_______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The objective of this work was to estimate and compare the growth curve parameters for live weight of indigenous Venda and Naked Neck chickens and carry out some analyses to test the existence of differences in the growth pattern between these breeds. The data were collected from the two breeds of c...

Based on the theory of innovation diffusion, we use Bass, Exponential, Logistic and Gompertz models to analyse the Internet diffusion of Heilongjiang Province and try to compare and find a suitable model that can describe its current Internet diffusion state. The result shows that Gompertz model has the best performance in describing its current diffusion. We found that intimation effect is low...

We use a simple model for biological ageing to study the mortality of the population, obtaining a good agreement with the Gompertz law. We also simulate the same model on a square lattice, considering different strategies of parental care. The results are in agreement with those obtained earlier with the more complicated Penna model for biological ageing. Finally, we present the sexual version ...

Experimental data of different animals (e.g. cocks, pigs, cats, dogs, cattles, etc.) from recent bibliography were selected to evaluate the capability of five classical sigmoidal equations (i.e. Bertalanffy, Weibull, logistic, Gompertz, and modified Hill) to model growth. These functions were used in different reparameterized forms in order to define all growth phases and to characterize signif...

In this paper, we consider a discrete Gompertz model with time delay. Firstly, the stability of the equilibrium of the system is investigated by analyzing the characteristic equation. By choosing the time delay as a bifurcation parameter, we prove that NeimarkSacker bifurcations occur when the delay passes a sequence of critical values. The direction and stability of the Neimark-Sacker are dete...

In nematodes, environmental or physiological perturbations alter death's scaling of time. In human cancer, genetic perturbations alter death's curvature of time. Those changes in scale and curvature follow the constraining contours of death's invariant geometry. I show that the constraints arise from a fundamental extension to the theories of randomness, invariance and scale. A generalized Gomp...

Software reliability models (SRMs) are very important for estimating and predicting software reliability in the testing/debugging phase. The contributions of this paper are as follows. First, a historical review of the Gompertz SRM is given. Based on several software failure data, the parameters of the Gompertz software reliability model are estimated using two estimation methods, the tradition...

The naked mole rat defies the Gompertz law and shows no sign of increased mortality risk as it gets older.