the occurrence of genotype × environment (ge) interaction has led to the development of several stabilityparameters that can be used to estimate the stability of cultivar performance. repeatability of 20 parametric and non-parametric stability measures across years and yield subsets as well as their association with mean seed yield and interrelationship among them in safflower (carthamus tincto...

a data file containing 607662 (317608) milk (open days) records belonging 294417 (177838) holstein cows that were calved from 1983 to 2008 was used. the bivariate repeatability model was used for data analyzing so that herd, calving year, calving month, days in milk (only for milk trait) and calving age for each parity, were assumed as fixed effects and additive genetics and permanent environme...

Teaching robotics to undergraduate students requires a course framework that allows students to learn about robotics in stages, without being overwhelmed with details. Such a framework must also provide the students with a motivating application environment that challenges them to apply what they have learned. Robotics competitions have proven to be an excellent method for motivating students, ...

We have developed a precise and high-speed arm applied to assembly processes in electrical product and machine industries. The arm is designed based on the requirement from Japanese major industries. The paper addresses the background of the development, the required specification for the robot arm, and the brief introduction of the prototype arm and evaluations of accuracy. We test the repeata...

This document is a review report on the paper ”Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce” by R. Vernica, M. Carey, C. Li by Sigmod’s 2010 Repeatability and Workability Evaluation Committee. In this section the provided resources (code, data sets, setup information) and hardware setups of the authors and reviewers are discussed. Detailed information on all experiments that the revi...

This study investigated the test-retest reliability and the criterion-related validity of the Implicit Association Test (IAT [1]) that was developed for measuring shyness among Japanese people. The IAT has been used to measure implicit stereotypes, as well as self-concepts, such as implicit shyness and implicit self-esteem. We administered the shyness IAT and the self-esteem IAT to participants...

F rom Chile to Sweden to Georgia to Hong Kong, for very small teams to large organizations, for basic repeatability to complex technology, the question is the same: Why isn’t process change easier? The articles that follow demonstrate that aligning interests on a process change is hard work. But more than just facing hard work, each part of an organization’s staff must share the values of proce...