This study evaluated different female-selective genotyping strategies to increase the predictive accuracy of genomic breeding values (GBVs) in populations that have a limited number of sires with a large number of progeny. A simulated dairy population was utilized to address the aims of the study. The following selection strategies were used: random selection, two-tailed selection by yield devi...

In order to assess patterns of usage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in families of children with cerebral palsy (CP), 213 families with a child (0 to 18 years) with CP were recruited at the university medical center in Ann Arbor, MI, USA as part of a descriptive survey. Two hundred and thirty-five surveys were distributed. Mean age of the child was 8 years 6 months (SD 4y : 9mo...

DNA methylation may be involved in regulating the expression of protein-coding genes, resulting in different fat and muscle phenotypes. Using a methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism approach, we obtained 7423 bands by selective amplification of genomic DNA from six different fat depots and two heterogeneous muscle types from Duroc/Landrace/Yorkshire cross-bred pigs. The degrees of D...

ed and automatically measured using CellProfiler cell image analysis software (http://www.cellprofiler.org, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA). 5-95% percentile box and whiskers plots were generated using median, quartiles, highest and lowest values. Statistical analysis The data in the graphs are presented as mean and the standard error of the mean (SEM). The data were analyzed by two-tailed...

Nigeria’s dry onion production amounted to 1.38× 106 metric tonnes (t) in 2020. Roughly 50% of yearly do not reach the table. An option lies converting fresh onions powder mitigate postharvest losses. This study explores possibility producing from using a pre-tested locally fabricated direct-mode solar tent dryer. The outcome processing revealed product yield 8.09%, while there was no statistic...

Neosporosis is an important cause of bovine abortion worldwide. Many aspects of transmission of Neospora caninum in nature are unknown. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is considered one of the most important wildlife reservoirs of N. caninum in the USA. During the hunting seasons of 2008, 2009, and 2010, brains of 155 white-tailed deer fetuses were bioassayed in mice for protozoa...

This paper studies rare events simulation for the heavy{tailed case, where some of the underlying distributions fail to have the exponential moments required for the standard algorithms for the light{tailed case. Several counterexamples are given to indicate that in the heavy{tailed case, there are severe problems with the approach of developing limit results for the conditional distribution gi...

In the paper row-wise periodically correlated triangular arrays are considered. The period length is assumed to grow in time. The Fourier decomposition of the mean and autocovariance functions for each row of the matrix is presented. To construct bootstrap estimators of the Fourier coefficients two block bootstrap techniques are used. These are the circular version of the Generalized Seasonal B...