The objectives of the present study were to investigate the effects of breed, sex, parity, year of birth and season of birth on birth weight, weaning weight and yearling weight recorded on 713 calves born between 1996 and 2008. The data included offspring from five local cattle breeds (Dhanni, Lohani, Dajal, Red Sindhi, Cholistani) and crossbreds (Holstein or Jersey crosses) maintained at Baran...

Today many high performance computers are collections of shared memory compute nodes with each compute node having one or more multi-core processors. When writing parallel programs for these machines, one can use pure MPI or various hybrid approaches using MPI and OpenMP. Since OpenMP threads are lighter weight than MPI processes, one would expect that hybrid approaches will achieve better perf...

For high-bay and outdoor lighting fixtures, the cost of LED driver electronics is reported to be 17 percent of the total fixture cost. An additional 40 percent of the fixture cost comes from the mechanical, thermal and electrical portions of the fixture [1]. These portions help support the weight and volume of the LED driver, as well as protect the driver against surge events, such as lightning...

We present a critical investigation of the current implementation of JCSP Networking, examining in detail the structure and behavior of the current architecture. Information is presented detailing the current architecture and how it operates, and weaknesses in the implementation are raised, particularly when considering resource constrained devices. Experimental work is presented that illustrat...

Optical distortion is one of the optical aberrations of optical systems that do not affect image sharpness. Thus, it can be beneficial to correct optical distortion computationally rather than optically. Computational correction versus optical correction will generally yields lighter optical systems. This is of great importance for head-mounted displays where the weight of the viewer needs to b...

Firefighting is a dangerous occupation that relies heavily on the effectiveness of protective clothing. This type of protective clothing must resist heat, flame, rough surfaces, and sharp objects as well as protect the wearer against biological/chemical surfaces. In order to address these issues, a survey was administered to firefighters to determine necessary changes that would make the presen...

Filters play an important role in many RF/Microwave applications [1] and are used to select or confine the RF/microwave signals within assigned spectral limits. Emerging applications such as wireless communications continue to challenge RF/microwave filters with ever more stringent requirements like higher performance, smaller size, lighter weight, and lower cost. Microstrip filters are always ...

Criticism is sometimes leveled at the academic Software Engineering community on the basis that current educational practices are too document-centric. Both students and practitioners have suggested that one of the popular, lighter-weight, agile methods would be a better choice. This paper examines the educational goals for undergraduate Software Engineering education and considers how they mig...

Creating an innovative mediator environment such as graphical user interfaces, lighter weight languages to help the users in the challenging task of making unambiguous requests is crucial in semantic web applications. The query language in the Virtual Query System (VQS) of the SemanticLIFE framework is designed for this purpose. The proposed query language namely Virtual Query Language (VQL) is...

The study of Microstrip patch antennas have made great progress in recent years. Compared with conventional antennas, Microstrip patch antennas have more advantages and better prospects. They are lighter in weight, low volume, low cost, low profile, smaller in dimension and ease of fabrication and conformity. Moreover, the Microstrip patch antennas can provide dual and circular polarizations, d...