Milk production is largely dependent on the shape of the lactation curve. Relevant elements of the lactation pattern are the peak yield, which represents the maximum milk yield during the lactation, and the lactation persistency, which expresses the ability of animals to maintain a reasonably constant milk yield after the lactation peak (Figure 1). Thus, persistent animals are those that show f...

Although the intensive production system of Lacaune dairy sheep is the only profitable method for producers outside of the French Roquefort area, little is known about this type of systems. This study evaluated yield records of 3677 Lacaune sheep under intensive management between 2005 and 2010 in order to describe the lactation curve of this breed and to investigate the suitability of differen...

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga, which has been used as a reference organism for identifying proteins. Five hundred hypothetical proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have been sequenced for knowing functions of the proteins in their families. Functions of Five hundred hypothetical proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii were predicted using bioinformatics web tools. The web...

In [Bus87] and [BP90] some ‘discovery procedures’ for classical categorial grammars were defined. These procedures take a set of structures (strings labeled with derivational information) as input and yield a set of hypotheses in the form of grammars. In [Kan98] learning functions based on these discovery procedures were studied, and it was shown that some of the classes associated with these f...

Intercept and deterministic trend functions are known to have a substantial effect on cointegration analysis, and notably on the asymptotic distributions of various test statistics. In this paper we propose a unifying approach to the analysis of cointegrated vector autoregressions by allowing for a wide class of trend functions. Next, estimates of these trends are incorporated in the asymptotic...

Source models are determined for the three underground nuclear explosions at the Amchitka test site using seismic observations in the period range 0.5 to 20.0 sec. Empirical yield-scaling relations are inferred from the source models and compared with the predictions of the Haskell, Mueller-Murphy, and finite difference numerical models. Several recent studies of high-frequency, near-field sign...

Given a set of possible vector outcomes and the set of lotteries over it, we define sets of (a) von Neumann-Morgenstern representations of preferences over the lotteries, (b) mappings that yield the certainty equivalent outcomes corresponding to a lottery, (c) mappings that yield the risk premia corresponding to a lottery, (d) mappings that yield the acceptance set of lotteries corresponding to...

In this paper, we introduce a class of cubic rotation symmetric (RotS) functions and prove that it can yield bent and semi-bent functions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second primary construction of an infinite class of nonquadratic RotS bent functions which could be found and the first class of nonquadratic RotS semi-bent functions. We also study a class of idempotents (giving Rot...

Given a set of vector outcomes and the set of lotteries over it, we define sets of (a) von Neumann-Morgenstern representations of cardinal preferences over the lotteries, (b) mappings that yield the certainty equivalent outcomes corresponding to a lottery, (c) mappings that yield the risk premia corresponding to a lottery, (d) mappings that yield the acceptance set of lotteries corresponding to...

We consider rate-independent models of static and quasistatic plasticity with hardening. These models are usually stated in terms of variational inequalities of the first or second kind, for the primal and dual formulations, respectively. In the static case, the dual variational inequality can be interpreted as the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for an underlying optimization pr...