Abstract. Data locality optimization plays a significant role in reducing the execution time of many loop-intensive kernels. Loop tiling at various levels is often used to effectively exploit data locality in deep memory hierarchies. The recent development of frameworks for parametric loop tiling of user code has lead to a widening of the range of applications that could benefit from auto-tunin...

Assisted reproductive technologies refer to procedures in which the oocyte is handled or manipulated in vitro before replacement, either as an oocyte or an embryo. Because of rapid advances in this area, infertile couples may seek direct referral for assisted reproductive treatments, instead of trying simpler measures such as ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination. It is important to...

Minimally invasive hysterectomy via the laparoscopic or vaginal approach is beneficial to patients when compared with laparotomy, but has not been offered in the past to all women because of the technical difficulties and the long learning curve required for laparoscopic hysterectomy. Robotic-assisted hysterectomy for benign indications may allow for a shorter learning curve but does not offer ...

Marker-Assisted-Selection (MAS) is mainly important in situations, where the current accuracy of selection is low, e.g. traits with low heritability, limited, late-in-life, or afterslaughter recording. In veloand whizzo genetics schemes, the number of selection cycles per time period is minimized, which may increase rates of genetic gain dramatically. Genomic selection is used to obtain a high ...

Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is bases of genomic selection, genomic marker imputation, marker assisted selection (MAS), quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, parentage testing and whole genome association studies. The Particular alleles at closed loci have a tendency to be co-inherited. In linked loci this pattern leads to association between alleles in population which is known as LD. Two metr...

Calpastatin is an endogenous inhibitor of calpain (calcium-dependent cysteine protease). Calpastatin activityis highly related to the rate of protein turnover and rate of meat tenderization. In order to characterize thestructure of calpastatin in Iranian Afshari breed of sheep, intron 6 and partial exon 7 of the L domain wereamplified and sequenced. A fragment of approximately...