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Bio-economic modelling of sheep meat production systems with varying flock litter size using field data

Animal, 2022
Sheep meat producers derive the majority of income from sales of weaned lambs, determined by flock conception rates, litter size, and lamb survival. Field data from commercial flocks can inform sensitivity analyses of the effect of litter size on flock ...
L. Farrell, P. Creighton, A. Bohan, F. McGovern, N. McHugh   +4 more
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Examination of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale presence and pathomorphological changes in broiler respiratory organs in intensive broiler production [PDF]

Acta Veterinaria, 2012
Three flocks of broilers from the epizootiological region of South Banat, Serbia were chosen for examination, one flock with manifestation of respiratory disorders and two control flocks without respiratory disorders.
Gavrilović P., Jovanović M., Živulj A.   +2 more
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Effect of Formation Size on Flocking Formation Performance for the Goal Reach Problem

Applied Sciences, 2022
Flocking is one of the swarm tasks inspired by animal behavior. A flock involves multiple agents aiming to achieve a goal while maintaining certain characteristics of their formation. In nature, flocks vary in size.
Sarab AlMuhaideb, Ameur Touir, Reem Alshraihi, Najwa Altwaijry, Safwan Qasem   +4 more
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Producing Higher Value Wool through a Transition from Romney to Merino Crossbred: Constraining Sheep Feed Demand

Agriculture, 2021
A strategy to increase wool income for coarse wool (fibre diameter > 30 µm) producers through a transition to higher value medium wool (fibre diameter between 25 and 29 µm) was identified, with previous analyses allowing sheep feed demand increases to ...
Lydia J. Farrell, Peter R. Tozer, Paul R. Kenyon, Lydia M. Cranston, Thiagarajah Ramilan   +4 more
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Micah’s shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13): An ethical model for reversing oppression in leadership praxis

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
The exposition attempts to use Micah’s metaphor of shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13) as a heuristic ethical model for reversing oppression and violence in leadership praxis.
Blessing O. Boloje
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Chronology and Typology of Wallpaper in the World until the 19th Century A. D. and the Encounter of Qajar Courtiers with it [PDF]

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Introduction: Wallpaper is one of the oldest and the most widely used decorations in interior architecture in the world, and it has undergone numerous changes so far.
Zahra Babaei Kalemasihi, Melika Yazdani
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Ovine pedomics : the first study of the ovine foot 16S rRNA-based microbiome [PDF]

, 2011
We report the first study of the bacterial microbiome of ovine interdigital skin based on 16S rRNA by pyrosequencing and conventional cloning with Sanger-sequencing.
A Dhawi, AL Cogen, AP Escayg, Atiya Ul-Hassan, BF Langworth, BH Jost, Brian B Oakley, C Lozupone, Claire L Russell, DA Murdoch, DJ Lane, DJ Stewart, DL Emery, DS Roberts, E Pruesse, E Zaura, EA Grice, EA Grice, Elizabeth MH Wellington, G Bennett, G Conrads, G Jones, G Muyzer, G Sayers, GC Baker, GR Carter, Graham F Medley, H Ulbegi-Mohyla, H Zhou, I Demirkan, IH Davies, J Kaler, J Kaler, J Kaler, JA Frank, Jasmeet Kaler, JC Chin, JP Galkiewicz, JR Egerton, K Klitgaard, Laura E Green, LE Green, Leo A Calvo-Bado, LJ Moore, Luci Witcomb, M Chrino-Trejo, MC Liu, Miloslav Kocur, NJ Evans, NJ Evans, PA Lawson, PD Schloss, PD Schloss, RD Naylor, RE Ley, RJ Collighan, Rose Grogono-Thomas, RS Howell-Jones, S La Fontaine, S Lavín, S Piriz Duran, S Tadepalli, Scot E Dowd, SE Dowd, SJ Billington, TG Nagaraja, TM Skerman, TZ DeSantis, TZ DeSantis Jr, Vicky Bateman, W Li, W Ludwing, WE Kloos, WG Weisburg, WIB Beveridge, William Gaze   +75 more
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Land Body Ecologies: A case study for global transdisciplinary collaboration at the intersections of environment and mental health

The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2023
Land Body Ecologies (LBE) is a global, transdisciplinary research group seeking to understand the mental health dimensions of minority, Indigenous and other land-dependent communities’ relationship to ecologies in a changing environment.
Samrawit Gougsa, Victoria Pratt, Babitha George, Cecilia Vilela, Daniel Kobei, Sylvia Kokunda, Ilan Kelman, Ben Eaton, Lilian Maina, Samson Luari, Outi Autti, Kaisa Kerätär, Jenni Laiti, Catherine Baxendale, Romit Raj, Reema Deshpande, Riya Gokharu, Neha Singh, Sheila Ghelani, Nqatyiswa Mendu, Ayesha Ahmad   +20 more
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Groups and Individuals: Optical Flow Patterns of Broiler Chicken Flocks Are Correlated with the Behavior of Individual Birds

Animals, 2021
Group level measures of welfare flocks have been criticized on the grounds that they give only average measures and overlook the welfare of individual animals. However, we here show that the group-level optical flow patterns made by broiler flocks can be
Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich, Ariane Stratmann, Marian Stamp Dawkins   +2 more
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Advanced survival models for risk-factor analysis in scrapie [PDF]

, 2007
Because of the confounding effects of long incubation duration and flock management, accurate epidemiological studies of scrapie outbreaks are difficult to carry out.
Andréoletti, Olivier, Barillet, Francis, Corbière, Fabien, Fidelle, Francis, Joly, Pierre, Laphitz-Bordet, Nathalie, Schelcher, François   +6 more
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