... 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 base dam) for trait ... to examine the 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 ... respectively Whereas true PEV for the same animals computed by means of [11] or [12] (or direct inversion of the MME) are: 79.94, 79.79, 119.88, 78.98, 98.52, 99.66 and 149.59 for animals 1-7, respectively...
... case of an animal model, making very restrictive supositions For continuously distributed traits, the use of an animal model is currently the state of the art for genetic evaluation of breeding animals ... continuously distributed traits the use of an animal model is the state of the art for the genetic evaluation of breeding animals A logical step would be to use an animal model as well to describe the ... even the ranking of breeding animals may depend on the model type chosen The result that the use of equivalent sire and animalmodelsfor the underlying variable and the use of the same estimation...
... great potential of current knowledge to modulate levels of these important phytonutrients for the benefit ofhuman health and will, therefore, be separately discussed in a later part of this chapter ... flavonoids impart much of the color and flavor of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, they form an integral part of the human diet (Parr and Bolwell, 2000) Rich dietary sources of flavonoids include ... five of the above color groups can be assigned to the carotenoid or flavonoid families of phytonutrients, underlying their importance forhuman nutrition Some members of the carotenoid family of...
... transformation process Development of system of hydrodynamic-environmental modelsfor coastal area 61 In the static condition, the amount of oils on the sea is correlative to the thickness of ... need to build a system ofmodelsfor each environment which is related to each other through the boundary conditions In this case, we can introduce the system ofmodelsfor oil slick, oil-in-water ... water environment Development of system of hydrodynamic-environmental modelsfor coastal area 63 As explained above, on the interface between water and oil slick, the flux of emulsion oil is...
... 17.0 for English, 18.7 for Spanish, and 22.5 for French For English, we also created web mixture models with KN smoothing The error rates were 16.5, 15.9 and 15.7 for the 20 MB, 40 MB and 70 MB models, ... FSTs contain the acoustic models, language model and lexicon, but the LM makes up for most of the size The availability of data varies for the different languages, and therefore the FST sizes are ... size of the model Since it is possible to create larger mixture models than in-domain models, there are no in-domain results for the largest model sizes Especially if large models can be afforded,...
... this information in the probability distributions of words for each class For example, if the word “professor” is the most likely word for faculty home pages, it will have a large probability for ... 5: Two of the classification tasks from Reuters Multinomial event models an average of 4.8% points better This domain tends to require smaller vocabularies for best performance See Figure for the ... Bayes-optimal estimates for these parameters from a set of labeled training data Here, the estimate of the probability of word wt in class cj is: Many previous formalizations of the multinomial model...
... over the saturated model of "Step-2K", we obtain combined models containing from 100K to million bigrams The performance of the combined models and that of the baseline KLD models are illustrated ... methods such as those models containing less than 70K bigrams, the performance of "Discrim" is better than "KLD" For the models containing more than 70K bigrams, "KLD" gets better performance than "Discrim" ... 96.1 Cut-off 96.0 Bigram Num(10K) 10 Figure Performance Comparison of Different Pruning Methods First, we compare the performance of "KLD" and "Discrim" When the model size is small, # of bigrams...
... and foreign countries The value of geographical-economic-traffic location of Diem Dien Town is investigated to study and use for the purpose of economic development, Diem Dien town will take off ... time come back the offshore and inshore catching that still is too high, and so forth 3.2.2 Aquaculture production Aquaculture production is one of traditional professions of inhabitants in Diem ... river routes are built for the service of watering, draining away and traffic, and so forth Besides, Sing and Gu rivers are important sources of water for agricultural development The water resources...
... shown) Use of synthetic peptidyl-CoAs with Sfp and PCP-E bidomain constructs for assaying epimerization activity The first aim of this study was to develop an assay for the investigation of E domain ... relative values of l- ⁄ d-isomers were calculated easily by determining the area of the ion extracted MS signals Therefore, the use of an internal standard was not necessary for quantification ... was possible to resolve formation of converted peptidyl substrates in dependence of time (Fig 5) (the margin of error, as estimated by up to four independent determinations of each time curve, was...
... {topic→information} index requires identification of the topic for each call to make use of information available in the model Below we show examples of the use of the model for topic identification Topic Identification ... the documents contain well formed sentences which allow for parsers to be used Call Center Analytics: A lot of work on automatic call type classification for the purpose of categorizing calls (Tang ... Figure 1: Partial transcript of a help desk dialog minutes For 125 of these calls, call topics were manually assigned Generation of Domain Model Fig shows the steps for generating a domain model...
... number of times word w t occurs in class e j , the total number of word occurrences in ej, and the total number of occurrences of w t , respectively Let d(c) = P(ci ld i ) denote the number of documents ... parameters of c3 with distribution P(d i lc3 ; 0) The likelihood of a document is given by the total probability P (d i 0) = E p(ei 0)P(di ; 0) (1) j=1 Of course, the true parameters of the mixture ... estimation of P(dilc3; 0) depends on the generative model and is described below Given a new (unseen) document d, classification of d is performed by computing the posterior probability of each...
... accuracy for same session models Table compares NRMSE and R2 for two extreme a cases where 25% and 90% of the data set is used for training models and the rest of the data set is used for testing ... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/8/1/56 Page of 12 Half of the summation of PCSA values for non-primary flexors was added to each of the two primary flexors while a third of the summation of PCSA values for nonprimary extensors ... estimation of thumb-tip forces under four different configurations In another study, performance of a Hillbased physiological muscle model was compared to a neural network for estimation of forearm...
... modifications of animals With emerging knowledge of the major genes that underlie human disease and improved animal models, it seems straightforward to investigate the in vivo function of these genes ... new resources, mapping in animals could approach the speed of mapping in humans while retaining the advantages ofanimal experiments Relevance of findings made in animalmodels It is sometimes argued ... strengthen the power of in silico methods for QTL analysis [86] Unfortunately, the use of many of these resources is limited by the strict MHC dependency of most arthritis models Another interesting...
... methods of analysis of selection experiments, essentially based on least-square estimators (see [8]), new methods based on mixed models were developed from then Moving from sire models to animalmodels ... is here for the sake of completeness, and the derivation of the estimator of is detailed in the Appendix Using Thompson’s notation, n unrelated males (n > 2) are measured for the trait of interest ... those of R, according to the amount of data and type of prior, i.e the more data are available the less are the estimates of responses influenced by the choice of priors And similarly for the...
... a powerful resource for inferences of demographic history So far, resequencing efforts of smaller subsets of the human genome have already yielded a comprehensive portrait of historical changes ... exome data One of the most promising applications for exome data is the study of natural selection in humans [13] Inferring patterns of natural selection on genes is a powerful approach for gauging ... unknown whether these more complex forms of balancing selection have an important role in the patterns ofhuman genetic diversity, and exomes are ideal for this line of inquiry because their cost-effectiveness...
... anterior (and the posterior) end of the embryo to take advantage of, or to make possible, its long germ-band mode ofdevelopment Michalis Averof (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology ... transcripts Their examples showed that ratios between the splicing isoforms of certain genes could be critical for normal development, and that unique protein domains introduced by tissue-specific ... sense comment is often finely tuned as, for example, expressed in the Red Queen hypothesis of host-parasite coevolution Some of these interactions are especially interesting because of the very complicated...
... Nevertheless, these 1D models provide a good foundation for the subsequent developmentof multi-dimensional models 3.2 Two-dimensional models 2D models are more comprehensive compared to 1D models as they ... single-phase mathematical model for later veri…cation of the reduced models This model will also provide a benchmark for comparison of the e¢ ciency of the reduced models; Apply the volume averaging ... signi…cant role in the performance of the fuel cell For example, the ‡ow channels are used for distribution of the reactants to the respective part of the cell, transfer of current, as well as to...
... developmentof Information Technology for the whole system 75 3.3.3 Continued consolidation and promotion of HR 76 3.3.4 Diversification of traditional products and developmentof ... and synchronous developmentof Information Technology for the whole system, continued consolidation and promotion o f HR and diversification of traditional products and developmentof new ones Finally, ... 1995 a non-profit bank for the poor was formed as a subsidiary of Agribank This was highly appreciated by the Government as well as the wider public in the overall efforts for economic development, ...
... production of nearby area, but also helped to increase the number of tourists who come for sea seeing, scuba diving and fishing These result in increasing of local people’s income The role of Law of ... ecosystems to perform their functions providing ecological services to maintain livelihood of local people, particularly the poor, for sustainable development The biodiversity characteristics of those ... social, environmental and developmental benefits of protecting coral reefs The protection of coral reefs has substantial benefit for economics, society, environment and development Protecting and...