Completed & Discontinued Projects
2022
AlphaPart - Partition of Breeding Values by Paths of Information
Summary: The partitioning method is described in Garcia-Cortes et al. (2008). The package includes the main function AlphaPart for partitioning breeding values and auxiliary functions for manipulating data and summarizing, visualizing, and saving results.
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Genomic strategies for optimal crossbreeding in African dairy cattle
Summary: Develop genomic strategies to optimise crossbreeding in livestock breeding programmes with focus on East African crossbred dairy cattle
2021
The use of biostatistics for optimizing athletes performance
Summary: Uniquely blending Data Science and Sports Science to generate customized strategies by athlete
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Development of predictive models and analytics techniques to forecast historical data-driven outcomes
Summary: Predictive modelling is a commonly used statistical technique to predict future behavior. Predictive modelling solutions are a form of data-mining technology that analyses historical and current data and generates a model to help predict future outcomes. In predictive modelling, data is collected, a statistical model is formulated, predictions are made, and the model is validated as additional data becomes available.
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- Global short-term forecasting of COVID-19 cases, 2021
- Modelling menstrual cycle length in athletes using state-space models, 2021
2020
The lcc Package
Summary: Estimating longitudinal concordance correlation function
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- lcc: Longitudinal Concordance Correlation, 2019
- lcc: an R package to estimate the concordance correlation, Pearson correlation and accuracy over time, 2020
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Transmission efficiency of xylella fastidiosa
Summary: Xylella fastidiosa is genetically diverse and has many vector species. However, there is limited information on vector specificity and efficiency for different sequence types (STs) Both STs of X. fastidiosa and vectors differ in their associations with plants
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- Transmission efficiency of xylella fastidiosa subsp. Pauca sequence types by sharpshooter vectors after in vitro acquisition, 2018
- Settling and feeding behavior of sharpshooter vectors on plum genotypes with different susceptibility levels to leaf scald disease (Xylella fastidiosa), 2020
2019
Sugarcane straw management for bioenergy
Summary: Global warming can intensify the soil organic matter (SOM) turnover, damaging soil health. Crop residues left on the soil are important to maintain a positive SOM budget and nutrient cycling. But, sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) straw has been removed from the field for bioenergy purposes. We hypothesize that global warming, together with straw removal, will negatively impact Brazil’s ethanol carbon footprint.
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Measuring color using image analysis
Summary: Promote the usage of image analysis as well as development of statistical methodologies for that purpose.
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