In Italy most dairy cows produce milk for cheese manufacture and are farmed in intensive systems, with free stall barns, milking parlor or robotic milking, total mixed ration no (or limited) access to pasture. The main objective farmers is maximize farm income minimize costs by adopting strategies ‘best practices’ the early life of heifers. Monitoring body weight (BW) fertility young stock fund...

having special ecological condition, kish island has a restricted range of native species of ornamental plants. expansion of urban green space in this island is great of importance due to its outstanding touristy position in the south of iran. the purpose of this study was to investigate the growth and development of groundcover plants planted in four different regions of kish island and to rec...

This study aims to develop an Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System technique (ANFIS) and using the parameters of a complex mathematical model in the RO membrane performances. The ANFIS was constructed by using a subtractive clustering method to generate initial fuzzy inference systems. The model trained by 70% of the data set and then its validity is examined by remained 30% data set. ...

Aim: Tumor growth inhibition (TGI) metrics estimated with longitudinal tumor size (TS) models have been shown to be predictive of overall survival (OS) in a variety of tumor types. Methods: TS data from 2490 patients with 1 line or refractory RCC who received temsirolimus, interferon, sunitinib, sorafenib or axitinib in 10 Phase 2 or Phase 3 studies were used. TGI metrics (Early tumor shrinkage...

In attempts to design a complete purified diet some observations were made on the rates of weight increase in rats receiving simple basal diets with various supplements. A recent review by Dunn, Murphy & Rockland (1947) on the optimal growth rate of the rat increased our interest in the studies of Zucker, Hall, Young & Zucker (1941 a-c) on the relation of weight to age in the rat and, although ...

The feather-like hierarchical zinc oxide (ZnO) was synthesized via successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction without any seed layer or metal catalyst. A possible growth mechanism is proposed to explain the forming process of ZnO feather-like structures. Meanwhile, the photo-electronic performances of the feather-like ZnO have been investigated with the UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy, I-V and I-tm...

This paper studies an overlapping generations model with selfish agents, natural resources and human capital externalities. The initial result is to quantify the economic effects of intergenerational transfers by comparing a complete markets allocation with transfers to an allocation without transfers due to incomplete markets. The core contribution is then to show that a higher resource regene...

Sah (1991) conjectured that more centralized societies should have more volatile economic performances than less centralized ones. We show in this paper that this is true both for cross-country and within-country variability in growth rates. It is also true for some measures of policies. Finally, we show that both the best and worst performers in terms of growth rates are more likely to be auto...

FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI’s effect on firms’ performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a...