influence of maternal and sire-generation interaction effects on day-old chick' weight was investigated in two commercial broiler sire and dam lines, and in mazandaran native fowls. the data were analysed through restricted maximum likelihood (reml) procedures, using asreml software. ten different animal models were implemented and compared with likelihood ratio test. all models consisted ...

This work derives a distributed and iterative algorithm by which mobile terminals can selfishly control their transmit powers during the synchronization procedure specified by the IEEE 802.16m and the 3GPP-LTE standards for orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access technologies. The proposed solution aims at maximizing the energy efficiency of the network and is derived on the basis of a fi...

The manifesto of ubiquitous computing is traditionally considered to be the justly famous 1991 visionary article written for Scientific American by the late Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC (Weiser, 1991). But the true birth date of this revolution, perhaps hard to pinpoint precisely, precedes that publication by at least a few years: Weiser himself first spoke of “ubiquitous computing” around 1988 an...

Using the correlation matrix formalism we study the temporal aspects of the Warsaw Stock Market evolution as represented by the WIG20 index. The high frequency (1 min) WIG20 recordings over the time period between January 2001 and October 2005 are used. The entries of the correlation matrix considered here connect different distinct periods of the stock market dynamics, like days or weeks. Such...

A small triple-band 2.7 GHz, 3.2 GHz and 5.3 GHz compact microstrip patch antenna with two Ushaped slots and a small ground plane is presented. It has been developed to be used in future WiMAX technology. The required bandwidths are fulfilled the WiMAX technology 4.8 %, 3 % and 2.5 % respectively. The return loss for the triple band are -18.5 dB, -14.5 dB and -19 respectively.

An overview of recent high-pT hadron and photon measurements at RHIC is presented with a focus on the evolution of hadron/photon production from intermediate pT (. 5 GeV/c) to high pT (> 10 GeV/c). Addressed topics include single high-pT hadron production, azimuthal anisotropy of π production, di-jet modification at intermediate pT and inclusive photon-hadron correlations. The understanding of ...

We define the notion of a Kirby element of a ribbon category C (not necessarily semisimple). Kirby elements lead to 3-manifolds invariants. We characterize a set of Kirby elements (in terms of the structural morphisms of a Hopf algebra in C) which is sufficiently large to recover the quantum invariants of 3-manifolds of Reshetikhin-Turaev, of Hennings-Kauffman-Radford, and of Lyubashenko. The c...

Many Forth systems provide means to call C functions, but these interfaces are not designed to be portable between platforms: A call to a C library function that works on one platform may fail on the next platform, because the parameter and return value types of the C function may be different. In this paper, we present an interface that avoids this problem: In particular, the actual calls can ...