the japanese quail has been utilized as a research species in establishing the genetic relationships that may also be present in other species. divergent phenotypic selection for 4-wk bw was conducted for three generations in high (hw) and low (lw) lines. within each line, 50 females and 25 males were selected among 600 birds, based on 4-wk bw. mean bw at 4 wk of age in the base generation was ...

Estuarine salt intrusion greatly threatens freshwater supply in surrounding lands. Physical barriers, which reduce the estuary length (L), are widely constructed to control intrusion. Yet, role of L remains unknown. Using a process-based, idealized, semi-analytical three-dimensional model, we systematically investigate for first time this unknown tide-dominated, periodically weakly stratified e...

We calculate the 1-loop renormalization of a set of extended fermionic bilinears which form a basis corresponding to moments of the parton distribution functions. We use the overlap action for fermions and Luescher-Weisz (LW) action for gluons. Our results are presented as a function of the overlap parameter ρ and the parameters entering the LW action.

Produced water (PW) and spent oil-based wastewaters are some of the largest mineral oil produced. Due to high toxicity hydrocarbons, several countries set stringent discharge limits its treatment is compulsory before discharge. In this work, biological coupled with production bacterial lipids demonstrated in sequential batch airlift reactors (SBAR). Two SBAR (2 L working volume) were used for P...

Records from 2,495 litters and 14,605 Landrace and Large White pigs from two farms, but established from the same base population and run as replicated selection lines, were analyzed. Selection within herd was on estimated breeding values weighted by economic values. Animal models and REML procedures were used to estimate genetic, phenotypic, and environmental parameters for the number of pigs ...