throughout the current study, the appropriate function for a description of egg production curve in a commercial broiler dam line was determined through fittings of a number of six mathematical models, namely: incomplete gamma function (wm): modified incomplete gamma function (mwm): compartmental function (cm): modified compartmental function )mcm): polynomial regression function of ali and sch...

In this paper, a new class of a weighted quadrature rule is represented as --------------------------------------------  where  is a weight function,  are interpolation nodes,  are the corresponding weight coefficients and denotes the error term. The general form of interpolation nodes are considered as   that  and we obtain the explicit expressions of the coefficients  using the q-...

Let be a random sample from a normal distribution with unknown mean and known variance The usual estimator of the mean, i.e., sample mean is the maximum likelihood estimator which under squared error loss function is minimax and admissible estimator. In many practical situations, is known in advance to lie in an interval, say for some In this case, the maximum likelihood estimator...

description of lactation curve were investigated using sine function, compare it with two functions (dijekstra and wood). the data contained 32233 dairy milk yield records from 93 first parity iranian holstein cows that had calving between aug. 2008 and jul. 2009. actual milk production per day and subsequently the actual production of each animal were available in the first lactation. lactatio...

In this paper, a computational intelligence method is used for the solution of fractional optimal control problems (FOCP)'s with equality and inequality constraints. According to the Ponteryagin minimum principle (PMP) for FOCP with fractional derivative in the Riemann- Liouville sense and by constructing a suitable error function, we define an unconstrained minimization problem. In the optimiz...

an artificial neural network has been used to determine the volume flux and rejections of ca2+ , na+ and cl¯, as a function of transmembrane pressure and concentrations of ca2+, polyethyleneimine, and polyacrylic acid in water softening by nanofiltration process in presence of polyelectrolytes. the feed-forward multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network including an eight-neuron hidden la...

in a subclass of the scale-parameter exponential family, we consider the sequential pointestimation of a function of the scale parameter under the loss function given as the sum of the weightedsquared error loss and a linear cost. for a fully sequential sampling scheme, second order expansions areobtained for the expected sample size as well as for the regret of the procedure. the former resear...