Smothering is a major concern within the Swiss layer industry as it can lead to high number of animal losses. The underlying cause piling behaviour (PB), phenomenon where hens densely cluster together in litter area. aim this study was describe PB and events preceding PB. Furthermore, we investigated relation piles, pile duration, involved with time day, flock colour, age, environmental factors...

This paper describes a step-by-step method for reaching agreement between the client and the software builder concerning how a system should interact with its user. The method springs from the view of McMenamin and Palmer that all physical systems have both essential behaviour (what is to be done) and physical behaviour (how it is to be done) and that it is useful to define the essential behavi...

Many computer simulations, experimental testing and monitoring of physical systems produce vast amounts of quantitative data. These data have always been assimilated by trained and experienced personnel. Human beings use qualitative representations naturally for efficient decision making. An automated system which can provide such qualitative descriptions can be useful in various disciplines fo...

Symmetry between the construction of programs and generating their behaviour can be properly formulated in terms of category theory by using significant property of duality. On one hand, this consists of the algebraic construction of static data structures and relations between them (programs) and on the other hand it consists of the coalgebraic generating of dynamic behavioural structures of p...

In this research, behaviour of clayey soils under triaxial loading is studied using Neural Network. The models have been prepared to predict the stress-strain behaviour of remolded clays under undrained condition. The advantage of the model developed is that simple parameters such as physical characteristics of soils like water content, fine content, Atterberg limits and so on, are used to mode...