Broiler meat quality is one of the primary factors considered by the poultry industry. This study was conducted to estimate heritability and genetic correlation coefficients for meat quality traits in a single male broiler line. The meat ultimate pH (24 h after slaughter) and lightness presented the highest heritability estimates. Given the estimated genetic correlations, the pH measured at 15 ...

Article history: Received 16 June 2014 Received in revised form 24 September 2014 Accepted 2 October 2014 Available online 13 October 2014 I study the impact of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and resultant inability to honor its obligations as a lender under committed credit lines. Firms that lost access to a credit line committed by Lehman Brothers experienced abnormal stock returns of−3%, on ave...

Reproductive performance was evaluated on lines of rats selected 34 generations for up (U) and down (D) 3- to 9-wk weight gain and from a control (C). Direct response to 3- to 9-wk weight gain was 16% in U and -8% in D lines. Inbreeding was similar among lines. Both selection lines were poorer in percentage of fertile pairs than the C line, especially so in D (P less than .10). The lines differ...

accidents and their resulting losses are one of the critical public health issues. identification the near misses offer the opportunity to improve safety by developing effective prevention approach. the main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of two types of intervention in increasing the participation of first line managers in reporting near misses. in order to increase the...

This paper reports a study into the influence of main design parameters power transmission lines on energy losses associated with corona discharge; method has been devised to reduce them. The structure split-phase wire, distance ground, and between centers phases line are determined at stage. Based these structural parameters, value specific discharge is calculated. Studying impact exerted amou...

− In this paper a complete model of Medium Voltage (MV) power system for PLC communications, in the frequency domain, is presented. A simple and friendly Simulink software is used to develop the model. A distributed parameters MV cables model in line-line configuration is considered. Also the signal coupling networks with the generation and receiving systems are included. The performances of th...

A low transmission loss, simple mechanical structure, and broadband waveguide-to-microstrip line transducer has been developed with a polytetrafluoroethylene printed circuit board. This can fully cover the V-band, E-band, and W-band, and the transmission losses are typically 0.68 dB, 0.86 dB, and 0.78 dB, respectively, at the center frequency of each band. The transducer in the W-band was alrea...

Automated production lines with so called ‘hard structures’ are widely used in manufacturing. Designers segmented these lines into sections by placing a buffer between the series of machine tools to increase productivity. In real production condition the capacity of a buffer system is limited and real production line can compensate only some part of the productivity losses of an automated line....

Photonic crystal waveguide devices incorporating line-defect waveguide bends have been fabricated. In this paper we present preliminary experimental analysis of these structures. Although evidence of photonic band-gap effects are observed in the spectra, transmission efficiency was found to be extremely low due to significant up-scattering losses from the holes. In order to quantify this loss m...