... improvement of 30% of the coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.80) in the relation between predicted cutting forces and routing measurements, and a reduction of 60% of errors sum of squares It ... development of electronic means of measuring and recording cutting forces, the pendulum approach has been neglected Thus, at the beginning of this work, it was decided to use one of Chardin’s ... clearance angle: 15° Each value of total cutting forces obtained is a mean of 30 mean resultant values 2.2 Dynamometric pendulum adjustment It was in the first years of XVIIIe century that Jacques...
... examine the impact of the different models on the estimation of MA-BLUP breeding values, the correlation of true and estimated breeding values was calculated for each group of animals (bulls, ... influence of different structures of information (pedigree depth, completeness of genotyping) on the estimation of QTL effects We did not want to examine the effect of several QTL on the accuracy of ... affected (see Figure 2) Accuracy of MA-BLUP EBV To evaluate the consequences of the varying conditions for the estimation of MA-BLUP breeding values, accura- cies were calculated for proven bulls,...
... is calculated from other column values in the same row, or from an aggregate of rows in the table or in a related table The DataType of the column must be compatible with the return value of ... through one of the DataColumn constructors that take the expression for the column as the third argument (the technique used in the sample code) or by setting the Expression property of the column ... da.Fill(dt); // Add an expression column to the table dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("ExtendedPrice", typeof(Decimal), "(Quantity * UnitPrice) * (1 - Discount)")); // Define the DataView object dv = dt.DefaultView;...
... estimate of the total F of the target variable, which is calculated based on the valuesof that variable at each segment s = 1, , R of the path and the unconditional probability Qs of the segment ... ad hoc use of different auxiliary variables, the stratification of the crown and the deletion of segments In the present study, the effects of the choice of the auxiliary variable and of the created ... individual trees and defined the product of the squared diameter and the length of the branch beginning at the base of the segment, a proxy of the volume of that part of the branch, as the auxiliary variable...
... pictures of weight k A card of weight k is a pair consisting of a picture of weight k and a k-element subset of N that we will call the label set of the card A hand of weight n and size l is a set of ... of compositions of n − by {1, 2} and the set of compositions of n − by odd numbers The bijection works by prepending a to a composition of the former type, and then performing substitutions of ... to the interpretation of the nth Fibonacci number as the cardinality of the set of compositions of n by {1, 2} [1, 2.2.23] To date, there are few systematic investigations of composition sum identities...
... enables precision depth dose distribution measurements, (iii) the array of ionization chambers facilitates 3D measurements, and (iv) the biological cell samples allow judgment of the validity of the ... (abs values: 1.2 ± 0.9%) with -2.7% minimum and 3.7% maximum deviation (details in table 3) A comparison of relative doses outside of the target volume indicates a small horizontal shift of measurement ... gradient (see also profiles in fig 5b) The data of the comparisons C1-C3 are shown in figure The spread of the results around zero is compatible with the standard errors of the measurements Discussion...
... with this suggestion Comparison of RBE values The calculated RBE value of 1.0 ± 0.3 for induction of gH2AX foci is much smaller than the values for induction of cell reproductive death, chromosome ... RBE value of 14.6 for cell reproductive death is similar to values in the range of to 15 published for many other lines of cultured cells [45] The RBE of derived for the induction of DNA-DSB ... assessment of RBE values the comparison with linear parameters for gamma radiation for all endpoints is appropriate Therefore, in order to compare equivalent values only the valuesof a are considered...
... on account of its simplicity relative to its main objective, i.e of providing a rough estimate of the precisionof estimated genetic distances, particularly when designing programmes of data collection ... deviation of D can be expressed = = as where L is the number of loci and k is the number of algebraically independent distance estimates per locus, i.e assuming k + alleles As no proof of this ... discussed by Barker et al [2] for breeds of livestock For instance, using this formula with the aim of having a standard deviation of 0.03 or less for distance valuesof 0.1, they recommended basing breed...
... correlation of breeding values and of estimable contrasts of CG effects with their true values for any combination of simulation model, selection scheme, true heritability (h2 ), and level of pedigree ... phenotypic records or BLUP of breeding values) on the sampling properties of EBLUP and Bayesian estimates of breeding values assuming models with or without effects of contemporary groups, and ... sire and dam of individual j, and mij is the Mendelian sampling effect of individual j assumed to be independent of the genetic valuesof the sire and dam The inbreeding coefficient (F) of the parents...
... consequences of using the same additive variance ( for L, I and * QA ) crossbred animals Let Caa be the submatrix of a g-inverse of the right-hand-side of the MME * corresponding to a, but calculated ... Let: r i equation number of individuali for the rth trait r j equation number of the sire ofi or its sire group (if base sire) for trait r r k equation number of the dam ofi or its dam group (if ... computing the inverse of a numerator matrix used in the prediction of breeding values Biometrics 32, 69-84 Henderson CR (1984) Applications of Linear Models in Animal Breeding University of Guelph Press,...
... selection index predictors of breeding values impossible to compute (auaas and Henderson [13, 14] extended the BLUP procedure of Henderson [5] to allow estimation of breeding values including restrictions ... among predicted breeding values was the same as that among true breeding values This approach adds bias when estimates of genetic variances and covariances are used instead of the true parameters ... instead of the true parameters The assumption ignores the effect of differing accuracies of prediction of individual breeding values for each animal, particularly when animal models are fitted...
... integration of the I!u[f Jof(u) marginal posterior distribution of the variances This latter distribution gives the plausibility ofvalues taken by the residual variance and the variance of the u’s, ... the values obtained give the MAP of the unknowns Observe that (27) and (28) guarantee non-negativity of the estimated variance components The algorithm does not involve elements of the inverse of ... modal valuesof the posterior density of the variance components The predictor obtained belongs to the class of Empirical Bayes estimators (V & U 1981 ; JUDGE et al., 1985) as the variance of the...
... foot: an ethnological study of flatfoot II Clin Orthop Relat Res 1970, 70:124-32 Rao UB, Joseph B: The influence of footwear on the prevalence of flat foot A survey of 2300 children J Bone Joint ... navicular tuberosity, (ii) medial aspect of calcaneus cm above the floor and cm from the most posterior aspect of the calcaneus, and (iii) medial aspect of first metatarsal head cm above the floor ... "acceptable range of normative values for Figure (ND) Reflective marker positions used to calculate navicular drop Reflective marker positions used to calculate navicular drop (ND) Page of (page number...
... sequences of known miRNAs of other species [31-34] Out of the 84 unique miRNA sequences, 49 can be confirmed by our sequencing Table Summary of small RNA sequencing No of reads No of unique No of unique ... for miRNA annotation [36] We report here the establishment of such a method of identifying miRNAs by measuring the Page of 14 precisionof miRNA processing from precursors This method has resulted ... of the newly identified miRNAs were validated by Northern blot using RNAs from kernel of mixed stages (Figure 4) As additional evidence to support the annotation of some of these miRNAs, 22 of...
... the development of OSAS [34,35], and the loss of weight one of the most valid therapies The limitations of our analisys include: the lack of information about the width of the soft palate, the ... control [8] Abnormalities of the facial skeleton and of the soft tissues, in association with the narrowing of the upper respiratory airway, often lead to the onset of obstructive apnea The most ... development of apnea Statistically significant differences emerged by analyzing the individual data of the soft palate of each study within obese and non-obese groups; discouraging the associabil Page of...
... coefficient of error (CE), as calculated from the following equation, is more appropriate: CE = CV / √n (1) where CE = coefficient of variation of average of n measurements, CV = coefficient of variation ... known and precisiona is known, Then: Precisionb = √ [(PEa-b)2 – (precisiona)2] Different combinations ofprecision for a reference and a new method that can lead to a percentage error (PE) of 30% ... have a level ofPrecisionof the reference technique for n averaged measurements and the corresponding percentage error (PE) from the Bland-Altman plot for a fixed level ofprecisionof the studied...
... P: Efficiency of activation of the trauma team in a Norwegian trauma referral centre The European journal of surgery 2000, 166:760-764 Hoff WS, Tinkoff GH, Lucke JF, Lehr S: Impact of minimal injuries ... guidelines [14], with an undertriage of 10% and overtriage of 55% (Table 2) However, comparison of triage Table 4: Usage and performance of TTA criteria by category of prehospital care provider Paramedic ... our evaluation of diagnostic precisionof triage was based on this assumption Various parameters can describe trauma triage precision We defined ""Sensitivity" as the fraction of severely injured...
... Figure of number records in the training data a (N) als for BayesB (3a) and G-BLUP (3b) valuesof G2e the Accuracy of the prediction of geneticassetfunction ofindividuAccuracy of the prediction of ... genetic valuesof G2e individuals for BayesB (3a) and G-BLUP (3b) as a function of the number of records in the training data set (N) Estimation of the effective number of loci Using the results of ... the marker of genetic valuesof G2e individualssquare root (except for the adjacentline which indicates GBLUP) Accuracy ofof prediction density, which is expressed as the for BayesB of R2 between...
... property of being positive definite BB bending, which biases the sum of the Eigenvalues upwards, biases the estimate of the average coefficient of inbreeding, since the sum of the Eigenvalues equals ... Pigs Sheep Number of sires in each generation 5 Number of dams per sire 10 (5) (1) 20 20 Number of male (female) offspring per mating Size of paternal half-sib families Size of full-sib families ... levels of information content of the markers were studied, with the exception of the sheep data with biallelic markers with alleles of equal frequency (2E) This exception was because of the lack of...
... involve the evaluation of BIs, of which any improvements achieved result in the betterment of the overall solution to the problem In the evaluation of BIs, the two main topics of interest are how ... Brebbia et al., 1984), the boundary of the domain of analysis is divided into a number of small segments (elements) The geometry of an element and the variation of temperature and temperature gradient ... ðsÞ; ð21Þ ð22Þ RBF interpolation of boundary values where s [ Gj ; mj þ is the number of IRBFN weights, {wðiÞ and uj }i¼1 ðiÞ mjþ2 {wqj }i¼1 are the sets of weights of networks for the temperature...