interest in hydroxy - carboxylic acid 2 (hca2) receptor has been raised since it is the target of antidyslipidemic drug nicotinic acid. the present study aimed to evaluate the presence of mrna of this receptor in different organs of laboratory rat. twenty two different organs of rats including mesenteric fat, epididymis (head, body and tail), testis, ovary, xiphoid process, liver, adrenal gland...

The objectives of this study were to study the relationship between in vivo ultrasound measurements and cold carcass measurements at 4 anatomical points of the backbone, and to establish regression equations to estimate carcass composition within the cold carcass weight range for Ternasco lambs (8 to 12.5 kg) by using ultrasonic measurements taken at a single location. Measurements of subcutane...

A candidate marker that influences the flavor and odor of Indonesian sheep is Potassium Channel Tetramerization Domain Containing 2 (KCTD2) gene. This study aims to examine polymorphism association between KCTD2 gene lamb in local sheeps. used DNA taken from longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle 100 rams including 75 Javanese Thin-Tail (JTTS), 10 Fat-Tail Sheep (JFTS), 15 Jonggol (JS), with ranged weig...

Maximum surface settlement (MSS) is an important parameter for the design and operation of earth pressure balance (EPB) shields that should determine before operate tunneling. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods are accepted as a technology that offers an alternative way to tackle highly complex problems that can’t be modeled in mathematics. They can learn from examples and they are able...

In this paper, simulation studies and applications of the New Weibull-Inverse Lomax (NWIL) distribution were presented. studies, different sample sizes ranging from 30, 50, 100, 200, 300, to 500 considered. Also, 1,000 replications considered for experiment. NWIL is a fat tail distribution. Higher moments are not easily derived except with some approximations. However, estimates have higher pre...

calpastatin has been introduced as an effective candidate gene as regards growth efficiency and meat quality traits. throughout the present study, blood sampling as well as carcass trait measurements were performed on 74 lori-bakhtiari sheep and on 40 zel-atabay cross-breds from industrial slaughterhouses of shahrekord and gorgan cities, respectively. following dna extaction, polymerase chain r...

A SNP in the promoter region of insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF1) (c.-512C>T) was analysed for associations with 10 fat deposition and carcass merit traits in hybrid (n = 455), Angus (n = 204) and Charolais (n = 186) beef cattle populations. Significant associations of the SNP were found for ultrasound backfat thickness (P = 0.030), carcass average backfat (P = 0.015) and carcass lean meat yi...

Ultrasound (US) image guidance systems used in radiotherapy are typically calibrated for soft tissue applications, thus introducing errors in depth-from-transducer representation when used in media with a different speed of sound propagation (e.g. fat). This error is commonly referred to as the speed artifact. In this study we utilized a standard US phantom to demonstrate the existence of the s...