Search Results - Performance Measurement.

Outbreaks of African swine fever in domestic pigs in Gulu district, Uganda by Tejler, E.

“…ASF poses a serious constraint on pig production in Africa, where control is made difficult by several factors, including lack of basic biosecurity measures, traditional free-ranging husbandry system and movements of pigs.The aim of this study was to collect information from the past year´s outbreaks of ASF in Gulu district to better understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of the disease and to clarify modes of transmission.Sixteen villages with history of confirmed outbreaks of ASF were visited and 135 interviews were performed. …”
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Randomised field trial to evaluate serological response after foot-and-mouth disease vaccination in Turkey by Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Bulut, A.N., Gubbins, S., Stark, K.D.C., Pfeiffer, Dirk U., Sumption, Keith J., Paton, D.J.

“…To evaluate protection after mass vaccination we measured post-vaccination antibodies in a cohort of cattle (serotypes O, A and Asia-1). …”
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Manure, biogas digestate and crop residue management affects methane gas emissions from rice paddy fields on Vietnamese smallholder livestock farms by Vu, Quynh Duong, Neergaard, Andreas de, Tran T, Hoang Q, Ly, Proyuth, Jensen L

“…CH4 and N2O fluxes from the two rice crops were measured using static chambers. Fluxes of N2O were below or close to the detection limit at nearly all sampling times in both seasons and therefore considered negligible. …”
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Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria by Junge, B., Deji , O., Abaidoo, Robert C., Chikoye, David, Stahr, Karl

“…As these have rarely been evaluated to establish ad option rates, an assessment study was performed in 2007 to analyze the effectiveness and adoption of p ast and present soil conservation initiatives, incl uding the sociological, technological, and economic aspec ts. …”
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Assessing the economic impact of vaccine availability when controlling foot and mouth disease outbreaks by Porphyre, T., Rich, Karl M., Auty, H.K.

“…Predictive models have been used extensively to assess the likely effectiveness of vaccination policies as part of control measures in the event of a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. …”
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Strategies to avoid salinity and hydric stress of pepper grafted plants by Penella, Consuelo, Nebauer, Sergio G., San Bautista, Alberto, López-Galarza, Salvador

“…Different physiological parameters were measured to test the hypothesis that tolerance might be related to the role of rootstock in altering the stress perception by the scion and to identify differences in pepper-grafted plants adaptation mechanisms in response to salt and osmotic stresses. …”
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Genotype by environment interaction for udder health in Swedish Holstein cows by Jansson, Kristina

“…Environments were defined as: herd-year averages of 305-day protein yield, somatic cell count, and mastitis, all measured in first lactation; and herd size, expressed as the number of cows with first calving per year. …”
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Tolkning av uttryck och beteende i samband med smärta hos häst by Stray, Linnea

“…Pain in animals is hard to measure physiologically and it differs with the individual’s perception, state of mind and earlier experiences. …”
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Impact of Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) on post-smolt survival of hatchery reared salmon (Salmo salar) and sea trout (Salmo trutta) by Gavell, Carolina

“…The dietary study was performed on cormorants nesting in the Sundsvall bay, where the stomachs of 183 cormorants were examined. …”

Productivity of integrated harvesting of pulpwood and energy wood in first commercial thinnings by Andersson, Robert

“…The aim of this study was to quantify the productivity and the costs of different harvesting systems (teams), containing harvesters equipped with accumulating harvester heads and forwarders, in first commercial thinnings were an integrated harvest of pulpwood and energy wood were performed. In the beginning the plan was to study and measure 20 sites before and after harvest. …”
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Transport of chemicals in normal and S. aureus-infected murine mammary epithelial HC11 cells by Jansson, Erika

“…Determination of transport has been performed by radioactivity measurements and liquid chromatography-masspectrometry. …”
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Water availability at farm household level by Näslund, Erika

“…At the same time a visual analysis was made on the farm and the distance to the water source was measured. Interviews with local experts with knowledge in the field, water management, were also performed. …”
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Uppfångning och kvarhållning av 134Cs och 85Sr i olika växtutvecklingsstadier by Mårtensson, Anna-Lisa

“…Activities of the dried plant samples were measured with a High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector. …”
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Importance of mire plant community composition when estimating ecosystem level methane emission by Kronberg, Rose-Marie

“…The objective of this study was to investigate the importance of accounting for the plant community composition to achieve accurate ecosystem level estimates of the methane emission from a peatland. Measurements were performed on a boreal mire in northern Sweden using a static chamber technique. …”

The growth dynamics of Douglas fir in Sweden and Finland by Nemec, Wolfgang

“…The 3-PG stand growth model performed reasonably well for height and DBH predictions in comparison to the field data. …”
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Potential of light and temperature exploitation for Accelerated Shelf Life Studies (ASLT) for sauces by Elmlund, Emelie

“…The samples were then evaluated by sensory analysis and by measuring pigment degradation. The result showed some inconsistencies with the theoretical aspects of the study. …”

Skilda vägar : rumsliga statistiska analyser av kvinnors och mäns rörelsemönster by Sevelin, Göran

Tallens produktionspotential på dikad och gödslad torvmark i Sverige by Gusthalin, Markus, Sundelin, Jonatan

Konditionsträning för ryttare : en pilotstudie av en grupp studenter vid Hippologprogrammet by Rodestrand, Josefine, Sundin, Lina

“…Thus, it is likely that students of equine studies and riders at a corresponding riding level perform limited cardiorespiratory fitness training. …”

Eprinomectin accumulation in Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus : pharmacokinetic and efficacy assessment by Lifschitz, Adrian Luis, Nava, Santiago, Mangold, Atilio Jose, Imperiale, Fernanda Andrea, Ballent, Mariana, Canevari, Jose Tobias, Lanusse, Carlos Edmundo

“…A standardized pharmaco-parasitological study was performed in two phases. In phase 1 eighteen Braford cattle naturally infected with R. …”
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