The data include milking data collected over a four month time period by robots on four farms and monthly test-day milk data collected by veterinarian for determination of the incidence of clinical mastitis (i.e. healthy cows and sick cows). A major part of work involved data pre-processing that plays an important role in this model development. Since the milking machine operated continually an...

I this paper, we investigate the integrated information and pricing strategy for a seller who can take customer preorders before the release of a product. The preorder option enables the seller to sell a product at an early stage when consumers are less certain about their valuations. We find that the optimal pricing strategy may be highly dependent on the amount of information available at pre...

This paper presents a validated protocol, using a novel, specifically formulated medium, to perform broth microdilution antimicrobial susceptibility assays of the salmonid bacterial pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for florfenicol and oxytetracycline against 58 P. salmonis isolates recovered from various outbreaks occurred in Chilean salmonid farms ...

PURPOSE To investigate optic disc perfusion differences in normal, primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), and normal tension glaucoma (NTG) eyes using optical microangiography (OMAG) based optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography technique. DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational study. SUBJECTS Twenty-eight normal, 30 POAG, and 31 NTG subjects. METHODS One eye from each subject was scan...

This paper focuses on an infinite-server queue modulated by an independently evolving finite-state Markovian background process, with transition rate matrix Q ≡ (qij)i,j=1. Both arrival rates and service rates are depending on the state of the background process. The main contribution concerns the derivation of central limit theorems for the number of customers in the system at time t ≥ 0, in t...

In this paper, we propose two confidence measures (CMs) in speech recognition: one based on acoustic likelihood and the other based on phone duration. For a decoded speech frame aligned to an HMM state, the CM based on acoustic likelihood depends on the relative position of its output likelihood value in the probability distribution of likelihood value in that particular state. The CM of whole ...

STUDY DESIGN Measurement and normalization of disc geometry parameters for several animal models used in disc research. OBJECTIVES To compare normalized values of disc geometry to the human disc geometry to aid in the selection and interpretation of animal model studies. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Animal models are widely used to study intervertebral disc degeneration and to evaluate disc t...