Twenty-seven crosses of mice derived from three random-mating, unselected strains (SWO, J. PGH) with 16 matings/pureline or cross were cohabited continuously and monogamously for a 365-d reproduction period to evaluate lifetime reproductive performance of the parents. Data from 3,249 litters born (2,792 surviving to weaning) were analyzed to study the effects of parity (number of litters) and t...

Gastrointestinal parasitism is a global problem for grazing ruminants which can be addressed in sustainable way through breeding animals to more resistant disease. This study estimates the genetic parameters of common and new disease phenotypes associated with natural nematode coccidian infection Scottish Blackface sheep underpin future improvement strategies parasite control. Data on faecal eg...

The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinal trends in locoregional therapy (LRT) use in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients listed for transplant, and evaluate independent prognostic factors for overall survival (OS) in HCC patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database was used to identify HCC patients listed for l...

This research article explores a hybrid strategy that combines an adaptive iterative filtering (IF) method and the fast discrete lifting-based wavelet transform (LWT) to eliminate power-line noise (PLI) baseline wander from electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Due its correct mathematical basis guaranteed priori convergence, approach was preferred over empirical mode decomposition (EMD). The noisy m...

a novel fast image fusion scheme based on principal component analysis (pca) and lifting wavelet transformation (LWT) is proposed. Firstly, the principal component images of the registered original colour image are obtained by pca transformation. Then, the first principal component image and near infrared imagery are merged using lifting wavelet transformation (LWT) based on regional features. ...

Economic values of milk volume (VOL), fat yield (FYLD), protein yield (PYLD), live weight (LWT), longevity (LON), calving interval (CIV) and somatic cell score (SCS) were derived for Holstein and Jersey cattle, based on milk payment systems of four major milk buyers in South Africa. The economic value of somatic cell score was calculated for only two of the payment systems. A bio-economic model...

This paper proposes a novel method for tamper detection and recovery using semi-fragile data hiding, based on Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT) and Feed-Forward Neural Network (FNN). In TRLF, first, the host image is decomposed up to one level using LWT, and the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is applied to each 2×2 blocks of diagonal details. Next, a random binary sequence is embedded in each bl...