The present study was performed to study the effect of inbreeding on the pre-weaning growth traits including the birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), average daily gain (ADG), Kleiber ratio (KR) and lamb survival from birth to weaning (SUR) in Baluchi, Iran-Black and Zandi sheep. Significant positive inbreeding trends were found only for Baluchi and Iran-Black breeds as 0.038 and 0.278, resp...

we prove that for $p>7$ there are‎ ‎[‎ ‎p^{4}+2p^{3}+20p^{2}+147p+(3p+29)gcd (p-1,3)+5gcd (p-1,4)+1246‎ ‎] ‎groups of order $p^{8}$ with exponent $p$‎. ‎if $p$ is a group of order $p^{8}$‎ ‎and exponent $p$‎, ‎and if $p$ has class $c>1$ then $p$ is a descendant of $‎p/gamma _{c}(p)$‎. ‎for each group of exponent $p$ with order less than $‎p^{8} $ we calculate the number of descendants of o...

PURPOSE To determine whether the nerve fiber analyzer GDx with the new variable corneal compensation (VCC) device allows measurements of retinal nerve fiber layer parameters independent from birefringence changes of the cornea after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). METHODS Retinal nerve fiber layers of 32 eyes in 32 myopic patients undergoing PRK were analyzed using the GDx-VCC. Photorefrac...

BACKGROUND Dietary sweeteners may contribute to metabolic dysregulation and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but this has not been assessed in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). METHODS One hundred twenty-four HIV-infected and 56 non-HIV-infected participants, without history of known coronary artery disease were included. Dietary intake was assessed using a 4-day food record. Coronary plaque w...

Weaning is a source of social, nutritional and environmental disorders that challenge piglet health. This study assesses the relevance of using plasma indicators of oxidative status as biomarkers of health around weaning in pigs. Blood antioxidant potential (BAP), hydroperoxides (HPO), oxidative stress index (OSI, e.g. HPO/BAP), vitamin A and E concentrations were investigated in two different ...

We review in this paper some recent yet fundamental results on evaluating queries over probabilistic databases. While one can see this problem as a special instance of general purpose probabilistic inference, we describe in this paper two key database specific techniques that significantly reduce the complexity of query evaluation on probabilistic databases. The first is the separation of the q...