Crossbreeding of Holstein-Friesian dairy cows with both early maturing (e.g. Aberdeen Angus (AA)) and late maturing (e.g. Belgian Blue (BB)) beef breeds is commonly practised. In Ireland, genetic merit for growth rate of beef sires is expressed as expected progeny difference for carcass weight (EPD(CWT)). The objective of this study was to compare the progeny of Holstein-Friesian cows, sired by...

This paper presents a wide range of algorithms and architectures for computing the 1-D and 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and the 1-D and 2-D Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). The algorithms and architectures presented here are independent of the size and nature of the wavelet function. New on-line algorithms are proposed for the DWT and the CWT which require signiicantly small storage...

The cutaneous recording of gastric myoelectrical activity of the stomach known as electrogastrography (EGG) seems to be the promising tool for the non-invasive assessment of gastric motility. Unfortunately the EGG recording is usually severely contaminated both by motion artefacts and endogenous biological noise source. In order to use EGG signals as reliable diagnostic tool it is necessity to ...

Abstract –– The dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) which utilizes two 2band discrete wavelet transform (DWT) was recently extended to Mband. In this paper we provide a simple construction method for an M-band DTCWT, with M = r where r, d Z. In particular, we show how to extend a given rband DT-CWT to an r – band one. For convenience, the case where r = 2, d = 2 is considered. However,...

The paper illustrates a procedure based on the continuous-wavelet transform (CWT) for the analysis of current transients due to line faults. Considering roundly reliability and accuracy of one terminal fault location system for transmission lines, a single-ended continuous wavelet Transform (CWT) based fault location algorithm has been presented in this paper. Wavelet transform is a powerful ma...

Removing as much noise possible in an image while preserving its fine details is a complex and challenging task. We propose wavelet-based non-local means (NLM) denoising method to overcome the problem. Two well-known wavelets: dual-tree wavelet transform (DT-CWT) discrete (DWT), have been used change into several coefficients sequentially. NLM filtering universal hard thresholding with cycle sp...

We propose an amplitude-phase representation of the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) which provides an intuitive interpretation of the associated complex wavelet coefficients. The representation, in particular, is based on the shifting action of the group of fractional Hilbert transforms (fHT) which allow us to extend the notion of arbitrary phase-shifts beyond pure sinusoids. We ex...

Historically we have used a value of gain of about $0.50 per lb on growing cattle, but with recent changes in calf pricing, gain is worth much more than that. For example, cattle at Lynchburg, VA on July 27, 2008 showed no price slide between 4 cwt and 6 cwt cattle, and when you compare those prices with the VA board sales those light cattle prices are similar to the heavier cattle, which would...

A new hybrid algorithm is proposed to eliminate the interference information for multivariate calibration of near-infrared (NIR) spectra that includes noise, background and systemic spectral variation irrelevant to concentration. The method consists of two parts: approximate derivative based on continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and orthogonal signal correction (OSC). After the approximate deri...

Biomarkers which predict patient’s survival can play an important role in medical diagnosis and treatment. How to select the significant biomarkers from hundreds of protein markers is a key step in survival analysis. In this paper a novel method is proposed to detect the prognostic biomarkers of survival in colorectal cancer patients using wavelet analysis, genetic algorithm, and Bayes classifi...