Frequencies of kappa-casein gene alleles were determined in 1316 animals from the Brazilian Bos indicus genetic groups (Sindhi cows, Gyr sires, Gyr cows, Guzerat sires, Guzerat cows, Nellore sires, and Gyr x Holstein crossbreds) by means of polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis using two independent restriction nucleases (Hinf I and HaeIII). The genotyping ...

The Minimal Supersymmetry Standard Model contains several hundreds of Dand Fflat directions that are lifted by soft susy breaking terms as well as non-renormalizable terms. In a recent paper we find that only two of these directions, LLe and udd can accommodate inflation. The model predicts more than 103 e-foldings with an inflationary scale of Hinf ∼ 1 GeV, provides a tilted spectrum compatibl...

PURPOSE To determine whether early retinal degeneration (erd) and progressive rod cone degeneration (prcd), two canine hereditary retinal degenerations, are caused by allelic mutations; to determine the cDNA sequence of the canine RDS/peripherin homolog (CFRDSP); and to test whether mutations(s) in CFRDSP cause(s) either erd or prcd. METHODS Three erd-affected dogs were crossbred to three prc...

This paper presents a filter bank (FB) analysis of parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging (pMRI). The underlying image reconstruction strategies of the most widely used pMRI reconstruction methods are unified within the framework and their fundamental perfect reconstruction (PR) constraints are analyzed. Based on this analysis, an improved reconstruction method, calledH∞ optimal SENSE, is develope...

This paper is concerned with the design of a multivariable Global Chassis Controller (GCC), using LPV/H∞ robust controllers for suspension, active steering and electro-mechanical braking actuators which aim at improving comfort and safety performance in critical driving situations. The proposed solution is to schedule the three control actions (braking, steering and suspension) according to the...