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Upinder Kaur; Rammohan Sriramdas; Xiaotian Li; Xin Ma; Arunashish Datta; Barbara Roqueto dos Reis; Shreyas Sen; Kristy Daniels; Robin White; Richard M. Voyles; Shashank Priya
ruminants, etc ; biomarkers; chemistry; environmental impact; fermentation; food security; locomotion; nutrition; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Maximizing the health, productivity, and sustainability of ruminant animals is an essential societal goal for a variety of reasons including food security, impact on the environment, and global nutrition; however, monitoring the metabolism of ruminant animals is currently a time-consuming and imprecise process. An indwelling robot residing within the ruminant gut would likely revolutionize metabol ...
ruminants, etc ; energy efficiency; environment; greenhouse effect; greenhouse gas emissions; hydrogen; livestock; livestock and meat industry; meat; methane production; milk; propionic acid; Show all 12 Subjects
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... To meet the increasing demand for meat and milk, the livestock industry has to increase its production. Without improving its efficiency, increased livestock, especially ruminant animals, will worsen the environmental damage, mainly from enteric CH₄ emission. Enteric CH₄ emission from ruminants not only exacerbates the global greenhouse effect but also reduces feed energy efficiency for the animal ...
ruminants, etc ; databases; dietary protein; environment; environmental impact; fish; food quality; greenhouse gases; human health; land use; pork; poultry; protein composition; protein intake; risk; surveys; vegan diet; France; Show all 18 Subjects
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... Patterns of protein intake are strong characteristics of diets, and protein sources have been linked to the environmental and nutrition/health impacts of diets. However, few studies have worked on protein profiles, and most of them have focused on specific diets like vegetarian or vegan diets. Furthermore, the description of the environmental impact of diets has often been limited to greenhouse ga ...
G. Wendeu-Foyet; V. Chajes; I. Huybrechts; J.-M. Bard; C. Debras; E. Chazelas; B. Srour; C. Julia; E. Kesse-Guyot; C. Agaësse; N. Druesne-Pecollo; P. Galan; S. Hercberg; M. Deschasaux-Tanguy; M. Touvier; Réseau national alimentation cancer recherche (NACRe)
... Les acides gras trans (AGT) représentent une catégorie de lipides naturellement présents dans les aliments (produits dans l’estomac des ruminants) ou générés par des procédés industriels d’hydrogénation partielle des huiles végétales. Leur rôle en tant que facteurs de risque cardiovasculaire a été largement démontré. En revanche, leur implication dans l’étiologie du cancer est suspectée, mais les ...
ruminants, etc ; anaerobic digestion; biomass; biomimetics; bioreactors; biotransformation; lignocellulose; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Biomimicking ruminant digestion strategies (RDSs) into anaerobic digestion (AD) enables efficient bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass. Understanding RDSs is essential to translate their features into designing and developing bioprocesses and bioreactors. Here, we discuss insights into recently developed bioinspired bioprocesses, bioreactors, and future AD systems based on RDSs. ...
small ruminants, etc ; cow manure; questionnaires; surveys; thatch; urbanization; Ghana; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Rapid urbanization exerts pressure on urban fringe resources in most cities in the global south. The resultant effect of this pressure is the rapid conversion of natural reserves and farmlands into residential and non-residential developments that affects crucial rural livelihoods including the production of small ruminants. However, scientific studies on the production of small ruminants on the f ...
ruminants, etc ; automation; blood serum; fermentation; glass; headspace analysis; livestock; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The present technical note describes design, development and validation of an automated equipment for measurement of kinetics of gas production during fermentation in glass bottles. The overall repeatability and precision of the developed system was evaluated and compared with the manual gas measurement technique in respect to characterization of the fermentation kinetics of ruminant livestock fee ...
Eveline Dijkstra; Piet Vellema; Karianne Peterson; Carlijn ter Bogt-Kappert; Reinie Dijkman; Liesbeth Harkema; Erik van Engelen; Marian Aalberts; Inge Santman-Berends; René van den Brom
small ruminants, etc ; animal health; contemporary society; industry; monitoring; Netherlands; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In contemporary society and modern livestock farming, a monitoring and surveillance system for animal health has become indispensable. In addition to obligations arising from European regulations regarding monitoring and surveillance of animal diseases, The Netherlands developed a voluntary system for the monitoring and surveillance of small ruminant health. This system aims for (1) early detectio ...
ruminants, etc ; alfalfa; corn; digestion; forage; grasses; leachates; particle size; seeds; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Two intensive forage processing mechanisms, utilising either shredding or impact processing, were used to investigate physical disruption of wilted alfalfa and whole‐plant corn as a potential means to improve fibre digestion. Physical disruption was quantified by a processing level index (PLI) defined as the ratio of treatment leachate conductivity relative to that of an ultimately processed treat ...
Celi da Silva Medeiros; Luis Fernando Viana Furtado; Guilherme Silva Miranda; Vivian Jordania da Silva; Talita Rodrigues dos Santos; Élida Mara Leite Rabelo
ruminants, etc ; Ancylostoma ceylanicum; anthelmintics; benzimidazole; bioassays; codons; parasitoses; phenotype; tubulin; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Hookworms represent a serious problem for human and animal health in different parts of the world. One of the suggested control strategies for parasitosis caused by members of the Ancylostomatidae family is mass drug aministration with benzimidazole compounds. This strategy has been proven to lead to the establishment of resistant strains in several nematodes related to SNPs at codons 167, 198 and ...
small ruminants, etc ; Haemonchus contortus; animal health; endoparasites; glycosylation; industry; vaccines; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The evolutionary success of parasitic worms causes significant economic losses and animal health problems, including in the small ruminant industry. The hematophagous nematode Haemonchus contortus is a common endoparasite that infects wild and domestic ruminants worldwide, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. To date, the most commonly applied control strategy is the administration of a ...
small ruminants, etc ; cattle; hosts; monitoring; simulation models; swine; uncertainty; veterinary medicine; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Infectious diseases in livestock are well-known to infect multiple hosts and persist through a combination of within- and between-host transmission pathways. Uncertainty remains about the epidemic dynamics of diseases being introduced on farms with more than one susceptible host species. Here, we describe multi-host contact networks and elucidate the potential of disease spread through farms with ...
ruminants, etc ; accelerometers; agriculture; animal behavior; data collection; electronics; livestock; prediction; systematic review; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Precision Technologies are emerging in the context of livestock farming to improve management practices and the health and welfare of livestock through monitoring individual animal behaviour. Continuously collecting information about livestock behaviour is a promising way to address several of these target areas. Wearable accelerometer sensors are currently the most promising system to capture liv ...
Jessica Schaer; Zeljko Cvetnic; Tomislav Sukalic; Sven Dörig; Martin Grisiger; Carmen Iscaro; Francesco Feliziani; Folke Pfeifer; Francesco Origgi; Reto Giacomo Zanoni; Carlos Eduardo Abril
small ruminants, etc ; Lentivirus; animal welfare; genotype; peptides; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; viruses; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs), i.e., CAEV and MVV, cause insidious infections with life-long persistence and a slowly progressive disease, impairing both animal welfare and productivity in affected herds. The complex diagnosis of SRLVs currently combines serological methods including whole-virus and peptide-based ELISAs and Immunoblot. To improve the current diagnostic protocol, we analyzed ...
ruminants, etc ; corn silage; crude protein; diet; digestibility; energy; fermentation; forage; liquids; molasses; nitrogen; Show all 11 Subjects
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... This study aimed to investigate the effect of supplementation with a mixture of molasses and condensed molasses fermentation solubles (M-CMS) in different synchronization diets formulated with different forage sources in an attempt to improve the fermentation efficiency of diets by M-CMS. In the first experiment, three levels of M-CMS (N: 0%; L: 1.75%; and H: 3.50%) were supplied to diets with or ...
small ruminants, etc ; Bayesian theory; flocks; genetic correlation; growth curves; heritability; nonlinear models; phenotype; research; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The objectives of this study were to determine the appropriate nonlinear model for describing the pre-weaning growth curve of Timahdite lambs and to study the genetic and non-genetic effects of curve parameters with the best fit model. Nonlinear models of Brody, Gompertz, von Bertalanffy and Logistic were fitted to 46372 body weight-age records belonging to 11,620 lambs, ranging from birth to wean ...
ruminants, etc ; acidosis; digestion; feeds; fermentation; livestock; milk yield; natural gas; risk; small intestine; starch; Show all 11 Subjects
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... As a nutritionist mission to increase energetic value of grains for animal especially in major grain importer countries, this study has focused on the micronization process and reviewed relevant literature with emphasis on operational conditions and potential benefits for ruminant. Despite simplicity of the system compartments, success in this thermal technology, requires optimization of six impor ...
ruminants, etc ; Protozoa; dairy science; databases; meta-analysis; methane; methane production; models; prediction; rumen protozoa; Show all 10 Subjects
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... The effects of different ruminal protozoa (RP) on CH₄ emissions from ruminants were evaluated in a meta-analysis, using 64 publications reporting data from 79 in vivo experiments. Experiments included in the database reported CH₄ emissions (g/d) and total RP (TRP, log₁₀ cells/mL) from the same group of animals. The relationship between CH₄ emissions and RP (TRP, entodiniomorphids, and isotrichids) ...
ruminants, etc ; Cryptosporidium parvum; Escherichia coli; Giardia lamblia; animal welfare; diarrhea; livestock; mixed infection; pathogens; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The protozoan Cryptosporidium parvum is one of the major causative pathogens of diarrhoea in young ruminants; therefore, it causes economic losses and impairs animal welfare. Besides C. parvum, there are many other non-infectious and infectious factors, such as rotavirus, Escherichia coli, and Giardia duodenalis, which may lead to diarrhoeic disease in young livestock. Often, more than one infecti ...
ruminants, etc ; carbon; economic impact; elementary schools; food waste; meat; multipliers; nutritive value; waste disposal; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Increasingly, policymakers are setting ambitious goals for sustainability in public procurement, integrated across different pillars. Such ambitions are apparent in public catering services, where procurement models have been shifting towards greater localisation of supply chains and purchasing of more organically grown food. To date however, few studies have examined empirically what the impacts ...