Sentence examples for total merit from inspiring English sources
The inclusion of functional traits in a total merit index has a positive effect on the annual monetary genetic gain.
The inclusion of functional traits in a total merit index is expected to have some consequences on the design of progeny testing schemes in dairy cattle.
The total merit index for Simmental included dairy traits (fat and protein yield), beef traits (daily gain, dressing percentage, EUROP grading score) and functional traits (functional longevity, persistency, fertility, calving ease, stillbirth and somatic cell count); the Brown Swiss total merit index consisted of dairy and functional traits only.
In general, it is possible that two different assignments achieve optimal total merit.
In 1958, the number of required merit badges increased again to 16 of the 21 total merit badges needed to obtain Eagle, along with the first requirements for service and leadership.
However, the effect on total merit index was limited.
But if a critic's job is to assess the total merits of a work of art - or at least a gaudy chunk of entertainment - reason also argues that the entertainment should be allowed to achieve the completed form its creators had envisioned before judgment is rendered.
Other programs in salmon have selected for more than one character, however, there are still no estimates of economic weights published in salmon breeding programs, which are necessary to calculate the total genetic merit for these animals.
These multi-trait settings make use of economic weights more optimal in a total genetic merit index.
This illustrates two important points: (a) when p ≫ n, one can arrive at similar predictions of total genomic merit with very different estimates of marker effects and (b), because of the same reason, with small sample size, one needs to be cautious about interpretation of estimates of marker effects because these may be highly influenced by the choice of prior.
With IGEs, the individual's total genetic merit includes the additive direct effects on its own phenotype as well as the individual's heritable impact on the mean trait value of the other members of its population (see eqn 11 above).
