the genetic parameters for milk production and milk fat traits for first to third parities were estimated using single, multi trait and repeatability models. the genetic parameters for test day milk records were also estimated using random regression model. the test day records and 305 day milk records of 17055 cows from 10 herds collected between years 1996-2007 in khorasan razavi province wer...

background : zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is a neglected tropical disease prevailed in many rural areas of 17 out of 31 provinces in iran. the main vector of the disease is phlebotomus papatasi and the causative agent is leishmania major in zcl foci of iran. in the current study we investigated the validity of accessory glands secre­tions as an indicator to recognize parous from nulli...

background & aim: the fear of childbirth is defined as the fear experienced before, during and after birth. this study was carried out to study the relationship between fear of childbirth and obstetric variables . methods & materials : : this cross sectional study was conducted in a state hospital in kars, turkey on 403 pregnant women who were recruited from the delivery ward. the convenience s...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between parity and age at diagnosis, primary tumor size, axillary lymph node (ALN) metastasis, histological grade, and subtype classification in patients with breast cancer. Data from 392 patients with invasive breast cancer were collected and divided into four groups: nulliparous (parity 0), parity 1, parity 2, and parity ≥3. The relation...

We introduce an information theoretic measure of dependency between multiple random variables, called ‘binding information’ and compare it with several previously proposed measures of statistical complexity, including excess entropy, Crutchfield et al’s entropy of causal states, Bialek et al’s predictive information, Dubnov’s information rate, and the multiinformation. We discuss and prove some...

Production systems with group housing of sows during a part of the lactation are used in certified organic production and can increase the occurrence of lactational estrus thus making batch-wise breeding difficult. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of lactational estrus and time at return to estrus after weaning by following the performance of the sow (change in body weigh...

This is a phenomenological review of R parity violating SUSY models, with particular emphasis on explicit R parity violation.

The n-variable PARITY function is computable (by a well-known recursive construction) by AC formulas of depth d+ 1 and leafsize n·2dn1/d . These formulas are seen to possess a certain symmetry: they are syntactically invariant under the subspace P of even-weight elements in {0, 1}, which acts (as a group) on formulas by toggling negations on input literals. In this paper, we prove a 2 −1) lower...