Removing select cattle from a herd (culling) is done to improve herd performance and profitability Production and market conditions influence culling criteria Some cattle are obvious candidates for culling (e g , cows with poor breeding performance or cancer eye), but cattle can and should be culled for reasons that may not be readily observable Simply put, cows are selected for culling based o...

The 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic was controlled by culling of infectious premises and pre-emptive culling intended to limit the spread of disease. Of the control strategies adopted, routine culling of farms that were contiguous to infected premises caused the most controversy. Here we perform a retrospective analysis of the culling of contiguous premises as performed in 2001 and a simul...

This experiment was conducted to determine the association between several risk factors which may affect culling of the Iranian Holstein cows. The data consisted of 329,772 lactation records collected by the Animal Breeding Center of Iran (2003 to 2012).The logistic regression was applied to investigate the associations between the response variable, the risk of culling, and predictor variables...

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, continues to be a serious economic problem for the British cattle industry. The Eurasian badger (Meles meles) is partly responsible for maintenance of the disease and its transmission to cattle. Previous attempts to manage the disease by culling badgers have been hampered by social perturbation, which in some situations is associated wit...

The emerging threat of a human pandemic caused by the H5N1 avian influenza virus strain magnifies the need for controlling the incidence of H5N1 infection in domestic bird populations. Culling is one of the most widely used control measures and has proved effective for isolated outbreaks. However, the socio-economic impacts of mass culling, in the face of a disease which has become endemic in m...

We present Lazy Occlusion Grid Culling, a new image-based occlusion culling technique for rendering of very large scenes which can be of general type. It is based on a low-resolution grid that is updated in a lazy manner and that allows fast decisions if an object is occluded or visible together with a hierarchical scene-representation to cull large parts of the scene at once. It is hardware-ac...

Part of the latest research efforts in occlusion culling focus on using hardware visibility query. In this paper, we present a novel method to prioritize the visibility query to work effectively together with an occlusion culling approach. We demonstrate that an addition of query priority to a simple front-to-back slab visibility processing can greatly reduce the number of unfruitful visibility...

The effect of seven diseases on culling was measured in 7523 Holstein cows in New York State. The cows were from 14 herds and had calved between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 1994; all cows were followed until September 30, 1995. Survival analysis was performed using the Cox proportional hazards model to incorporate time-dependent covariates for diseases. Different intervals representing sta...

We present an OpenGL-assisted visibility culling algorithm to improve the rendering performance of large polygonal models. Using a combination of OpenGL-assisted frustum culling, hierarchical model-space partitioning, and OpenGL based occlusion culling, we achieve a significant better performance on general polygonal models than previous approaches. In contrast to these approaches, we only expl...