Economic decisions on animal health strategies address the cost-benefit aspect along with animal welfare and public health concerns. Decision tree analysis at an individual cow level highlighted that there is little economic difference between the use of either dry cow antibiotic or an internal teat sealant in preventing a new intramammary infection in a cow free of infection in all quarters of...

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Training a network with small capacity that can perform as well as a larger capacity network is an important problem that needs to be solved in real life applications which require fast inference time and small memory requirement. Previous approaches that transfer knowledge from a bigger network to a smaller network show little benefit when applied to state-of-the-art convolutional neural netwo...

Microglial activation and behavioral abnormalities occur before neuronal loss in experimental murine prion disease; the behavioral changes coincide with a reduction in synaptic plasticity. Because synaptic plasticity depends on an intact perineuronal net (PN), a specialized extracellular matrix that surrounds parvalbumin (PV)-positive GABAergic (gamma-aminobutyric acid [GABA]) inhibitory intern...

A Radial Basis Function (RBF) assisted reduced complexity In-phase/Quadrature-phase (I/Q) Turbo Equalisation (TEQ) scheme is investigated in the context of Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM), Turbo TCM (TTCM), Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation (BICM) and iteratively decoded BICM (BICM-ID). The proposed schemes are characterised in performance terms, when communicating over frequency selective Raylei...

This paper proposes a robust real-time artificial landmarks detection and recognition system for indoor mobile robot. Landmarks detection and recognition for indoor robots faces two major difficulties, one is the illumination changes and the other is processing speed. In this paper, first, histograms of oriented gradient (HOG) features are extracted to resolve the problem of illumination change...