in this study, the incomplete gamma function, an exponential function, a mixed-log function and a polynomial function were evaluated to describe the lactation curve in moroccan holstein-friesian dairy cows. data from 1990 to 1999, comprising 77130 monthly milk yields of 6029 dairy cows in 280 dairy herds, were used. edits were carried out by considering the lactation length (5 d and

cytochrome-c (cyt-c) is an electron transport protein, and it is present throughout the evolution. more than 280 sequences have been reported in the protein sequence database (www.uniprot.org). though sequentially diverse, cyt-c has essentially retained its tertiary structure or fold. thus a vast data set of varied sequences with retention of similar structure and function makes it a primary ca...

In this paper, we derive rst some results on the Shannon entropyin order statistics and their concomitants arising from a sequence of f(Xi; Yi): i = 1; 2; :::g independent and identically distributed (iid) random variablesfrom the bivariate normal distribution and extend our results to a collectionC(X; Y ) = f(Xr1:n; Y[r1:n]); (Xr2:n; Y[r2:n]); :::; (Xrk:n; Y[rk:n])g of order sta-tistics and th...

The bovine transferrin gene (TF) is located at 125 cM on bovine chromosome 1 (BTA1); it codes for transferrin, a glycoprotein that is highly conserved in many species and that is responsible for iron transport. The TF gene has been located in several QTL regions, and some transferrin classes have been associated with fat and milk yields. We analyzed by means of allele-specific oligonucleotide r...

The C* -algebra extensions of a topological space can be made into an abelian group which is naturally equivalent to the Khomology group of odd dimension [1] which has a close relation with index theory and is one of the starting points of KK theory [8]. The Cp -smoothness of an extension of a manifold was introduced in [3, 4], where Cp denotes the Schatten-von Neumann p-class [5]. We generaliz...

PURPOSE To characterize the recording and analyze the results of the combined cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential in individuals without hearing and vestibular complaints. METHODS In this study, 30 individuals without hearing complaints and hearing within normal limits were evaluated. Data were collected through the simultaneous recording of cervical and ocular vestibular...

Concentrations of toxic heavy metals (cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb)) and major nutritional and trace elements (Ca, Mg, P, Cu, Fe, Mn, Se, Zn) were analyzed in the milk of Simmental (n = 20) and Holstein-Friesian (n = 20) cows from an organic farm. Elements were determined using inductively coupled plasma emission atomic spectrometry. The conducted research showed that the milk of Simmental cows was c...

This paper establishes the first four moment expansions to the order o(a^−1) of S_{t_{a}}^{prime }/sqrt{t_{a}}, where S_{n}^{prime }=sum_{i=1}^{n}Y_{i} is a simple random walk with E(Yi) = 0, and ta is a stopping time given by t_{a}=inf left{ ngeq 1:n+S_{n}+zeta _{n}>aright}‎ where S_{n}=sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i} is another simple random walk with E(Xi) = 0, and {zeta _{n},ngeq 1} is a sequence of ran...