The research work is aimed at determining and establishing the degree of influence various selection options on productive reproductive qualities first-calf cows black-and-white breed. results showed that according to Parental Index Cows (PIC), animals 5th experimental group surpass their mates in 2 3 groups milk yield by 746 kg, with p≤0.05 1746 p≤0.001 difference fat content 0.07 0.01%, respe...

It is well established that extensive reading promotes the incidental learning of L1 and L2 receptive vocabulary; however, little is known about its effectiveness on productive gains in vocabulary knowledge. This paper investigates the extent to which extensive reading combined with writing tasks promotes productive vocabulary growth of Japanese university students. To examine changes in vocabu...

The Commercializing Renewable Energy in India (CREI) project is aimed at strengthening local entrepreneurial capacity for sustained commercial operation of rural energy enterprises that harness renewable energy technologies to service productive use applications in selected areas of southern Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. The distinguishing feature of this project is that it links the commercializ...

Over time the international development community has advocated various development paradigms, but countries following these paradigms have often performed poorly. I provide an explanation for this poor performance. In my model the political leader of a developing country chooses a policy and whether to implement it in an honest or corrupt manner. These choices affect domestic production and ai...

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We evaluated a simple computational model of productive vocabulary acquisition, applied to simulating two case studies of 7-year-old children with developmental word-finding difficulties across four core behavioural tasks. Developmental models were created, which captured the deficits of each child. In order to predict the effects of intervention, we exposed the computational models to simulate...

Distributed enterprise applications are typically implemented as system-ofsystems composed of components and linked via middleware. These systems often utilize corresponding resources far below available capacity. In order to increase resource utilizations the consolidation of components demands several tests on environments comparable to the production system. Performance models can be used to...