1Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 3Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 4Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Tat.Fu@...

IN THIS PAPER WE REPORT ON GROUND BEETLES (COLEOPTERA Carabidae) collected from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and Hanford National Monument (together the Hanford Site), which is located in south-central Washington State. The Site is a relatively undisturbed relict of the shrub-steppe habitat present throughout much of the western Columbia Basin before the westward expansion of the United Stat...

Live pig trade patterns, drivers and characteristics, particularly in backyard predominant systems, remain largely unexplored despite their important contribution to the spread of infectious diseases in the swine industry. A better understanding of the pig trade dynamics can inform the implementation of risk-based and more cost-effective prevention and control programs for swine diseases. In th...

Industrialized small-scale pig farming has been rapidly developed in developing regions such as China and Southeast Asia, but the environmental problems accompanying pig farming have not been fully recognized. This study investigated 168 small-scale pig farms and 29 example pig farms in Yujiang County of China to examine current and potential impacts of pig wastes on soil, water and crop qualit...

Rabbits immunized with partially purified guinea pig serum and guinea pig liver L-asparaginases produced precipitating antibodies to the homologous enzymes. Antisera to guinea pig serum L-asparaginase precipitated the guinea pig liver and agouti serum L-asparaginases but did not crossreact with Escherichia coli B L-asparaginase. Conversely, antisera to guinea pig liver L-asparaginase precipitat...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the variation in response to space allocation between barrows and gilts and to examine an alternative allocation regimen for barrows and gilts. Experimental space allocations in both experiments were achieved by varying the number of pigs per pen in a fully slatted facility. In Exp. 1, barrows were given 0.58 and 0.65 m2/pig (nine and eight pigs per p...

We propose an optimal system for determining the shipping schedule pigs using a predictive model machine learning based on big data. This receives photographic and weight measurement information each pig from camera weighing installed in pen raising corresponding to predetermined fattening period. Then, of these is applied machine-learned advance determine whether or not there are candidate pre...

Page Title 1 Overview − hierarchical models 2 Calf mortality data 3 Hierarchical regression models 4 Hierarchical survival models: general approaches 5 Calf mortality data: multi-level Cox model 6 Methods for hierarchical Cox models 7 Pig lameness data 8 Pig data: hypothesis and first results 9 Pig data: Cox random slope models 10 Pig data: parametric models 11 Proportional hazards revisited 12...

Until now, no research has been carried out in Croatia into consumer preferences for a particular agricultural and food product by choice experiment. Therefore, little data are available about Croatian consumers' social concerns (sustainability, biodiversity, rural development animal welfare) with regard to the behavior favoring local pig breeds, this case Black Slavonian Pig breed. A survey wa...

BACKGROUND In Thailand, pig production intensified significantly during the last decade, with many economic, epidemiological and environmental implications. Strategies toward more sustainable future developments are currently investigated, and these could be informed by a detailed assessment of the main trends in the pig sector, and on how different production systems are geographically distrib...