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Corrigendum: COVID-19 Effects on Livestock Production: A One Welfare Issue [PDF]
Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde, Laura A. Boyle
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Background Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) infection remains endemic in many countries worldwide. Ireland, in common with several other European counties, commenced an BVDV eradication programme in the last decade, Managing eradication programmes ...
Damien Barrett +6 more
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Previous studies identify owner-related issues, such as cost and housing, as common reasons for relinquishment of companion animals to animal shelters. It is likely that the burden of surrendering for owner-related reasons falls on those who are socially
Lexis H. Ly +2 more
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Decisions around animal health management by stakeholders are often subject to resource limitation, therefore prioritization processes are required to evaluate whether effort is attributed appropriately.
AnneMarie Clarke +5 more
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‘Animal welfare' (动物福利) is a foreign term in China, and stakeholder interpretations can affect receptiveness to the concept. Our aim was to explore workers' perceptions of animal welfare on two dairies in China.
Maria Chen, Daniel M. Weary
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Links between animal welfare and “One Health”: perception and implementation in Latin America
IntroductionThe recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of the “One Health” (OH) concept in the prevention, early detection, and mitigation of health issues involving humans, animals, and the environment.
Débora Silvia Racciatti +7 more
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Why Do Hens Pile? Hypothesizing the Causes and Consequences
Piling is a behavior in laying hens whereby individuals aggregate in larger densities than would be normally expected. When piling behavior leads to mortalities it is known as smothering and its frequent but unpredictable occurrence is a major concern ...
Helen Gray +4 more
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The aim of the present study was to develop a multicriteria model for the comparison of three commercial poultry farms: organic with Ross 308 genotype (OR), organic with Naked Neck genotype (ONN) and a conventional system (C), which represents the most ...
Lucia Rocchi +6 more
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When wildlife and motor vehicles collide, the result for the animals is often death (roadkill). A commercial roadkill mitigation device that forms a so-called virtual fence (VF), is said to reduce roadkill by up to 90%.
Bruce Englefield +3 more
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Social Welfare in One-Sided Matching Mechanisms [PDF]
We study the Price of Anarchy of mechanisms for the well-known problem of one-sided matching, or house allocation, with respect to the social welfare objective. We consider both ordinal mechanisms, where agents submit preference lists over the items, and cardinal mechanisms, where agents may submit numerical values for the items being allocated.
George Christodoulou 0001 +5 more
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