As transmedia franchises increasingly populate our cultural environment, many questions arise about the effect of the different media involved in the depiction of storyworlds. Through the analysis of different examples, with special emphasis on the particular case of The Walking Dead, and drawing primarily from Henry Jenkins’s concept of “transmedia aims to show how different media aesthetics c...

The nutrition of gilts and first-litter sows is discussed in relation to recent research findings. Preliminary data from commercial piggeries suggest that gilts which enter the breeding herd with low fat reserves subsequently have a lower reproductive efficiency . The results of three experiments indicated that first-litter sows required a different feeding strategy during lactation compared to...