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Herd protection or herding cats? [PDF]
Thorax, 2019 In this issue of Thorax , Hanquet et al 1 present results of surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) among adults aged 65 years and older in 10 European countries during the 5 years 2011–2015 following introduction of second-generation pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for infants that covered 10 (PCV10) or 13 (PCV13) of the more than 90 ...
Mark van der Linden, Cynthia G Whitney
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An individual-based model simulating goat response variability and long-term herd performance
Animal, 2010 Finding ways of increasing the efficiency of production systems is a key issue of sustainability. System efficiency is based on long-term individual efficiency, which is highly variable and management driven.
L. Puillet +3 more
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Evaluation of milk yield losses associated with Salmonella antibodies in bulk-tank milk in bovine dairy herds [PDF]
, 2012 The effect of Salmonella on milk production is not well established in cattle. The objective of this study was to investigate whether introduction of Salmonella into dairy cattle herds was associated with reduced milk yield and the duration of any effect.
A.B. Kudahl +31 more
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Rangifer, 2007 Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in British Columbia have been classified into ecotypes based on differences in use of habitat in winter. Although recovery planning focuses on ecotypes, habitat use and selection varies within ecotypes.
Elena S. Jones +3 more
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BMJ OpenObjective To determine the prevalence and factors associated with anxiety and depression and the care-seeking behaviour among Nepalese population.Design and settings Secondary analysis of the data from nationally representative Nepal Demographic and ...
Sushil Baral +7 more
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Seroprevalence of polio antibodies in adult laboratory staff in South Africa, 2009 to 2013
Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 The global eradication of polio has been a World Health Organization goal since May 1988 with the current target for global eradication set at 2018.
Shelina Moonsamy, Melinda Suchard
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HERDING WITH COSTLY INFORMATION [PDF]
International Game Theory Review, 2003 We consider a standard sequential decision to adopt/buy a good in a herding environment. The setup is same as in Sgroi (2002). Contrary to the basic herding case we introduce a cost that the agents have to pay for the information about their predecessors' actions. All agents receive informative signals as in the standard herding models but do not view
Klaus Kultti, Paavo Miettinen
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Impact of successive lactation, year, season of calving and test milking on cows’ milk performance of the Polish Holstein-Friesian Black-and-White breed [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2011 The research was conducted based on 8895 test milkings of 463 milk cows calving first time in 2003 and reared in the Pomorze and Kujawy region. The aim of the present study was to analyse the influence of selected factors on the milk performance and its ...
Beata SITKOWSKA, DARIUSZ Piwczyński
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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Health systems worldwide are vulnerable to both acute shocks, which strain the health system for a relatively short period of time, and chronic stressors, which place persistent pressure on the health system. Given Nepal’s frequent exposure to
Achyut Raj Pandey +8 more
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John Ashbery's Commotion [PDF]
, 2018 A consideration of John Ashbery's Commotion of the Words in relation to Edouard Glissant's concept of the "agent of commotion" from Poetics of ...
Herd, Colin
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