A bivariate censored threshold-linear model was used to study genetic parameters of number of services to conception (STC) and days open (DO) in first-lactation Norwegian Red (NRF) cows. Records of 1,454,916 NRF cows, with a first insemination from 1980 to 2004, were analyzed. It was assumed that every cow had at least a first insemination. The number of inseminations was recorded until a cow c...

Secure two-party computation (STC) is a computer security paradigm where two parties can jointly evaluate a program with sensitive input data, provided in parts from both parties. By the security guarantees of STC, neither party can learn any information on the other party’s input while performing the STC task. For a long time thought to be impractical, until recently, STC has only been impleme...

Kmploying Reuber rat hepatoma cells, 114-11-1, the effects of aflatoxin BI (AKBi) and Sterigmatocystin (STC), which exhibit a similar cytotoxity but a marked difference in hepatocarcinogenicity, on the hormonal induc tion of tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT), on glucocorticoid receptors, and on their nuclear acceptor sites were investigated. VIH, strongly inhibited hydrocortisone-inducible TAT ac...

INTRODUCTION For chronic disease prevention and management, brief but valid dietary assessment tools are needed to determine risk, guide counseling, and monitor progress in a variety of settings. Starting The Conversation (STC) is an eight-item simplified food frequency instrument designed for use in primary care and health-promotion settings. PURPOSE This report investigates the feasibility,...

In marine fish, high epithelial bicarbonate secretion by the intestine generates luminal carbonate precipitates of divalent cations that play a key role in water and ion homeostasis. In vitro studies highlight the involvement of the calciotropic hormones PTHrP (parathyroid hormone-related protein) and stanniocalcin (STC) in the regulation of epithelial bicarbonate transport. The present study t...

Analyzing motion patterns in traffic videos can be exploited directly to generate high-level descriptions of the video contents. Such descriptions may further be employed in different traffic applications such as traffic phase detection and abnormal event detection. One of the most recent and successful unsupervised methods for complex traffic scene analysis is based on topic models. In this pa...

We prove that the pair of statistics (des,maj) on multiset permutations is equidistributed with the pair (stc, inv) on certain quotients of the symmetric groups. We define an analogue of the statistic stc on multiset permutations whose joint distribution with the inversions equals that of (des,maj). We extend the definition of the statistic stc to hyperoctahedral and even hyperoctahedral groups...

This paper proposes a design method of STC for discrete unstructured systems based on D-L networks. The proposed scheme determines the control input composed of arbitrary system matrices of constructed D-L networks, and thus it makes it possible to design the STC for unstructured systems whose priori knowledges are not available. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides sat...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate short-term effects aflatoxin B1 (AFB1 100 µg/kg feed) and sterigmatocystin (STC 1000 μg/kg exposure individually in combination (100 μg AFB1 + STC/kg on parameters lipid peroxidation glutathione redox system both biochemical gene expression levels one-year-old common carp. Lipid were slightly affected, as significant differences observed only conjugated ...

In addition to the T2R bitter taste receptors, neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have recently been shown to be involved in the bitter taste transduction of nicotine, acetylcholine and ethanol. However, at present it is not clear if nAChRs are expressed in enteroendocrine cells other than beta cells of the pancreas and enterochromaffin cells, and if they play a role in the syn...