Computer vision in precision livestock farming: artificial intelligence-driven technologies and applications for sustainable animal production [PDF]
Animal BioscienceThe growing global demand for animal-derived food products is placing unprecedented pressure on livestock production systems to improve efficiency while also assuring animal welfare, environmental sustainability and economic viability.
Thi Thi Zin, Pyke Tin
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Architecture and Welfare: Scandinavian Perspectives
Kunst og KulturIn the decades following World War II, ambitious building programs were launched across Europe to secure social prosperity. Scandinavia, in particular, underwent an intensive phase of modernization aimed at distributing wealth equally. However, developments in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway followed different paths, and their welfare models were modified,
Panagiotis Farantatos
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Reducing the Consumer Attitude–Behaviour Gap in Animal Welfare: The Potential Role of ‘Nudges’
Animals, 2018 Citizen concern for the welfare of farm animals is well documented. However, there is a notable gap between people saying they want improved farm animal welfare and how they actually behave as a consumer.
Belinda Vigors
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Computational animal welfare: towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience. This is challenging, since these properties are private and cannot be observed directly.
Sergey Budaev +3 more
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The Perforated Welfare Space: Negotiating Ghetto-Stigma in Media, Architecture and Everyday Life
Architecture and Culture, 2022 The Danish postwar social housing developments originally epitomized the dawning welfare state, promoting ideals of equity and community. Today, a number of these neighborhoods have come to occupy the reverse role and are publicly represented as “parallel societies,” “ghettos,” or even “holes in the map of Denmark,” hence perforating the welfare state ...
Marie Stender
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Let us raise a healthy youth: The construction of the first kindergarten in interwar Belgrade [PDF]
Nasleđe, 2022 The modernization of Yugoslav society gave rise to an increase in the number of women in employment, which thus brought to the fore the issue of daily care for the children of families where both parents were employed.
Putnik-Prica Vladana B.
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The Welfare Culture. Poetics of Comfort in Architecture of the 19th and 20th-centuries
Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, 2013 Architectural history of the last two centuries shows that welfare, far from being a purely technical issue – a balance between weather and the physiological human constants – is a culturally constructed idea concerning diverse factors, such as the ...
Eduardo Prieto González
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Assessing the Role of Urban Green Areas for Students' Quality of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2022 Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures have limited outdoor activities for many people, including university students who live inside the campus and far from their families.
Kyung-A Choi, Mehdi Rezaei
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