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Health-Based Welfare Indicators and Fear Reaction of Slower Growing Broiler Compared to Faster Growing Broiler Housed in Free Range and Conventional Deep Litter Housing Systems

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2022
This study investigated the welfare of a slow-growing broiler with a commercially available fast-growing breed housed in a free-range and conventional deep litter housing system.
İbrahima Mahamane Abdourhamane, M. Petek   +1 more
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Aggregating animal welfare indicators: can it be done in a transparent and ethically robust way?

Animal Welfare, 2019
A central aim of animal welfare science is to be able to compare the effects of different ways of keeping, managing or treating animals based on welfare indicators. A system to aggregate the different indicators is therefore needed.
P. Sandøe, S. Corr, T. Lund, B. Forkman
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Estimating welfare indices: household weights and sample design [PDF]

, 2000
The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into individual distributions) or from the point of view of sample ...
Cowell, FA, Jenkins, SP
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POSITIVE WELFARE INDICATORS IN DAIRY ANIMALS

One Health Journal, 2023
The concept of "positive welfare" arose in response to the heavy focus on negative aspects when assessing the overall welfare of animals. Although one of the main components of welfare is the emotional status. The aim of this paper is to study and describe the existing, promising, reliable and feasible indicators of the positive welfare of dairy cows ...
H. Petkun, O. Martyniuk, V. Nedosekov
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Indicators for Measuring Welfare

1995
There is widespread consensus that GNP is a misleading measure of welfare or well-being, as discussed in earlier chapters. Despite caveats from economists that the GNP was never intended to be used as a measure of welfare, it has come to be used as the primary macroeconomic indicator of welfare or progress in modern society.
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Intermediate inequality: concepts, indices, and welfare implications

Mathematical Social Sciences, 1990
The intermediate inequality concept introduced by the authors appears to be very interesting both axiomatically and ethically. Since a choice among absolute and relative inequality concepts cannot be made without any value judgement, the authors propose a new concept (intermediate inequality), as a combination of both situations, being their ...
Pfingsten, Andreas, Bossert, Walter
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On Indicators of Economic Welfare

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2003
The article deals with the issues of improvement of statistics of population welfare. This category has many aspects and for this reason a system of indicators is normally used for analysis. However, the lack of a single synthetic indicator of the level of living limits the analysis of social processes.
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The Blood Indicators of Siberian Sturgeon Welfare

2017
Animal welfare science is expanding rapidly. The use of physiological indicators is one of the most investigated ways in which to evaluate welfare. Blood samples are minimally invasive; they enable successive sampling of the same individuals and provide access to a large range of indicators from numerous physiological functions.
Simide, Rémy, Gaillard, Sandrine, Richard, Simone   +2 more
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Stereotypies as Animal Welfare Indicators

1983
Stereotyped movements form part of the normal behavioural repertoire of animals but a definition for welfare purposes is: a stereotypy is a relatively invariate sequence of movements occurring so frequently, in a particular context, that it could not be considered to form part of one of the normal functional systems of the animal.
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Social Security and Social Welfare Indicators

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1978
The proportion of its total resources that a society devotes to social welfare is a useful general measure related to social policy. In fiscal 1976, the United States spent 21 percent of Gross National Product (GNP) for public social welfare programs, including health and education as well as social insurance (the largest segment) and assistance ...
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