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The status of cattle genetic resources in North Ethiopi: On-farm charcterization of six major cattle breeds by Zerabruk, M, Vangen, O., Haile, M.

“…Information from a structured questionnaire distributed to 450 farmers, 37 group discussions, field measurements of heart girth and height on 25 males and 25 females from each breed and secondary information were used to carry out the study. …”
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Report on field survey of sheep in Ethiopia from August 8th till August 18th, 1970, in the provinces of Wollo, Tigre and Harar by Oppenheimer, B.

“…Furthermore, information on market selling prices, seasonal variation of feed available and breeding, reproductive performance and diseases was included from data from agricultural offices. …”
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Effects of grazing and climate variability on grassland ecosystem functions in Inner Mongolia: Synthesis of a 6-year grazing experiment by Hoffmann, C., Giese, M., Dickhoefer, Uta, Hongwei Wan, Yongfei Bai, Steffens, Markus, Chunyan Liu, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Xingguo Han

“…While greenhouse gas fluxes, plant properties, and livestock performance were particularly responsive to (inter-) annual climate variability, soil properties were more affected by grazing intensity. …”
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Protein quality of raw and autoclaved cowpeas: Comparison between some insect resistant and susceptible varieties by Umoren, U.E., Tewe, O.O., Bokanga, M., Jackai, L.E.N.

“…A comparative study was conducted with four improved cowpea (2 pod bug resistant and 2 susceptible) varieties to assess the effect of autoclaving at 105 ~ under 15 psi for 30 min on their protein quality, as measured by the levels of some antinutritional factors and performance of rats fed the different cowpea diets. …”
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Evaluation of sludge from paper recycling as bedding material for broilers by Villagrá, Arantxa, Olivas, Irene, Benitez, V., Lainez, Manuel

“…In general, few differences were found between the materials in terms of bird performance and welfare and only the incidence of hock burn was higher in the sludge than in the wood shavings. …”
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Islandshästar med hosta och/eller prestationsnedsättning by Larsson, Kristin

“…A retrospective journal study of 17 Icelandic horses and 17 Swedish Standardbred horses with chronic problems with cough and/or decreased performance compared several measurements of disease severity. …”
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An evaluation of farmer field school training on the livelihoods of cocoa farmers in Atwima District, Ashanti Region, Ghana by Gockowski, J., Asamoah, C., David, S., Nkamleu, G.B., Gyamfi, I., Agordorku, S., Kuti, M.A.

“…The focus of the study is on the measurement of changes in behavior with respect to crop husbandry and input usage and the impact on production. …”
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En jämförande studie mellan en örontermometer och en rektaltermometer för temperaturmätning hos katt på klinik by Liszke, Ida, Eriksson Gröndahl, Ellen

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Community-based sheep breeding programs generated substantial genetic gains and socioeconomic benefit by Haile, Aynalem, Getachew, Tesfaye, Mirkena, T., Duguma, G., Gizaw, Solomon, Wurzinger, M., Soelkner, J., Mwai, O., Dessie, T., Abebe, Ayele, Abate, Zelalem, Jembere, T., Rekik, Mourad, Lobo, R.N.B., Mwacharo, Joram M., Terfa, Z.G., Kassie, G.T., Mueller, Joaquin Pablo, Rischkowsky, Barbara

“…The results show that CBBPs are technically feasible, result in measurable genetic gains in performance traits and impact the livelihoods of farmers.…”
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Breeding and herd structure in livestockbased agropastoralism systems in Chepareria, West Pokot, Kenya by Engström, Freja

“…Milk was seldom sold and the daily milk yield was difficult to estimate because of different measuring tools among the farms. For future improvement more detailed investigations have to be done. …”

Application for the estimation of the standard citrus colour index (CCI) using image processing in mobile devices by Cubero, Sergio, Albert, Francisco, Prats-Montalbán, José M., Fernandez-Pacheco, Daniel G., Blasco, José, Aleixos, Nuria

“…The results were obtained for each device and condition in relation to the colour measured by a camera and compared with the performance of a panel of workers who evaluated the colour using the traditional methods. …”
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Övervakning av dissociativ anestesi vid ovariehysterektomi på friska katter by Ericzén, Sofie

Creating learning cultures for gender mainstreaming by Amaratunga, Carol

“…Gender assessment tools and indicators measure the impact of gender on performance and productivity and are transferable from one sector to another e.g. from health to agriculture. …”
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Breeding Urochloa and Megathyrsus forage grasses for low methane livestock systems by Barbosa Torres, Norma, Garzon, Maria Jose, Mejía, Juan Camilo, Mazabel, Johanna, Marin, Alejandra, Molina, Isabel, Arango, Jacobo, Jauregui, Rosa Noemi

“…Methodology: The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT is evaluating elite genotypes and commercial cultivars from three breeding programs: Interspecific Urochloa, Megathyrsus maximus and Urochloa humidicola selected for agronomic performance and seed yield potential as a measure of scalability and environmental adaptation. …”
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Minimum tillage and vegetative barrier effects on crop yields in relation to soil water content in the Central Kenya highlands by Guto, Samuel, Ridder, N.A. de, Giller, Kenneth E., Pypers, Pieter, Vanlauwe, Bernard

“…Soil moisture content was measured near the barriers and at the centre of the terraces. …”
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Studies of productivity, immunocompetence and genetic diversity of naked neck and normal feathered indigenous Cameroon and German Dehlem Red Fowl and their crosses by Joseph, M.M.

“…Results on egg production performance (G1) revealed that local x Dahlem crossbreds produced highest number of eggs (233 eggs) than local naked neck (142 eggs). …”
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Impact of including two types of destoned olive cakes in pigs’ diets on fecal bacterial composition and study of the relationship between fecal microbiota, feed efficiency, gut fer... by Belloumi, Dhekra, García-Rebollar, Paloma, Calvet, Salvador, Francino, P., Reyes-Prieto, Mariana, González-Garrido, Jorge, Piquer, Laia, Jiménez-Belenguer, Ana Isabel, Bermejo, Almudena, Cano, Carmen, Cerisuelo, Alba

“…The correlation between fecal microbiota and growth performance, nutrient digestibility, gut fermentation pattern and slurry gas emissions was also evaluated. …”
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Analys av samband mellan skogslagervolym och maskinproduktivitet i gallring och slutavverkning by Lindberg, Nils

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A novel molecular approach to assess mating success of sterile Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) males in sterile insect technique programs by San-Andrés, Victoria, Urbaneja, Alberto, Sabater-Munoz, Beatriz, Castanera, Pedro

“…A key issue in SIT is to assess mating success of released sterile males, which could be currently estimated by egg hatchability and by stored sperm head measurements. We report here on a novel molecular approach that would allow detecting the presence of Mediterranean fruit fly sterile male sperm in the female spermathecae under field conditions, as a precise marker to assess mating performance. …”
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Yield potential of sandponically produced sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) pre-basic seed for selected genotypes by Makokha, P., Ssali, R.T., Wanjala, Bramwel W., Rajendran, S., McEwan, M., Low, Jan W.

“…Sandponically multiplied planting materials showed superior performance for yield and most of the measured growth-related traits to planting materials multiplied by the conventional soil substrate method.…”
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