HE effectiveness of selection for genetic improvement of egg production in the fowl remains a controversial issue. Mass selection on annual egg records has long been regarded as ineffective as demonstrated by the early work of PEARL (1915), while selection based on family records and progeny testing has seemed to be the key to success as demonstrated by the long-time selection experiments of DE...

Boualem Benlahbib, Farid Bouchafaa, Saad Mekhilef, Noureddine Bouarroudj Laboratoire d'Instrumentation, Faculté d'Electronique et d'Informatique USTHB, Alger (Algérie) Unité de Recherche Appliquée en Energies Renouvelables, URAER, Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables, CDER, 47133, Ghardaïa, Algeria Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL) Department of El...

The tedium of writing pickling and unpickling functions by hand is relieved using a combinator library similar in spirit to the well-known parser combinators. Picklers for primitive types are combined to support tupling, alternation, recursion, and structure sharing. Code is presented in Haskell; an alternative implementation in ML is discussed.

BACKGROUND Waterpipe tobacco smoking prevalence, practice, and the associated health perceptions among dental practitioners have not been previously reported. This study aims to determine the prevalence of waterpipe smoking among dental practitioners and to evaluate their awareness of health hazards of waterpipe smoking, particularly the adverse effects on oral health. METHODS This was a cros...

Cities People Places journal is the official associated with ‘Cities & Places’ (ICCPP) Annual Conference being organized by University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Two ICCPP conferences were held in Colombo 2013 and 2014 these have established event as a credible academic endeavor that can bring together academics practitioners fields urban design, architecture allied arts. By generating mass di...

At a time when multilingualism is spreading across university contexts all over the world, this article focuses on major repercussions that coexistence of different languages has Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). After analysing interface between LSP and multilingualism, University Basque Country UPV/EHU put forward as very good case in point how multilingual universities are endeavouring ...

Cities People Places journal is the official associated with ‘Cities & Places’ (ICCPP) Annual Conference being organized by University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Two ICCPP conferences were held in Colombo 2013 and 2014 these have established event as a credible academic endeavor that can bring together academics practitioners fields urban design, architecture allied arts. By generating mass di...