This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of live food (Artemia urmiana) and commercial diet in rearing of Oncorhynchus mykiss larvae. Experiment started when larvae were 0.12g in weight. Triplicate groups of fish were offered one of four treatments: (1) a commercial starter food (2) live Artemia urmiana nauplii (for 3 days) (3) live Artemia urmiana nauplii (for 7 days) and (4) combin...

Fifty merino wethers (liveweight range from 44 to 81kg, average of 58.6kg) were lot fed for 42d and scanned through a dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as both a live animal and whole carcass (carcass weight range from 15 to 32kg, average of 22.9kg) producing measures of total tissue, lean, fat and bone content. The carcasses were subsequently boned out into saleable cuts and the weights and yiel...

Live weight and ultrasound measures of fat thickness and longissimus muscle area were available on 404 yearling bulls and 514 heifers, and carcass measures of weight, longissimus muscle area, and fat thickness were available on 235 steers. Breeding values were initially estimated for carcass weight, longissimus muscle area, and fat thickness using only steer carcass data. Breeding values were a...

Variation in the number, total weight, mean individual weight and minimum individual weight of live pups at first and second litter were studied in hemiovariectomized (H = 54 does) and normal (N = 55 does) rabbit does. The total number of implanted embryos in 25 unoperated (N) and 54 hemiovariectomized (H) does were recorded by laparoscopy on the 12th day of their second pregnancy. The total nu...

This experiment evaluated the efficacy of television delivery of a behavioral weight reduction program. Seventy-one overweight adults were randomly assigned to a live-contact weight loss group that was videotaped for viewing by other groups, a live-contact group that was not videotaped, a television-delivered group that observed the videotaped weight loss sessions, or a waiting-list control gro...

To obtain higher economic benefits, large eel breeding companies classify live eels by weight. Due to their strong mobility and smooth body surface, living are not suitable for traditional mechanical weight measurement. In this study, a sorting machine based on vision was developed, novel method developed obtaining measurements through images. First, backlit workbench designed capture static im...

The objective of this study was to compare predictive performances four machine learning (ML) models: Support Vector Machines with Radial Basis Function Kernel (SVMR), Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Random Forest (RF) Model Average Neural Networks (MANN) predict live weight from morphological measurements Norduz sheep (n=93). Seven measurements; chest girth (CG), width (CW), depth ...