When two objects carry the same category label, we tend to perceive that these objects are similar. When two objects carry different category labels, we perceive that these objects are dissimilar. How does this happen? In an attempt to clarify the effect of category labels on similarity judgments, pictures of animal tissues were presented with fictitious labels and participants judged the simil...

Abstract Animal dimensions are important indicators for monitoring the growth rates, diet efficiency, and health status of animals. A computer vision system is one recently emerging precision livestock farming technologies to overcome previously unresolved challenges pertaining labor cost. It common practice collect top-view depth images evaluating body mass or conformation traits. However, in ...

Nowadays, picture fuzzy set theory is a flourishing field in mathematics with uncertainty by incorporating the concept of positive, negative and neutral membership degrees an object. A traditional crisp relation represents satisfaction or dissatisfaction relationship, connection correspondence between objects two more sets. However, there are some problems that can’t be solved through classical...

Let A be an animal. We consider magnifications of A in x-, y-, or z-direction. But this is not always possible because there may be voxels that block the magnification. To overcome this difficulty, we consider an AD-movement. This is performed by considering the magnification in two directions (e.g., y-direction and z-direction) such that any series of blocking voxels never forms a cycle. If a ...

Animal and plant diseases pose a serious and continuing threat to food security, food safety, national economies, biodiversity and the rural environment. New challenges, including climate change, regulatory developments, changes in the geographical concentration and size of livestock holdings, and increasing trade make this an appropriate time to assess the state of knowledge about the impact t...

In this paper, new techniques that allow conditional entropy to estimate the 1 combinatorics of symbols are applied to animal communication studies to estimate the 2 communication’s repertoire size. By using the conditional entropy estimates at multiple 3 orders, the paper estimates the total repertoire sizes for animal communication across 4 bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales, and several sp...

Introduction: Singapore is a first-world country, protected by an advanced police force, competent in investigating crime against human citizens. Little known about animals and what does these instances. Methods: This research considered data from reports of various animal that occurred 2016 as recorded the three welfare organizations appointed to investigate crimes (AVS, SPCA ACRES). Details c...

Scientific understanding and technical control of ammonia (NH3) at animal facilities largely depend on sampling and measurement techniques. Good sampling/measurement techniques provide high quality data that are essential in the study and abatement of NH3 emission. For many years until now, there have been only a few publications that address the application of these techniques at animal facili...