The objectives of this study were to assess the genotype (G) by environment (E) interaction of grain yield of durum wheat(Triticum durum Desf.) based on parametric models, additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) and joint linear regression models; and compare the relative efficiency of the two models in explaining the GE effects. Twenty-three genotypes were evaluated across ...

The joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data has received extraordinary attention in the statistics literature recently, with models and methods becoming increasingly more complex. Most of these approaches pair a proportional hazards survival with longitudinal trajectory modeling through parametric or nonparametric specifications. In this paper we closely examine one data set previously...

introduction: although, the effect of direct intra-articular injection of bone marrow stem cells (bmscs) on the repair of articular cartilage and the effect of elaeagnus angustifolia extract on pain relief in patients with osteoarthritis have been investigated, no studies has been conducted to compare the effects of these two therapeutic methods on the mechanical properties of articular cartila...

We set limits on the configuration space of the pose parameters in order to automatically generate realistic hand poses using our 3D synthetic hand model. This ensures natural hand configurations mimicking real hand gestures. A comprehensive study on the functional ranges of joint movement is conducted in [3] and [2]. We employ the Type I and II constraints articulated in these papers on our ki...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : strength improvement of the shoulder muscles is a major goal in rehabilitation or athletic conditioning programs. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of shoulder core exercises on the isometric torque of glenohumeral joint movements. methods : a total of 36 healthy females with no history of sho...