The aim of this study was to identify the deficiency of uridine monophosphate synthase (DUMPS) and the complex vertebral malformation (CVM) in Iranian Holstein bulls. A total of 144 blood samples were prepared of Holstein bulls in Abbas Abad Animal Breeding Center and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad's Dairy Farm in Khorasan state of Iran. Genomic PCR-RFLP protocol was performed to amplify the po...

This paper derives asymptotic power functions for Cramer-von Mises (CvM) style tests for inference on a finite dimensional parameter defined by conditional moment inequalities in the case where the parameter is set identified. Combined with power results for Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) tests, these results can be used to choose the optimal test statistic, weighting function and, for tests based on ...

Using farmer responses to contingent valuation method (CVM) survey data in combination with actual market data from four watershed regions in the United States, this study estimates the minimum incentive payments a farmer would accept in order to adopt more environmentally friendly "best management practices" (BMPs). Combining actual market data with the CVM data adds information to the analysi...

The Animal Cancer Care and Research Program (ACCR) was established at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) in 2007. This program is built as a partnership between the CVM and the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota to devote the necessary resources to reduce the burden caused by cancer in companion animals and humans alike. The ACCR includes more than 50 f...

Standard SVM training has O(m) time and O(m) space complexities, where m is the training set size. In this paper, we scale up kernel methods by exploiting the “approximateness” in practical SVM implementations. We formulate many kernel methods as equivalent minimum enclosing ball problems in computational geometry, and then obtain provably approximately optimal solutions efficiently with the us...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between dental, chronological, and cervical vertebral maturation growth in the peak growth period, as well as to study the association between the dental calcification phases and the skeletal maturity stages during the same growth period. METHODS Subjects were selected from orthodontic pre-treatment cohorts consisting of 420 subjects where 255 were iden...

BACKGROUND Association of low cardiac vagal activity and poor outcome is demonstrated in the cardiology setting. This has not been addressed in the postoperative setting. Cardiac vagal motoneurones (CVMs) in the brain stem generate sinus arrhythmia. They may reduce blood pressure (BP) variability ('pressure lability'). An alpha-2 agonist, clonidine, was administered to assess whether cardiac va...

Advances in communication devices and technologies are dramatically expanding our communication capabilities and enabling a wide range of multimedia communication applications. The current approach to develop communication-intensive applications results in products that are fragmented, inflexible and incapable of responding to changing end-users’ communication needs. These limitations have resu...

The present study aimed to provide a version of the Cervical Vertebral Maturation (CVM) method for the detection of the peak in mandibular growth based on the analysis of the second through fourth cervical vertebrae in a single cephalogram. The morphology of the bodies of the second (odontoid process, C2), third (C3), and fourth (C4) cervical vertebrae were analyzed in six consecutive cephalome...

Extracellular recordings were made in the right nucleus ambiguus of urethane-anesthetized rats from 33 neurons that were activated at constant latency from the craniovagal cardiac branch. Their calculated conduction velocities were in the B-fiber range (1.6-13.8 m/s, median 4.2), and most (22/33) were silent. Active units were confirmed as cardiac vagal motoneurons (CVM) by the collision test f...