Finnish Hound is the most popular dog breed in Finland, with 2 000 – 3 000 pups registered annually in the last years. The great majority of the Finnish Hounds are still used actively as working dogs, so the main breeding goal of the breed is to improve its behavioural abilities with respect to hunting traits. Hunting ability of individual dogs is judged in field trials, and selection of breedi...

Extension of beef cattle genetic evaluation procedures to multibreed data sets is proposed as a way to allow inclusion of crossbred animals into current analyses and to provide comparisons between purebred animals of different breeds. Previous papers dealing with multibreed BLUP have proposed sire or sire-maternal grandsire models. Because current models used in the beef industry are predominan...

ABSTRACT: The potential expression of crop productivity is a constant challenge for plant breeders in the face oscillations environmental variables, making selection difficult and increasing operational methodological costs obtaining ideal cultivar determined region. objective research was to investigate effects genotype x environment interaction cowpea lines with high grain yield, adaptability...

The main purpose of this article is to study the wavelet shrinkage method from a Bayesian viewpoint. Nonparametric mixed-effects models are proposed and used for interpretation of the Bayesian structure. Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation are discussed. The latter is shown to have the Gauss-Markov type optimality (i.e., BLUP), to be equivalent to a method of regularization estimator (MORE), a...

There are indications that progress in litter size may be increasing as programmes put more emphasis on reproduction traits and the use of BLUP with minimal inbreeding becomes more widespread. While growth rate, lean growth and feed conversion continue to show significant progress there is some evidence that selection against backfat is decreasing as programmes switch emphasis towards reproduct...

In this article, we consider the problem of predicting times to failure of units censored in multiple stages in a progressively censored sample from normal distribution. The best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP), the maximum likelihood predictor (MLP), a modified maximum likelihood predictor (MMLP), an approximate maximum likelihood predictor (AMLP), and the conditional median predictor (CMP) a...