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Expectations of Cattle Feeding Investors in Feeder Cattle Placements [PDF]

Cattle feeders appear irrational when they place cattle on feed when projected profits are negative. Long futures positions appear to offer superior returns to cattle feeding investment.
Kastens, Terry L., Schroeder, Ted C.
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‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng, Charlotte Bagnall, Caroline Bond, Elizabeth Birchinall, Pamela Qualter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The phenomics landscape of major diseases in cattle – a comprehensive review

Animal Advances
Cattle convert non-human-edible plant materials into nutrient-dense meat and milk, support soil fertility through manure, provide leather and draft power, and sustain rural livelihoods, making them central to global food systems and well positioned to ...
Zhihua Jiang, Jennifer J. Michal, Anjali Sharma, Ramanathan K. Kasimanickam, Yuan Wang, Hussien Abouelhag, Ashraf Hakim, Mohammed Effat, Adel Ibrahim, Ahmed Sallam, Ahmed AbdelMaksoud, Magdy Hassan, Ying Gao, Breno Fragomeni, Laura C. Miller, Sohier Sayme   +15 more
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Breeding for trypanotolerance in African cattle [PDF]

, 2001
Trypanosomosis, or sleeping sickness, is one of the most important livestock diseases in Africa. Some West African cattle breeds show a degree of resistance to a trypanosome infection: they are trypanotolerant.
van der Waaij, E.H., Waaij, E.H., van der   +1 more
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Corrigendum: Overview of Control Programs for Cattle Diseases in Finland

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Tiina Autio, Erja Tuunainen, Hannele Nauholz, Hertta Pirkkalainen, Laura London, Sinikka Pelkonen   +5 more
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The Impact of Sustainability Labelling on Consumers' Evaluation and Choice of Food Products: A Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen, Lucía Romero‐Verdú, Anne O. Peschel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Incentive Structure in Cattle Feeding Contracts Under Alternative Fed Cattle Pricing Methods [PDF]

Developing a multitask principal-agent model, this paper theoretically analyzes the incentive provisions in the existing cattle feeding contracts under alternative fed cattle pricing methods.
Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur
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Melatonin Treatment at Dry-off Reduces Postpartum Shedding of Coccidia in Primiparous Dairy Cows and Their Calves

Animals
Coccidiosis is a protozoan disease that causes diarrhea in cattle. This study examines the impact of treating pregnant cows at dry-off with melatonin on postpartum coccidia excretion in dams and their calves.
Fernando López-Gatius, Sergi Ganau, María Mora-García, Irina Garcia-Ispierto   +3 more
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Sleeping sickness: a tale of two diseases.

, 2001
Sleeping sickness presents clinically as two distinct diseases, reflecting the fact that two very different trypanosomes are responsible. The African Rift separating East and West Africa defines the distribution of the two diseases. In this review, Susan
Martin Odiit, Maudlin, I, Coleman, P.G., Welburn, S.C., Eric M. Fèvre, Maudlin, I., Odiit, M, Fèvre, EM, Odiit, M., Fèvre, Eric M., Paul G. Coleman, Coleman, PG, Welburn, SC, Ian Maudlin, Susan C. Welburn   +14 more
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