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Sugiharto Sugiharto
Stocking broilers at a high density has been a strategy to optimize the area of the cage and hence increase the efficiency of broiler production. If the environmental (microclimate) conditions and rearing management are not properly managed, stocking broilers at a high density may, however, result in stressful…
Kwena Kgaogelo Thema, Caven Mguvane Mnisi, Victor Mlambo, Aziz ur Rahman Muhammad
'Aziz ur Rahman Muhammad'] Broiler production in semi-arid tropics must contend with high levels of heat stress, which have implications on stocking density, bird welfare, and profitability. Under these conditions, optimal stocking densities are likely to be lower than expected, thus must be experimentally determined.…
Helen Lambert, Amelia Cornish, Doug Waley
Saraiva et al. (1) argue that “Legislation directly limiting stocking density is likely to be unworkable…” (p. 4). We disagree as there are already relevant, proven track records for using stocking densities in aquatic- and terrestrial-farmed animal welfare legislation. For example, legislation protecting broiler…
Hung Quoc Pham, Canh Van Bui, Nam Xuan Doan, Khuong V. Dinh
Calanoid copepod Acartia species are major live feeds for the early stages of economically important marine fish in hatcheries in Southeast Asian countries. However, rearing Acartia copepods at high densities to increase productivity remains a major challenge. To address the issue, we conducted two experiments on 1)…
Junhyuk Seo, Jeonghwan Park, Ike Olivotto
Simple Summary Stocking density is a key factor for animal welfare in aquaculture, as it can cause stress in fish. However, a low stocking density could reduce feed competition among cultured fish, resulting in a decrease in feed intake and, consequently, productivity. To assess both animal welfare and productivity in…
Xiao Long He, Zhen Hua Liang, Ze Heng Huang, Lian Bing Qi + 6 more
'Jia Liu' 'Tao Huang' 'Jing Bo Liu' 'Jin Song Pi' 'Hao Zhang'] Objective The rice-duck-crayfish (RDC) coculture system, an ecologically efficient breeding strategy that accommodates natural behavior of ducks and improves their welfare. The optimal stocking density and its impact on duck health in this system remains…
Yaping Wang, Taihua Jin, Ningbo Zhang, Jiongkui Li + 4 more
Background The characterization of colonization and dynamic changes related to gut microorganisms might be vital, as it presents an opportunity to quantify the co-variation between stocking densities and gut microbiome of dynamic distribution. The objective of this study was to determine the stocking density on…
Yuqin Wu, Jianhui Li, Xin Qin, Shiqiang Sun + 7 more
The aim of this study was to determine the impact of stocking density on the liver proteome and cecal microbiota of Peking ducks. A total of 1,200 ducks with 21-day old were randomly allotted into 5 stocking density groups of 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 ducks/m^2^, with 6 replicates for each group. At 40 days of age, duck serum…
Wenjia Li, Fengxian Wei, Bin Xu, Quanyou Sun + 4 more
'Jie Bai' 'Shaoyu Li'] Objective The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of stocking density and alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) on the growth performance, feed utilization, carcass traits, antioxidative ability and immune response of broilers. Methods A total of 1,530 22-day-old male broilers (Arbor Acres) with…
John Gitau Mwaura, Paul Oyieng Angienda, Clabe Wekesa, Eunice Toko Namuyenga + 2 more
Chronic stress poses a challenge to aquaculture, with cortisol and glucose traditionally used as stress markers. Recent doubts about the reliability of scale cortisol as a chronic stress determinant have surfaced due to its role in calcium homeostasis. While cortisol affects gene expression in stress responses, its…
Muhammad Mohebujjaman, Clarisa Buenrostro, Md. Kamrujjaman, Taufiquar Khan
'Taufiquar Khan'] Abstract. We propose, analyze and test two novel fully discrete decoupled linearized algorithms for a nonlinearly coupled reaction-diffusion N-species competition model with harvesting or stocking effort. The time-stepping algorithms are first and second order accurate in time and optimally accurate…
Akira Terui, Hirokazu Urabe, Masayuki Senzaki, Bungo Nishizawa
The past decades have witnessed efforts to unveil ecological risks associated with massive releases of captive-bred individuals (“stock enhancement”). Still, we may underestimate the negative impact because current schemes rarely consider the consequences of stock enhancement for the whole ecological community. Here…
Mayesha Sharmim Tisha, Md. Kamrujjaman, Muhammad Mohebujjaman, Taufiquar Khan
Exploring Decoupled Algorithms and Analysis Authors: ['Mayesha Sharmim Tisha' 'Md. Kamrujjaman' 'Muhammad Mohebujjaman' 'Taufiquar Khan'] Abstract. We propose a time-dependent Advection Reaction Diffusion (ARD) N-species competition model to investigate the Stocking and Harvesting (SH) effect on population dynamics.…
Ghislain Vieilledent, Fabian Jörg Fischer, Jérôme Chave, Daniel Guibal + 2 more
Basic wood density is an important ecological trait for woody plants. It is used to characterize species performance and fitness in community ecology, and to compute tree and forest biomass in carbon cycle studies. While wood density has been historically measured at 12% moisture, it is convenient for ecological…
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Wood pulp fibers can be hot-pressed to form binder-less high-density fiber network sheets of improved mechanical properties, competing with polymer matrix biocomposites. We have investigated hot-pressing, microstructure, and mechanical properties of eco-friendly and low energy-demand chemi-thermomechanical (CTMP) wood…
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Livestock agriculture generally operates as a linear economy, consuming large quantities of nonrenewable energy and nutrients while generating waste that often pollutes the environment. In this work, we propose approaches to help mitigate nutrient pollution via the development of cyanobacteria-based processes that…
Soleil E. Worthy, Lanxiadi Chen, Gurcharan K. Uppal, Yu Xi + 7 more
Ice nucleating substances (INSs) influence the properties and frequencies of ice and mixed-phase clouds in the atmosphere, and hence, climate and the hydrological cycle. INSs can be classified as inorganic (e.g., mineral dust, volcanic ash) or organic (e.g., bacterial cells, cell-free proteins). While the properties of…
Sterling Baird, Taylor Sparks
A large collection of element-wise planar densities for compounds obtained from the Materials Project is calculated using brute force computational geometry methods. We demonstrate that the element-wise max lattice plane densities can be useful as machine learning features. The methods described here are implemented in…