major fixed effects that affect the estimation of mature cow weight (CW). A total of 22,743 records from 5,284 cows belonging to 73 herds were used...

Success of pig production depends on maximizing return over feed costs and addressing potential nutrient pollution to the environment. Mathematical modeling has been used to describe many important aspects of inputs and outputs of pork production. This study was undertaken to compare 4 mathematical functions for the best fit in terms of describing specific data sets on pig growth and, in a sepa...

The accurate description of the flow water in porous media is greatest importance due to its numerous applications several areas (groundwater, soil mechanics, etc.). nonlinear Richards equation often used as governing that describes this phenomenon and a large number research studies aimed solve it numerically. However, nonlinearity constitutive expressions for permeability, remains challenging...

In this paper we present a high order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme for solving a multi-class extension of the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model. We first review the multi-class LWR model and present some of its analytical properties. We then present the WENO schemes, which were originally designed for computational fluid dynamics problems and for solving hyperbolic co...

Most work on social interactions studies a single, composite effect of interactions within a group. Yet in the case of sexual initiation, there are two distinct social mechanisms— peer-group norms and partner availability—with separate effects and different potential interventions. Here I develop an equilibrium search and matching model for first sexual partners that specifies distinct roles fo...

For those who love and study insects and arachnids, they can see the underappreciated wonders of the biological realm. In the face of so much diversity, so much remains to be discovered. A recent study in Genome Biology Evolution is a case in point. Researchers sequencing the genome of a mite have found what might seem stranger than fiction: a mite that has retained genes important to sight, de...

Flow movement in unsaturated soil can be expressed by a partial differential equation, named Richards equation. The objective of this study is the finding of an appropriate implicit numerical solution for head based Richards equation. Some of the well known finite difference schemes (fully implicit, Crank Nicolson and Runge-Kutta) have been utilized in this study. In addition, the effects of di...

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The objective of this work was to estimate and compare the growth curve parameters for live weight of indigenous Venda and Naked Neck chickens and carry out some analyses to test the existence of differences in the growth pattern between these breeds. The data were collected from the two breeds of c...

We present selected highlights from research that appeared during 2015 on Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders. Topics include phenomenology, comorbidities, developmental course, genetics, animal models, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, pharmacology, and treatment. We briefly summarize articles whose results we believe may lead to new treatments, additional research or modifications in cur...