A total number of one hundred and fifty-three females and males of Japanese quail at 14 weeks of age were used with sex ratio 2 female / 1 male to study the effect of maternal body weight, some blood parameters and egg quality traits on fertility% (F%), hatchability% for total and fertile eggs (H/TE % and H/FE %), and chick weight (CW). Birds classified into three groups (light, medium and heav...

Protein interations are presently required to understand the mechanisms of in vitro maturation, fertilization and culture of sheep embryoes through in silico analysis. The present work has been conducted on TCM-199 supplemented with epidermal growth factor (EGF), fetal bovine serum (FBS) or wheat peptones The maturation rate of oocyte was significantly higher in the FBS supplemented group when ...

Assembly lines are typical flow oriented production systems, which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity standardized commodities. The assembly line balancing (ALB) problems deal with the assignment of various tasks to an ordered sequence of workstations, while optimizing one or more objectives without violating restrictions imposed on the line. In this study, we...

Total protein (TP), albumin (Alb), transferrin (TRF), retinol-binding protein (RPB), N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase (NAG), alanine aminopeptidase (AAP), gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), and creatinine (Cr) were measured in random (untimed) urine samples from 29 nonpregnant women and from pregnant subjects (11 in the first trimester, 34 in the second, and 37 in the third). The excretion of TP, Al...

Let S be a complex smooth projective surface of Kodaira dimension one. We show that the group Auts(S) symplectic automorphisms acts trivially on Albanese kernel CHo(S)alb 0-th Chow CHo(S), unless possibly if geometric genus and irregularity satisfy pg(S) = q(S) ∈ {1, 2}. In exceptional cases, image homomorphism → Aut(CHo(S)alb) has order at most 3. Our arguments actually take care Autf(S) fibra...

In this paper, we propose and analyze an accelerated linearized Bregman (ALB) method for solving the basis pursuit and related sparse optimization problems. This accelerated algorithm is based on the fact that the linearized Bregman (LB) algorithm is equivalent to a gradient descent method applied to a certain dual formulation. We show that the LB method requires O(1/ε) iterations to obtain an ...

Although replacing biomass, (e.g., wood chips and pellets), with thinning herbaceous biomass is eco-friendly economically advantageous, their direct utilization in plant boilers associated ash-related challenges, including slagging fouling. The aim of this study to determine the effects ash removal treatment (ashless (ALB)) context solid fuel power boilers. Ash was removed via neutralization me...

To use embryonic stem (ES) cells in future therapeutical applications, differentiated hepatic phenotypes with specific liver functions would be necessary. We analyzed albumin (ALB), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and hepatic transcription factor (TF) gene expression in tissues derived from embryonic, fetal and adult liver, and compared the gene expression profiles with those from mouse ES cells after ...