Palliser, Pierre Beukes, and Chris Folkers) is acknowledged and appreciated as some results were derived from their Whole-farm Model which has been under development for several years. Comments and feedback were generously contributed ABSTRACT The wide use of artificial insemination by dairy farmers has facilitated the development of a multi-billion dollar international market in animal genetic...

In this paper, we propose a novel statistical language model to capture topic-related long-range dependencies. Topics are modeled in a latent variable framework in which we also derive an EM algorithm to perform a topic factor decomposition based on a segmented training corpus. The topic model is combined with a standard language model to be used for on-line word prediction. Perplexity results ...

In this paper, we study disassembly sequencing flexibility that means the possibility of interchanging the order in which the required disassembly operations are performed. A mathematical model to design joint cellular disassembly systems is proposed, in which the trade-off of throughput time performances between the case of considering and the case of not considering disassembly sequencing fle...

optimal sitting and sizing of shunt capacitor banks at the distribution networks for the purpose of power quality improvement is drawn much attention of electric power utilities in the last decades. determining the optimal number, location and sizing of capacitor using bee colony optimization algorithm (bco) is being presented in this paper. the bco algorithm is a new population based meta-heur...

objective: to evaluate the potentiality of ovcar–3 cell line of ovarian adenocarcinoma as a xenograft model for ovarian adenocarcinoma in nude mice. materials and methods: the cell line isolated from advanced human ovarian adenocarcinoma, were inoculated to eight nude mice and two months later. established tumors were transferred to pathology laboratory to be prepared by h&e; staining and immun...

A mixed-model assembly line is widely used nowadays in industry. Effectively applying mixed-model assembly can result in smooth part usage and balanced workloads on the assembly line. The problem of production planning in terms of scheduling various models on an assembly line over a time horizon is studied here. The problem assumes that each model has a given range of production days within the...

This paper presents a multi-objective simulated annealing algorithm for the mixed-model assembly line balancing with stochastic processing times. Since, the stochastic task times may have effects on the bottlenecks of a system, maximizing the weighted line efficiency (equivalent to the minimizing the number of station), minimizing the weighted smoothness index and maximizing the system reliabil...

In this paper, we propose an improved plumb-line algorithm, the Partial-Scan Plumb-Line (PSPL) algorithm, to solve the point-in-region problem. In the PSPL algorithm, every edge of the region (or polygon) is represented as two half segments, and all half segments of the region are sorted according to their dominating points. This is a standard representation for regions in spatial databases, pr...

The aim of this thesis was to explore conditions for selection and genetic improvement of fertility and longevity in dairy cattle. The background is that single-trait selection for milk production is known to lead to impaired fertility and consequently to shorter lifespan. This in turn results in financial losses and ethical concerns. Since many years, the Swedish dairy farmers have recorded mi...