in the current study, two line with short-term divergent selection for high weight (hw) and low weight (lw) at 4 wk of age after 7 generation were analyzed in coturnix japonica quail. hw line was significantly higher than lw line at 28d of age (p<0.01). 21 females, and 11 male from the hw, 18 females plus 10 male from the lw lines were mated as reciprocal cross and within lines to produce hh, l...

Neutron and proton densities in the nuclear periphery are investigated within (p,n) charge-exchange isobar transitions. For this purpose we have developed parameterfree optical potentials 1) with a detailed treatment of the in-medium tτ part of the effective interaction. Non local coupled-channel Lane equations are solved to obtain the scattering observables. The use of conventional proton and ...

This paper describes a method for detecting and recognizing road signs in gray-level and color images acquired by a single camera mounted on a moving vehicle. The method works in three stages. First, the search for the road sign is reduced to a suitable region of the image by using some a priori knowledge on the scene or color clues (when available). Secondly, a geometrical analysis of the edge...

A detailed error analysis is carried out for the determination of the MS charm quark mass mc(mc) from moments at order α 2 s of the charm cross section in ee annihilation. To estimate the theoretical uncertainties the renormalization scale is implemented in various ways including energy-dependent functions, which lead to “contour-improved” predictions. We obtain mc(mc) = 1.29 ± 0.07 GeV which c...

This paper describes a method for detecting and recognizing road signs in grey-level and colour images acquired by a single camera mounted on a moving vehicle. The method works in three stages. First, the search for the road sign is reduced to a suitable region of the image by using some a priori knowledge on the scene or colour clues (when available). Secondly, a geometrical analysis of the ed...

This paper presents the first research results of the Cross-Cultural Cumulative Coding Center (CCCCC), a unit established at the University of Pittsburgh in May, 1968, with support from the National Science Foundation. It offers to scholars a representative sample of the world's known and well described cultures, 186 in number, each "pinpointed" to the smallest identifiable subgroup of the soci...

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Many industry sectors face the challenge of how to satisfy the increasing demand for individualized software systems and software-intensive systems. The software product line (PL) engineering paradigm (SPLE, see [5]) has proven to empower organizations to develop a diversity of similar systems at lower cost, in shorter time, and with higher quality compared to single system development [5]. Key...