Investigations were conducted on one group of White Improved (WI) kids and three groups of WI crossbred kids with various share of the Boer (B) genes: 1/4B3/4WI, 1/2B1/2WI and 3/4B1/4WI. Eighteen male kids were included in each group. Up to 20 kg life weight the kids of all groups had free access to their dams’ milk and to solid feed from day 14 of life. Crossbreds with 25, 50 and 75% of the B ...

Recent days, the energy consumption of mobile and tablet devices has become most familiar problem in android operating system. Android is an open source code which is easily understandable and handle by the users to get and use new kind of properties and applications on their handsets. Many studies focused on energy lifetime prediction, but the models are not capable of light weight devices. En...

A recently-developed microfluidic device, the optimized shape cross-slot extensional rheometer, or OSCER [S.J. Haward, M.S.N. Oliveira, M.A. Alves and G.H. McKinley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128301 (2012)], is used to investigate the stability of viscoelastic polymer solutions in an idealized planar stagnation point flow. Aqueous polymer solutions, consisting of poly(ethylene oxide) and of hyaluro...

The MicroWave Oven (MWO) is a commonly available appliance that does not transmit data, but still radiates signals in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. The MWO thus acts as an unintentional interferer for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) communication signals. An analytic model of the MWO signal is developed and studied in this paper. Based on this model...

Several emerging studies have focused on the pricing issue of bandwidth sharing between Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks; however, most either concentrate on the design of collaborated protocols or figure out the issue without the overall consideration of consumer preferences and contract design. In this study, we explore a wireless service market in which there are two wireless service providers opera...

We design a variation of skip lists that performs well for generally biased access sequences. Given n items, each with a positive weight wi , 1 ≤ i ≤ n, the time to access item i is O(1 + log(W/wi )), where W =∑n i=1 wi ; the data structure is dynamic. We present two instantiations of biased skip lists, one of which achieves this bound in the worst case, the other in the expected case. The stru...

Starting with a set of weighted items, we want to create a generic sample of a certain size that we can later use to estimate the total weight of arbitrary subsets. Applied to internet traffic analysis, the items could be records summarizing the flows of packets streaming by a router, with, say, a hundred records to be sampled each hour. A subset could be flow records of a worm attack whose sig...

It is a characteristic of computer operating systems that they contain actions or commands which transfer objects such as files and directories f rom one state to another. In formalizing the domain of operating systems we should build representations of actions which circumscribe the transfer of objects in the system. Transfer Semantics is a knowledge scheme that embodies such representations. ...