ABSTRACT Vitamin A deficiency is common in developing countries. Sweet potato can be an ally reversing this situation since it has a low acquisition cost and high market availability. In addition, some genotypes have orange-flesh roots, rich beta-carotene, which the precursor of vitamin A. Thus, objective research was to select orange-fleshed sweet using two selection indices (Smith Hazel Mulam...

This paper studies power indices based on average representations of a weighted game. If restricted to account for the lack of power of dummy voters, average representations become coherent measures of voting power, with power distributions being proportional to the distribution of weights in the average representation. This makes these indices representationcompatible, a property not fulfilled...

When data are large and query processing workloads consist of data selection and aggregation operations (as in online analytical processing), column-oriented data stores are generally the preferred choice of data organization, because they enable effective data compression, leading to significantly reduced IO. Most columnstore architectures leverage bitmap indices, which themselves can be compr...

in order to increase drought tolerance in bread wheat, an appropriate breeding program based on inheritance of drought tolerance is recommended. in the present study, nine bread wheat cultivars and their f2 progenies were evaluated in a randomized complete block design under normal and drought stress conditions. nine sensitivity/tolerance indices were calculated for studied genotypes and stress...

A total of 56 selection indices were computed in Brown strain of Japanese quail based on the body weights at 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks of age with its dams AFE, dams EP16, dams EW16 and dams EM16. The aggregate genetic gain (δH) expected from the selection indices constructed with dams performance, of body weights at different ages ranged from 0.28 to 90.22, 0.71 to 99.58, 0.69 to 90.27 and 1.69 to 6...