Beef sire selection decisions have a major impact on future calf crops and ultimately on profitability. Using available selection tools can help make better bull buying choices. A critical place to start when beginning the herd sire selection decision process is to evaluate the cow herd(s) that the sires will service. From these herd assessments, profiles of desirable herd sires can be develope...

Emslie While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when selection indices were first used in the poultry breeding industry, it is generally recognized that “in the late 1940s. . . a few of the breeders began to develop poultry breeding as a business” (Hunton, 1990). Certainly by the mid-50’s, progressive poultry egg breeders were applying index and complex breeding strategies to their selection p...

Discretionary Revisions 1) Methods: Consider including sample size used for current analysis in the abstract. RESPONSE: As stated in the text: “475 participants.... completed the EPDS at least twice in pregnancy and at 12 weeks postpartum, 416 (88%) scored <10 and 59 (12%) scored >10”. 2) Results: 1st sentence: Consider incorporating what being < 10 and > = 10 on the EPDS represents into the se...

A new method is developed for a fast identification of the stability situation of industrial processes. The proposed method includes two factor ratios of the control constants for the upper and lower control limits to process these constants. An indication ratio is then defined as the ratio of the maximum data range value to the difference between the maximum and average values for individual d...

purification quality of CLP is important, especially for analyses of T-cell development. The original phenotypic CLP has recently been refined by addition of positivity for Flk25 and now a smaller population of cells including CD27 are shown to contain the T-cell potential. A specific criticism of the CLP as the thymus-seeding cell has been the lack of evidence that CLP can be detected in thymu...

MicroRNAs are small non coding RNAs that are involved in gene expression regulation. Mir-122 was reported to inhibit hepatitis B virus (HBV), but little is known about the role of mir-122 polymorphisms on HBV infection development. This present study aimed to investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in mir-122 gene region with HBV infection. Study cases were HB...

Evidence from a number of sources now suggests that the visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSSP) of working memory may be composed of two subsystems: one for maintaining visual information and the other for spatial information. In this paper we present three experiments that examine this fractionation using a developmental approach. In Experiment 1, 5-, 8-, and 10-year old children were presented with a ...

The 10(th) December 2010 marked a new beginning for Regulation (EC) no. 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP) in Ireland with the start of its operational phase. It was on this date that the administrative and enforcement provisions for CLP were encompassed in the new Chemicals Amendment Act, 2010. In this Act, the Health and Safety Authority,...

Neural Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithms based on unimodal source distributions provide acceptable performances in the case of Blind Source Separation (BSS) of super-gaussian sources. However, their convergence profiles are significantly slower in the case of sub-gaussian sources. In some situations it is necessary to deal with sub-gaussian signals in the form of noise or others. ...

original study, yet to be published, examined the association of blood biological markers and peripartum depression. The original study also prospectively evaluated for antepartum depression at 8-10 weeks and 24-28 weeks gestation. Epidural status at time of delivery was noted. Women were screened for PPD on their routine postpartum visit at 6-8 weeks postpartum using the Edinburgh Postnatal De...