in order to study on the effect of incomplete sire's pedigree on the prediction of breeding value and estimation of genetic trend, two quantitative traits such as weaning weight and average daily gain with heritabilities 0.15 and 0.30 were simulated. phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations were assumed 0.5. resulted data files with different proportion of missed sire pedigree (0...

Widely used for morphing between objects with arbitrary topology, distance field interpolation (DFI) handles topological transition naturally without the need for correspondence or remeshing, unlike surface-based interpolation approaches. However, lack of correspondence in DFI also leads to ineffective control over the morphing process. In particular, unless the user specifies a dense set of la...

(co) variance components and genetic parameters for growth traits in arman sheep were estimated, using data collected during an 11-year period (1999-2010), by applying the restricted maximum likelihood (reml) procedure under univariate and bivariate animal models. the studied traits were body weight of lamb at birth (bw), body weight at 3 months of age as weaning weight (ww), body weight at 6 m...

Purpose This paper aims to assess whether digital financial inclusion (DFI) supports Egypt's CO 2 reduction efforts. More specifically, this examines the dynamics between finance, traditional (TFI) and renewable energy on carbon emission in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach The study employed autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) model for Egypt over period 1990–2020 estimate an extended STIR...

File carving is one of the most important procedures in Digital Forensic Investigation (DFI). But it is also requires the most computational resources. Parallel processing on Graphics Processing Units have proven to be many times faster than when executed on standard CPU. This paper is inspecting the algorithms and methods to use parallel processing for development of file carving tools that wi...

BACKGROUND Sperm chromatin structure is often impaired; mainly due to oxidative damage. Antioxidant treatments do not consistently produce fertility improvements and, when given at high doses, they might block essential oxidative processes such as chromatin compaction. This study was intended to assess the effect on male sub-fertility of a pure one carbon cycle nutritional support without stron...

BACKGROUND The objective of this retrospective study was to determine whether differences in survival exist between women with de novo stage IV and relapsed breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Three thousand five hundred and twenty-four women with de novo stage IV or relapsed breast cancer diagnosed from 1992 to 2007 were identified. Disease-free interval (DFI) was defined as the time from th...

There is evidence to show that varicocele repair can improve conventional sperm parameters but the effects on sperm chromatin integrity have not been fully elucidated. We sought to examine the effects of varicocelectomy on sperm maturation, nuclear chromatin integrity and nuclear sulfhydryl groups. We conducted a prospective study of consecutive infertile men (n=29) that underwent a microsurgic...

BACKGROUND The impact of atopic dermatitis (AD) on children's quality of life (QoL) in US and European countries is relatively well known, though rarely evaluated in the Italian population. Moreover, the association between child age and QoL has not been enough investigated, even though few studies detected a worse QoL in youngest AD children. The aim of the study was to evaluate the QoL in an ...