T.J. Zindove, E.F. Dzomba, A.T. Kanengoni & M. Chimonyo 1 Discipline of Animal and Poultry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa 2 Discipline of Genetics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa 3 Agricultural Research Council, Animal Breeding and Genetics, Private Bag X2, Irene 0062...

We present an integrated probabilistic model for Japanese syntactic and case structure analysis. Syntactic and case structure are simultaneously analyzed based on wide-coverage case frames that are constructed from a huge raw corpus in an unsupervised manner. This model selects the syntactic and case structure that has the highest generative probability. We evaluate both syntactic structure and...

The way that sows are housed during gestation and lactation has moved towards more intensive systems so that sows can be more easily managed and production maximized. At a minimum, some of these factors have contributed to a decline in the productive life of sows in commercial pork production systems. A sow remaining in the breeding herd for fewer parities is likely to produce fewer pigs in her...

Many Forth systems provide means to call C functions, but these interfaces are not designed to be portable between platforms: A call to a C library function that works on one platform may fail on the next platform, because the parameter and return value types of the C function may be different. In this paper, we present an interface that avoids this problem: In particular, the actual calls can ...

The distribution of soil particles and planting tube space position affects reversal cultivated land and fertilization seeder seeding performance. Through the establishment of ratary tiller system coordinate system; Firstly giving the analysis of soil grain not heel cover shell collision and the first meeting with cover shell collisions motion situation, through Matlab found the first meeting w...

Problem statement: One of the main targets of Iran’s economic development plans in agricultural sector during the recent years was to augment agricultural exports and establish a positive trade balance in this sector. In this research the impact of macroeconomic indicators of Iran and its 20 trading partners on Iran’s agricultural trade balance had been investigated. Approach: The ARDL approach...

Optimality conditions and comparative static properties of the optimal Mirrleesian nonlinear income tax are obtained for a nite population and quasilinear-in-consumption preferences. Contrary to Weymark (1987) who considers quasilinear-in-leisure preferences, the linearity with respect to gross income, which is observed by the government and used as a tax base, is lost. A reduced-form optimal i...

BACKGROUND Core outcome sets (COS) can enhance the relevance of research by ensuring that outcomes of importance to health service users and other people making choices about health care in a particular topic area are measured routinely. Over 200 COS to date have been developed, but the clarity of these reports is suboptimal. COS studies will not achieve their goal if reports of COS are not com...

Cheikh Ahmédou Lame, Birame Loum, Ibrahima Keita, Thierno Boubacar Diallo, Alamasso Sow Service d’ORL et de Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale, Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Sénégal, Service d’Anesthésie-Réanimation, Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Sénégal, Service de Chirurgie Générale, Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Sénégal Corresponding author: Cheikh Ahmédou Lame, Service d’ORL et de Chirurgie Cervico-Facial...

We study observability of switched differentialalgebraic equations (DAEs) for arbitrary switching. We present a characterization of observability and, a related property called, determinability. These characterizations utilize the results for the single-switch case recently obtained by the authors. Furthermore, we study observability conditions when only the mode sequence of the switching signa...