Advances in research on the prenatal development of skeletal muscle in animals in relation to the quality of muscle-based food. II – Genetic factors related to animal performance and advances in methodology [PDF]
Animal, 2011 Selective breeding is an effective tool to improve livestock. Several selection experiments have been conducted to study direct selection responses as well as correlated responses in traits of skeletal muscle growth and function. Moreover, comparisons of
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Effects of human-animal relationship on animal productivity and welfare [PDF]
, 2020 This is a literature review of the effects of humans´ relationships with farm animals on animal productivity and welfare, including the following topics: definition of the concept and description of different tests that have been developed to measure ...
Alonso-Spilsbury, María +5 more
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Animals, 2021 This study evaluated the effects of physical activity on blood, growth, carcass, and meat quality of finishing Alentejano (AL) pigs. Pigs, reared from ~87 to 160 kg in individual pens (no exercise area, NE group, n = 9) or in an outdoor park (with ...
José Manuel Martins +5 more
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The power and performance of proof animation [PDF]
Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation - WSC '95, 1995 The Proof Animation 2.1 product family provides our customers with the tools for animating a vast array of applications. There is a version of Proof Animation to meet any need, from small and mid-sized projects to large scale applications. This product family runs on readily available, inexpensive PC hardware without the need for special hardware ...
N.J. Earle, J.O. Henriksen
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The effects of exercise and diet on olfactory capability in detection dogs*
Journal of Nutritional Science, 2014 A previous work suggests that dietary fat may influence canine olfaction. The present study evaluated whether olfactory performance could be influenced by forms of dietary fat and exercise.
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Conversion of performance mesh animation into cage-based animation [PDF]
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 Posters, 2010 Markerless highly-detailed performance capture is an emerging technology in vision-based graphics and 3D video. For instance, a framework for generating mesh animations from multi-view silhouettes is presented in [Vlasic et al. 2008]. Achieving inverse animation by approximating dynamic mesh using rigid skinning has inspired researchers to convert ...
Savoye, Yann, Franco, Jean-Sébastien
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Live animal measurements, carcass composition and plasma hormone and metabolite concentrations in male progeny of sires differing in genetic merit for beef production [PDF]
, 2009 peer-reviewedIn genetic improvement programmes for beef cattle, the effect of selecting for a given trait or index on other economically important traits, or their predictors, must be quantified to ensure no deleterious consequential effects go unnoticed.
Evans, R. D. +5 more
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Performance, methane production, and beef lipid profile of young bulls finished in feedlot [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária BrasileiraThe objective of this work was to evaluate the growth performance, enteric methane production, carcass traits, and fatty acid profile of the Longissimus thoracis muscle of young Nellore and Angus x Nellore beef bulls fed with a high-lipid diet and ...
Barbara Martins Rodrigues +5 more
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Diet selection and performance of cattle and horses grazing in heathlands
Animal, 2011 As the number of horses is steadily increasing in Cantabrian less-favoured areas, mostly occupied by nutritionally poor heathland communities, the objective of this research was to study and compare diet selection and performance of crossbred horses and ...
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An on-farm investigation of beef suckler herds using an animal welfare index (AWI) [PDF]
, 2010 peer-reviewedBackground: Beef suckler farms (194 farms throughout 13 counties) were assessed once with housed cattle and once with cattle at grass using an animal welfare index (AWI).
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