Fifty four pigs (twenty five Duroc, twenty one Large white and eight crosses of Duroc and Large white (Hybrid)) were used to describe the performance traits of pigs. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic correlation among the linear body measurements of three pig genotypes and the heritabilities of body weight at different ages. The pigs were averagely 30 kg of body weight and 70...

INTRODUCTION The triathlon involves a combination of three separate disciplines-swimming, cycling and running. To date, very few studies have been conducted on the anthropometric characteristics of the New Zealand junior elite triathletes. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between physical traits of calf girth or sum of eight skinfolds (anthropometry) and running or cycling...

Rowers competing at the 2000 Olympic Games were measured for 38 anthropometric dimensions. The aim was to identify common physical characteristics that could provide a competitive advantage. The participants included 140 male open-class rowers, 69 female open-class rowers, 50 male lightweight rowers, and 14 female lightweight rowers. Body mass, stature, and sitting height were different (P < 0....

Local time processes parameterized by a circle, de ned by the occupation density up to time T of Brownian motion with constant drift on the circle, are studied for various random times T . While such processes are typically non-Markovian, their Laplace functionals are expressed by series formulae related to similar formulae for the Markovian local time processes subject to the Ray-Knight theore...

A data set concerning 1,816 subjects entered in the Italian Horse Registry from 1925 to 2002 was analyzed to investigate the morphological evolution of the Murgese horse and to obtain useful elements to enhance breeding practices. Three basic body measurements (height at withers, chest girth, and cannon bone circumference) were considered for each subject. Heritabilities were calculated for eac...

In this paper, we will present the work on building a shallow parser for recognizing composite verb forms in Serbian – the forms that consist of an auxiliary verb and a main verb. The parser is made in Unitex, a corpus processing software, in the form of local grammars that rely on using morphological dictionaries of Serbian. The model was tested on a small corpus of texts, both written in Serb...

Studies have found that portions of space around our body are differently coded by our brain. Numerous works have investigated visual and auditory spatial representation, focusing mostly on the spatial representation of stimuli presented at head level, especially in the frontal space. Only few studies have investigated spatial representation around the entire body and its relationship with moto...

the current study was designed to estimate the frequency of igf-i gene 1 polymorphism and investigate if their polymorphisms have association with biometric traits in moghani sheep by pcr-sscp method. for this purpose, a number of 100 sheep were randomly chosen from moghani sheep jafarabad, moghan breeding station that located in ardabil state and blood samples were collected from the left jugu...