Experiments were performed using physiological measures and behavioural parameters to find the acclimatization period in mice to common scientific procedures. Corticosterone levels were significantly elevated in mice killed immediately after being moved to an experimental room (P < 0.05) but levels returned to the normal in less than 1 day, despite mice being exposed to additional stressors suc...

Preferences for different housing conditions in mice were evaluated by radiotelemetry. Male C57BL/6J and ICR mice were used. Preference for bedding materials in mice was compared among three materials, wood shavings (WS), paper (CF) and cloth (AG), using the length of stay in cages as a parameter. The results indicated that mice stayed longer in a cage with AG than in cages with other bedding m...

In southern England, Linaria vulgaris (common yellow toadflax) suffers from high rates of nectar robbery by bumblebees. In a wild population of L. vulgaris we found that 96 % of open flowers were robbed. Five species of bumblebee were observed foraging on these flowers, although short-tongued species (Bombus lapidarius, B. lucorum and B. terrestris) robbed nectar whilst longer-tongued ones beha...

Reservoir shale has the characteristics of bedding planes, strong anisotropy, and imbibition ability under ultralow water saturation, which an important impact on wellbore stability horizontal wells. Therefore, physical chemical properties reservoir were analyzed, a mechanics model was established considering elasticity strength anisotropy. The analyzed anisotropy parameters formation condition...

Both dietary fermentable carbohydrates and the availability of straw bedding potentially affect activity patterns and energy utilisation in pigs. The present study aimed to investigate the combined effects of straw bedding and fermentable carbohydrates (native potato starch) on energy partitioning in growing pigs. In a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement, 16 groups of 12 pigs (approximately 25 kg) were...

Animal welfare during transport became an largely issue because of increasing demand for improved animal standards. Most studies on the transportation have concentrated atmosphere and temperature truck compartments. Thus, objective study was to collect quantify three axis acceleration determine effect bedding transporting pigs from farm slaughterhouse. A total 2,840 crossbred fattening with a l...

In this paper, we describe a new technique for the automatic orientation of bedding in drill core from digital images. Images are planar pictures of the drill core, and we show that it is possible to determine layer orientation without rotating the core on the full circumference. More precisely, we show that angle information can be extracted by applying image processing and a mathematical desc...