The aim of this study was to determine the effect of marker density, level of heritability, number of QTLs, and size of training set on the genomic accuracy over three generations. Thereby, a trait was simulated with heritability of 0.10, 0.25 or 0.40. For each animal, a genome with 20 chromosomes, 1 Morgan each, was simulated. Different marker densities (2000, 4000 and 6000 markers) and 400 an...

The electrocardiogram (ECG also called EKG) trace expresses cardiac features that are unique to an individual. The ECG processing followed a logical series of experiments with quantifiable metrics. Data filters were designed based upon the observed noise sources. Fiducial points were identified on the filtered data and extracted digitally for each heartbeat. From the fiducial points, stable fea...

The main role of conservation planning is to design reserve networks to protect biodiversity in situ. Research within the field of conservation planning has focused on the development of theories and tools to design reserve networks that protect biodiversity in an efficient and representative manner. Whilst much progress has been made in this regard, there has been limited assessment of the sen...

We formalize the idea of probability distributions that lead to reliable predictions about some, but not all aspects of a domain. The resulting notion of ‘safety’ provides a fresh perspective on foundational issues in statistics, providing amiddle ground between imprecise probability andmultiple-priormodels on the one hand and strictly Bayesian approaches on the other. It also allows us to form...

The augmented book is the system augmenting multimedia elements onto a book to bring additional education effects or amusement. A book includes many pages and many duplicated designs so that tracking a book is quite difficult. For the augmented book, we propose the hybrid visual tracking which merges the merits of two traditional approaches: fiducial marker tracking and markerless tracking. The...

We present a new quasidilaton theory of Poincare invariant massive gravity, based on the recently proposed framework of matter coupling that makes it possible for the kinetic energy of the quasidilaton scalar to couple to both physical and fiducial metrics simultaneously. We find a scaling-type exact solution that expresses a self-accelerating de Sitter universe, and then analyze linear perturb...

The effects of oscillations of atmospheric ν µ are observed in the 5.90 fiducial kiloton-year exposure of the Soudan 2 detector. An unbinned maximum likelihood analysis of the neutrino L/E distribution has been carried out using the Feldman-Cousins prescription. The probability of the no oscillation hypothesis is 5.8 × 10 −4. The 90% confidence allowed region in the sin 2 2θ, ∆m 2 plane is pres...

Methods We described the biogeographical provinces of lower Mesoamerica (LMA) using presence/absence data of primary and secondary LMA freshwater fishes. We conducted subsequent analyses at the spatial resolution of the biogeographical provinces and described patterns of community composition, species richness, endemism, range size, and the permeability of dispersal barriers between biogeograph...

background and objectives : dna molecular weight marker is widely used in molecular biology experiments incurring considerable costs on low-budget settings. materials and methods : here a pcr-supported procedure is described that uses 10 primer pairs targeting chromosomal dna from the harmless vaccinal bacillus anthracis sterne 34f2 strain as template. a single pcr protocol is used to reproduce...

conclusions the established method has an acceptable performance in quantifying yb-1. in addition, serum yb-1 may aid in the diagnosis of hcc. results the developed method was linear to 150 μg/l of yb-1 with a minimum detection limit of 0.01 μg/l. the average recoveries were between 93.9% and 109.0%. the mean intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation (cvs) were 4.0-4.8% and 8.2-10.2%, re...