1. Two diets, an all-roughage diet and a high-concentrate diet, were fed at two levels, a low level of estimated 1-5 times maintenance energy requirement and a higher level of estimated two times maintenance energy requirement, to South African Mutton Merino castrated male sheep, aged 13 months and in fairly lean condition at the start of the 93 d experimental period. 2. Body composition and en...

Incremental refinement methods of knowledge bases ease maintenance but fail to uncover the underlying domain model used by the expert. In this paper, we propose a new knowledge representation formalism for incremental acquisition and refinement of knowledge. It simultaneously guides the expert in expressing his model of the domain during the actual knowledge acquisition process. This knowledge ...

information on animal daily forage needs is essential for an estimation of rangeland grazing capacity. accordingly, weight and animal unit equivalent (aue) for each individual class of animal should be determined. live weights of baloochi sheep as based on average live weights of 3 and 4 year old ewes were determined. five herds of baloochi breed sheep were selected for the task. in each herd, ...

for planning the grazing of rangeland according to difference in body weight and different energy requirements should determine forage requirement of animal unit. in the other hand, daily need of animal in rangeland depends on the quantity and quality of intake forage composition. for this purpose selected part of the rangeland of fereidunshahr in isfahan province was classified to vegetation t...

Starting from an hypothesis concerning the long-term effects of exogenous treatment during the ontogeny of mammals and birds, we incubated Rhode Island Red (RIR) eggs at different prenatal temperatures (table 1) to study the feed efficiency, development, reproduction and energy metabolism of the hens. The maintenance requirement varied (up to 30 p. 100) as well as the feed conversion (up to 28 ...

Meat production by goats has become an important livestock enterprise in several parts of the world. Nonetheless, energy and protein requirements of meat goats have not been defined thoroughly. The objective of this study was to determine the energy and protein requirements for maintenance and growth of 34 (3/4) Boer x (1/4) Saanen crossbred, intact male kids (20.5 +/- 0.24 kg of initial BW). T...

Tagging is included in web application to ease maintenance of large amount of information stored in a web application. With no mention of requirement specification or design document for tagging software, academically or otherwise, integrating tagging software in a web application is a tedious task. In this paper, a framework is presented for integrating tagging software into a web application....