This article identifies the essential technologies and considerations for development of an Automated Cow Monitoring System (ACMS) which uses 3D camera technology assessment Body Condition Score (BCS). We present a comparison range common techniques at different developmental stages Computer Vision including data pre-processing implementation Deep Learning both 2D formats commonly captured by c...

As the dairy cow uses body energy reserves in early lactation, body condition scoring has become an integral part of dairy herd management. Several methods based on visual and tactile evaluation have been developed. Problems caused by the subjectivity of these techniques have been reported. Alternative approaches to predict energy reserves or energy balance in dairy cattle include metabolic pro...

This note gives an easily verified necessary and sufficient condition for one probability forecaster to empirically outperform another one in terms of all strictly proper scoring rules.

Various body condition scoring (BCS) methods have been developed as management tools in zoo animal husbandry. In contrast to BCS for farm animals, where visual and palpable features are used, these protocols are mainly restricted to visual cues. Considering their inherent subjectivity, such methods face scepticism as their reliability is questioned. In terms of their respective methodology, com...

This intervention study aimed to test the effect of writing process feedback. Sixty-five Grade 10 students received a personal report based on keystroke logging data, including information several aspects. Participants compared their exemplar processes equally scoring (position-setting condition) or higher-scoring (feed-forward condition). The feedback performance and was national baseline stud...

Terror management theory (TMT) posits that cultural worldviews and self-esteem function to buffer humans from mortality-related anxiety. TMT research has shown that important behaviors are influenced by mortality salience (MS) even when they have no obvious connection to death. However, there has been no attempt to investigate TMT processes in anxious responding. The present research examines t...

Monte Carlo simulation is used to obtain estimates of the probability that all weighted scoring rules elect the same winner for large electorates under the impartial culture condition. While this probability is relatively large for three candidate elections (0.535), it decreases significantly as the number of candidates increases. The same general observations are made when considering the prob...