In the face of an oversupplied world pig market only the most efficient producers will stay in business. By and large these will be the operations that are able to more successfully exploit the genetic potential of their animals. Similarly, only those breeders who are able to demonstrate sustained genetic improvement will sell stock to the smaller number of large producers who are left. Althoug...

CMMI practices can be poorly implemented leading to weak performance gain. SCAMPI verifies model compliance but not performance. Hence, a framework to evaluate the quality of implementation of each practice, based on compliance and performance results, will prevent poor implementation, locate and fix problems, and ultimately achieve better results. In this paper we propose such a framework, bas...

iv 1 Problem Definition 1 2 Origins from Two Extremes 3 2.1 The Origins of Agile Methods 3 2.2 The Origins of CMMI 5 3 Factors that Affect Perception 7 3.1 Misuse 7 3.2 Lack of Accurate Information 8 3.3 Terminology Difficulties 9 4 The Truth About CMMI 11 4.1 CMMI Is a Model, Not a Process Standard 11 4.2 Process Areas, Not Processes 13 4.3 SCAMPI Appraisals 14 5 The Truth About Agile 16 6 The...

Records on 361,300 Yorkshire, 154,833 Duroc, 99,311 Hampshire, and 71,097 Landrace pigs collected between 1985 and 1999 in herds on the National Swine Registry STAGES program were used to estimate additive genetic (animal), common environmental (litter) and residual variances and covariances for lean growth rate, days to 113 kg, backfat, and loineye area. Analysis was by the REMLf90 program of ...

although lot streaming scheduling is an active research field, lot streaming flexible flow lines problems have received far less attention than classical flow shops. this paper deals with scheduling jobs in lot streaming flexible flow line problems. the paper mathematically formulates the problem by a mixed integer linear programming model. this model solves small instances to optimality. moreo...

Results of survey of stakeholders regarding knowledge of and attitudes towards feed intake, efficiency and genetic improvement concepts" (2016).

CMMI has proven benefits in software process improvement. Typically, organisations that achieve a CMMI level rating improve their performance. However, CMMI implementation is not trivial, in particular for high maturity levels, and not all organisations achieve the expected results. Certain CMMI implementation problems may remain undetected by SCAMPI since only a sample of the organisation is a...