The study reported here evaluated genotype × environment interaction in individual performance and progeny tests in beef cattle. Genetic parameters for final weight (FW), ADG, and scrotal circumference (SC) of 33,013 Nellore young bulls tested on pasture or in feedlots were analyzed. The posterior means (and highest posterior density interval with 90% of samples [HPD90]) of heritability for tra...

Background: Theoretical studies suggest that direct and indirect selection have the potential to cause substantial evolutionary change in female mate choice. Similarly, sexual selection is considered a strong force in the evolution of male attractiveness and the exaggeration of secondary sexual traits. Few studies have, however, directly tested how female mate choice and male attractiveness res...

EVERAL investigators have reported the results of selecting for measures of growth rate or body size in mice (GOODALE 1938; MACARTHUR 1944, 1949; FALCONER 1953; RAHNEFELD et al. 1963; ROBERTS 1967). Direct response to selection has been substantial in each of these cases. Litter size has been shown to increase in several of the lines, the increase in the experiment reported by RAHNEFELD et al. ...

Habitats that differ in soil resource availability are expected to differ for selection on resource-related plant traits. Here, we examined spatial and temporal variation in phenotypic selection on leaf ecophysiological traits for 10 Helianthus populations, including two species of hybrid origin, Helianthus anomalus and Helianthus deserticola, and artificial hybrids of their ancestral parents. ...

This paper reports an empirical test of Schneider’s (1987) selection proposition that organizations select people who share the organization’s values. The values of 412 applicants to nine utility companies in the United Kingdom were captured and their fit to (1) the values of the organization as viewed by members of the Top Team (P–OV fit), (2) the values of the recruiting departments as viewed...

This work aims at creating expressive voices from audiobooks using semantic selection. First, for each utterance of the audiobook an acoustic feature vector is extracted, including iVectors built on MFCC and on F0 basis. Then, the transcription is projected into a semantic vector space. A seed utterance is projected to the semantic vector space and the N nearest neighbors are selected. The sele...

Early tooth-colored restorative materials were weak and only suitable for anterior teeth. Over time, composites were developed that offered improved properties enabling their use in posterior teeth where subject to occlusal loading and forces of mastication. Secondary caries is the main reason for failure of both amalgam and composite restorations. Amalgam restorations offer ease-of-use but poo...