Body weight and four morphostructural traits namely body length, heart girth, thigh circumference and ear length of 103 New Zealand White x Chinchilla crossbred rabbits were measured. The investigation aimed at describing objectively the interdependence among conformation traits and to predict body weight from their independent factor scores using principal component analysis. Phenotypic correl...

Characterization of Black Bengal bucks and does was performed in this study. A total of 50 goats of different aged were studied. The experiment was performed in Black Bengal bucks and does at 1 day and at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of age for measuring different parameters such as body length, heart girth, wither height, hip height, fore and hind leg length, head length and width, head length and wi...

The aim of this study is to estimate body weight from withers height, body length, and chest girth measurements by using Regression Tree (RT) Method. For this purpose, data were collected from 239 male sheep at yearling age (11-13 months) of five indigenous sheep breeds (Mengali (48), Balochi (48), Harnai (48), Beverigh (47) and Rakhshani (48)) reared in Balochistan, Pakistan. Bivariate relatio...

W. He et al. showed that a planar graph of girth 11 can be decomposed into a forest and a matching. D. Kleitman et al. proved the same statement for planar graphs of girth 10. We further improve the bound on girth to 9. c © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

This paper describes the calculation of the optimal partition parameters such that the girth maximum (m, r) Balanced Tanner Unit lies in family of BTUs specified by them using a series of proved results and thus creates a framework for specifying a search problem for finding the girth maximum (m, r) BTU. Several open questions for girth maximum (m, r) BTU have been raised.

Recently, we [1] proposed a simple-to-implement heuristic, namely, BIT-FILLING, for constructing high rate and high girth LDPC codes. In the present work, we extend BIT-FILLING, and demonstrate that the extended algorithm produces better codes, that is, codes with higher rate/girth and good bit error rate performance. We demonstrate the positive effect of girth on bit error rate performance.

in this paper, we consider a class of column-weight two quasi-cyclic low-density paritycheck codes in which the girth can be large enough, as an arbitrary multiple of 8. then we devote a convolutional form to these codes, such that their generator matrix can be obtained by elementary row and column operations on the parity-check matrix. finally, we show that the free distance of the convolution...

The girth of a finitely generated group G is defined to be the supremum of the girth of its Cayley graphs. Let G be a finitely generated subgroup of the mapping class group ModΣ, where Σ is an orientable closed surface with a finite number of punctures and with a finite number of components. We show that G is either a non-cyclic group with infinite girth or a virtually free-abelian group; these...

We investigate the basic interplay between the small k-valent vertex-transitive graphs of girth g and the (k, g)-cages, the smallest k-valent graphs of girth g. We prove the existence of k-valent Cayley graphs of girth g for every pair of parameters k ≥ 2 and g ≥ 3, improve the lower bounds on the order of the smallest (k, g) vertex-transitive graphs for certain families with prime power girth,...