Personality has been researched in many companion animals and is described as differences behavioural traits of individuals that often remain consistent over time. In domestic cats factors have discovered to influence personality, including breed, coat colour, gender, rearing experience, number within a household, owner age, gender personality. However, research limited for certain factors, dem...

This study was part of a larger project that aimed to understand the causes for increasing variation in cheese ripening cheese-producing region northern Sweden. The influence different on-farm factors on raw milk composition and properties investigated is described this paper, whereas monthly quality traits during 1 yr our companion paper. dairy farming systems total 42 farms were characterized...

26 herds with 71 586 individual records were used. We tested a hypothesis that milk efficiency was influenced by the elevation of the farm, housing system, breed, area of altitude, and by the cooling of dairy cows. There were 20 herds from lowlands and 6 herds from mountains, 20 herds from free-stall housing, 6 herds from tie-stall housing. 8 herds consisted of Slovakian Pied cattle, 4 herds of...

Uniquely selected breeds bred over thousands of years of domestication in a wide range of environments have been declared extinct over the last century. Still more breeds are at risk of becoming extinct and the rate continues to accelerate. Assessing the current status and possible future dynamics of livestock breeds is therefore a critical step in the management of Animal Genetic Resources (An...

Could an AI decision aid improve housing systems that assist homeless youth? There are nearly 2 million homeless youth in the United States each year. Coordinated entry systems are being used to provide homeless youth with housing assistance across the nation. Despite these efforts, the number of homeless youth still living on the street remains very high. Motivated by this fact, we initiate a ...

REASON FOR PERFORMING STUDY Studies on the prevalence and predisposing factors of bite and kick injuries in horses have not been reported in a population-based data sample. OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of bite and kick injuries in horses and associated risk factors in a representative sample of horses in Switzerland. METHODS A questionnaire on the incidence of disease and injury...

this paper evaluates the welfare effects of price changes in the main commodity groups in iran. using the iranian urban households’ data issued by the iranian statistics center over the period 1994-2007 we estimate the subsistence level. in addition, using the results from the linear expenditure system we calculate the price and income elasticities along with the compensation and equivalent var...