the objective of the present study was to estimate heritability values for some performance and egg quality traits of native fowl in isfahan breeding center using reml and bayesian approaches. the records were about 51521 and 975 for performance and egg quality traits, respectively. at the first step, variance components were estimated for body weight at hatch (bw0), body weight at 8 weeks of a...

Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Basic theoretical concepts 5 2.1 Hubbard model and dynamical mean-field theory. .

This paper considers the stability problem of linear delay-differential systems of neutral type. A discretized Lyapunov functional approach is developed. The resulting stability criteria are formulated in the form of a linear matrix inequality. For nominal systems, the analytical results can be approached with fine discretization. For uncertain systems, the new approach is much less conservativ...

This paper investigates price uncertainties in weather derivatives contracts through a bootstrap approach. Futures prices are computed under a periodic ARMA model in an actuarial framework for two different locations, Paris and Chicago. We show that statistical errors may lead to substantial uncertainties on futures prices with confidence intervals up to 10% of the assessed prices.

In anticipation of the explosive growth of digital libraries, a complex study was undertaken seeking to evaluate 21 diverse services at 5 major academic research libraries. This work stands as a model for evaluation of digital libraries, through its focus on both the costs of operations and the impacts of the services that those operations provide. The data have been analyzed using both statist...

The functional programming community is paying increasing attention to static structure-based transformations. For example, generic control operators , such as fold, have been introduced in functional programming to increase the power and applicability of a particular kind of static transformation, called deforestation, which prevents the construction of useless intermediate data structures in ...

Ingenol is a diterpenoid with unique architecture and has derivatives possessing important anticancer activity, including the recently Food and Drug Administration-approved Picato, a first-in-class drug for the treatment of the precancerous skin condition actinic keratosis. Currently, that compound is sourced inefficiently from Euphorbia peplus. Here, we detail an efficient, highly stereocontro...

Schema closure is a property to guarantee that classes in a schema have not references to classes that are not included into it (external references). The existing methodologies solve this point including referenced classes into the schema. In this paper, a new kind of schema closure (reduction closure) is put forward. Reduction closure is based on the transformation of classes with external re...

Languages and families of binary relations are standard interpretations of Kleene algebras. It is known that the equational theories of these interpretations coincide and that the free Kleene algebra is representable both as a relational and as a language algebra. We investigate the identities valid in these interpretations when we expand the signature of Kleene algebras with the meet operation...