Many dog owners see homemade diets as a way of increasing the bond with their pets, even though they may not have the convenience of commercial diets. Modifications of ingredients, quality and proportion might change the nutritional composition of the diet, generating nutritional imbalances. The present study evaluated how dog owners use and adhere to homemade diets prescribed by veterinary nut...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of increasing degrees of lipid peroxidation on structure and function of the small intestine of nursery pigs. A total of 216 pigs (mean body weight was 6·5 kg) were randomly allotted within weight blocks and sex and fed one of five experimental diets for 35 d (eleven pens per treatment with three to four pigs per pen). Treatments include...

Fats are an important constituent of any diet and play an important role in both health and disease. Excessive consumption of fats in diet, especially those derived from animals sources, elevates blood cholesterol, which is then responsible for atherosclersis, leading to cardiovascular and other related disorders. Epidemiologic data has shown that Asians Indians have one of the highest prevalen...

This paper presents a methodology to recognize certain crop fields’ images using texture, color and combination of both types of features. In this work, we have considered eight varieties of crop images, namely, Brinjal, Cotton, Groundnut, Paddy, Soyabean, Sugarcane and Sunflower. Texture features using GLCM and color features using HSV are deployed. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used for ...