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Assessing the effects of the first 2 years of industry‐led badger culling in England on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in 2013–2015 [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2017
Culling badgers to control the transmission of bovine tuberculosis (TB) between this wildlife reservoir and cattle has been widely debated. Industry‐led culling began in Somerset and Gloucestershire between August and November 2013 to reduce local badger
Lucy A. Brunton   +10 more
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Identification of culling reasons, intervals, and risk factors by postpartum period classification in dairy farms [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Bioscience
Objective This study aimed to identify the reasons, intervals, and risk factors in Korean dairy farms where cows produce large volumes of milk under challenging conditions.
Hyun-Gu Kang   +2 more
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Timing of head turns to upcoming talkers in triadic conversation: Evidence for prediction of turn ends and interruptions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
In conversation, people are able to listen to an utterance and respond within only a few hundred milliseconds. It takes substantially longer to prepare even a simple utterance, suggesting that interlocutors may make use of predictions about when the ...
Lauren V. Hadley, John F. Culling
doaj   +1 more source

The influence of productivity indicators on the culling of dairy cows in the sharply continental climate of Kazakhstan [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology, 2023
This article presents the results of the culling of cows of the Simmental and Holstein breeds in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The purpose of the research was to study the actual number of culled cows of dairy productivity in the farms of the Republic of ...
R. Uskenov   +5 more
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Long-term comparison between index selection and optimal independent culling in plant breeding programs with genomic prediction.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
In the context of genomic selection, we evaluated and compared breeding programs using either index selection or independent culling for recurrent selection of parents.
Lorena G Batista   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential effects of incorporating fertility control into typical culling regimes in wild pig populations. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Effective management of widespread invasive species such as wild pigs (Sus scrofa) is limited by resources available to devote to the effort. Better insight of the effectiveness of different management strategies on population dynamics is important for ...
Kim M Pepin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and Experiments of a Vision-Guided Integrated Cavity Tray Seedling Culling and Replanting System

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
Greenhouse seedling facilities have become a major method for modern vegetable production. In the process of raising seedlings, culling and replanting of cavity seedlings are essential to ensure the quality of the cavity seedling output.
Xinwu Du, Kaihang Gao, Laiqiang Si
doaj   +1 more source

Badger culling pilots

open access: yesVeterinary Record, 2013
I WOULD like to explain the role of the Independent Expert Panel (IEP) in the badger culling pilots.The IEP was established to help ministers evaluate the effectiveness (in terms of the numbers of animals removed), humaneness and safety of shooting badgers in the two pilot areas.
Mark, Jones   +11 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Characterization and Pattern of Culling in Goats [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Razi Institute, 2019
In order to describe the proportion and pattern of culling in commercial goatherds, this survey was carried out in an industrialized goatherd in Torbat-e-Jam, Iran, over a period of 18 years from 1996 to 2013.
M. Didarkhah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Some harmonic functions for killed Markov branching processes with immigration and culling

open access: yes, 2021
For a continuous-time Bienaym\'e-Galton-Watson process, $X$, with immigration and culling, $0$ as an absorbing state, call $X^q$ the process that results from killing $X$ at rate $q\in (0,\infty)$, followed by stopping it on extinction or explosion. Then
Vidmar, Matija
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