Journal articles: 'Accounting of animals'

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Chistyakova, Anastasiya. "Accounting animals for breeding and fattening." Journal of economic studies 2, no. 3 (May 25, 2016): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/20469.

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Brown, J. E., A. Hosseini, and C. Seymour. "Modelling transfer to animals accounting for trans-generational factors." Radioprotection 46, no. 6 (2011): S509—S514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/20116776s.

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Klychova, Guzaliya, Alsu Zakirova, Al'fiya Yusupova, and Inzilya Hayrullina. "ACCOUNTING DEVELOPMENT UNDER ORGANIC AGRICULTURE." Vestnik of Kazan State Agrarian University 14, no. 4 (April 12, 2020): 114–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2073-0462-2020-114-121.

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Organic production refers to the rapidly growing sector of world agriculture. As the number of participants in organic agriculture increases, many questions arise related to the methodology for accounting for production processes. The article discusses the principles of accounting in agricultural enterprises that are engaged in organic production in parallel with the “traditional”. If organic farming is the only production activity, all operations are accounted for using standard accounts. For enterprises combining intensive production with organic, it is proposed to open additional sub-accounts for synthetic accounts established by the Chart of Accounts for Accounting of the Financial and Economic Activities of Organizations and Agribusiness Organizations. Additional sub-accounts are recommended to be opened on accounts of materials, finished products, animals for growing and fattening, the main herd, production costs, etc. Grouping information on the above accounts allows you to get information about: the quantity and cost of materials used for organic farming; on the quantity and value of the resulting finished organic products; about the composition and number of animals used for the production of organic products. All operations on the movement (receipt, movement, expenditure) of stocks, finished products and animals are made out by primary accounting documents. To summarize the information, internal standard reports are compiled - balance-sheet statements. The article presents schemes reflecting the procedure for generating information on organic production with the indication of subaccounts of accounting, on which information from primary documents related to operations of receipt and disposal of assets produced in an organic way is accumulated.

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Blue, Gwendolyn, and Melanie Rock. "Animal Publics: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Political Life." Society & Animals 22, no. 5 (August 27, 2014): 503–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341350.

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To what extent do non-human animals participate in that particular political configuration known as a public? While conventional wisdom about publics is predicated on a vision of political agency that privileges discursive and deliberative processes, recent scholarship situated in the material turn in the social sciences and humanities challenges the notion that publics are purely human and constituted exclusively through language. With these theorizations as a backdrop, this paper takes into consideration the multiple species that are implicated in political life and that play a role in constituting publics. Placing material definitions of publics in line with central concerns raised by human-animal studies, it is argued that animality is significant to publics in ways that have yet to be sufficiently theorized. The intent of this research is to invite further investigation of the myriad ways in which animal bodies and lives influence public formations in a manner that accounts for and also exceeds human capacity for symbolic communication.

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Prosekov, A. Yu. "Characteristics and key limitations of traditional methods for accounting hunting animals and digital technologies for solving the existing problems (review)." Agricultural Science Euro-North-East 21, no. 4 (August 22, 2020): 341–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.30766/2072-9081.2020.21.4.341-354.

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In order to solve the set of acute problems and for transition to sustainable development of hunting economy of Russia it is necessary to increase the accuracy and objectivity of data on number of hunting animals. Existing methods of accounting are based on direct recounting or analysis of certain indirect evidence of their vital activity, and are mainly developed during the Soviet period of development of hunting science, i.e. are irrelevant. In this research, a descriptive analysis of existing (traditional) methods of accounting for hunting animals (aviation, ground accounting) was carried out. The results of the study have revealed the main advantages and limitations of traditional methods. Restrictions are most often associated with both "human factor"and theoretically and methodologically outdated databases. In order to eliminate existing shortcomings, fundamental innovations in the accounting of hunting animals are necessary. In current conditions, these are primarily digital technologies. The review deals with digital modifications to the main accounting methods, including the use of GPS systems, the use of camera traps and the equipping of aircraft with cameras. The method of improving standard air accounting has become one of the most demanded digital methods of accounting for hunting animals. Thus, the expensive traditional aviation has been replaced by unmanned aerial vehicles (aircraft-type drones, quadrocopters), which have lower flight costs and lack shortcomings of standard aircraft accounting (restriction of human eye viewing, unsuitable weather conditions, biological features of animals, etc.). These new improved methods allow to study hunting grounds and obtain reliable information on the state of forest resources.

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Thomson, Ann. "Animals, Humans, Machines and Thinking Matter, 1690-1707." Early Science and Medicine 15, no. 1-2 (2010): 3–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/138374210x12589831573027.

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This article looks at the debate on the soul in England at the turn of the eighteenth century and at the role played within it by the question of animal soul, which had both theological and scientific ramifications. It discusses the difficulty of accounting for animal behaviour without either adopting the animal-machine hypothesis or according animals an immaterial and hence immortal soul. While those who denied the existence of an immaterial human soul and refused any fundamental distinction between humans and other animals were accused of reducing humans to machines, this article shows that the issues were in fact more complex. The fundamental question was that of the nature of matter; the main danger for many theologians seemed to lie in the attribution of innate life and sensibility to matter, which opened the door to materialism and undermined Christian doctrine

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Kondratenkov, I. A. "Distribution of the Proportionality Coefficient of Winter Route Accounting." Povolzhskiy Journal of Ecology, no. 4 (January 13, 2021): 415–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.35885/1684-7318-2020-4-415-426.

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In previous studies it was shown that the coefficient of proportionality of the winter route count (WRC) of animals included in the formula of WRC in the form of a constant multiplier π/2, is actually a random variable – the same as the average number of intersections account route traces per unit length, and the average length of the diurnal animals. The value π/2 is the mathematical expectation value of the proportionality factor, provided that the count route equiprobably crosses the daily footprint at any place and at any angle from 0 to 2π during a winter route counting of animals. At the same time, both the nature of the distribution of the coefficient as a random variable and the values of its variance as its other statistical characteristics remained unknown. In this study, it was found that when the above-mentioned count conditions are met, the distribution of the proportionality coefficient of WRC as a random variable will be exponential or power-like. This allows calculating the values of its variance and relative statistical error in advance without collecting additional count data.

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Wolcott, M. L., J. M. Thompson, and D. Perry. "The prediction of retail beef yield from real time ultrasound measurements on live animals at three stages through growout and finishing." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 41, no. 7 (2001): 1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea00017.

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Analyses were performed to test the relationship between retail beef yield percentage (RBY) and real time ultrasound measurements taken at weaning, entry to finishing and preslaughter for animals finished under pasture and feedlot conditions to meet domestic, Korean and Japanese market specifications. The first analysis tested the power of live animal measurements (scanned P8 fat depth, scanned eye muscle area and liveweight) to predict RBY and contrasted this with a model containing these live animal measurements plus a term (HERD × KILL ) which accounted for all known classification variables. This indicated that scanned P8 fat depth, measured at slaughter, was the most useful predictor of retail beef yield, accounting for 52% of the variation in RBY for the equation containing live animal measurements alone. The power of live animal measurements to predict RBY decreased as the time between scanning and slaughter increased. Models which included HERD × KILL predicted RBY accurately (accounting for 82–86% of the variation in RBY), but live animal measurements contributed little to this result, accounting for only 8% of the variation in RBY for measurements at slaughter in the presence of the HERD × KILL term. A second analysis examined whether market category, finishing regime or breed classifications consistently influenced the relationship between the measured traits and RBY at the 3 scanning times. The magnitude of the variation between significantly different coefficients (for scanned P8 fat depth, scanned eye muscle area and liveweight) was generally small, though the results suggested that in some instances, developing separate equations for animals of different classifications would marginally improve the accuracy of RBY prediction. The final analysis investigated the improvement in RBY prediction when measurements from entry to finishing were included with those taken before slaughter. HERD × KILL was included in the model to account for all known classification variables. Measurements of both P8 fat depth and EMA from the earlier measurement time were significant predictors of RBY in the presence of the corresponding measurement at slaughter, but accounted for an increase in R 2 of only 0.0007. It was concluded that a single scan and liveweight measurement, close to slaughter, would provide the best live animal measurements for RBY prediction, and that no improvement in accuracy would be achieved by additional scans taken earlier in an animal’s life.

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Kondratenkov, Igor A. "SOME ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF WINTER ROUTE ACCOUNTING OF HUNTING ANIMALS." Povolzhskiy Journal of Ecology 17, no. 1 (2018): 26–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1684-7318-2018-1-26-48.

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Liu, Xiaoqiang, Dawn M. Boothe, Kamoltip Thungrat, and Sherine Aly. "Mechanisms accounting for fluoroquinolone multidrug resistance Escherichia coli isolated from companion animals." Veterinary Microbiology 161, no. 1-2 (December 2012): 159–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.07.019.

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Purcell, Natalie. "Cruel Intimacies and Risky Relationships: Accounting for Suffering in Industrial Livestock Production." Society & Animals 19, no. 1 (2011): 59–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853011x545538.

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AbstractThis article investigates the hypothesis that greater human-livestock intimacy can deter cruelty and mitigate suffering in the industrial production of animals for human consumption. The history of industrial agriculture in North America is one of increasingly utilitarian, profit-based, and technologically mediated relationships between humans and the animals they raise and kill for food. Under what circumstances is the physical and emotional distance between producers, consumers, and consumed animals an impetus toward uncaring and irresponsible relationships? Do even intimate interspecies encounters in livestock production involve cruelty and suffering? This article addresses these questions and evaluates reform options by attending to both the localized arrangements and systemic structures of industrial livestock production. Finally, it proposes a risk-mapping strategy to assess the plausibility of caring intimacies in livestock production.

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Trukhachev, Vladimir Ivanovich, and Elena Ivanovna Kostyukova. "Organization of primary accounting on livestock farms." Buhuchet v sel'skom hozjajstve (Accounting in Agriculture), no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 6–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/sel-11-2102-01.

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The article discusses the organization of the peculiarities of accounting for animals in growing and fattening. The key directions of the accounting process and documentation are determined, the characteristics of the primary documents that are appropriate for use are presented, the methodology for assessing the inventories. The advanced experience of Russian scientists in the field of accounting and the agricultural economy is generalized, examples of the practical implementation of accounting activities in livestock farming are given, recommendations for improving accounting at livestock farms are presented.

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Lukyanov, Boris, and Pavel Lukyanov. "Formation of feeding groups according to management accounting data." Buhuchet v sel'skom hozjajstve (Accounting in Agriculture), no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/sel-11-2006-03.

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The article discusses the solution to the problem of uniting animals on a cattle farm into groups to organize their rational feeding. The task is solved based on the use of management accounting data; the solution of the problem is automated with the help of the CORAL software package

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Long, Julia. "Portable Pets: Live and Apparently Live Animals in Fashion, 1880–1925." Costume 43, no. 1 (June 1, 2009): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174963009x419755.

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, well-dressed women around the world embraced the emerging trend of animal-bedecked styles. Both live and stuffed animals were lavishly featured in daily ensembles, and the beauty of the natural world was assimilated into the world of fashion. This paper will examine this trend and its various avenues, looking specifically at the incorporation of live and stuffed animals into dress, the popularity of taxidermy, and the methods of reanimating dead creatures. The paper also takes into account the dual underlying reasons for this trend: the pervasive interest in the natural world and the special affinity women had for animals.

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Miranda, Nelson A. F., Nasreen Peer, Muhd Z. B. Ishak, and David J. Marshall. "Heat-wave tolerance in tropical intertidal animals: accounting for thermal and desiccation tolerances." Ecological Indicators 107 (December 2019): 105561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105561.

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Bard, Kim, Sarah Knight, Aldert Vrij, and Doug Brandon. "Human Rights, Animal Wrongs? Exploring Attitudes toward Animal Use and Possibilities for Change." Society & Animals 18, no. 3 (2010): 251–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853010x510771.

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AbstractPresented here are three research studies examining psychological characteristics underlying attitudes toward the use of nonhuman animals: beliefs and value systems; their comparative impact on opinions; and empathetic responses to humans and to animals. The first study demonstrated that the attitudes of laypeople are context dependent: different sets of beliefs underlie attitudes toward various types of animal use. Belief in the existence of alternatives (“perceptions of choice”) was especially important, accounting alone for 40% of the variance in attitudes. The second study compared the opinions, beliefs, value systems, and empathetic responses of scientists, animal welfarists, and laypeople. Results demonstrated that laypersons are most similar to the science community, not the animal welfare community. Scientists and laypeople differed on very few measures, whereas animal welfarists differed on most measures. The third study demonstrated a causal link between belief and attitude: manipulating “perceptions of choice” led to a significant change in support for animal use. These studies explain how individuals and groups can have dramatically different attitudes toward animal use and demonstrate how opinions can be changed.

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ALI, T. E., and L. R. SCHAEFFER. "ACCOUNTING FOR COVARIANCES AMONG TEST DAY MILK YIELDS IN DAIRY COWS." Canadian Journal of Animal Science 67, no. 3 (September 1, 1987): 637–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/cjas87-067.

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Daily milk weights from 1006 lactations on 775 Holstein-Friesian cows in 42 herds and monthly test-day weights from 102 540 lactations on 73 717 cows in 17 481 herd-year-seasons were used to study the influence of covariances among milk weighings within a lactation on three models for describing the shape of the lactation curve for individual cows. The models included a gamma function, an inverse quadratic polynomial function, and a regression model of yields on day in lactation (linear and quadratic) and on log of 305 divided by day in lactation (linear and quadratic). For each model, several variance-covariance matrices of the observation vector were used. Models were compared on the basis of squared deviations of predicted versus actual milk weights and on the correlation between predicted and actual weights through the lactation averaged over cows. Better predictions were observed when covariances among test-day yields were ignored while models could be ranked regression model, gamma function, and inverse quadratic polynomial function in order of best to worst. Heritability estimates for the parameters of the various models and for 305-d milk yield ranged from 0.11 to 0.30. Genetic correlations were estimated and predictions of correlated responses in 305-d yield from selecting on various combinations of parameters from each method were computed. The best combination of parameters of the gamma function gave a relative efficiency of 74.7% as compared to selection for 305-d yield alone. Key words: Lactation curves, covariances, Holsteins

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Joseph, P. G., S. P. Sivanandan, and Ham Thong Yee. "Animal salmonella surveillance in Peninsular Malaysia, 1981–1985." Epidemiology and Infection 100, no. 3 (June 1988): 351–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268800067108.

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SummaryDuring the 5-year (1981–5) surveillance period, 2322 salmonella isolations were recorded from animals and other non-human sources in Peninsular Malaysia. This was an increase of 356% over the preceding 5-year period. The 83 serotypes isolated were recovered from 41 sources. Of these 34 were new serotypes bringing the total number of serotypes isolated from non-human sources to date up 97. Food animals and edible animal products accounted for 92·2% of the total isolations, with cattle and beef accounting for 70% of the total. Salmonella dublin was the most frequently isolated serotype, whereas S. typhimurium had the widest zoological distribution. More than 80% of the non-human salmonella serotypes have also been reported in man in this country.

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Labatut, Julie, Iain Munro, and John Desmond. "Animals and organizations." Organization 23, no. 3 (April 21, 2016): 315–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508416629967.

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Aben, Job, Johannes Signer, Janne Heiskanen, Petri Pellikka, and Justin M. J. Travis. "What you see is where you go: visibility influences movement decisions of a forest bird navigating a three-dimensional-structured matrix." Biology Letters 17, no. 1 (January 2021): 20200478. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0478.

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Animal spatial behaviour is often presumed to reflect responses to visual cues. However, inference of behaviour in relation to the environment is challenged by the lack of objective methods to identify the information that effectively is available to an animal from a given location. In general, animals are assumed to have unconstrained information on the environment within a detection circle of a certain radius (the perceptual range; PR). However, visual cues are only available up to the first physical obstruction within an animal's PR, making information availability a function of an animal's location within the physical environment (the effective visual perceptual range; EVPR). By using LiDAR data and viewshed analysis, we modelled forest birds' EVPRs at each step along a movement path. We found that the EVPR was on average 0.063% that of an unconstrained PR and, by applying a step-selection analysis, that individuals are 1.55 times more likely to move to a tree within their EVPR than to an equivalent tree outside it. This demonstrates that behavioural choices can be substantially impacted by the characteristics of an individual's EVPR and highlights that inferences made from movement data may be improved by accounting for the EVPR.

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Steibel, Juan P., and Ignacio Aguilar. "297 GWAS for complex models accounting for populations structure with GBLUP and ssGBLUP." Journal of Animal Science 98, Supplement_4 (November 3, 2020): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa278.057.

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Abstract Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (GBLUP) is the method of choice for incorporating genomic information into the genetic evaluation of livestock species. Furthermore, single step GBLUP (ssGBLUP) is adopted by many breeders’ associations and private entities managing large scale breeding programs. While prediction of breeding values remains the primary use of genomic markers in animal breeding, a secondary interest focuses on performing genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The goal of GWAS is to uncover genomic regions that harbor variants that explain a large proportion of the phenotypic variance, and thus become candidates for discovering and studying causative variants. Several methods have been proposed and successfully applied for embedding GWAS into genomic prediction models. Most methods commonly avoid formal hypothesis testing and resort to estimation of SNP effects, relying on visual inspection of graphical outputs to determine candidate regions. However, with the advent of high throughput phenomics and transcriptomics, a more formal testing approach with automatic discovery thresholds is more appealing. In this work we present the methodological details of a method for performing formal hypothesis testing for GWAS in GBLUP models. First, we present the method and its equivalencies and differences with other GWAS methods. Moreover, we demonstrate through simulation analyses that the proposed method controls type I error rate at the nominal level. Second, we demonstrate two possible computational implementations based on mixed model equations for ssGBLUP and based on the generalized least square equations (GLS). We show that ssGBLUP can deal with datasets with extremely large number of animals and markers and with multiple traits. GLS implementations are well suited for dealing with smaller number of animals with tens of thousands of phenotypes. Third, we show several useful extensions, such as: testing multiple markers at once, testing pleiotropic effects and testing association of social genetic effects.

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Tilles, Paulo F. C., Sergei V. Petrovskii, and Paulo L. Natti. "A random walk description of individual animal movement accounting for periods of rest." Royal Society Open Science 3, no. 11 (November 2016): 160566. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160566.

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Animals do not move all the time but alternate the period of actual movement (foraging) with periods of rest (e.g. eating or sleeping). Although the existence of rest times is widely acknowledged in the literature and has even become a focus of increased attention recently, the theoretical approaches to describe animal movement by calculating the dispersal kernel and/or the mean squared displacement (MSD) rarely take rests into account. In this study, we aim to bridge this gap. We consider a composite stochastic process where the periods of active dispersal or ‘bouts’ (described by a certain baseline probability density function (pdf) of animal dispersal) alternate with periods of immobility. For this process, we derive a general equation that determines the pdf of this composite movement. The equation is analysed in detail in two special but important cases such as the standard Brownian motion described by a Gaussian kernel and the Levy flight described by a Cauchy distribution. For the Brownian motion, we show that in the large-time asymptotics the effect of rests results in a rescaling of the diffusion coefficient. The movement occurs as a subdiffusive transition between the two diffusive asymptotics. Interestingly, the Levy flight case shows similar properties, which indicates a certain universality of our findings.

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Schmitz, Oswald J., and Shawn J. Leroux. "Food Webs and Ecosystems: Linking Species Interactions to the Carbon Cycle." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 51, no. 1 (November 2, 2020): 271–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-104730.

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All species within ecosystems contribute to regulating carbon cycling because of their functional integration into food webs. Yet carbon modeling and accounting still assumes that only plants, microbes, and invertebrate decomposer species are relevant to the carbon cycle. Our multifaceted review develops a case for considering a wider range of species, especially herbivorous and carnivorous wild animals. Animal control over carbon cycling is shaped by the animals’ stoichiometric needs and functional traits in relation to the stoichiometry and functional traits of their resources. Quantitative synthesis reveals that failing to consider these mechanisms can lead to serious inaccuracies in the carbon budget. Newer carbon-cycle models that consider food-web structure based on organismal functional traits and stoichiometry can offer mechanistically informed predictions about the magnitudes of animal effects that will help guide new empirical research aimed at developing a coherent understanding of the interactions and importance of all species within food webs.

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Hosgood, Giselle, and Daniel T. Scholl. "The effects of different methods of accounting for observations from euthanized animals in survival analysis." Preventive Veterinary Medicine 48, no. 2 (January 2001): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-5877(00)00184-7.

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Steele, Kirstin. "Homeless animals and unwanted books." Bottom Line 24, no. 2 (August 23, 2011): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/08880451111169133.

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Niknami, Kamal Aldin, Mohammad Hossein Taheri, and Alireza Sardary. "Evidence for an early accounting system found at Tal-e Mash Karim, a Chalcolithic site in Iran." Documenta Praehistorica 45 (January 3, 2019): 100–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.45-8.

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Investigating the accounting systems and their progressive development during the prehistoric period is a critical issue in recognition of human societies, their communication, and formation of inter- and intra-regional trade system transformed to innovation of writing systems. The present study aims at studying the typology and classification of the Chalcolithic (Middle Bakun, 4500 BC) period. Numerical objects discovered in Tal-e Mash Karim in Semirom district located in Esfahan province, Iran. The discovered cultural materials contain 32 numerical tokens and a clay tallying slab. The numerical tokens are divided into three main categories and seven subcategories. On that basis, round and oval shape tokens for measuring agricultural products and flat and disc shape tokens are representing animals and animal products related productions. The discovery of a tallying slab beside the artifacts all is proving the existence on an early accounting system.

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Niknami, Kamal Aldin, Mohammad Hossein Taheri, and Alireza Sardary. "Evidence for an early accounting system found at Tal-e Mash Karim, a Chalcolithic site in Iran." Documenta Praehistorica 45 (December 29, 2018): 100–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.45.8.

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Investigating the accounting systems and their progressive development during the prehistoric period is a critical issue in recognition of human societies, their communication, and formation of inter- and intra-regional trade system transformed to innovation of writing systems. The present study aims at studying the typology and classification of the Chalcolithic (Middle Bakun, 4500 BC) period. Numerical objects discovered in Tal-e Mash Karim in Semirom district located in Esfahan province, Iran. The discovered cultural materials contain 32 numerical tokens and a clay tallying slab. The numerical tokens are divided into three main categories and seven subcategories. On that basis, round and oval shape tokens for measuring agricultural products and flat and disc shape tokens are representing animals and animal products related productions. The discovery of a tallying slab beside the artifacts all is proving the existence on an early accounting system.

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Silva, Luiz Eduardo Virgilio, Renata Maria Lataro, Jaci Airton Castania, Carlos Alberto Aguiar da Silva, Jose Fernando Valencia, Luiz Otavio Murta, Helio Cesar Salgado, Rubens Fazan, and Alberto Porta. "Multiscale entropy analysis of heart rate variability in heart failure, hypertensive, and sinoaortic-denervated rats: classical and refined approaches." American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 311, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): R150—R156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00076.2016.

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The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) by nonlinear methods has been gaining increasing interest due to their ability to quantify the complexity of cardiovascular regulation. In this study, multiscale entropy (MSE) and refined MSE (RMSE) were applied to track the complexity of HRV as a function of time scale in three pathological conscious animal models: rats with heart failure (HF), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and rats with sinoaortic denervation (SAD). Results showed that HF did not change HRV complexity, although there was a tendency to decrease the entropy in HF animals. On the other hand, SHR group was characterized by reduced complexity at long time scales, whereas SAD animals exhibited a smaller short- and long-term irregularity. We propose that short time scales (1 to 4), accounting for fast oscillations, are more related to vagal and respiratory control, whereas long time scales (5 to 20), accounting for slow oscillations, are more related to sympathetic control. The increased sympathetic modulation is probably the main reason for the lower entropy observed at high scales for both SHR and SAD groups, acting as a negative factor for the cardiovascular complexity. This study highlights the contribution of the multiscale complexity analysis of HRV for understanding the physiological mechanisms involved in cardiovascular regulation.

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Sidorova, Victoria, and Evgeny Petrov. "Electronic calendar as an element of digital IT-farm management." BIO Web of Conferences 27 (2020): 00150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20202700150.

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Management of on-farm processes in animal husbandry with an analogue primary accounting system (acts, journals, statements, certificates, cards, etc.) was carried out using paper, and later electronic reporting forms. In the paper flow of zootechnical accounting, the document contained 70-250 records, the processing and maintenance of which took a lot of time: when entering 25-30 characters per minute, 1.5-2.5 hours; in electronic forms the number of printed characters has been reduced by 5-10 times, or up to 10-20 entries per document per minute. The transition from paper reporting to electronic reporting stabilized the speed of accounting and the number of personnel: 4 accountants were replaced by 1 computer operator, while expanding the database. The digitalization of the electronic calendar as a control element for a “smart” farm is becoming a new stage in optimizing work with document flow. The electronic calendar monitors economic and economic processes, time intervals, problems, automatically generates databases of production processes depending on the “key feature”, for example, the indicator “live weight”: animals that meet the condition С0>Cc, who have collected the necessary live weight, pass to the next production cycle. Mass “С”. Animals С0 = – Cc, that do not meet the requirement, are transferred to the emergency implementation group as economically ineffective for further fattening. The program of cyclical formation of production groups Cij depending on the weighing results, is described by a simulation model U = f(x, p), where U is the state of the modeled component, f are the main functional dependencies, x are variables, p are parameters.

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Dhont, Kristof, Gordon Hodson, and Ana C. Leite. "Common Ideological Roots of Speciesism and Generalized Ethnic Prejudice: The Social Dominance Human–Animal Relations Model (SD–HARM)." European Journal of Personality 30, no. 6 (November 2016): 507–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2069.

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Recent research and theorizing suggest that desires for group–based dominance underpin biases towards both human outgroups and (non–human) animals. A systematic study of the common ideological roots of human–human and human–animal biases is, however, lacking. Three studies (in Belgium, UK, and USA) tested the Social Dominance Human–Animal Relations Model (SD–HARM) proposing that Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) is a key factor responsible for the significant positive association between ethnic outgroup attitudes and speciesist attitudes towards animals, even after accounting for other ideological variables (that possibly confound previous findings). Confirming our hypotheses, the results consistently demonstrated that SDO, more than right–wing authoritarianism (RWA), is a key factor connecting ethnic prejudice and speciesist attitudes. Furthermore, Studies 2 and 3 showed that both SDO and RWA are significantly related to perceived threat posed by vegetarianism (i.e. ideologies and diets minimizing harm to animals), but with SDO playing a focal role in explaining the positive association between threat perceptions and ethnic prejudice. Study 3 replicated this pattern, additionally including political conservatism in the model, itself a significant correlate of speciesism. Finally, a meta–analytic integration across studies provided robust support for SD–HARM and offers important insights into the psychological parallels between human intergroup and human–animal relations. Copyright © 2016 European Association of Personality Psychology

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Janicke, Tim, and Salomé Fromonteil. "Sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in animals." Biology Letters 17, no. 9 (September 2021): 20210251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0251.

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Sexual selection is often considered as a critical evolutionary force promoting sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in animals. However, empirical evidence for a positive relationship between sexual selection on males and male-biased SSD received mixed support depending on the studied taxonomic group and on the method used to quantify sexual selection. Here, we present a meta-analytic approach accounting for phylogenetic non-independence to test how standardized metrics of the opportunity and strength of pre-copulatory sexual selection relate to SSD across a broad range of animal taxa comprising up to 95 effect sizes from 59 species. We found that SSD based on length measurements was correlated with the sex difference in the opportunity for sexual selection but showed a weak and statistically non-significant relationship with the sex difference in the Bateman gradient. These findings suggest that pre-copulatory sexual selection plays a limited role for the evolution of SSD in a broad phylogenetic context.

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Akhmetzhanov, Andrei R., Yusuke Asai, and Hiroshi Nishiura. "Quantifying the seasonal drivers of transmission for Lassa fever in Nigeria." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1775 (May 6, 2019): 20180268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0268.

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Lassa fever (LF) is a zoonotic disease that is widespread in West Africa and involves animal-to-human and human-to-human transmission. Animal-to-human transmission occurs upon exposure to rodent excreta and secretions, i.e. urine and saliva, and human-to-human transmission occurs via the bodily fluids of an infected person. To elucidate the seasonal drivers of LF epidemics, we employed a mathematical model to analyse the datasets of human infection, rodent population dynamics and climatological variations and capture the underlying transmission dynamics. The surveillance-based incidence data of human cases in Nigeria were explored, and moreover, a mathematical model was used for describing the transmission dynamics of LF in rodent populations. While quantifying the case fatality risk and the rate of exposure of humans to animals, we explicitly estimated the corresponding contact rate of humans with infected rodents, accounting for the seasonal population dynamics of rodents. Our findings reveal that seasonal migratory dynamics of rodents play a key role in regulating the cyclical pattern of LF epidemics. The estimated timing of high exposure of humans to animals coincides with the time shortly after the start of the dry season and can be associated with the breeding season of rodents in Nigeria. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: approaches and important themes’. This issue is linked with the subsequent theme issue ‘Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: epidemic forecasting and control’.

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Enock M. Maina, Vineet Chouhan, and Shubham Goswami. "Measuring Reporting Practices After Harmonization And Conversion Of IFRS In India And Kenya Corporates." GIS Business 15, no. 1 (January 26, 2020): 395–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/gis.v15i1.18791.

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Accounting is the system of recording, classifying and summarizing financial information in such a way that users of the information can make economic decisions based upon it. Accounting began as a simple system of clay tokens to keep track of goods and animals, but has developed throughout history into a way of keeping track of complex transactions and other financial information.The study includes 457 total respondents that include 240 from Kenya and 217 from India.The results of multiple regression analysis revealed the Predictors including Har_conv_2, Har_conv_3, Har_conv_5, Har_conv_6 and Har_conv_14 as predicting Harmonization and conversion of accounting standards

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Akosu, TJ, TO Afolaranmi, JO Fayenuwo, FD Kumbak, CG Okorie, U. Adamu, DE Iduh, S. Ntung, and AI Zoakah. "Assessment of Animal Bites in Selected Veterinary Establishments in Plateau State: A Three Year Review." Journal of Epidemiological Society of Nigeria 3, no. 1 (July 26, 2020): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.46912/jeson.32.

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Background: Animal bites are common and sometimes result in the transmission of preventable diseases with high morbidity and fatality. This study sought to determine the pattern of animal bites reported in selected veterinary establishments in Plateau State and the vaccination status of the animals involved. Methods: This was a 3 year retrospective study of vertebrate animal bites of humans reported to 2 public veterinary centres in Jos. Data were extracted from the records of the centres and analysed using SPSS version 21.0. Results: There were 898 bites reported during the period, about one third (33.3%) of which were in children 1-10 years old. Over half of the victims (52.6%) were males and most (72.2%) resided in urban areas. Almost all the bites (97.9%) were from dogs, with local dogs accounting for 67.7% of dog bites. The lower limbs were the commonest site of bites and 80% of bites were unprovoked. Though 80.2% of animals responsible for the bites had identifiable owners, 56.7% had no record of rabies vaccination. Among the animals with vaccination records, 78.9% had either never been vaccinated or their vaccinations had expired. Only 21.1% were fully vaccinated. Median time from bite to presentation at the veterinary centres was 1 day (IQR 0.5-2.0 days) Conclusion: Bite injuries from unvaccinated dogs remain a major public health problem in Plateau State. Urgent efforts should be made to enlighten dog owners and reduce the incidence of bites

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Doré, Antoine, and Jérôme Michalon. "What makes human–animal relations ‘organizational’? The de-scription of anthrozootechnical agencements." Organization 24, no. 6 (October 2, 2016): 761–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508416670249.

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Questions concerning animals’ role in society have received little attention from Organization Studies. This article develops and tests some theoretical and methodological propositions aimed at contributing to the elaboration of an analytical framework for interpreting our organized relations with animals and furthering our understanding of what makes human–animal relations ‘organizational’. First, examining the role of animals in the ‘non-human turn’ that has been emerging, especially with the Actor–Network Theory and the Symmetrical Anthropology project, it adresses the limits of the ‘non-human’ category to analyze situations of coordination of collective action involving animals. It then develops the concept of anthrozootechnical agencement to envisage the role of animals in the course of action through the lens of their relational properties and applies the notion of script to propose an operational formulation of the specifically organizational trials to which these particular agencements are subjected. Based on three case studies (the role of the leash in the organization of human–dog relations, the management of wolves’ return to France, and the production of milk on a dairy farm), this article shows that two main types of operation make human–animal relations ‘organizational’: first, the organization of anthrozootechnical relations is constituted by and constitutive of the combination of three types of specifically organizational test to which these particular agencements are subjected (the performance test, the coherence test, and the dimensioning test); second, the work of organizing anthrozootechnical relations then consists in elaborating, executing, and transforming heterogeneous scripts that are never strictly indexed on the nature (human, animal, technique) of the entities they concern.

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Crump, Kenny, Edmund Crouch, Daniel Zelterman, Casey Crump, and Joseph Haseman. "Accounting for Multiple Comparisons in Statistical Analysis of the Extensive Bioassay Data on Glyphosate." Toxicological Sciences 175, no. 2 (March 19, 2020): 156–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfaa039.

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Abstract Glyphosate is a widely used herbicide worldwide. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reviewed glyphosate cancer bioassays and human studies and declared that the evidence for carcinogenicity of glyphosate is sufficient in experimental animals. We analyzed 10 glyphosate rodent bioassays, including those in which IARC found evidence of carcinogenicity, using a multiresponse permutation procedure that adjusts for the large number of tumors eligible for statistical testing and provides valid false-positive probabilities. The test statistics for these permutation tests are functions of p values from a standard test for dose-response trend applied to each specific type of tumor. We evaluated 3 permutation tests, using as test statistics the smallest p value from a standard statistical test for dose-response trend and the number of such tests for which the p value is less than or equal to .05 or .01. The false-positive probabilities obtained from 2 implementations of these 3 permutation tests are: smallest p value: .26, .17; p values ≤ .05: .08, .12; and p values ≤ .01: .06, .08. In addition, we found more evidence for negative dose-response trends than positive. Thus, we found no strong evidence that glyphosate is an animal carcinogen. The main cause for the discrepancy between IARC’s finding and ours appears to be that IARC did not account for the large number of tumor responses analyzed and the increased likelihood that several of these would show statistical significance simply by chance. This work provides a more comprehensive analysis of the animal carcinogenicity data for this important herbicide than previously available.

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Barker, Richard. "Theory and application of mark - recapture and related techniques to aerial surveys of wildlife." Wildlife Research 35, no. 4 (2008): 268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr07086.

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The key difficulty in assessing animal numbers from the air is that not all animals are seen by the observers. Methods for estimating detection probabilities, or accounting for imperfect detection, are reviewed including double surveys, use of sightability models, mark–resight, and mark–recapture. The assumptions needed for each method are considered as well as issues concerning survey design. For closed-population mark–recapture modelling particular attention is given to multiple observer studies. An emphasis is that an assumption of complete independence in double-observer studies is rarely justifiable and that independent observers will generally only satisfy an assumption of conditional independence and not complete independence.

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Heim, Noel A., Saket H. Bakshi, Loc Buu, Stephanie Chen, Shannon Heh, Ashli Jain, Christopher Noll, et al. "Respiratory medium and circulatory anatomy constrain size evolution in marine macrofauna." Paleobiology 46, no. 3 (May 12, 2020): 288–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2020.16.

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AbstractThe typical marine animal has increased in biovolume by more than two orders of magnitude since the beginning of the Cambrian, but the causes of this trend remain unknown. We test the hypothesis that the efficiency of intra-organism oxygen delivery is a major constraint on body-size evolution in marine animals. To test this hypothesis, we compiled a dataset comprising 13,723 marine animal genera spanning the Phanerozoic. We coded each genus according to its respiratory medium, circulatory anatomy, and feeding mode. In extant genera, we find that respiratory medium and circulatory anatomy explain more of the difference in size than feeding modes. Likewise, we find that most of the Phanerozoic increase in mean biovolume is accounted for by size increase in taxa that accomplish oxygen delivery through closed circulatory systems. During the Cambrian, water-breathing animals with closed circulatory systems were smaller, on average, than contemporaries with open circulatory systems. However, genera with closed circulatory systems superseded in size genera with open circulatory systems by the Middle Ordovician, as part of their Phanerozoic-long trend of increasing size. In a regression analysis, respiratory and circulatory anatomy explain far more size variation in the living fauna than do feeding modes, even after accounting for taxonomic affinity at the class level. These findings suggest that ecological and environmental drivers of the Phanerozoic increase in the mean size of marine animals operated within strong, anatomically determined constraints.

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Bryula, I. V. "State information system “AITS”: features of formation and directions of development." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Agrarian Series 59, no. 3 (August 5, 2021): 340–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.29235/1817-7204-2021-59-3-340-349.

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Animal breeding is a strategic branch of agri-business in the Republic of Belarus, focused on solving social and economic issues and ensuring national food security. Currently, its development is innovations based, forming a high level of the country’s production and export potential. In the world ranking by the end of 2020, the Republic of Belarus took the 5th place in terms of milk exports (4.8 million tons). As world experience shows, the key direction is implementation of electronic identification of animals as an accounting system in agriculture, including assigning identification number to an animal by tagging, registering information about it in a database and issuing an appropriate passport. The paper summarizes and systematizes legal, organizational and financial conditions for creation and functioning of national information systems in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, the European Union, Canada, the Netherlands, the USA, Switzerland, and Japan. It has been determined that absence of a system for identifying the registration of farm animals leads to distortion of data on the number of livestock, and also creates obstacles for selection work and livestock breeding, decreases efficiency of antiepizootic measures, and inhibits international trade in animals and animal products. In development of this, the necessity of this process in the Republic of Belarus, feasibility of creating the state information system “AITS” (SIS AITS) and corresponding management structure – SI “Center for information systems in animal husbandry” are substantiated. With Gomel region as an example, peculiarities of planning and implementation of process of identification and registration of farm animals are disclosed, the main indicators of the efficiency of SIS AITS for 2013–2020 are analyzed. The advantages of commodity producers of the Republic of Belarus in the context of strengthening production and marketing and export potential and reducing risks in the domestic and foreign markets are substantiated. The issues presented in the article are of interest in determining measures for implementation of the State Program “Agrarian Business” for 2021-2025 and a strategy for the export of agricultural products and food products for the period up to 2025.

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Abd El-Aziz, Norhan K., Ahmed M. Ammar, Mona M. Hamdy, Adil A. Gobouri, Ehab Azab, and Alaa H. Sewid. "First Report of aacC5-aadA7Δ4 Gene Cassette Array and Phage Tail Tape Measure Protein on Class 1 Integrons of Campylobacter Species Isolated from Animal and Human Sources in Egypt." Animals 10, no. 11 (November 8, 2020): 2067. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10112067.

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Campylobacter species are common commensals in the gastrointestinal tract of livestock animals; thus, animal-to-human transmission occurs frequently. We investigated for the first time, class 1 integrons and associated gene cassettes among pan drug-resistant (PDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR), and multidrug-resistant (MDR) Campylobacter species isolated from livestock animals and humans in Egypt. Campylobacter species were detected in 58.11% of the analyzed chicken samples represented as 67.53% Campylobacter jejuni(C. jejuni) and 32.47% Campylobacter coli (C. coli). C. jejuni isolates were reported in 51.42%, 74.28%, and 66.67% of examined minced meat, raw milk, and human stool samples, respectively. Variable antimicrobial resistance phenotypes; PDR (2.55%), XDR (68.94%), and MDR (28.5%) campylobacters were reported. Molecular analysis revealed that 97.36% of examined campylobacters were integrase gene-positive; all harbored the class 1 integrons, except one possessed an empty integron structure. DNA sequence analysis revealed the predominance of aadA (81.08%) and dfrA (67.56%) alleles accounting for resistance to aminoglycosides and trimethoprim, respectively. This is the first report of aacC5-aadA7Δ4 gene cassette array and a putative phage tail tape measure protein on class 1 integrons of Campylobacter isolates. Evidence from this study showed the possibility of Campylobacter–bacteriophage interactions and treatment failure in animals and humans due to horizontal gene transfer mediated by class 1 integrons.

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Keady, T. W. J., and D. J. Kilpatrick. "Prediction of carcass weight from live weight in beef animals." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science 2005 (2005): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752756200010905.

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Beef production is the most important farm enterprise on Northern Ireland farms, accounting for 32.5% of Gross Agricultural Output. In beef production the end saleable product is carcass rather than live weight. When undertaking nutrition studies with beef cattle, it is essential to evaluate effects on carcass characteristics, as improvement in live weight may not transfer to improvements in carcass weight and characteristics due to change in gut fill effects. Undertaking carcass assessments in beef production studies increases experimental costs. To determine carcass gains it is essential to slaughter a representative batch of cattle pre-experimentally in order to develop a relationship between initial live weight and initial carcass weight. Slaughtering store cattle further adds to the costs of beef experimentation. The present study was undertaken to develop a relationship between live weight and carcass weight of beef cattle offered grass silage-based diets to facilitate the determination of initial carcass weight of store beef cattle at the point of initiation of nutritional studies.

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Sklyarenko, Y. I. "Features of milk productivity of cows of Ukrainian brown dairy breed and the influence of genotypical and paratypical factors on its formation." Scientific Messenger of LNU of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies 20, no. 89 (November 11, 2018): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32718/nvlvet8902.

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The indicators of milk productivity of cows of Ukrainian brown dairy breed were studied. The research was carried out on the basis of breeding farms of animal breeding of this breed by assessing the data of primary zootechnical accounting. It is established that the level of milk productivity of cows meets the breed standard and is within 4.5 thousand kg of milk. A significant correlation between the indicators of milk productivity and reproductive capacity was found. Milk productivity is negatively correlated with the main indicators of reproductive ability. The influence of genetic and paratypic factors on the formation of milk productivity was studied. It is established that a conditional bloodedness, linear membership and origin in the father significantly affects the level of milk productivity of cows. The impact of genetic factors increases from conditional crow nest of Swiss breed to descent on the father. Animals with the highest proportion of Swiss breed were significantly dominated by other animals by the milk yield per the first lactation. The highest milk yield in the first lactation were obtained from the animal of Vigate 083352 line and the smallest of Payvan 136140 line. By the greater amount of milk fat and protein, the animals of the Vigate 083352 line also prevailed. Animals from different bulls for the first lactation had milk yield in the range of 2780–4464 kg of milk, the amount of milk fat and protein, respectively, 103–176 kg and 89–134 kg. A big impact on the economy of milk production having a term of economic use of animals. Therefore, in our view longevity as a symptom of dairy cows is an important selection basis. The significant influence of genotypic factors on the indicators of the duration of use and lifetime productivity of cows was established. The greatest impact of the paratypical factors had the farm, which contains animals. The conditions of keeping and feeding in the farm had a significant impact on the duration of use and lifetime productivity of cows. The presence of significant influence of genotypic and paratypical factors on the milk productivity of animals makes it possible to improve its breeding and technological activities.

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Baran, Benjamin E., Steven G. Rogelberg, and Thomas Clausen. "Routinized killing of animals: Going beyond dirty work and prestige to understand the well-being of slaughterhouse workers." Organization 23, no. 3 (April 21, 2016): 351–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508416629456.

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Slaughterhouse workers face the reality of industrialized meat production on a daily basis, experiencing firsthand the routinized killing of animals. This occupation provides a window through which to view one key way in which animals and organizations intersect in modern society. Given its proximity to death and undesirable required tasks, working in a slaughterhouse is classified as ‘dirty work’. Current theorizing, however, does not address how the intentional killing of animals may impact workers beyond its inherent dirtiness and low prestige. In this study, we draw upon and extend dirty work theory to further understand the unique nature of work that involves the intentional killing of animals. Regression analyses of data from 10,605 Danish workers across 44 occupations suggest that slaughterhouse workers consistently experience lower physical and psychological well-being along with increased incidences of negative coping behavior. Our findings hold while statistically controlling for occupational prestige and overall dirtiness. Additionally, we compare the pattern of results with a comparable occupation that does not involve animal killing, suggesting specific outcomes associated with routinized killing of animals. Building upon extant research and considering our findings, we discuss the theoretical implications regarding dirty work and the intentional killing of animals in organizations.

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Xu, Yongmei, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Xiaoguang Cui, Keisuke Ohta, Chiharu Kabata, and Katsumi Tashiro. "Lung volumes and alveolar expansion pattern in immature rabbits treated with serum-diluted surfactant." Journal of Applied Physiology 97, no. 4 (October 2004): 1408–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.01043.2003.

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In acute respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation often induces alveolar overdistension aggravating the primary insult. To examine the mechanism of overdistension, surfactant-deficient immature rabbits were anesthetized with pentobarbital sodium, and their lungs were treated with serum-diluted modified natural surfactant (porcine lung extract; 2 mg/ml, 10 ml/kg). By mechanical ventilation with a peak inspiration pressure of 22.5 cmH2O, the animals had a tidal volume of 14.7 ml/kg (mean), when 2.5 cmH2O positive end-expiratory pressure was added. This volume was similar to that in animals treated with nondiluted modified natural surfactant (24 mg/ml in Ringer solution, 10 ml/kg). However, the lungs fixed at 10 cmH2O on the deflation limbs of the pressure-volume curve had the largest alveolar/alveolar duct profiles (≥48,000 μm2), accounting for 38% of the terminal air spaces, and the smallest (<6,000 μm2), accounting for 31%. These values were higher than those in animals treated with nondiluted modified natural surfactant ( P < 0.05). We conclude that administration of serum-diluted surfactant to immature neonatal lungs leads to patchy overdistension of terminal air spaces, similar to the expansion pattern that may be seen after dilution of endogenous surfactant with proteinaceous edema fluid in acute respiratory distress syndrome.

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Knoll, A. H., S. W. F. Grant, and J. W. Tsao. "The Early Evolution of Land Plants." Notes for a Short Course: Studies in Geology 15 (1986): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0271164800001329.

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Vascular plants are the most conspicuous organisms on Earth, accounting for some 97 % of our planet's standing biomass. The nearly 300,000 extant vascular plant species exhibit tremendous morphological and ecological diversity. Along with the 20,000 or more species of bryophytes, algae, lichens, and cyanobacteria that also live on land, they fuel a complex terrestrial ecosystem containing animals, fungi, protozoans, and bacteria. The richness of terrestrial life has evolved during the last 10 % of Earth history; there is no evidence for non-microbial land plants or animals in rocks older than the mid-Ordovician.

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Edge, WD, SL Olsonedge, and BW Ogara. "Capturing Wild Goats and Urial With a Remotely Fired Net-Gun." Wildlife Research 16, no. 3 (1989): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr9890313.

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A remotely fired net-gun was used at a waterhole for capturing wild goats and urial in an area where helicopters could not be used. Twenty-six goats and eight urial were caught, with a capture effort of 12.5 person-hours per goat, and 59.5 person-hours per urial. Up to four animals were caught at once, multiple captures accounting for 74% of all captures for both species. A remotely fired net-gun should be effective for capturing other species at waterholes or other sites where the animals' presence can be predicted.

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Suárez, M. J., S. Munilla, and R. J. C. Cantet. "Accounting for unknown foster dams in the genetic evaluation of embryo transfer progeny." Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics 132, no. 1 (October 15, 2014): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12121.

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Martínez, C. A., K. Khare, S. Rahman, and M. A. Elzo. "Gaussian covariance graph models accounting for correlated marker effects in genome-wide prediction." Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics 134, no. 5 (August 13, 2017): 412–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12286.

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Daboin, Alan. "The Ethical Concept of Responsibility in Levinas and Wojtyła." International Philosophical Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2021): 257–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq2021617177.

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In this article I examine the ethical concept of responsibility as presented by Emmanuel Levinas and Karol Wojtyła. I focus throughout on questions pertaining to the relations between identity and alterity and between heteronomy and autonomy. To do so involves looking at the contrary roles that these two authors give to selfhood and freedom when accounting for our sense of obligation and responsibility toward others and toward ourselves. I then put Levinas’s phenomenological account of responsibility into dialogue with Wojtyła’s personalist account in an examination of the question of animal ethics. Specifically, I discuss the extent to which their ideas on our responsibilities toward others can be extended to the domain of non-human animals.

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Baenninger, Ronald. "Animals in Art: Some Trends Across Three Millennia." Journal of Psychology 122, no. 2 (March 1988): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1988.9712704.

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