A common operation performed in Virtual Reality (VR) environments is locomotion. Although real walking can represent a natural and intuitive way to manage displacements such environments, its use generally limited by the size of area tracked VR system (typically, room) or requires expensive technologies cover particularly extended settings. number approaches have been proposed enable effective ...

Disability and movement-related pain are major symptoms of joint disease, motivating the development of methods to quantify motor behaviour in rodent joint pain models. We used observational scoring and automated methods to compare weight bearing during locomotion and during standing after single joint inflammation induced by Freund's complete adjuvant (0.12-8.0 mg/mL) or carrageenan (0.47-30 m...

introduction: depression is one of the most frequent psychiatric disorders in the world with occurs with higher incidence in women. in the present study, the effect of water-alcoholic extract of papaver rhoeas l. on forced swimming test (fst) in swiss-webster mice were examined. methods: we used swiss-webster mice (20-25 g) to execute fst on them. the plant extract (1, 10, 30, and 100 mg/kg) wa...

The objective of this study was to evaluate if a multi-sensor system (milk, activity, body posture) was a better classifier for lameness than the single-sensor-based detection models. Between September 2013 and August 2014, 3629 cow observations were collected on a commercial dairy farm in Belgium. Human locomotion scoring was used as reference for the model development and evaluation. Cow beha...

INTRODUCTION To investigate the connection between the intensity of initial symptoms of inflammation and locomotor outcome in rheumatoid arthritis, we examined the relationship between long-term locomotor abnormalities and signs of inflammation at the onset of the disease in adjuvant-induced arthritis (AIA) in rats. METHODS The arthritis score and hind-paw diameter were followed from immuniza...

On the field, bovine practitioners must often take decisions promptly, not only about individual sick animals but also more and more on a herd basis. Fortunately, they can rely on a subtle clinical experience to fix the prognosis and diagnosis before possibly treating diseased animals. They can also use different clinical scoring systems to evaluate feeding efficiency, locomotion and reproducti...

objective: the cows that don’t have access to sufficient energy in their ration can get sickness. milk production has a high priority in metabolism of dairy cows so lactating cows are more prone to get sick this can ruin all the benefits of higher milk yield because of the higher prevalence of the disorders. methods: data for this research had gathered from a herd with 1600 holstein cattle in e...

Pregnant sows from commercial pig farms may experience painful states, such as lameness, an essential indicator in assessing sow welfare. We investigated the effect of lameness during last third pregnancy on reproductive performance and placental glucocorticoid concentrations sows. Periodic locomotion assessments were carried out two using a validated 0–5 scoring system (from 0: normal locomoti...

397 holstein dairy cows were used to determine locomotion score, lameness prevalence and its relationship with age of the animal and body condition score (bcs). locomotion score was determined using seven gait properties of animal. the results showed that more than 56% of cows in the herd had no locomotion problems. more than 40% of cows were placed in the group of suspected subclinical lamenes...