Objective- Evaluation of leg scoring as a method for hoof trimming neccesity. Design- Prospective randomised trial. Animals-  Hundred and sixty holstein dairy cows. Procedure- One hundred and fifty cows selected in a dairy farm in dry period 2-3 weeks before calving (stage one), all cows were photographed, right, left and overall scores (A three point scoring system, in which score one is fo...

The purpose of this thesis is to give a contribution to facing the indoor classification problem using an active visual attention approach. In particular, our efforts are focused on the development of an active vision system able to extract useful information from a set of indoor ambient images and infer the environment classes. Our goal consists in building a symbolic house ambient map, i.e. o...

Diabetic Retinopathy is a disease which causes a menace to the eyesight. The detection of this at an early stage can aid the person from vision loss. The examination of retinal blood vessel structure can help to detect the disease, so segmentation of retinal blood vessel vasculature is important and is appreciated by the ophthalmologists. In this paper, we present the approach of blood vessel s...

The objectives of this experiment were 1) to determine if dietary soybean oil (SBO) affects the NE of corn when fed to growing or finishing pigs, 2) to determine if possible effects of dietary SBO on the NE of corn differ between growing and finishing pigs, and 3) to determine effects of SBO on pig growth performance and retention of energy, protein, and lipids. Forty-eight growing (initial BW:...

The objectives of this experiment were 1) to determine if dietary soybean oil (SBO) affects the NE of corn when fed to growing or finishing pigs, 2) to determine if possible effects of dietary SBO on the NE of corn differ between growing and finishing pigs, and 3) to determine effects of SBO on pig growth performance and retention of energy, protein, and lipids. Forty-eight growing (initial BW:...

to clarify fermentative alterations in the large intestine (hindgut) during grazing, fecal alcohol and volatile fatty acids (vfas) concentrations were evaluated in 30 dairy heifers. the heifers were kept in pasture growing mixed grass herbage from spring (mid may) until october, and their rectal feces were collected periodically. concentrations of ethanol, methanol and isopropanol were increase...

In this study, the essential oil content in the aerial parts of Cleome heratensis which is growing in the east of Iran was investigated. The aerial parts of the plant were collected from the late August to October 2014, for a total of four harvests (S1-S4). Essential oils were isolated by hydro-distillation. The oils were analyzed by GC-FID and 30 constituents, representing 84.93-92.9 % of the ...

A two-stage methodology for interactive segmentation of volume data sets is presented in this paper. In the first stage (presegmentation) a 3D watershed transformation is used for segmenting the data in different small regions. According to the neighboring relationships between this regions a region adjacency graph (RAG) is constructed. During the second stage (interactive information extractio...

It is demonstrated that the microinjection of cytoplasm from competent, fully grown oocytes can induce germinal vesicle breakdown in meiotically incompetent growing oocytes. Injection of cytoplasm from oocytes at methaphase I had a similar effect. The maturation in injected growing oocytes was arrested at the premetaphase or metaphase I stage. Induction of germinal vesicle breakdown by cytoplas...