This study was undertaken to determine the influence of three grazing pressures [high (HGP), medium (MGP) and low (LGP), corresponding to 30, 50 and 75 g available DM/kg BW/day, respectively] on the performance of lambs grazing Lolium perenne and Dactylis glomerata pastures in spring. Feed intakes and average daily live weight gains (ADG in g/day) were determined for each group. In general inta...

Background: Matrix Gla protein (MGP) is known as a calcium scavenger within sub-endothelial space of vessels, so that its function is suggested to reduce the risk of coronary artery diseases. In this study, we predicted the role of MGP promoter rs1800801, rs1800802 and rs1800799 variants on the score changes of predicted transcription elements. Methods: The gene promoter fragments flanking the ...

The population haplotype inference problem based on the pure parsimony criterion (HIPP) infers an m genotype matrix for a population by a 2 haplotype matrix with the minimum number of distinct haplotypes. Previous integer programming based HIPP solution methods are time-consuming, and their practical effectiveness remains unevaluated. On the other hand, previous heuristic HIPP algorithms are ef...

Profile monitoring is an important tool for quality control. Most existing profile approaches focus on a single profile. In practice, multiple profiles also widely exist and these contain rich correlation information that can benefit the of interested/target this article, we propose transfer learning framework to extract profile-to-profile inter-relationship improve performance. framework, are ...

The creep behavior of basalt fiber reinforced epoxy (BFRE) and glass fiber reinforced epoxy (GFRE) composites was studied through tensile testing at high temperature. To study the effect of reinforcing epoxy, the micro glass powder (MGP) was added at various volume percentage into the epoxy resin in BFRE composites. The initial strain for all the specimens were evaluated and compared with each ...

Abstract Background and Aims Vascular calcification is highly prevalent in dialysis patients. The most common postulated cause, apart from calcium phosphorus disorders, sub-clinical vitamin K deficiency. It results the failure of GLA-matrix protein (MGP) to undergo carboxylation. lack functional carboxylated MGP may contribute increased vascular calcification. Aim: We assessed relationships bet...

Recently there has been an increasing interest in the multivariate Gaussian process (MGP) which extends (GP) to deal with multiple outputs. One approach construct MGP and account for non-trivial commonalities amongst outputs employs a convolution (CP). The CP is based on idea of sharing latent functions across several convolutions. Despite elegance construction, it provides new challenges that ...