The genetic parameters and (co) variance components of body weight at birth (BW), weaning (WW) and six months of age (BW6) and average daily gain (ADG) pre and post-weaning of Afshari sheep were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood (REML) methodology and animal model implemented in DFREML software. The likelihood ratio test (LRT) was used to compare the models. Year of birth, age of mo...

Annona senegalensis (Pers.) or Annone from Senegal is a species found in the West African savannah and para-littoral sands. It offers real possibilities of socio-economic use, particularly medical, nutritional, ecosystem conservation poverty alleviation fields. However, this wild remained not fully exploited despite its potentialities. As result, there need to regenerate species; therefore, vit...

Effect systems have the potential to help software developers, but their practical adoption has been very limited. We conjecture that this limited adoption is due in part to the difficulty of transitioning from a system where effects are implicit and unrestricted to a system with a static effect discipline, which must settle for conservative checking in order to be decidable. To address this hi...

The aim of this article is to propose and analyse measurement-based admission control schemes. We distinguish between large-scale and small-scale systems, where scale is measured in the number of concurrent applications that can run simultaneously. For large scale systems, we show that simple enduser probing strategies, based on ECN-type feedback provided by the network, achieve a good utilisat...

Recently, a theoretical fuzzy IR system, based on gradual inclusion measures, has been proposed [1]. In this model, derived from the division of fuzzy relations, the gradual inclusion of a query in a document is modeled by a fuzzy implication. In previous papers, we have shown that, under some assumptions, this model can be seen as a Vector Space Model. This paper also studies other interpretat...

No practice has changed more dramatically during my career than ventilator weaning. My training in the late 1980s and early 1990s was often spent at the bedside, debating whether to wean, when to do it, and which technique to use. Experts touted diverse modes and testing parameters, some rational, some not. Fortunately, critical care has evolved since then. The dangers of prolonged intubation a...