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Formation of the Pecking Order during Small-Scale Floor Feeding in Helmeted Guinea Fowl (Numida meleagris) [PDF]
The Journal of Poultry ScienceHelmeted guinea fowl are social animals and only males form a hierarchy in the wild. Non-cage husbandry systems benefit the reproductive health of guinea fowl; however, there are concerns that the feeding duration of subordinate individuals is ...
Tomoyoshi Terada +3 more
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Trade-Off Theory Versus Pecking Order Theory: Ghanaian Evidence
SAGE Open, 2020 The objective of this study was to examine the theoretical predictions of the pecking order theory and the trade-off theory to establish which of the two competing theories better explains the financing decisions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs ...
James Agyei +2 more
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The Microbial Pecking Order: Utilization of Intestinal Microbiota for Poultry Health [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2019 The loss of antibiotics as a tool to improve feed efficiency in poultry production has increased the urgency to understand how the microbiota interacts with animals to impact productivity and health. Modulating and harnessing microbiota-host interactions
Joel J. Maki +3 more
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Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order. [PDF]
Small Bus Econ (Dordr), 2022 Jansen K +3 more
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Jurnal Siasat Bisnis, 2015 This research discusses about debt capacity of the firms and the test of pecking order theory of non-financial firms listed at Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2006-2010.
Andi Dwi Kurnia Nugraha +1 more
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Pecking order, earnings management and capital structure [PDF]
Accounting, 2021 Most of studies imply that firms decrease or increase their debt capacity in context of pecking order theory or agency problems. On this point, the setting of this study is based on two main problems related to capital structure: the first is determining
Budiarso, Novi Swandari, Pontoh, Winston
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Do South African state-owned entities follow the pecking order theory of capital structure? [PDF]
Public and Municipal Finance, 2021 In corporate finance, the pecking-order theory suggests that companies adhere to a particular financing hierarchy, with internal funding taking preference over external funding, and debt financing taking preference over equity.
Ferina Marimuthu +1 more
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Effective Strategies for Mitigating Feather Pecking and Cannibalism in Cage-Free W-36 Pullets
Poultry, 2023 Pecking is one of the most concerning poultry welfare issues in the layer houses, especially in the cage-free (CF) housing system. Pecking behavior may lead to severe feather pecking (SFP) and cannibalism when birds feel frustrated, stressed, and ...
Ramesh Bahadur Bist +3 more
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The pecking order of innovation finance [PDF]
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015 In this paper we study how innovation affects the hierarchy of financing behaviors and analyze the relationship between the forms of external finance obtained by firms and their innovation activiti...
Mina, Andrea, Lahr, Henry
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Low-rank Gallus gallus domesticus chicks are better at transitive inference reasoning
Communications Biology, 2021 Jonathan Daisley et al. investigated whether the social rank (pecking order) of young chicks was linked to an individual’s perception of transitive inference (e.g. A > B and B > C to infer A > C).
Jonathan Niall Daisley +2 more
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