Monte Carlo simulation was used to predict the long-term financial performance related to the technical performance of dairy herds. The indicators addressed were derived from data collected routinely in the herd. They indicated technical performance that can be affected by the farmer or the consultant, and they were derived from expected cause-effect relations between technical performance and ...

Drying-off, calving, and start of lactation are critical transition events for a dairy cow. As consequence, most animal health issues occur during these periods. By extending the voluntary waiting period first insemination after calving interval (CInt) can be extended, with possible positive effects fertility health. Some cows might better suited an extended CInt than others, due to differences...

An important question in discrete optimization under uncertainty is to understand the persistency of a decision variable, i.e., the probability that it is part of an optimal solution. For instance, in project management, when the task activity times are random, the challenge is to determine a set of critical activities that will potentially lie on the longest path. In the spanning tree and shor...

Abstract An important question in discrete optimization under uncertainty is to understand the persistency of a decision variable, i.e., the probability that it is part of an optimal solution. For instance, in project management, when the task activity times are random, the challenge is to determine a set of critical activities that will potentially lie on the longest path. In the spanning tree...

Emerging persistent memory (PM) technologies, such as Intel and Micron’s 3D XPoint, aim to combine the byteaddressability of DRAM with the durability of storage. The promise of PM is to enable data structures that provide the convenience and performance of in-place load-store manipulation, and yet persist across failures, such as power interruptions and OS or program crashes. Following such a c...

XML is the de facto standard for data exchange between arbitrary applications. These applications are written in object-oriented programming languages like Java or C# for example. Consequently the need arises to integrate XML into existing object-oriented programming languages. Moreover, many applications have to keep and deal with persistent data and objects. A lot of frameworks are currently ...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of estradiol (e2), oxytocin (ot), relaxin (relaximol) injection and prostaglandin e1 (misoprostol) suppository on the cervix dilation, time of cervical dilation persistency and pregnancy rate of zandi ewes using artificial insemination. eighty 3-4 years old and 55±2.5 kg weight ewes were used for this study. in experiment 1, the ewes were assigne...

A property P of term rewriting systems (TRSs, for short) is said to be persistent if for any many-sorted TRS R, R has the property P if and only if its underlying unsorted TRS (R) has the property P. This notion was introduced by H. Zantema (1994). In this paper, it is shown that con uence is persistent.