This work aims to compare different nonlinear functions for describing the growth curves of Nelore females. The growth curve parameters, their (co)variance components, and environmental and genetic effects were estimated jointly through a Bayesian hierarchical model. In the first stage of the hierarchy, 4 nonlinear functions were compared: Brody, Von Bertalanffy, Gompertz, and logistic. The ana...

The study aimed was to determine the best nonlinear function describing growth stages of Japanese quail breed. To this aim, functions such as exponential, logistic, von Bertalanffy, Brody, and Gompertz were used is in description body weight-age relationship male female quails. Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) data mining algorithm applied individual parameters obtained from dete...

Abstract Large mammals at northern latitudes show annual cycles of body mass gain in summer and loss winter. The amplitude seasonal timing these may vary through ontogeny depending on trade‐offs toward investments structural growth versus fat storage, reproduction, future survival. Despite this knowledge, there is no detailed model how the seasonality develops ontogeny. Here, we define a new th...

OBJECTIVE The importance of cognitive and physical functioning for nursing home admission among medically hospitalized older patients is rarely studied in a one-year follow-up perspective. This study aims to explore the association between patient characteristics and nursing home admission within one year after hospitalization in persons 65 years or more. DESIGN A one-year longitudinal study....

O estresse é um grave problema de saúde pública e sua gravidade suscetibilidade se relacionam com uma série fatores como a idade, obesidade funcionalidade. As mudanças na física, mental, vida social capacidade cognitiva no envelhecimento predispõem o estresse. Assim, saber manejar do cotidiano necessário, principalmente durante velhice. presente estudo teve objetivo avaliar percepção estresse, ...

abstract this study scrutinized the interaction between linguistic and strategic variables in reading comprehension test performance of iranian efl learners. to this end, the interaction among the participants’ reading comprehension test performance, use of test-taking strategies, and level of language proficiency was analyzed. the participants comprised 286 students who answered a reading comp...