We propose a new method that accelerates asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols designed on the principle of state machine replication. State machine replication protocols ensure consistency among replicas by applying operations in the same order to all of them. A naive way to determine the application order of the operations is to repeatedly execute the BFT consensus to determin...

Feed efficiency and carcass characteristics are late-measured traits. The detection of molecular markers associated with them can help breeding programs to select animals early in life, and to predict breeding values with high accuracy. The objective of this study was to identify polymorphisms in the functional and positional candidate gene NEUROD1 (neurogenic differentiation 1), and investigat...

The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of ultrasound measurements for predicting carcass traits in 124 Spanish pascual-type lambs (13 to 16 kg carcass weight). Ultrasound images were taken transversal and longitudinal to the vertebral column and at thoracic (TV; between 12th and 13th ribs) and lumbar (LV; between first and second lumbar vertebrae) locations. Skin thickness, subcutaneo...

Aquaponics (AP) and biofloc technology (BFT) systems rely heavily on bacterial communities to break down organic matter cycle nutrients that are essential for fish plant growth. The functional roles of in aquaculture critical their sustainable operation. Currently, the research combination BFT AP called FLOCponics (FP) is lacking, thereby hindering our ability optimize performance. Here, severa...

Soil is a crucial contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from terrestrial ecosystems the atmosphere. The reduction of GHG in plantation management combating and mitigating global climate change. A 12-month field trial was conducted explore effects different fertilization treatments (control, without fertilizer (CK); biochar-based treatment (BFT); chemical (CFT); mixture 50% BFT CFT (MFT)...

The use of biofloc technology (BFT) in narrow-clawed crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus) culture for 45 days was evaluated by production performance and physiological status crayfish. Four different stocking densities were tested BFT (20, 41.66, 62.5, 83.33 individuals m-2). Water quality parameters monitored to sustain desired levels management. growth did not show any significant differences amo...

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for automating complex business processes in secure and decentralised fashion. Currently, however, its wider adoption is hampered by scalability problems [3] rooted in an inherent tension between stringent consistency, security, and robustness requirements on one hand, and growing application demand coupled with high perf...

Onfarm trial were conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding on pellets with different protein levels in the presence and absence of the bioflocs on water quality, survival and growth of the green tiger shrimp (Penaeus semisulcatus) in intensive types of shrimp culture systems. Five different feeds were formulated. Four biofloc treatments (BFT) and one control were managed in 10 greenhouses e...

State machine replication (SMR) is a software technique for tolerating failures using commodity hardware. The critical service to be made fault-tolerant is modeled by a state machine. Several, possibly different, copies of the state machine are then deployed on different nodes. Clients of the service access the replicas through a SMR protocol which ensures that, despite concurrency and failures...

Genetic parameters, genetic trends, and genetic progress of carcass traits were estimated for 12,447 Nellore individuals from different Brazilian herds. The following carcass traits were analyzed: visual body scores of conformation (CONF), precocity (PREC), and muscularity (MUSC); rump width (RW) and rump length (RL), body size (frame); and ultrasound evaluation of ribeye area (REA), backfat th...