Lactation curves – shape and curve parameters
Associations between the time of conception and the shape of the lactation curve in early lactation in Norwegian dairy cattle
... 305-d lactation mean level of daily energy fed as concentrates between ...per lactation of 6,665 kg ...the lactation curve generated from the Table 1 Descriptive statistics within parity and ...
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A λµ-B-Spline Curve with Shape Parameters
... Spline curve and surface play an important role in CAD and computer ...λμ-B-spline curves are constructed as a generalization of the traditional cubic uniform B-spline ...local shape control ...
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Quasi-Quartic Trigonometric Bézier Curves and Surfaces with Shape Parameters
... Bézier Curves and Surfaces with Shape Parameters Reenu Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Mata Gujri Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India ABSTRACT: In this paper ...
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Studies on some factors influencing the shape of the lactation curve in Romanian Black and White cows
... the shape of the lactation curve had come to the same conclusion that this was flatter in the first lactation than in later lactations ...that lactation persistency, milk increase and ...
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Genome-wide association for milk production and lactation curve parameters in Holstein dairy cows.
... the shape of lactation curve in Holstein dairy ...The lactation curve parameters, the slope of the initial rise of the curve, peak yield, time to peak and the slope of the ...
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Constrained modification of the cubic trigonometric Bézier curve with two shape parameters
... Bézier curve has been introduced in [1]. This trigonometric curve has two global shape parameters λ and ...the shape parameters where the curve has lost the variation ...
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Contrasting models for lactation curve analysis
... mean curve in the population, which can be either parametric or non-parametric, and to model individ- ual deviations from this mean curve for each ...of parameters to be evaluated would be very ...of ...
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On Shape of Plane Elastic Curves
... closed curves is shown in Fig. 2. For each curve, the la- bels represent points associated with 9 uniformly sam- pled points over the “time” interval I ...the curves were sampled at n = 100 ...model, ...
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UDC Mathematical modeling of lactation curves of dairy animals
... cattle lactation is herein provided. A technique for constructing lactation curves using logical assumption and Verhulst’s logistic function for predicting the cows’ milk production is ...modeling ...
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Genetic and environmental smoothing of lactation curves with cubic splines
... Lactation curves were fitted to test day records of milk production for 2885 progeny of 30 Holstein- Friesian sires in 503 herds using ASREML ( 1 ) ...Each curve modeled daily milk yield as a spline ...
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The Mathematical description of the lactation curve of ruminants: issues and perspectives
... ruminant lactation curves are modelled: the great intrinsic variability of ...average curves of different classification factors such as party, number of kids at parturition, season of ...standard ...
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Estimating the Lactation Curve on a.m./p.m. Milkings in Dairy Cows
... 2 Research and Development Station for Bovine Raising Arad, 310059 - Arad, Bodrogului 32, Romania Abstract A pilot study was conducted in order to assess the effect of a.m./p.m. milkings on the shape of the ...
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Shape Analysis of Elastic Curves in Euclidean Spaces
... these curves are shown in the bottom ...one shape into ...the curves differ only in the placements of these turns along the curve, a simple stretching/compression is sufficient to deform one ...
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Characteristics of Lactation Curves of the Kenya Alpine Dairy Goats in Smallholder Farms
... lactation curves of the goats. Lactation curve parameters differed by genetic group, season of kidding and age of dam at ...total lactation yield. Indigenous breeds peaked in ...
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Fitting lactation curves of dairy cattle in different types of herds in Tunisia
... fit lactation curves of Holstein–Friesian cows in four types of herds in ...first lactation and 2986, 1441, 650, and 920 second and later lactation records in four herd groups namely ...
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Cubic Trigonometric Bézier Curve with Shape Parameter
... Bézier curve with a shape parameter is presented in this ...Each curve segment is generated by four consecutive control points. The shape of the curve can be adjusted by altering the ...
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Lactation curves for milk yield, fat, and protein content in Slovenian dairy sheep
... the lactation curve of these sheep had an atypical ...The lactation curves in IP breed were not of the same height in comparison to Valle del Belice (Cappio-Borlino et ...of lactation, ...
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Quartic Trigonometric Bézier Curves and Surfaces with Shape Parameter
... Bézier curve with a shape parameter λ is presented and the corresponding trigonometric Bézier surfaces are ...These curves not only inherit most properties of the usual quartic Bézier curves ...
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Analysis of shape data: from landmarks to elastic curves
... continuous curves. We provide an expository account of elastic shape analysis of parametric planar curves representing shapes of two-dimensional objects by discussing its differences, and its ...
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Nonparametric IV estimation of shape-invariant Engel curves
... estimated curves seem to be consistent with the Monte Carlo findings and appear reasonably well behaved, even for the subsample without ...the shape invariant ...Engel curve shape. The Engel ...
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