the aim of the present study was to estimate genetic and phenotypic parameters of milk production traits in the first and second lactations of romanian simmental dairy cattle. for the estimation of variance, heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations among milk yield, fat yield, protein yield, and percentages of fat and protein, 3400 first and second lactation records over a period of fi...

temperature and precipitation are two climatic variables haveing the most significant impact on the variability of crops yield. in this study, the relationship between rainfed barley yield, temperature and rainfall were assessed with both simple correlation and iterative chi-square analysis for eastern azerbaijan in four districts (tabriz, maragheh, sarab and miyaneh). the iterative chi-square ...

ABSTRACT- Crop rotation has many benefits for agro-ecosystems production. In order to evaluate two current rotation systems of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production in Kamalabad region of Fasa, an experiment was conducted during 2015-2016 growing season. The rotation systems were fallow-wheat and cotton (Gossypium spp.)-wheat. Research plots were arranged as a randomized complete block design...

The THORPEX goal of improving weather forecasts from one day to two weeks suggests the combination of multi-model and multi-initial-condition ensembles of simulations into a probabilistic forecast of some kind. This contribution presents a simple methodology for combining forecasts (be they high resolution or ensemble forecasts) into a predictive distribution function of a chosen target variabl...

Most ecological data sets contain missing values, a fact which can cause problems in the analysis and limit the utility of resulting inference. However, ecological data also tend to be spatially correlated, which can aid in estimating and imputing missing values. We compared four existing methods of estimating missing values: regression, kernel smoothing, universal kriging, and multiple imputat...