BACKGROUND Soundness is important for welfare and utility of the riding horse. Musculoskeletal disorders are the most common causes of interruption in training and of culling. Despite great importance, heritability of a majority of health traits in horses has previously not been estimated. The objective was to perform genetic analyses of medical and orthopaedic health traits in young riding hor...

Horses are able to interconvert fats, carbohydrates and even amino acids (the building blocks of protein) to some extent. They can increase active absorption of minerals when they have a need, and are equipped with mechanisms to excrete excess minerals except iron. However, there are certain amino acids and fatty acids they cannot manufacture. These are termed “essential” because it is essentia...

We present a new representation for trimmed parametric surfaces. Given a set of trimming curves in the parametric domain of a surface, our method locally reparametrizes the parameter space to permit accurate representation of these features without partitioning the surface into subsurfaces. Instead, the parameter space is segmented into subspaces containing the trimming curves, the boundaries o...

MEMS devices with harmonic oscillators resonating at specific frequency are useful in variety of applications. One of these applications that demands high and accurate resonant frequency is optical scanners for display applications. Due to the large tolerances of MEMS fabrication a calibration is required to achieve accuracy in resonance frequency. In this paper we present a novel technique for...

Ruminants live in various parts of land. Similar cloven hooves assist ruminants in adapting to different ground environment during locomotion. This paper analyzes the general terrain adaptability of the feet of ruminants using kinematics of the equivalent mechanism model based on screw theory. Cloven hooves could adjust attitude by changing relative positions between two digits in swing phase. ...

We implemented an initial application of a sentence-trimming approach (Trimmer) to the problem of multi-document summarization in the MSE2005 and DUC2005 tasks. Sentence trimming was incorporated into a feature-based summarization system, called MultiDocument Trimmer (MDT), by using sentence trimming as both a preprocessing stage and a feature for sentence ranking. We demonstrate that we were a...

An attempt was made to determine the water-binding capacity of each individual trimming in a multicomponent system. Three types of experimental cooked sausages (finely chopped luncheon sausage, coarsely chopped sausage and ring sausage with potato starch) were made of five different meat trimmings: two pork trimmings and two beef trimmings, and one beef trimming used as a replacer. The water-bi...