Genetic Trend Estimators

Livestock genetic origins: goats buck the trend.

T domestic goat (Capra hircus) often is dismissed as the ‘‘poor man’s cow’’ for its ability to thrive on meager fodder and cope with harsh environments. However, this belies the economic and archaeological importance of the species. From an agricultural standpoint, the world’s 700 million goats provide reliable access to meat, milk, skins, and fiber for small farmers—particularly in developing ...

Evolving estimators of the pointwise Hölder exponent with Genetic Programming

The regularity of a signal can be numerically expressed using Hölder exponents, which characterize the singular structures a signal contains. In particular, within the domains of image processing and image understanding, regularity-based analysis can be used to describe local image shape and appearance. However, estimating the Hölder exponent is not a trivial task, and current methods tend to b...

Recent trend in Intrusion detection using Fuzzy- Genetic algorithm

Computer networks have expanded significantly in use and this makes them more vulnerable to attacks. It is really important to secure the data from any intrusive attacks so intrusion detection is really very helpful in the field of computer network security. Intrusion detection is the act of detecting unwanted traffic on a network. Many current intrusion detection systems are unable to find unk...

Optimal Trend Tests for Genetic Association Studies of Heterogeneous Diseases

The Cochran-Armitage trend test is a standard procedure in genetic association studies. It is a directed test with high power to detect genetic effects that follow the gene-dosage model. In this paper, the author proposes optimal trend tests for genetic association studies of heterogeneous diseases. Monte-Carlo simulations show that the power gain of the optimal trend tests over the conventiona...

Genetic Trend in Milk Yield of Exotic Cattle in India