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Comparison of Physicochemical Properties between Standard and Sow Pork

Food Science of Animal Resources, 2018
This study was conducted to investigate the dressing percentage and physicochemical characteristics, such as fatty acid composition, water holding capacity (WHC), shear force, meat color, cooking loss, and sensory evaluation, of experimental pork ...
Gye-Woong Kim, Hack-Youn Kim
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Coping with large litters: management effects on welfare and nursing capacity of the sow

Journal of Animal Science and Technology, 2021
A number of management issues can be used as drivers for change in order to improve animal welfare and nursing capacity of the hyperprolific sow.
Olli Peltoniemi, Taehee Han, Jinhyeon Yun   +2 more
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Effects of available surface on gaseous emissions from group-housed gestating sows kept on deep litter

Animal, 2010
In the European Union, the group-housed pregnant sows have to have a minimal legal available area of 2.25 m2/sow. However, it has been observed that an increased space allowance reduces agonistic behaviour and consecutive wounds and thus induces better ...
F.X. Philippe, B. Canart, M. Laitat, J. Wavreille, N. Bartiaux-Thill, B. Nicks, J.F. Cabaraux   +6 more
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Supplementation of Dimethylglycine Sodium Salt in Sow Milk Reverses Skeletal Muscle Redox Status Imbalance and Mitochondrial Dysfunction of Intrauterine Growth Restriction Newborns

Antioxidants, 2022
The current study sought to understand the mechanism underlying skeletal muscle dysfunction brought on by intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and to explore the treatment benefits of applying dimethylglycine sodium salt (DMG-Na) in sow milk to ...
Kaiwen Bai, Luyi Jiang, Qiming Li, Jingfei Zhang, Lili Zhang, Tian Wang   +5 more
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Size of wallet estimation: Application of K-nearest neighbour and quantile regression

IIMB Management Review, 2021
Size of wallet (SOW) estimation is an important problem to solve from a company's perspective. The total business volume conducted by the customer for a product category across firms is generally unobservable, while the volume of transactions conducted ...
Aashish Jhamtani, Ritu Mehta, Sanjeet Singh   +2 more
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Sow yards

, 1967
THE sow is the production unit in the pig enterprise and she must be carefully managed and fed both when suckling and in the dry period.
McNamara, P
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Interaction of CP levels in maternal and nursery diets, and its effect on performance, protein digestibility, and serum urea levels in piglets

Animal, 2021
Reduced protein levels in nursery diets have been associated with a lower risk of postweaning diarrhea, but the interaction with CP levels in maternal diet on the performance of the offspring remains unclear.
K. Kroeske, N. Everaert, M. Heyndrickx, E. Arévalo Sureda, M. Schroyen, S. Millet   +5 more
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Sow-activity classification from acceleration patterns: A machine learning approach [PDF]

, 2013
This paper describes a supervised learning approach to sow-activity classification from accelerometer measurements. In the proposed methodology, pairs of accelerometer measurements and activity types are considered as labeled instances of a usual ...
Hugo Jair Escalante Balderas, Cécile Cornou, Anders Ringgaard Kristensen, Jorge Cordero Durán   +3 more
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MRO SOW Daily Script [PDF]

, 2008
The MRO SOW daily script (wherein "MRO" signifies "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter" and "SOW" signifies "sequence systems engineer of the week") is a computer program that automates portions of the MRO daily SOW procedure, which includes checking file-system
Khanampornpan, Teerapat, Fisher, Forest E., Gladden, Roy E.   +2 more
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Sow longevity: phenotypic time trends, the effect of litter size, and economic values

Frontiers in Animal Science
We analyzed data of 371,343 PIC-Camborough® parent sows housed in 329 commercial farms across the world. From sow birthyear 2000 to 2024, litter size (total number born, TNB) steadily increased each year by 0.16 piglets per litter.
Pieter W. Knap, Justin W. Holl, Craig R. G. Lewis   +2 more
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