• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.1329-1336
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• 2000

Two experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of Murrah buffalo cows pulling sledges under field conditions on milk production and milk composition. In Exp. 1, 24 buffaloes in the fourth month of lactation were used. They were allotted to four treatments according to a $2{\times}2$ factorial arrangement: work or no work, and with or without urea-molasses cake supplementation (700 g/animal/day). Feeds consisted of 20 kg fresh elephant grass (18% DM), 2 kg rice bran per day and rice straw ad lib. The animals worked in pairs three hours per day (work done: $3464{\pm}786kJ/d$) five days a week for three months. Three teams worked in the morning and the others worked in the afternoon in the same day. The following day the working times were switched. In Exp. 2, 16 lactating Murrah buffalo cows in the sixth month of lactation were allotted to two groups (work and no work). They were fed with fresh ruzi grass (Brachiaria ruziziensis) ad lib. supplemented with 2 kg rice bran and 700 g urea-molasses cake. The working regime was similar to that of the first experiment (work done: $3753{\pm}879kJ/d$) and they worked for two months. In the first experiment, there was a small but significant drop (p<0.05) in milk yield from 3.5 to 3.0 kg/day due to work, but there was no supplementation effect. The working buffaloes lost 5.2 kg whereas the non-working animals gained 9.7 kg during the three months (p<0.05). Supplementation increased live weight by 9.9 kg as compared to -5.4 kg for those not supplemented (p<0.05). Milk composition was not affected by the treatments. In the second experiment, daily milk production was similar for both treatments and approximately 3 kg. No significant differences were found in milk composition or in live weight changes for working and non-working groups, respectively. It was concluded that work may cause a reduction in milk yield and a loss of live weight on a poor rice straw diet but that an appropriate supplementation can alleviate this situation.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.113-118
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• 1995

Eighteen Holstein Friesian ${\times}$ Native heifers with an average live weight of $175.4{\pm}27.8kg$ were allotted to 3 dietary groups. All animals were kept individually in a stanchion barn with free access to water and urea-treated rice straw (UTS). The supplemented feeds were as follows: Group (Gr) 1 - concentrate mixture (15% CP) at 1% body weight (BW), Gr 2 - concentrate mixture at 0.7% BW + free licking of multinutrient block (MNB), Gr 3 - as Gr 2 + 0.3% BW ground com. Multinutrient block composed of 20% mineral mixture, 10% urea, 18% molasses, 20% soybean meal, 22% sesame meal, 10% cement, 0.15 million IU and 50 IU/kg MNB of vitamin A and E. The experimental period lasted 12 weeks. The result revealed that MNB enhanced intake of UTS and total dry matter intake. Animals in Gr 3 consumed a higher amount of feed than the other 2 groups, thus resulting in the highest live weight gain and tended to possess the best feed conversion ratio. Heifers in Gr 2 also performed better than Gr 1 although the difference was not significant. Average MNB intake found to be 0.65 kg/day. Feed cost per kg gain was not significantly different amon groups. However if the cost of MNB could be lower, it would benefit the production cost of animals. The advantage of MNB is the safety of using a high level of urea. Although it was supplemented to UTS which also contained non-protein nitrogen (NPN), no toxic sign was shown. The results indicated that MNB could be partially substituted to concentrate mixture and it was even better when used incombination with soluble carbohydrate feed.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1435-1440
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• 2008

An experiment was carried out to investigate whether a local breed of cattle is better adapted than European breed crosses to low quality feeds and to variations in their supply. Four Red Chittagong (RC) and four Holstein cross Sahiwal (Hx) cattle were used to compare the intake and digestibility of German grass (Echinocloa crusgalli) and rice straw with four regimes of feed supply. These were; a choice of German grass and rice straw each offered ad libitum on the same day (A); German grass and rice straw offered ad libitum on alternate days (B); rice straw offered ad libitum for 5 days followed by German grass ad libitum for 5 days (C); and German grass offered ad libitum for 5 days followed by rice straw ad libitum for 5 days (D). Each breed was offered the treatments in a $4{\times}4$ Latin Square design. The German grass intake and total dry matter intake per kg metabolic live weight were significantly higher for the Hx than for RC, but there were no significant effects of genotype on digestibility of nutrients or live weight. Treatment A had the highest proportion of German grass relative to rice straw in the total DM intake, and had the highest total DM intake and apparent digestibility of nutrients compared with treatments B, C and D. It was concluded that there was no significant evidence that the RG cattle were better adapted to a variable supply of low quality feed than Hx cattle, and that the variable feed supply reduced the ability of cattle to select a preferred diet and consequently nutrient intake was depressed.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.179-191
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• 1990

활성효모의 첨가가 산란계에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위하여 5개의 시험을 실시하였다. 시험 1과 2는 하절기에 실시하였는데 시험 1에서는 37주령의 Dekalb-Delta 산란계, 시험 2에서는 100주령의 환우계 Nick-Chick Brown 산란계를 공시하였다. 각 시험에 있어서 240수를 2처리 6반복으로 반복당 20수씩 완전임의 배치하였다. 시험사요는 대조구($T_1$)와 괄기효모 첨가수준이 0.05%인 첨가구($T_2$)로 하여 시험 1은 4주간, 시험 2는 3주간에 걸쳐서 실시하였다. 3개의 시험은 동절기에 실시하였는데 시험 3과 4는 각각 54영 및 52주령의 Hy-Line산란계, 시험 5는 36주령의 육용종계를 공시하였다. 시험은 각각 540수를 3처리 6반복으로 반복당 30수적 완전임의 배치하였다. 시험사료는 대조구($T_1$), 활성순모 0.05% 첨가구($T_2$) 및 0. 1 % 첨가구($T_3$)로 하여 시험 3과 4는 6주간 및 9주간 그리고 시험 5는 4주간에 걸쳐서 실시하였다. 시험 4는 시험사료를 3주마다 회전시켰을 때의 효과를 알아보기 위해 라틴 방각으로 배치하였다. 시험계는 일반농가에서 사육되었으며, 시험사료는 일반시중사료를 사용하였다. 시험 1에서 산란율은$T_2$가 높았으며(P＜0.05), 4주간의 평균에서는 유의차가 없었다. 사료효율은 2주에서 고도의 유의차가 있었지만(P＜0.01), 4주간의 평균에서는 유의차가 없었다. 난중과 연ㆍ파난율 및 사망율에서는 유의차가 없었다. 시험 2에서 산란율은 $T_2$가 높았으며(P＜0.05), 사요악률은 2주와 3주에서 $T_2$가 유의하게(P＜0.05, P＜0.01)좋았으나 3주간의 평균에서는 유의차가 없었다. 연난발생률은 $T_2$가 높았지만(P＜0.05) 1외 다른 조사항목에서는 유의차가 없었다. 시험 3에서 산란율은 처리간에 유의차가 있었고(P＜0.05), $T_3$는 $T_2$보다 그리고 $T_2$는 $T_1$보다 높았다. $T_1$과 $T_2$의 난중은 $T_3$보다 무거웠고(P＜0.05), $T_2$와 의 사료섭취양은$T_1$에 비해 6주에서 높았지만 (P＜0.05), 전 기간 평균에서는 유의차가 없었다. 연난발생율은 처리간에 고도의 유의차가 있었으며(P＜0.01). $T_1$은 $T_3$보다 높았고, $T_3$는 $T_2$보다 높았다. 사료효율, 연난발생률. 사망율에서는 유의차가 없었다. 시험 4에서 산란율은 활성효모 첨가수준을 증가시킬수록 증가하는 경향이 있었지만 통계적인 유의차는 없었다. 그외 다른 조사항목에서도 유의차는 없었다. 시험 5에서 육용종계의 산란율은 $T_3$가 $T_1$보다 유의하게 높았다(P＜0.01). 사료섭취양은 3주에서는 $T_3$과 $T_1$ $T_2$보다 높았지만(P＜0.05) 전 기간 평균에서는 유의차가 없었다. 수정률 및 부화율은 대조구보다 첨가구가 높은 경향이 있었다

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1568-1572
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• 2002

A 152 day trial was conducted to see the effect of feeding naturally fermented wheat straw (FWS) with either energy, protein or energy protein supplements on the growth of buffalo calves. Twenty four male buffalo calves (10-12 months old) divided in 6 equal groups were individually offered FWS as sole roughage along with either conventional concentrate mixture (conc), maize grains (M), solvent extracted mustard cake (DMC), M-DMC mixture (50:50), deoiled rice bran (DRB) or uromol bran mixture (UBM) in 70:30 ratio. The digestibility of nutrients, nitrogen retention and nutritive value was maximum in FWS:UBM followed by FWS:DMC and FWS:Conc groups. Almost, all the blood parameters were observed well within the normal range except that of blood urea (FWS:UBM) and creatinine (FWS:DMC and FWS:DRB). The dietary combination in which FWS was supplemented with only conventional protein supplement like DMC proved to be highly efficient as far as live weight gain was concerned. FWS supplemented with energy-protein combination i.e. MDMC could also be used as complete feed for growing calves in comparison to conventional feeding system.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.1828-1833
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• 2016

The purpose of this research was to investigate the bacterial flora of healthy olive flounder larvae (Paralichthys olivaceus) and live feeds (Rotifer spp. and Artemia spp.). The total bacteria counts were $9.2{\times}10^7$ and $1.2{\times}10^{10}cfu/g$ and Vibrio sp.(82.8%) was dominant in rotifers. The total bacteria counts were $3.8{\times}10^6$ and $9.2{\times}10^6cfu/g$ and Vibrio sp.(73.3%) was dominant in artemia. In olive flounder larvae, the total bacteria counts were $1.4{\times}10^6{\sim}8.3{\times}10^7cfu/g$ and V. harveyi (38.5%) was dominant. It might be potential marker of disease outbreak in olive flounder larvae.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.717-732
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• 2011

Classification in biomedical applications is an important task that predicts or classifies an outcome based on a given set of input variables such as diagnostic tests or the symptoms of a patient. Traditionally the classification algorithms would have to digest a stationary set of historical data in order to train up a decision-tree model and the learned model could then be used for testing new samples. However, a new breed of classification called stream-based classification can handle continuous data streams, which are ever evolving, unbound, and unstructured, for instance--biosignal live feeds. These emerging algorithms can potentially be used for real-time classification over biosignal data streams like EEG and ECG, etc. This paper presents a pioneer effort that studies the feasibility of classification algorithms for analyzing biosignals in the forms of infinite data streams. First, a performance comparison is made between traditional and stream-based classification. The results show that accuracy declines intermittently for traditional classification due to the requirement of model re-learning as new data arrives. Second, we show by a simulation that biosignal data streams can be processed with a satisfactory level of performance in terms of accuracy, memory requirement, and speed, by using a collection of stream-mining algorithms called Optimized Very Fast Decision Trees. The algorithms can effectively serve as a corner-stone technology for real-time classification in future biomedical applications.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제57권10호
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• pp.36.1-36.9
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• 2015

Background: This study examined the effects of dietary supplementation with rice bran, sire breed and gender on live animal performance and carcass characteristics in Australian crossbred and purebred Merino lambs. Methods: Forty-eight lambs balanced by sire breed (Dorset, White Suffolk, Merino) and gender (ewe, wether) were randomly allocated into three dietary supplementation groups (Control- 24 lambs fed wheat/barley-based pellets, Low- 12 animals fed a 50/50 ratio of wheat-based/rice bran pellets, and High- 12 lambs fed rice bran pellets). The Rice bran pellets replaced 19 % of the barley component of the feed. Animals were group-fed at the rate of 1000 g of the supplement per head per day with ad libitum access to lucerne hay as the basal diet and water. The duration of the feeding trial was 49 days with an initial 21-day adjustment period. Results: Sire breed differences were evident for initial (p < 0.0002) and final (p < 0.0016) liveweights, hot carcass (p < 0.0030) and cold carcass (p < 0.0031) weights, as well as dressing percentage (p < 0.0078), fat thickness (p < 0.0467), yield grade (p < 0.0470) and rib eye area (p < 0.0022) with purebred Merino under-performing compared to the crossbreds. Concentrate feed conversion efficiency, costs per unit of liveweight gain and over the hooks income were comparable between treatments regardless of the observed trend where the high supplementation group tended to show lower feed intake (745.8 g/day) compared to both the control (939.9 g/day) and low supplementation groups (909.6 g/day). No significant differences (p > 0.05) were observed between treatments for live animal performance, carcass characteristics, gender and their second-order interactions. Conclusions: Results indicate that Rice bran can be utilised as a cost-effective supplementary feed source in genetically divergent sheep over a 49-day feeding period without detrimental effects on overall live animal performance or carcass characteristics.

• 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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• pp.1062-1062
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• 2001

The concept of “precision agriculture” or “site-specific farming” is usually confined to the fields of soil science, crop science and agronomy. However, because plants grow in soil, animals eat plants, and humans eat animal products, it could be argued (perhaps with some poetic licence) that the fields of feed quality, animal nutrition and animal production should also be considered in this context. NIR spectroscopy has proved over the last 20 years that it can provide a firm foundation for quality measurement across all of these fields, and with the continuing developments in instrumentation, computer capacity and software, is now a major cog in the wheel of precision agriculture. There have been a few giant leaps and a lot of small steps in the impact of NIR on the animal world. These have not been confined to the amazing advances in hardware and software, although would not have occurred without them. Rapid testing of forages, grains and mixed feeds by NIR for nutritional value to livestock is now commonplace in commercial laboratories world-wide. This would never have been possible without the pioneering work done by the USDA NIR Forage Research Network in the 1980's, following the landmark paper of Norris et al. in 1976. The advent of calibration transfer between instruments, algorithms which utilize huge databases for calibration and prediction, and the ability to directly scan whole grains and fresh forages can also be considered as major steps, if not leaps. More adventurous NIR applications have emerged in animal nutrition, with emphasis on estimating the functional properties of feeds, such as in vivo digestibility, voluntary intake, protein degradability and in vitro assays to simulate starch digestion. The potential to monitor the diets of grazing animals by using faecal NIR spectra is also now being realized. NIR measurements on animal carcasses and even live animals have also been attempted, with varying degrees of success, The use of discriminant analysis in these fields is proving a useful tool. The latest giant leap is likely to be the advent of relatively low-cost, portable and ultra-fast diode array NIR instruments, which can be used “on-site” and also be fitted to forage or grain harvesters. The fodder and livestock industries are no longer satisfied with what we once thought was revolutionary: a 2-3 day laboratory turnaround for fred quality testing. This means that the instrument needs to be taken to the samples rather than vice versa. Considerable research is underway in this area, but the challenge of calibration transfer and maintenance of instrument networks of this type remains. The animal world is currently facing its biggest challenges ever; animal welfare, alleged effects of animal products on human health, environmental and economic issues are difficult enough, but the current calamities of BSE and foot and mouth disease are “the last straw” NIR will not of course solve all these problems, but is already proving useful in some of these areas and will continue to do so.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.122-126
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• 2001

MS균을 이용하여 고온숙성에 의해 남은 음식물을 양돈사료로 제조하여 양돈 배합사료의 대체효과 및 사료효율에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 배합사료 100% 급여 (대조구), 남은 음식물 발효사료 대체율을 배합사료 대비 25%, 50% 및 100% 대체 급여구, 4처리로 설정하여 5반복으로 사양시험을 실시하였다. 남은 음식물 발효사료의 전 시험기간 동안 (10 주령부터 27주령까지) 일당 중체량은 배합사료 100% 급여한 대조구에 비해 남은 음식물 발효사료를 25% 및 50% 대체 했을 때 29.4% 및 13.9%로 높았고, 100% 대체구는 38.2% 감소하였다. 일일사료 섭취량, 사료요구율에 있어서 남은 음식물 발효사료를 50% 대체구에서는 대조구에 비해 다소 떨어지지만 유의적인 차이는 보이지 않아 배합사료를 남은 음식물 발효사료로 대체할 수 있는 수준인 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 100% 대체구에서는 대조구에 비해 유의적으로 차이가 있어 돼지 성장에 문제가 있는 것으로 평가되었다. 1 kg당 증체에 요구되는 사료비는 배합사료만 급여한 대조구에서 690.4원인데 비하여 25% 및 50% 남은 음식물 발효사료 대체구에서는 총 증체량이 대조구보다 높게 유지되면서 28.6% 및 49.4%가 절감되는 높은 경제성을 확인할 수 있었다. 100% 남은 음식물 발효사료 급여구에서는 kg 증체에 요구되는 사료비는 약 32.6% 감소되었으나, 전 육성기간동안의 총 증체량이 26.5 kg으로 시험 종료시 출하체중에 훨씬 못 미쳐 실제사양에 적용 가능성은 매우 어려운 것으로 나타났다.