This study investigated the effects of age animal and days post-mortem (PM) on meat quality Boer goats. Twenty-four (24) wether goats two groups (2YO group: 2 years old 9MO: 6–9 months, with 12 animals/group) were slaughtered in a commercial processing plant. The [email protected] was estimated to be above 6 both higher (P < 0.01) values 2YO PM storage for 14 reduced shear force 0.01). goat mus...

When performing blind speaker segmentation one of the main problems is not knowing how many speakers appear in a conversation and wether they appear once or more than once. In this paper, an iterative method, which is based on the EvolutiveHMM is presented. Two main improvements to this system are introduced. On one hand, a repository generic speaker is used to model all utterances and all spea...

Automatic plagiarism detection considering a reference corpus compares a suspicious text to a set of documents in order to relate the plagiarised fragments to their potential source. The suspicious and source documents can be written wether in the same language (monolingual) or in different languages (crosslingual). In the context of the Ph. D., our work has been focused on both monolingual and...

The paper reports on a within-subject experiment, with substantial monetary incentives, designed to test wether or not people are risk-vulnerable. In the experiment, subjects face a simple portfolio choice problem in which they have to invest part of their wealth in a safe and a risky asset. We elicit risk vulnerability by observing each subject’s portfolio choice in two different contexts that...

The non-stationary nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations describe the motion of a viscous incompressible fluid flow for 0 < t 6 T in some bounded three-dimensional domain. Up to now it is not known wether these equations are well-posed or not. Therefore we use a particle method to develop a system of approximate equations. We show that this system can be solved uniquely and globally in time and tha...

In the convolution model Zi = Xi + εi, we give a model selection procedure to estimate the density of the unobserved variables (Xi) 1≤i≤n , when the sequence (Xi) i≥1 is strictly stationary but not necessarily independent. This procedure depends on wether the density of εi is super smooth or ordinary smooth. The rates of convergence of the penalized contrast estimators are the same as in the in...

In Trial 1, 12 wether lambs (34.2 +/- .8 kg BW) were used to determine the effects of restricting intake of diets increasing in percentage of concentrate, to achieve isoenergetic intakes, on digestibility and N metabolism. The trial consisted of two 14-d periods, 9 d for adaptation and 5 d for total collection of urine and feces. Treatments were 22, 39, 61, and 92% concentrate diets fed at ad l...

To evaluate terminal-sire breeds, harvest BW, prefabrication carcass measurements, and organ weights were evaluated over 3 yr for 518 crossbred wether lambs (ovis aries). Lambs were produced by single-sire matings of 22 Columbia, 22 USMARC-Composite (Composite), 21 Suffolk, and 17 Texel rams to adult Rambouillet ewes. Lambs were raised to weaning under an extensive western rangeland production ...