Growth efficiency-related traits are of economic importance for genetically improving of small ruminants especially in tropics with pastures of low quality and quantity. Data on body weights of Raeini Cashmere goat collected from 1979 to 2012 in Raeini breeding station, Kerman province, south-eastern part of Iran were used for estimating the genetic parameters of average daily gain from birth t...

The aim of this study was to define breeding goals and determine the suitable selection index in Rayeni cashmere goat using simulated data. To select animals for increased quantity of meat, milk and cashmere produced, body weight of the doe (BWD), milk weight (MW), cashmere weight (CW), weight of kids for sale (WK) and number of kids for sale per doe (NK) was used as selection criteria. Four se...

in this paper, the gain in ld-celp speech coding algorithm is predicted using three neural models, that are equipped by genetic and particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithms to optimize the structure and parameters of neural networks. elman, multi-layer perceptron (mlp) and fuzzy artmap are the candidate neural models. the optimized number of nodes in the first and second hidden layers of el...