this study compared the use of five different models to describe the growth from birth to 20 weeks of age of kids from both genders of nondescript goats. fifty nine (59) nondescript kids were weighed weekly at the university of maiduguri livestock teaching and research farm, nigeria and the live weights were modeled. biologically relevant variables were estimated for each kid from the logistic,...

This study compared the use of five different models to describe the growth from birth to 20 weeks of age of kids from both genders of nondescript goats. Fifty nine (59) nondescript kids were weighed weekly at the university of Maiduguri livestock teaching and research farm, Nigeria and the live weights were modeled. Biologically relevant variables were estimated for each kid from the Logistic,...

Commercially available monomolecular surface films (Arosurf MSF and Agnique MMF, non-ionic products) are utilized as larvicides and pupicides of mosquitoes. They are biodegradable and spread spontaneously over the surface of the water to form an ultra-thin film (monomolecular layer), about one molecule in thickness. Their mode of action against mosquito larvae and pupae is physical rather than ...

Chemical reactions are discrete, stochastic events. As such, the species' molecular numbers can be described by an associated master equation. However, handling such an equation may become difficult due to the large size of reaction networks. A commonly used approach to forecast the behaviour of reaction networks is to perform computational simulations of such systems and analyse their outcome ...

The Richards model comprises several popular sigmoidal and monomolecular growth curves. We illustrate fitting of a Bayesian by splitting the full into submodels, followed selection procedure. performance methodology is evaluated Monte Carlo simulations. A double-sigmoidal version applied to grape bunch weight based on data from New Zealand vineyard over single growing period. size data. Represe...