Accurate genetic evaluation of livestock is based on appropriate modeling of phenotypic measurements. In ruminants, fecal egg count (FEC) is commonly used to measure resistance to nematodes. FEC values are not normally distributed and logarithmic transformations have been used in an effort to achieve normality before analysis. However, the transformed data are often still not normally distribut...

Reliability control is a key concern on the evolution of mobile multicast services. To this direction, the use of forward error correction (FEC) on the application layer is widely adopted in several mobile multicast standards. FEC is a feedback free error control method, where the transmitter introduces in advance redundant information within the source data to enable receivers recovering arbit...

Wireless video transmission suffers from degrading the quality of video service due to dynamic change of the wireless network environment. Packet-level forward error correction (FEC) enables video to be transmitted robustly as adding the redundant packets. This paper proposes two cross-layer strategies to improve the quality of video using the adaptive packetlevel FEC over IEEE 802.11 networks....

Sheep from a Merino selection experiment at the Tygerhoek research farm in the Southern Cape provided material for this study. The selection lines involved included a line selected for clean fleece weight, a “Wet and Dry” line, a fine wool line and an unselected Control line. Rectal faeces samples were obtained from individual animals at 13 to 16 months of age, after drenching was withheld for ...

We consider downlink access point (AP) networks and the corresponding reliable transmission schemes. It is well known that one can protect the network traffic against packet erasures by forward-error-correcting-codes (FEC). In addition to ensuring reliable delivery, FECs could substantially reduce the amount of feedback traffic, which is critical when designing high-performance AP protocols. In...

Real-time audio over a best-effort network, such as the Internet, frequently suffers from packet loss. To mitigate the impact of such packet loss, several research efforts [1, 2] and implementation studies [3] advocate the use of forward error correction (FEC) coding. Although these prior works have pioneered promising and novel applications of FEC to Internet audio, they do not definitively de...

In the flowing fluid electric conductivity (FEC) logging method, wellbore fluid is replaced with de-ionized water, following which FEC profiles in the wellbore are measured at a series of times while the well is pumped at a constant rate. Locations were fluid enters the wellbore show peaks in the FEC logs, which may be analyzed to infer inflow strengths and salinities of permeable features inte...

Numerous additives are used in the electrolytes of lithium-ion batteries, especially for formation an efficient solid electrolyte interphase at surface electrodes. Understanding degradation processes these compounds is thus important; they can be seen through radiolysis. In case fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC), picosecond pulse radiolysis experiments evidenced FEC.- . This radical stabilized nea...

The Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework document (RFC 6363) defines the FEC Framework Configuration Information necessary for the FEC Framework operation. This document describes how to use signaling protocols such as the Session Announcement Protocol (SAP), the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), etc. for determining and communicating the configurat...

Cyclic best-effort multicast supports reliable multicast transport by sending information repeatedly. The authors present forward error correcting (FEC) cyclic best-effort multicast which transmits FEC encoded redundant data as well as original data. FEC cyclic multicasting reduces the number of packet transmissions at least by half compared to plain cyclic multicasting.