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Prediction of the relationship between body weight and body condition score in sheep
During the whole production cycle it is important to monitor the energy balance and to quantify body reserve changes of the ewes. This can be done, both in experimental settings and in the field, by estimating the body condition score (BCS) of the ewes and its variations. However, if this tool is used to balance the diets it is necessary to know the relationship between BCS and body weight (BW),
which varies depending on the mature size of the breed and of the population considered within each breed. The relationship between BW and BCS has been studied only for some sheep breeds and populations.
For this reason, this research aimed to develop a prediction model of this relationship in ewes for any breed or population
Not Because Your Hair Is Curly
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Decomposition analysis of Spanish life expectancy at birth
Using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD), the paper analyzes the increase in the life expectancy of the Spanish population during the three decades, 1970-2001, in order to ascertain which age and sex groups have made the most progress in terms of increasing life expectancy. Within the theoretical context of Health Transition, the authors provide a brief description of the Spanish mortality during the XXth century across several indexes. The study uses a decomposition technique to separate changes in Spanish life expectancy at birth (e0) into age, sex, and time components. The most important components of change are found in the elderly, in young people, and in the evolution to sex differences in human mortality.decomposition, health, health transition, Human Mortality Database, life expectancy, mortality, mortality trends, Spain
Complexity for Modules Over the Classical Lie Superalgebra gl(m|n)
Let be a
classical Lie superalgebra and be the category of finite
dimensional -supermodules which are completely reducible over the
reductive Lie algebra . In an earlier paper the authors
demonstrated that for any module in the rate of growth of the
minimal projective resolution (i.e., the complexity of ) is bounded by the
dimension of . In this paper we compute the complexity
of the simple modules and the Kac modules for the Lie superalgebra
. In both cases we show that the complexity is related to
the atypicality of the block containing the module.Comment: 32 page
Cohomology and Support Varieties for Lie Superalgebras II
In \cite{BKN} the authors initiated a study of the representation theory of
classical Lie superalgebras via a cohomological approach. Detecting subalgebras
were constructed and a theory of support varieties was developed. The dimension
of a detecting subalgebra coincides with the defect of the Lie superalgebra and
the dimension of the support variety for a simple supermodule was conjectured
to equal the atypicality of the supermodule. In this paper the authors compute
the support varieties for Kac supermodules for Type I Lie superalgebras and the
simple supermodules for . The latter result verifies our
earlier conjecture for . In our investigation we also
delineate several of the major differences between Type I versus Type II
classical Lie superalgebras. Finally, the connection between atypicality,
defect and superdimension is made more precise by using the theory of support
varieties and representations of Clifford superalgebras.Comment: 28 pages, the proof of Proposition 4.5.1 was corrected, several other
small errors were fixe
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