Genetic evaluations of Holstein bulls from the US were matched with Canadian, Italian, Mexican, and Netherlands evaluations for the same bulls. Conversion equations for milk yield were computed by least squares, Goddard, and Wilmink methods. Accuracy was assessed by splitting data and applying equations developed from one subset to the other subset. Methods were judged by mean differences betwe...

The acquisition of sub-sampled data from an array of receiver coils has become a common means of reducing data acquisition time in MRI. Of the various techniques used in parallel MRI, SENSitivity Encoding (SENSE) is one of the most common, making use of a complex-valued weighted least squares estimation to unfold the aliased images. It was recently shown in Bruce et al. [Magn. Reson. Imag. 29(2...

Current age-specific reference standards for adult hearing thresholds are primarily cross-sectional in nature and vary in the degree of screening of the reference sample for noise-induced hearing loss and other hearing problems. We develop methods to construct age-specific percentiles for longitudinal data that have been modelled using the linear mixed-effects model. We apply these methods to c...

We used psychometric functions to estimate the joint entropy for space discrimination and spatial frequency discrimination. Space discrimination was taken as discrimination of spatial extent. Seven subjects were tested. Gábor functions comprising unidimensionalsinusoidal gratings (0.4, 2, and 10 cpd) and bidimensionalGaussian envelopes (1°) were used as reference stimuli. The experiment compris...

Near-infrared spectroscopy in diffuse reflection mode was used to evaluate the apparent viscosity of Para rubber field latex and concentrated latex over the wavelength range of 1100 to 2500 nm, using partial least square regression (PLSR). The model with ten principal components (PCs) developed using the raw spectra accurately predicted the apparent viscosity with correlation coefficient (r), ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of age at growth hormone (GH) treatment start on near adult height (NAH) in children with isolated GH deficiency (GHD). DESIGN NordiNet® International Outcome Study (IOS) (Nbib960128), a non-interventional, multicentre study, evaluates the long-term effectiveness and safety of Norditropin® (somatropin) (Novo Nordisk A/S) in the real-life clinical setting. ...

A model for sim~ating the measured radar backscattering coefficient of vegetation-covered soil surfaces is presented in this study. The model consists of two parts: the first is a soft surface model to describe the backscattered radar pulses from a rough soil surface, and the second part takes into account the effect of vegetation cover. The soil surface is characterized by two parameters, the ...

A serious practical problem with the ordinary least squares regression estimator is that it can have a relatively large standard error when the error term is heteroscedastic, even under normality. In practical terms, power can be poor relative to other regression estimators that might be used. This article illustrates the problem and summarizes strategies for dealing with it. Included are new r...

The geometric resolution of space images has been improved. With WorldView-1 and GeoEye-1 images taken from space with 0.5m ground sampling distance (GSD) are now available. The Bosphorus Engineering Consultancy Services Inc (BIMTAS), company of Istanbul Greater Municipality ordered a WorldView-1 image, covering large parts of Istanbul city. For the orientation and investigation of the scene ac...