Despite the economic importance of beef cattle production in Brazil, female reproductive performance, which is strongly associated with production efficiency, is not included in the selection index of most breeding programmes due to low heritability and difficulty in measure. The body condition score (BCS) could be used as an indicator of these traits. However, so far little is known about the ...

the objective of the present study was to determine factors affecting body condition score (bcs) and its association with productive and reproductive performances in holstein cows. mixed model analysis was performed on monthly records of bcs from april 2006 to july 2012 comprising 34666 records from 3134 dairy cows in a large commercial dairy herd under arid climatic conditions of isfahan in ir...

Automatic facial action unit (AU) detection from video is a long-standing problem in facial expression analysis. Existing work typically poses AU detection as a classification problem between frames or segments of positive and negative examples, and emphasizes the use of different features or classifiers. In this paper, we propose a novel AU event detection method, Cascade of Tasks (CoT), which...

Previous efforts at facial expression recognition have been based on the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a representation developed in order to allow human psychologists to code expression from static facial “mugshots.” In this paper we develop new, more accurate representations for facial expression by building a video database of facial expressions and then probabilistically characterizin...

We construct multi-soliton solutions of the n-component vector nonlinear Schr\odinger equation on half-line subject to two classes integrable boundary conditions (BCs): homogeneous Robin BCs and mixed Neumann/Dirichlet BCs. The construction is based approach dressing BCs: soliton are generated in preserving at each step Darboux-dressing process. Under BCs, examples, including boundary-bound sol...

Effects of body condition score (BCS) at parturition and postpartum weight gain on luteal activity and concentrations of glucose, insulin, and NEFA in plasma were evaluated during the breeding season in 242 primiparous beef cows over 3 yr (Y) at three locations (L). At approximately 90 d prepartum, cows were blocked by breed, expected calving date, and BCS and randomly assigned to diets so that...

gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors on retinal bipolar cells (BCs) are highly relevant to spatial and temporal integration of visual signals in the outer and inner retina. In the present work, subcellular localization and complements of GABA(A) and GABA(C) receptors on BCs were investigated by whole cell recordings and local drug application via multi-barreled puff pipettes in the bullfrog...

The body condition score (BCS) system is a subjective scoring method of evaluating the energy reserves of dairy animals to provide better understanding of biological relationships between body fat, milk production and reproduction. This method helps in adopting the optimum management practices to derive maximum production and maintain optimum health of the livestock. In this study, a new BCS sy...