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  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
24,201 Views
19 Pages

Housing Horses in Individual Boxes Is a Challenge with Regard to Welfare

  • Alice Ruet,
  • Julie Lemarchand,
  • Céline Parias,
  • Núria Mach,
  • Marie-Pierre Moisan,
  • Aline Foury,
  • Christine Briant and
  • Léa Lansade

28 August 2019

Horses are mainly housed in individual boxes. This housing system is reported to be highly detrimental with regard to welfare and could trigger the expression of four behavioural indicators of a compromised welfare state: stereotypies, aggressiveness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,992 Views
17 Pages

Social Box: A New Housing System Increases Social Interactions among Stallions

  • Anja Zollinger,
  • Christa Wyss,
  • Déborah Bardou and
  • Iris Bachmann

20 April 2023

In domestic conditions, adult stallions are mostly housed individually in internal stables to reduce the risk of injuries during social interactions. Social deprivation in horses results in physiological stress and behavioural problems. The aim of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
489 Views
25 Pages

A Lightweight Facial Landmark Recognition Model for Individual Sheep Based on SAMS-KLA-YOLO11

  • Yangfan Bai,
  • Xiaona Zhao,
  • Xinran Liang,
  • Zhimin Zhang,
  • Yuqiao Yan,
  • Fuzhong Li and
  • Wuping Zhang

Accurate and non-contact identification of individual sheep is important for intelligent livestock management, but remains challenging due to subtle inter-individual differences, breed-dependent facial morphology, and complex farm environments. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
13,505 Views
11 Pages

14 March 2018

This study designed a radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform to create the core of a smart nest box. At the sensing level, we have deployed RFID-based sensors and egg detection sensors. A low-frequency RFID read...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,683 Views
17 Pages

Acute Hemodynamic, Metabolic, and Hormonal Responses to a Boxing Exergame with and without Blood Flow Restriction in Non-Athlete Young Individuals

  • Zohreh Karimi,
  • Zeynabalsadat Mousavi,
  • Michael Nordvall,
  • Alexei Wong,
  • Reza Bagheri and
  • Frederic Dutheil

23 February 2024

Background: This study aimed to compare acute hemodynamic, metabolic (glucose and blood lactate concentrations), hormonal (growth hormone and normetanephrine), heart rate variability (HRV), and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) responses before and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
955 Views
25 Pages

Hand Dynamics in Healthy Individuals and Spinal Cord Injury Patients During Real and Virtual Box and Block Test

  • Verónica Gracia-Ibáñez,
  • Ana de los Reyes-Guzmán,
  • Margarita Vergara,
  • Néstor J. Jarque-Bou and
  • Joaquín-Luis Sancho-Bru

22 May 2025

Virtual reality (VR) is a promising tool in spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation, particularly through virtual adaptations of functional tests like the Box and Block test (BBT). However, a comprehensive dynamic comparison between real and virtual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,034 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Box Height on Inter-Limb Asymmetry and Box Jump Performance

  • Marcel Lopes dos Santos,
  • Ricardo Berton,
  • JoCarol Shields,
  • Chris Bishop,
  • Taylor Dinyer-McNeely,
  • Olivia Anderson and
  • Jay Dawes

4 July 2023

Box jumps are often included in training programs as an introductory exercise to novice athletes and untrained individuals and are an efficient option of lower-body explosiveness training. However, it is unclear whether the use of boxes of differing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,120 Views
16 Pages

Octopus vulgaris Exhibits Interindividual Differences in Behavioural and Problem-Solving Performance

  • Andrea Dissegna,
  • Luciana Borrelli,
  • Giovanna Ponte,
  • Cinzia Chiandetti and
  • Graziano Fiorito

4 December 2023

By presenting individual Octopus vulgaris with an extractive foraging problem with a puzzle box, we examined the possible correlation between behavioural performances (e.g., ease of adaptation to captive conditions, prevalence of neophobic and neophi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,628 Views
3 Pages

Exercise is widely recommended for people with Parkinson (PD). Boxing is a popular mode of training. However, including individuals with less favorable profiles may have a negative impact on participation. We performed a systematic review to study th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,598 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2022

The black box method was developed as an “asocial control” to allow for payoff-based learning while eliminating social responses in repeated public goods games. Players are told they must decide how many virtual coins they want to input i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,596 Views
23 Pages

9 March 2022

Jim Harvey was the artist who created the Brillo box that Andy Warhol copied and made famous. Warhol’s Brillo Boxes changed the course of art history and the entire field of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Meanwhile, Jim Harvey died a fai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,813 Views
10 Pages

22 November 2018

An individual’s positive or negative perspective when judging an ambiguous stimulus (cognitive bias) can be helpful when assessing animal welfare. Emotionality, as expressed in approach or withdrawal behaviour, is linked to brain asymmetry. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,172 Views
16 Pages

9 June 2019

Many previous studies have shown that the volume or valence of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has a sustainable and significant impact on box office performance. Traditional studies used quantitative data, such as ratings, to measure eWOM. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,358 Views
13 Pages

Social Box: Influence of a New Housing System on the Social Interactions of Stallions When Driven in Pairs

  • Annik Imogen Gmel,
  • Anja Zollinger,
  • Christa Wyss,
  • Iris Bachmann and
  • Sabrina Briefer Freymond

21 April 2022

In order to improve the housing conditions of stallions in individual boxes, we tested a so-called “social box” allowing increased physical contact between neighbouring horses. This study investigated whether housing stallions in social b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,623 Views
25 Pages

20 September 2025

This study, grounded in the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model and incorporating a sustainable consumption perspective, investigates how the characteristics and marketing strategies of blind box products influence continuous purchase behavior t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,498 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2023

This paper considers the personal commitment to ‘boxe popolare’ (people’s boxing), focusing on my scholar-practitioner status as a tool to contribute to the boxe popolare agenda by means of what I term ‘shared sociological ima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,923 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2024

The sport of boxing has existed since ancient times, with fights sometimes ending in death. In the modern world, with our greater medical knowledge, the risks of brain and other life-changing injuries have called into question whether boxing has a pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,322 Views
34 Pages

Evolutionary Landscape of SOX Genes to Inform Genotype-to-Phenotype Relationships

  • Adam Underwood,
  • Daniel T Rasicci,
  • David Hinds,
  • Jackson T Mitchell,
  • Jacob K Zieba,
  • Joshua Mills,
  • Nicholas E Arnold,
  • Taylor W Cook,
  • Mehdi Moustaqil and
  • Jeremy W. Prokop
  • + 22 authors

14 January 2023

The SOX transcription factor family is pivotal in controlling aspects of development. To identify genotype–phenotype relationships of SOX proteins, we performed a non-biased study of SOX using 1890 open-reading frame and 6667 amino acid sequenc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,425 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Boxing Exercises on the Functional Ability and Quality of Life of Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review

  • Nikolaos Chrysagis,
  • Georgia Trompouki,
  • Dimitris Petropaulis,
  • George A. Koumantakis,
  • Georgios Krekoukias,
  • Georgios Theotokatos,
  • Emmanouil Skordilis and
  • Vasiliki Sakellari

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurological disorder caused by the loss of dopamine-producing cells in the substantia nigra and characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms. Boxing is a type of complementary therapy to improve symptoms in PD. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,288 Views
12 Pages

11 November 2022

Southeast Asian box turtles Cuora amboinensis are distributed in mainland Southeast Asia and throughout most of insular Southeast Asia and are often found in habitats shared with humans. In the 2000s evidence emerged of an enormous illegal export of...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,717 Views
4 Pages

Quality Control of Metaxa Cognac

  • Andreea Donise,
  • Gabriela Nita,
  • Mihaela Emanuela Craciun and
  • Mihaela Mihai

Quality represents all the characteristics and features of a product or service that satisfies individual requirements. In other words, quality is measured by the degree of customer satisfaction regarding a product or service. The implementation of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,442 Views
12 Pages

Individual Nest Site Preferences Do Not Explain Upslope Population Shifts of a Secondary Cavity-Nesting Species

  • Elisa J. Abeyta,
  • Andrew W. Bartlow,
  • Charles D. Hathcock and
  • Jeanne M. Fair

21 August 2021

Geographic ranges of plants and animals are shifting due to environmental change. While some species are shifting towards the poles and upslope in elevation, the processes leading to these patterns are not well known. We analyzed 22 years of western...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,236 Views
19 Pages

Development and Validation of the RAFFLE: A Measure of Reasons and Facilitators for Loot Box Engagement

  • Joanne Lloyd,
  • Laura Louise Nicklin,
  • Stuart Gordon Spicer,
  • Chris Fullwood,
  • Maria Uther,
  • Daniel P. Hinton,
  • Jonathan Parke,
  • Helen Lloyd and
  • James Close

18 December 2021

Qualitative studies have identified a diverse array of motivations for purchasing items within video games through chance-based mechanisms (i.e., “loot boxes”). Given that some individuals—particularly those at risk of disordered ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,638 Views
25 Pages

13 September 2023

Smart production ecosystems are a valuable target for attackers. In particular, due to the high level of connectivity introduced by Industry 4.0, attackers can potentially attack individual components of production systems from the outside. One appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,874 Views
13 Pages

Anxiolytic-like Effects of the Positive GABAB Receptor Modulator GS39783 Correlate with Mice’s Individual Basal Anxiety and Stress Reactivity

  • Ahmet Oguzhan Bicakci,
  • Mousumi Sarkar,
  • Yu-Hsin Chang,
  • Evelyn Kahl,
  • Lorenzo Ragazzi,
  • Angel Moldes-Anaya and
  • Markus Fendt

16 February 2022

Positive gamma-aminobutyric acid type B (GABAB) receptor modulators such as GS39783 have showed anxiolytic-like effects in several studies while such effects were absent in other studies. These conflicting findings led us hypothesize that the anxioly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,806 Views
28 Pages

Numerical Modelling of Corrugated Paperboard Boxes

  • Rhoda Ngira Aduke,
  • Martin P. Venter and
  • Corné J. Coetzee

Numerical modelling of corrugated paperboard is quite challenging due to its waved geometry and material non-linearity which is affected by the material properties of the individual paper sheets. Because of the complex geometry and material behaviour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,272 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents a novel on-the-fly, black-box, property-checking through learning approach as a means for verifying requirements of recurrent neural networks (RNN) in the context of sequence classification. Our technique steps on a tool for learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,586 Views
12 Pages

9 February 2022

Though religion-informed charitable behavior has gained much academic attention recently, there is an ambiguous relationship between individual donation intention and Buddhist determinants. Drawing on the theories of reasoned action and product seman...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,457 Views
13 Pages

13 November 2019

Individual tree architecture and the composition of tree species play a vital role for many ecosystem functions and services provided by a forest, such as timber value, habitat diversity, and ecosystem resilience. However, knowledge is limited when i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,500 Views
13 Pages

29 January 2023

Calonectria pseudonaviculata (Cps) infects Buxus (boxwood), Pachysandra (pachysandra), and Sarcococca spp. (sweet box); yet, how it adapts to its hosts has been unclear. Here, we performed serial passage experiments with the three hosts and measured...

  • Article
  • Open Access
683 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2025

Data-driven modeling methods have been preliminarily applied in the development of tight-gas reservoirs, demonstrating unique advantages in post-fracturing productivity prediction. However, most of the established predictive models are “black-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,955 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2023

Object detection and tracking are tasks that humans can perform effortlessly in most environments. Humans can readily recognize individual trees in forests and maintain unique identifiers during occlusion. For computers, on the other hand, this is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,450 Views
12 Pages

Horses Failed to Learn from Humans by Observation

  • Maria Vilain Rørvang,
  • Tina Bach Nielsen and
  • Janne Winther Christensen

29 January 2020

Animals can acquire new behavior through both individual and social learning. Several studies have investigated horses’ ability to utilize inter-species (human demonstrator) social learning with conflicting results. In this study, we repeat a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,794 Views
24 Pages

28 February 2025

Food security continues to be an issue in the United States, especially in urban healthy food priority areas. Most interventions prioritize physical and economic access, just one of the four pillars of food security. We present the beginnings of a fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,391 Views
21 Pages

9 July 2025

The demeanour of a human during an interaction with an animal may influence the animal’s emotional response. We investigated whether the emotional responses of laying hens to a threatening or neutral human and a novel environment were lateralis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,918 Views
19 Pages

Constraint Loss for Rotated Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Luyang Zhang,
  • Haitao Wang,
  • Lingfeng Wang,
  • Chunhong Pan,
  • Qiang Liu and
  • Xinyao Wang

25 October 2021

Rotated object detection is an extension of object detection that uses an oriented bounding box instead of a general horizontal bounding box to define the object position. It is widely used in remote sensing images, scene text, and license plate reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,976 Views
13 Pages

16 October 2024

Given the overwhelming literature on the beneficial effects of exercise, it is surprising that many individuals do not meet current physical activity guidelines. Among the most often cited reasons for nonadherence to exercise are a lack of time and l...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,750 Views
4 Pages

Full Load Test for the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway Bridge (PSC Girder: 35 M)

  • Kwangsoo Kim,
  • Dooyong Cho,
  • Raechul Lee,
  • Sangcheol Lee,
  • Joungyong Park and
  • Inbaek Hwang

The Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway consists of an asymmetric cable-stayed bridge (340 m) and a prestressed concrete (PSC) box girder bridge (35.80 km) linking Kuwait City and Northern Kuwait. The full load tests were performed on the PSC box...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,709 Views
14 Pages

Stories of Identity from High Performance Male Boxers in Their Training and Competition Environments

  • Thierry R. F. Middleton,
  • Jacob Dupuis-Latour,
  • Yang Ge,
  • Robert J. Schinke,
  • Amy T. Blodgett,
  • Diana Coholic and
  • Brennan Petersen

The current submission was conceived to broaden the discussion around male athletic identities by exploring the stories told by four members of the Canadian National Boxing Team. The athletes’ stories were elicited through an arts-based method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,670 Views
17 Pages

Hybrid Population-Based Hill Climbing Algorithm for Generating Highly Nonlinear S-boxes

  • Oleksandr Kuznetsov,
  • Nikolay Poluyanenko,
  • Kateryna Kuznetsova,
  • Emanuele Frontoni and
  • Marco Arnesano

2 December 2024

This paper introduces the hybrid population-based hill-climbing (HPHC) algorithm, a novel approach for generating cryptographically strong S-boxes that combines the efficiency of hill climbing with the exploration capabilities of population-based met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,833 Views
9 Pages

Initial Impact of Different Feeding Methods on Feed Intake Time in Stabled Icelandic Horses

  • Sveinn Ragnarsson,
  • Sigríður Vaka Víkingsdóttir and
  • Guðrún Jóhanna Stefánsdóttir

18 April 2024

The natural behaviour of horses is to spend the majority of their time on feed intake The feeding of stabled horses is, however, often far from that, as their feed intake is limited to their nutritional requirements. In order to approach their natura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,850 Views
18 Pages

State-Based Technical Condition Assessment and Prediction of Concrete Box Girder Bridges

  • Zewen Zhu,
  • Kuai Ye,
  • Xinhua Yu,
  • Zefang Lin,
  • Gangzong Xu,
  • Zhenyou Guo,
  • Shoushan Lu,
  • Biao Nie and
  • Huapeng Chen

18 February 2024

The technical condition of bridges has become a crucial issue for organizing the maintenance and repairs in bridge management systems. It is of great practical engineering significance to construct an effective model for predicting the technical cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
21,122 Views
18 Pages

Effects of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) on Hospitality Employees’ Outcomes through Their Organizational Commitment, Motivation, and Job Satisfaction

  • Daniel Dorta-Afonso,
  • Manuel González-de-la-Rosa,
  • Francisco J. García-Rodríguez and
  • Laura Romero-Domínguez

15 March 2021

The purpose of this research is to examine the underlying mechanisms inside the so-called black box that relate high performance work systems (HPWS) with employees’ well-being and job performance in hospitality. We surveyed a sample of 494 hotel work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,194 Views
24 Pages

12 December 2022

Finite element analysis (FEA) has been proven as a useful design tool to model corrugated paperboard boxes, and is capable of accurately predicting load capacity. The in-plane deformation, however, is usually significantly underpredicted. To investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,665 Views
14 Pages

Environmental Enrichment as Part of the Improvement of the Welfare of Japanese Quails

  • Anastasiya Ramankevich,
  • Karolina Wengerska,
  • Kinga Rokicka,
  • Kamil Drabik,
  • Kornel Kasperek,
  • Agnieszka Ziemiańska and
  • Justyna Batkowska

2 August 2022

The aim of this study was to evaluate the indicators of the behavioural and physiological welfare of Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica) as possible responses to the enrichment of the birds’ habitat. The study sample consisted of 280 Japanese q...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
9,765 Views
30 Pages

Poxviral Ankyrin Proteins

  • Michael H. Herbert,
  • Christopher J. Squire and
  • Andrew A Mercer

16 February 2015

Multiple repeats of the ankyrin motif (ANK) are ubiquitous throughout the kingdoms of life but are absent from most viruses. The main exception to this is the poxvirus family, and specifically the chordopoxviruses, with ANK repeat proteins present in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,158 Views
19 Pages

The SCF Complex Is Essential to Maintain Genome and Chromosome Stability

  • Laura L. Thompson,
  • Kailee A. Rutherford,
  • Chloe C. Lepage and
  • Kirk J. McManus

The SKP1, CUL1, F-box protein (SCF) complex encompasses a group of 69 SCF E3 ubiquitin ligase complexes that primarily modify protein substrates with poly-ubiquitin chains to target them for proteasomal degradation. These SCF complexes are distinguis...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
3,613 Views
9 Pages

13 June 2023

This work presents a dataset comprising images, annotations, and velocity fields for benchmarking cell detection and cell tracking algorithms. The dataset includes two video sequences captured during laboratory experiments, showcasing the flow of red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,094 Views
14 Pages

13 August 2025

Background/Objectives: Persons with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are at elevated risk of falling due to deficits in postural control, lower limb strength, and sensory integration. While community-based boxing programs (CBPs) have shown promise in i...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3,096 Views
10 Pages

Involvement of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in FOXG1 Syndrome

  • Victoria A. Bjerregaard,
  • Amanda M. Levy,
  • Mille S. Batz,
  • Ravina Salehi,
  • Mathis Hildonen,
  • Trine B. Hammer,
  • Rikke S. Møller,
  • Claus Desler and
  • Zeynep Tümer

17 January 2023

FOXG1 (Forkhead box g1) syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a defective transcription factor, FOXG1, important for normal brain development and function. As FOXG1 syndrome and mitochondrial disorders have shared symptoms and FOXG1 reg...

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