SUMMARY i> The Land Development and ~lanagement Corporati on (LDMC) has estab 1 i shed an open-nucleus Breeding Scheme within its Rotorua District to breed Angus bulls to cover 20 750 cows and 5 200 heifers. Nuc 1 eus herd numbers over the 1976-85 period were 775 cows and 357 heifers, with an average of 101 2-year-old bulls ~ing distributed annually to LDMC herds. From 1976/77, a multiplicative...

In this paper, we introduce metric learning into Sign Language Recognition(SLR) for the first time and propose a signer adaption framework to address signer-independent SLR. For adapting the general model to the new signer, both clustering and manifold constraints are considered in the adaptive distance metric optimization. The contribution of our work mainly lies in three-folds. Firstly, a Wea...

A novel nonparametric regression model is developed for evaluating the covariate-specific accuracy of a continuous biological marker. Accurately screening diseased from nondiseased individuals and correctly diagnosing disease stage are critically important to health care on several fronts, including guiding recommendations about combinations of treatments and their intensities. The accuracy of ...

Let Z=(Z1,…,Zd) be the d-dimensional Lévy processes where Zi’s are independent 1-dimensional with jump kernel Jϕ,1(u,w)=|u−w|−1ϕ(|u−w|)−1 for u,w∈R. Here ϕ is an increasing function weak scaling condition of order α̲,α¯∈(0,2). J(x,y)≍Jϕ(x,y) symmetric measurable Jϕ(x,y)≔Jϕ,1(xi,yi)if xi≠yi some i and xj=yj all j≠i0if more than one index iCorresponding to J, we show existence non-isotropic Markov...

This study investigated the impact of different levels dietary energy and crude protein on productive performance, egg quality, reproductive parameters in Rajasri breeder birds during a 12-week period between 25 to 36 weeks age. A total 648 were divided into nine treatments, each with eight replicates, following 3 × factorial arrangement three metabolizable (2400, 2500, 2600 kcal ME/kg) (14, 15...

An experiment was carried out using 200 hundred Athulya birds divided into 10 treatments (T1-T10) to find out the effect of phytase enzyme on egg quality traits supplemented at 0, 500 and 1000 units/kg in low energy, low protein and low energyprotein layer chicken diets containing available phosphorus of 0.30 per cent from 21 to 40 weeks of age. A standard layer ration was offered to birds in T...

The relations of sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium to blood pressure were investigated in four groups of men (119 high-mountain Yi farmers, 114 mountainside Yi farmers, 89 Yi migrants, and 97 Han people) with a wide range of electrolyte intake in Puge County, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China. Electrolytes were measured in diet, serum, and urine. Sodium excretion was 73.9 mmo...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect watermelon seed flour supplementation in feed on interior quality native chicken eggs. This research is a biological using Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 4 treatments and 5 replications. Each treatment used chickens. results statistical analysis showed that had very significant (p<0.01) egg yolk index white height an insignifican...

Production performance and egg quality characteristics of pullets and spent layers were compared in this study. Forty birds, each from the flocks of pullets (24 weeks old) and spent layers (76 weeks old) were selected as experimental birds. The birds from each age group were divided into five replicates, each comprising of eight birds. All the experimental birds were fed a commercial layer rati...

A pilot study has been carried out to define typical characteristics of the trace gas compounds in exhaled breath of non-smokers and smokers to assist interpretation of breath analysis data from patients who smoke with respiratory diseases and lung cancer. Exhaled breath was analyzed using proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) for 370 volunteers (81 smokers, 210 non-smokers, 79 ex...