the aim of the present study was to investigate the relation between different indices of milk yield andbody condition score (bcs) with the commencement of the luteal activity (c-la) during the postpartumperiod in high producing dairy cows. seventy-one multiparous healthy (free of detectable reproductivedisorders) holstein dairy cows (mean peak milk yield = 56.7 ± 7.4 kg) were used in the prese...

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Blasticidin S (BcS) is a protein synthesis inhibitor which shows strong growth inhibitory activity against a number of microorganisms. However, BcS inhibited aflatoxin production by Aspergillus flavus without affecting its growth. In order to obtain information about the structure-activity relationship of BcS as an aflatoxin production inhibitor, BcS derivatives were prepared and their aflatoxi...

The objective of this research was to estimate genetic parameters of first-lactation body condition score (BCS), milk yield, fat percentage (Fat%), protein percentage (Prot%), somatic cell score (SCS), milk urea nitrogen (MUN), lactose percentage (Lact%), and fat to protein ratio (F:P) using multiple-trait random regression animal models. Changes in covariances between BCS and milk production t...

The objective was to quantify the strength of the relationship between body condition score (BCS) and live weight (LW) in pasture-based Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle, and to determine the kg LW per unit BCS. A total of 26021 test-day records with information on both BCS (1-10 scale, where 1 is emaciated and 10 is obese) and LW across 1110 lactations from one research farm were used in the anal...

The harvester has been widely used in forestry operations. However the existence of obstacles in forests, such as stones, animals, human and clustered trees, may leads to safety accident and decreases the operating efficiency of the harvester. Therefore it becomes vital to show the obstacles accurately to provide guidance for the harvester. In this paper, an improved image fusion algorithm base...

A new electromagnetic energy harvester for harnessing energy from vibration induced by Kármán vortex street is proposed. It converts flow energy into electrical energy by fluid flow, vortex shedding from a bluff body and electromagnetic induction. An analytical design method for the energy harvester is developed. A prototype of the energy harvester is fabricated and tested. The prototype has a ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have limited lifetime due to on board battery. The lifetime can be improved by energy harvesting solutions. In this paper the solar energy harvester requirements for TelosB mote has been analyzed and calculated. Photovoltaic (PV) panel and battery sizing requirements are calculated by assuming that the mote follows SMAC and TDMA-MAC schedule for image communicatio...

Working on new equipments to increase agricultural productivity and safety, reducing human action hardness , Cemagref and Lasmea have developed an help guidance system for agricultural vehicles. The aim of this system is to help the operator to guide the machine in order to give more attention to the order task. To reach this goal, we use a visual perception of the environment because this sens...