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Breeding for sustainability: Development of an index to reduce greenhouse gas in dairy cattle
Breeding for sustainability: Development of an index to reduce greenhouse gas in dairy cattle

Documents the Canadian GHG selection index for dairy cattle, showing how methane, feed efficiency, and maintenance traits are weighted to cut emissions without sacrificing profit.

Mar 14, 2025

A Hierarchical Approach for Evaluating Athlete Performance with an Application in Elite Basketball
A Hierarchical Approach for Evaluating Athlete Performance with an Application in Elite Basketball

ON score is a comprehensive athlete rating using mixed-regression and PCA on 4-season NBA data.

Jan 24, 2024

Developing best practices for genotyping-by-sequencing analysis in the construction of linkage maps
Developing best practices for genotyping-by-sequencing analysis in the construction of linkage maps

Benchmarked the Reads2Map workflows and set best-practice defaults so breeders can build reliable linkage maps from noisy GBS data.

Oct 27, 2023

Comparison of Markerless and Marker-based Motion Capture Systems using 95% Functional Limits of Agreement in a Linear Mixed-Effects Modelling Framework
Comparison of Markerless and Marker-based Motion Capture Systems using 95% Functional Limits of Agreement in a Linear Mixed-Effects Modelling Framework

Markerless motion capture challenges traditional systems. A mixed-effects model assesses their agreement for reliable human movement analysis.

Jul 15, 2023

A method for partitioning trends in genetic mean and variance to understand breeding practices
A method for partitioning trends in genetic mean and variance to understand breeding practices

Partitioning method to quantify the contribution of different groups to genetic variance

Feb 3, 2023

Temporal and genomic analysis of additive genetic variance in breeding programmes
Temporal and genomic analysis of additive genetic variance in breeding programmes

Evaluate the temporal and genomic analysis of additive genetic variance in different stages of a breeding programme

Nov 1, 2021

Modelling menstrual cycle length in athletes using state-space models
Modelling menstrual cycle length in athletes using state-space models

Development of an appropriate parametric state-space formulation for the marginal distribution of standard menstrual cycles for female athletes

Aug 20, 2021

Global Short-Term Forecasting of Covid-19 Cases
Global Short-Term Forecasting of Covid-19 Cases

We show our model generates high accurate forecasts up to seven days ahead for COVID-19 reported cases.

Apr 6, 2021

Settling and feeding behavior of sharpshooter vectors on plum genotypes with different susceptibility levels to leaf scald disease (Xylella fastidiosa)
Settling and feeding behavior of sharpshooter vectors on plum genotypes with different susceptibility levels to leaf scald disease (Xylella fastidiosa)

We focused to investigate the host non preference and suitability for xylem-sap feeding among plum genotypes that differ in bacterial leaf scald intensity in the field.

Aug 17, 2020

lcc: an R package to estimate the concordance correlation, Pearson correlation, and accuracy over time
lcc: an R package to estimate the concordance correlation, Pearson correlation, and accuracy over time

Describes the statistical package lcc using three real examples.

Aug 13, 2020