Flock is a full-evening work for saxophone quartet, dancers, audience participation, video, and electronic sound. A computer vision system tracks the location of participants as they move around an open performance space, and custom software then uses that data to generate music notation, video animation, and electronic sound. In this paper, we discuss the project’s connection to previous work ...

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Macrorhabdosis is a debilitating syndrome in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) due to the ascomycetous yeast Macrorhabdus ornithogaster. In the present study, occurrences of acute macrorhabdosis resulting in severe mortality in budgerigar fledglings and the effect of different treatment regimens for the control of the disease were investigated. The budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulates) flock...

A free-range broiler breeder flock was studied in order to determine the natural patterns of Campylobacter colonization over a period of 63 weeks. Campylobacter sequence types (STs) were not mutually exclusive and on average colonized only 17.7% of the birds tested at any time. Campylobacter STs typically reached a peak in prevalence upon initial detection in the flock before tailing off, altho...

The objectives of the present study were to analyze different environmental factors affecting pre-weaning growth performance of Mengali sheep. Performance records on 2377 lambs in four flocks maintained at Experimental Station, Centre for Advanced Studies in Vaccinology and Biotechnology, Quetta (ESC), Mastung, Nushki and Quetta area over a period of 5 years (Jan 2005 to Dec 2009) were analysed...

This study investigated the relationship between flock health and Campylobacter infection of housed commercial broilers in Great Britain. Thirty ceca were collected at slaughter from batches of broilers from 789 flocks, at either full or partial depopulation, between December 2003 and March 2006 and examined individually for Campylobacter by direct plating onto selective media. Management and h...

Genetic selection procedures applied to improve broiler performance may negatively impact the subsequent reproductive efficiency of breeders, particularly in males. Identification of traits that reliably indicate individual male fertility would facilitate selection for reproduction. We hypothesized that physical traits, such as comb area, relative testicular weight, and testicular weight asymme...

one of the traits of the greatest financial impact on sheep production is the number of lambs weaned per ewe with fecb considered as the most well known major gene concerned with this trait. in order to conduct a marker assisted introgression (mai) program the presence of fecb responsible mutation in afshari sheep breeding flock was surveyed. direct test to detect fecbb allele was conducted on ...

Despite the practice of spiking flocks with younger males, reproductive problems increasingly impact the capability of flock managers to produce needed chicks and increase the cost of chick production. The problem also impacts breeders and producers using artificial insemination (AI). Recognizing that the problem is partially caused by poor semen quality, flock managers might consider evaluatio...