The objective of this study was to characterize foot angle and claw set scores of Montana’s (USA) registered Angus cattle using a total of 4723 cattle scored: 1475 yearling bulls, 992 yearling heifers, 1044 2- and 3-year-old cows, and 1212 cows...
Understanding the relationship of foot angle and claw set to beef cattle structural soundness will be critical to the selection of animals that fit forage-based production systems. In an effort to address concerns about foot and leg structure, the Am...
While benchmarking is already used for the assessment of performance gaps in cattle herd management and welfare concerns, its application to quantifying claw health performance is relatively new. The goal here was to establish a benchmarking system f...
Underwater unmanned robots are an essential tool for human underwater exploration and detection and are widely employed in a variety of underwater operational settings. One of the hottest issues in this field is applying bionic notions to the creatio...
Soil degradation is closely related to the core issue of food security, making the assessment and monitoring of paddy soil quality particularly important. To clarify the impact of a rice–red claw crayfish co-culture on paddy soil quality, this...
In 2014, some scholars showed that every 2-connected claw-free graph G with independence number
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We study two-tone factors in edge-connected regular graphs and claw-free cubic graphs under red-blue vertex colorings. A two-tone factor is a spanning subgraph in which vertices of different colors are assigned different allowed degree sets. For edge...
Antimicrobial residues might persist in products and by-products destined for human or animal consumption. Studies exploring the depletion behavior of florfenicol residues in broiler chicken claws are scarce, even though claws can enter the food chai...
The docking mechanism is the key system for realizing the lunar-orbit docking mission of two spacecraft, which needs to have both capture correction and connection hold functions. The different stiffness requirements between the capture correction pr...
High labor wages brought on by a shrinking agricultural labor force, as well as promises of increased crop yields and decreased labor requirements, have spurred the adoption of agricultural mechanization in Bangladesh. Due to these factors, the marke...
For a connected graph
In this paper, we consider the minimal vertex cover and minimal dominating sets with capacity and/or connectivity constraint enumeration problems. We develop polynomial-delay enumeration algorithms for these problems on bounded-degree graphs. For the...
The welfare of decapod crustaceans held in captivity, whether in aquariums, holding facilities, seafood restaurants, supermarkets, or fishmongers, is attracting growing attention and concern. This review focuses on three species that are commonly fou...
In this paper, a claw-pole magnetic levitation torque motor (CPMLTM) utilizing cogging torque is proposed as an electromechanical converter (EMC) for two-dimensional valves (2D valve). Compared to the existing torque motor, CPMLTM utilizes the coggin...
Spasticity is one of the most disabling symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS). Botulinum toxin injection (BTI) is a first-line treatment for focal spasticity. There is a lack of evidence of a functional improvement following BTI in MS-related spasticit...
Progesterone is widely used to induce maturation of isolated fully grown oocytes of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. However, the hormone fails to release oocytes from the layer of surrounding follicle cells. Here, we report that maturation a...
Biological invasions are increasingly recognized ecological and economic threats to biodiversity and are projected to increase in the future. Introduced freshwater crayfish in particular are protruding invaders, exerting tremendous impacts on native...
Despite being the most widespread blister beetle subfamily, Nemognathinae is unfairly understudied in China. In this study, a new genus and species, Sinostenoria yangi Pan, from northern China is described and illustrated. The antennae, elytra, hind...
Encystment in tardigrades is relatively poorly understood. It is seen as an adaptive strategy evolved to withstand unfavorable environmental conditions. This process is an example of the epigenetic, phenotypic plasticity which is closely linked to th...
The YABBY family consists of plant-specific transcription factors that regulate organ polarity and reproductive development. As a member of this family, CRABS CLAW (CRC) plays crucial roles, but its molecular mechanism in oilseed rape stigma developm...
Magainin 2 (Mag2), which was isolated from the skin of the African clawed frog, is a representative antimicrobial peptide (AMP) that exerts antimicrobial activity via microbial membrane disruption. It has been reported that the helicity and amphipath...
Lameness in sheep continues to be a global health, welfare and economic concern. Damaged, misshapen or overgrown feet have the potential to cause lameness either directly, or indirectly. There is a lack of understanding of the predisposing factors fo...
In mining operations, the rock mass located between the water-conducting fault fracture zone and the waterproof protective coal column is highly susceptible to damage, which may result in sudden water inrush disasters. This paper first employs indoor...
Feline healthcare phobia is a major challenge in veterinary practice, limiting medical care and increasing stress for cats, owners, and veterinarians. Traditional desensitization–counter-conditioning (DS-CC) protocols aim to reduce fear respons...
Aiming at the current problems of low excitation efficiency and poor reliability of single-rotor hybrid excitation generators, the large axial length of dual-rotor structure, and difficulty in magnetic field analysis, a new type of the dual-rotor hyb...
Within the European AWIN project, a protocol for assessing dairy goats’ welfareon the farm was developed. Starting from a literature review, a prototype includinganimal-based indicators covering four welfare principles and 12 welfare criteria was set...
From plains zebras to zebra sharks, modern, accredited zoos and aquariums cooperate on the breeding and transfer of individuals from diverse species with unique needs. As a result, the housing and husbandry of a species varies across organizations. T...
Ranaviruses (RV, Iridoviridae) are large double-stranded DNA viruses that infect fish, amphibians and reptiles. For ecological and commercial reasons, considerable attention has been drawn to the increasing prevalence of ranaviral infections of wild...
Background: The UK has a high incidence of lameness in cattle, which is costly in terms of economics and welfare. Most causes of bovine lameness originate in the foot but there are several different conditions causing lameness. Quantifying the relati...
Otters spend a considerable amount of time vocalizing within zoos and other captive settings. Although associations between these vocalizations and social activity have been investigated prior, it is not always clear how this is reflected in interact...
The emergence of AI agents and open-domain automation frameworks such as OpenClaw has enabled large language model (LLM) reasoning to directly control microcontroller-based IoT devices. However, when agents issue concurrent asynchronous tool calls, c...
The Learning with Errors (LWE) problem, particularly its efficient ternary variant where secrets and errors are small, is a fundamental building block for numerous post-quantum cryptographic schemes. Combinatorial attacks provide a potent approach to...
The first aim of this study was to calculate the prevalence of painful lesions of the digits (“alarm” lesions; ALs) in Swiss dairy herds and cow–calf operations over a three-year study period. The following ALs were included in the...