Sentence examples for dam indices from inspiring English sources

It is possible that the sampling procedure with several horses after the same sire, thereby having identical sire index but different dam indices, may have contributed to this finding.

As superior sires are available for all breeders, one might expect a larger variation in dam's indices than in indices of sires.

Table 5 Results of the assessment of landslide dam stability indices Red background indicates "unstable", blue indicates "stable", and white indicates "uncertain" stability.

The aims of this paper are to describe the landslide dams, the evolution of the dams and their lakes over time, and to test various dam stability indices.

Here, we test the ability of landslide dam stability indices from the literature to predict the observed behavior of our studied Type VI landslide dams.

More broad-based landslide dam stability indices, developed for other regions, poorly characterize the observed performance of the Type VI dams in our study.

An interesting question is why the dam's index seems more important than the index of the sire as well as the individual BLUP-estimate.

Dam's index was a better predictor than sire's index.

As indicated by the interactions, the negative effect of intermediate or hilly foal pasture topography was increased in case of a high dam's index, but decreased with a low dam's index.

Further, the positive effect of a hilly pasture compared to intermediate foal pasture topography was slightly reduced in case of a high dam's index and slightly increased in case of a low dam's index.

Thus, a horse with a high dam's index was more likely to pass a recruitment race than a horse with a low dam's index.