Tempus IV: 45021-TEMPUS-2008-UK-JPCR: New Masters Programme in Library and Information Science

The project can show some positive and timely results. A solid core team was formed between the EU partners and the three partner countries, and the indicators of progress as outlined in the description of work were being met. Some recommendations, inter alia for an improved flow of communications, are included in this report, to maximize the sharing of knowledge and experience gained in the project. The evaluation activities as described in the proposal were to be: read minutes, reports and survey results; attend meetings; interview students, academics, and library and archive employees. These activities were undertaken in preparation of and during the visit as evidenced in appendix 1 and 2

Utilizing Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis in Determining Parentage of Cattle

Parentage identification within cattle herds is an important aspect of record keeping. It is essential for accurate registration within a purebred association and decision making for production purposes, such as replacement heifer and sire selection. Methods used to identify parentage have evolved from utilizing blood protein antigens, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and microsatellites to the current technology of analyzing DNA profiles for differing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In this preliminary study we analyzed genotype data from 1,066 samples obtained from various cattle breeds. These breeds included Holstein, Angus, Hereford, Irish Black, Jersey, Red Angus, Limousine, Charolais, Brown Swiss and Maine-Anjou. Samples were analyzed using parentage calling software (Cervus 3.0 and SireMatch 2.0) utilizing the 88 SNP parentage-testing panel from Fluidigm®. Of the 1,066 offspring samples submitted, 789 were verified by DNA identification to match herd records submitted by producers, indicating that 277 herd records were incorrect. Beyond parentage identification, future efforts employing SNP technology will include creating reduced SNP panels to determine the heritability of qualitative traits desirable to the beef cattle industry, such as marbling and tenderness

Foliations and Chern-Heinz inequalities

We extend the Chern-Heinz inequalities about mean curvature and scalar curvature of graphs of $C^{2}$-functions to leaves of transversally oriented codimension one $C^{2}$-foliations of Riemannian manifolds. That extends partially Salavessa's work on mean curvature of graphs and generalize results of Barbosa-Kenmotsu-Oshikiri \cite{barbosa-kenmotsu-Oshikiri} and Barbosa-Gomes-Silveira \cite{barbosa-gomes-silveira} about foliations of 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds by constant mean curvature surfaces. These Chern-Heinz inequalities for foliations can be applied to prove Haymann-Makai-Osserman inequality (lower bounds of the fundamental tones of bounded open subsets $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}$ in terms of its inradius) for embedded tubular neighborhoods of simple curves of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$.Comment: This paper is an improvment of an earlier paper titled On Chern-Heinz Inequalities. 8 Pages, Late

Schaaleffecten en Onderwijskwaliteit

Statistische analyse van data voor het voortgezet onderwijs laat zien dat er geen eenduidig verband bestaat tussen schaalgrootte en kwaliteit. Actief overheidsbeleid gericht op schaalverandering kan volgens dit onderzoek niet gebaseerd worden op wetenschappelijk bewijs