Effects of Adjustment for Mate's Yield, Mate's Sire's Merit, and Days Open in Sire Evaluation

Sire Evaluation for Economic Merit

Procedures for selecting sires are compared in terms of making maximum genetic progress in economic lnerit. A quadratic index, a simplified form of the quadratic index and a linear index to evaluate economic merit, and a restricted index to improve milk as much as possible while holding milk fat percentage constant, all result in nearly equal expected genetic progress in economic merit. Selecti...

Prediction of transmitting abilities for Holstein type traits.

Heritabilities and genetic and phenotypic correlations among 14 linear type traits were estimated from Holstein Association data by multiple trait REML. Data used for parameter estimation were records of 779,391 daughters of 871 sires included in the January 1988 sire evaluation. Each daughter was represented by her appraisal closest to 30 mo of age. Highest heritability was .37 for stature, an...

Mates 2009

The German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers, to present and discuss latest advances in research work, as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. The conference aims to promote theory and application and covers the whole range of agentand multi-agent technol...

Mates 2008

The 6th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2008) was hosted, together with the co-located 31th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2008), by the University of Kaiserslautern and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). From September 23th until Septmeber 26th 2008 mostly European research groups presented their work in six sessions frame...

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