Intramuscular fat (IMF) content is an important trait affecting the quality of pork. Two Duroc populations selected for IMF were used to identify signatures of selection associated with IMF. The effects of selection were analyzed between selected and control animals within each population using principal component analysis and FST using 60k SNPs. Moreover, extended haplotype homozygosity-based ...

Meat quality traits are very important in the poultry industry. To identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and candidate genes affecting meat quality traits, a genome-wide association study was performed using the Illumina chicken 60K SNP beadchip in Jinghai yellow chicken. Four meat quality traits were measured. Two SNPs reached 5% Bonferroni genome-wide significance (P < 1.8E-6) and 7...

The two morbilliviruses rinderpest virus (RPV) and peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) are closely related and cause severe disease in large and small ruminants, respectively. They show distinct epidemiological patterns and are distinguishable by reciprocal cross-neutralization tests. We have analysed the proteins induced by these viruses in infected cells and have shown that they can be di...

Consider a system of many components with constant failure rate and general repair rate. When all components are reliable and easily reparable, the reliability of the system can be evaluated from the probability q of failure before restoration. In [14], authors give an asymptotic approximation by monotone sequences. In the same framework, we propose, here, a bounding for q and apply it in the a...

Singular value decomposition (SVD) can be viewed as a method for unsupervised training of a network that associates two classes of events reciprocally by linear connections through a single hidden layer. SVD was used to learn and represent relations among very large numbers of words (20k-60k) and very large numbers of natural text passages (lk70k) in which they occurred. The result was 100-350 ...

Structural, electrical and magnetic measurements of 115 single crystals of PrIn5 are reported. It has a tetragonal structure and has slightly lower cell volume than its isomorphic counter part CeCoIn5. The resistivity saturates for T≥ 10K. Analysis of the resistivity for 10K<T< 60K indicates a regular fermi liquid behavior. It does not exhibit superconductivity down to T∼ 1K. The magnetic susce...

Spokes in Saturn's rings are radially-extended structures consisting of dust grains. Although spacecraft and space telescope observations have revealed various detailed features the spokes their time variation, formation mechanism is still under debate. Previous models examined charging mechanisms to attempt at explaining release from cm-sized ring particles; however, has been unsuccessful, bec...

We present a description of the development and evaluation of a first South African broadcast news transcription system. We describe a number of speech resources which have been collected in the resource-scarce South African environment for system development purposes: a 20 hour corpus of South African English (SAE) broadcast news; a 109M word corpus of South African newspaper text collected fo...

Wireless video transmission over a dynamic network requires adaptation to changes in bandwidth, network traffic, and channel characteristics. New computing hardware and algorithms are needed that enable low-power, flexible, adaptive, and robust video communication in hostile environments with no access to an installed communications infrastructure. The coding algorithms we are developing are ba...

By means of a novel variational approach, we study the ergodic properties of a model of a multi lane traffic flow, considered as a (deterministic) wandering of interacting particles on an infinite lattice. For a class of initial configurations of particles (roughly speaking satisfying the Law of Large Numbers) the complete description of their limit behaviour (in time) is obtained, as well as e...