Microbial aerosol whose species and concentrations are closely related to human health is ubiquitous. The effect of microbes on human and animal health and production performance is, in many cases, caused by the spreading of air. Samples in this experiment were from a live poultry market (LPM) in Tai'an, China, collected three times a day (8 am, 14 pm, and 20 pm) over three consecutive days eac...

In this study, we estimated the heritability (h(2)) of earnings in the Quarter Horse in order to evaluate the inclusion of this trait in breeding programs. Records from 14,754 races of 2443 horses from 1978-2009 were provided by Sorocaba Hippodrome, São Paulo, Brazil. All ancestors of the registered horses were included in the pedigree file until the 4th generation. Log-transformed performance ...

The classical mean-variance investment model is simple, elegant, and popular. As such, it is also subject to criticisms. One unsatisfactory feature of the model is that variance treats the upside and downside equally as risks. In this regard, the downside Lower Partial Moments (LPM) are more attractive as alternative risk measures, since they only penalize the downside. In the meanwhile, consid...

We measured the resistance in nine complete ventilator circuits, partial circuits and 7, 8, and 9 mm ID endotracheal tubes at flow rates of 20 to 120 liters per minute. We found a statistically significant (p less than 0.01) increase in resistive pressure with increases in flow rate, as the diameter of the ETT decreased, and as each component of the ventilator circuit was added to the ETT. Ther...

Learning how to improve business processes is an evolutionary process that must be managed as other business processes (BPs) are managed in modern organizations. The proposed model – the learning process model (LPM) – suggests a closed-loop-model approach applied to a generic process model (GPM), which is a formal state-based and goal-based approach to process modeling. LPM strives to establish...

Downside loss averse preferences have seen a resurgence in the portfolio management literature. This is due to the increasing usage of derivatives in managing equity portfolios, and the increased usage of quantitative techniques for bond portfolio management. We employ the lower partial moment as a risk measure for downside loss aversion, and compare mean-variance (M-V) and mean-lower partial m...

Measuring the inconsistency degree of a knowledge base can help us to deal with inconsistencies. Several inconsistency measures have been given under different multi-valued semantics, including 4-valued semantics, 3-valued semantics, LPm and Quasi Classical semantics. In this paper, we first carefully analyze the relationship between these inconsistency measures by showing that the inconsistenc...

the ip lookup process is a key bottleneck in routing due to the increase in routing table size, increasing traıc and migration to ipv6 addresses. the ip address lookup involves computation of the longest prefix matching (lpm), which existing solutions such as bsd radix tries, scale poorly when traıc in the router increases or when employed for ipv6 address lookups. in this paper, we describe a ...

Despite the absence of clinical safety data, heated, humidified high-flow nasal cannula (HHFNC) therapy is increasingly being used as an alternative to positive-pressure ventilation in pediatrics. This use of HHFNC is "off label" because the US Food and Drug Administration's approval for these devices was only for air humidification and not as a modality to provide positive distending pressure....