1. Correlations with weight at slaughter (SltWt) SltWt, DFI: For cattle, weighted mean estimates from the 6 studies cited by Arthur and Herd (2008) and Crowley et al. (2010) are: rg = 0.72, rp = 0.61, for weight (during a feed efficiency test) with DFI measured over at least 50 days. Genetic correlations of weight with DFI in lambs are similar (rg = 0.85, François et al., 2007; rg = 0.71 ± 0.11...

The results of previous studies have suggested that estimated daily globalradiation (RG) values contain an error that could compromise the precision of subsequentcrop model applications. The following study presents a detailed site and spatial analysis ofthe RG error propagation in CERES and WOFOST crop growth models in Central Europeanclimate conditions. The research was conducted i) at the ei...

Intracerebroventricular injection of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) produces hyperglycemia and increases whole body glucose uptake. The purpose of the present study was to determine in rats which tissues are responsible for the elevated rate of glucose disposal. NMDA was injected intracerebroventricularly, and the glucose metabolic rate (Rg) was determined for individual tissues 20-60 min later us...

A successful renormalization-group (RG) approach may provide signinicant insights of a system exhibiting power-law dependencies. In 1994, a RG scheme [1] was proposed for sandpile models which exhibit power-law behavior and function as the models of self-organized criticality [2]. One momentous result of such a RG approach is that BakTang-Wisenfeld (BTW) [2] sandpile posepossing a deterministic...

A code over a group ring is defined to be a submodule of that group ring. For a code C over a group ring RG, C is said to be checkable if there is v ∈ RG such that C = {x ∈ RG : xv = 0}. In [6], Jitman et al. introduced the notion of code-checkable group ring. We say that a group ring RG is code-checkable if every ideal in RG is a checkable code. In their paper, Jitman et al. gave a necessary a...

Two similar enzymes with different biosynthetic function in one species have evolved to catalyze two distinct reactions. X-ray structures of both enzymes help reveal their most important differences. The Rauvolfia alkaloid biosynthetic network harbors two O-glucosidases: raucaffricine glucosidase (RG), which hydrolyses raucaffricine to an intermediate downstream in the ajmaline pathway, and str...