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Phenotypic Factor Analysis for Linear Type Traits in Beijing Holstein Cows

  • Chu, M.X.;Shi, S.K.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.1527-1530
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    • 2002
  • Factor analysis was applied to the phenotypic correlation matrix of 15 linear type traits (scored linearly 1 to 50 points) for 2035 Holstein cows of 38 sires computed from data collected between 1988 and 1992 in Beijing Shuangqiao Farm and Beijing Xijiao Farm. The 15 linear type traits were stature, body strength, body depth, dairy form, rump angle, rump length, rump width, rear leg side view, foot angle, fore udder attachment, rear udder height, rear udder width, udder cleft, udder depth and teat placement rear view. The first four components accounted for 49.1% of the total variance in type scores. Factor 1 reflected strong cows, with deep bodies, with long and wide rumps, and tall in stature. Factor 2 reflected cows with well attached fore udders, wide rear udders and whose udders were supported by strong suspensory ligaments with close teat placement. Factor 3 reflected cows with good dairyness, sickled in the hocks, high rear udders and udder floors above the hocks. Factor 4 reflected cows with sloping rumps from hooks to pins and with steep foot angle. Principal component and factor analyses are useful to clarify the relationships among type traits.

Bayesian Inference on Variance Components Using Gibbs Sampling with Various Priors

  • Lee, C.;Wang, C.D.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.1051-1056
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    • 2001
  • Data for teat number for Landrace (L), Yorkshire (Y), crossbred of Landrace and Yorkshire (LY), and crossbred of Landrace, Yorkshire and Chinese indigenous Min Pig (LYM) were analyzed using Gibbs sampling. In Bayesian inference, flat priors and some informative priors were used to examine their influence on posterior estimates. The posterior mean estimates of heritabilities with flat priors were $0.661{\pm}0.035$ for L, $0.540{\pm}0.072$ for Y, $0.789{\pm}0.074$ for LY, and $0.577{\pm}0.058$ for LYM, and they did not differ (p>0.05) from their corresponding estimates of REML. When inverse Gamma densities for variance components were used as priors with the shape parameter of 4, the posterior estimates were still corresponding (p>0.05) to REML estimates and mean estimates using Gibbs sampling with flat priors. However, when the inverse Gamma densities with the shape parameter of 10 were utilized, some posterior estimates differed (p<0.10) from REML estimates and/or from other Gibbs mean estimates. The use of moderate degree of belief was influential to the posterior estimates, especially for Y and for LY where data sizes were small. When the data size is small, REML estimates of variance components have unknown distributions. On the other hand, Bayesian approach gives exact posterior densities of variance components. However, when the data size is small and prior knowledge is lacked, researchers should be careful with even moderate priors.

Effect of rGH on Body Growth and Udder Development on Korean Native Heifers (외인성 성장호르몬이 한우의 성장 및 유방의 발달에 미치는 영향)

  • 최광수;신원집;최호성
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 1998
  • This experiment was carried out with 12 Korean native heifers(8~12month old, body weight, 160~240kg) raised at a farm of Chang-Soo Livestock Cooperatives to evaluate the effects of rGH(recombinant growth hormone) on serum concentrations of growth hormone, estrogen, and IGF-I, weight gain, teat volume gain and processing enzyme activity of IGF-I, binding protein III at 28 day intervals. Animals used were injected with 250mg rGH at 14 day intervals from December to Ferbruary in 1994. The significant difference was found in the group of treatment on the 4th week in the endogenous GH(p<.01) and 8th week in estrogen and IGF-I(p<.05) after injectin of rGH in Korean native heifers. There were significant differences between control group and treatment group in weight and teat volume on 8th week after treatment(p<.05). Processing enzyme activity before injection of rGH were low. However, heifers injected with 250mg of rGH showed that processing enzyme activity of IGF binding protein was highly increased throughout the experiment. Present results suggest that injection of exogenous rGH to heifers can increase the growth performance and udder development of Korean native heifers by the endogenous hormonal changes.

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The chemical effects of milking machine detergents on the rubber composition of the newly-developed teat cup liners (착유기 세척제가 신개발 젖소 유두컵 라이너용 고무조성물 재질에 미치는 화학적 영향)

  • Lee, Jeong-Chi
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2018
  • This study investigated the effects of the alkaline detergent and acid rinse used for cleaning milking machines on the rubber composition of the newly-developed teat cup liners. The samples prepared for use in the clean-in-place process were analyzed by ultraviolet spectrophotometer, ion chromatography and liquid chromatography. In the absorption spectrum of the first sample solution, the form of absorbance or absorption peak was largely different, compared to the absorption spectrum of alkaline detergent alone, but in the absorption spectra of the second and third sample solutions, the absorbance decreased, which was similar to the absorption spectrum in the pure acid detergent. In the ion chromatogram, two main peaks only, which might be shown by the pure alkaline detergent alone, were measured. In the liquid chromatograms, however, new peaks were observed in addition to the two main peaks caused by the pure alkaline detergent alone, which suggested that various molecular materials were created or eluted from the liner by the reaction with the alkaline detergent, but when washed with the acid detergent, any ion species were not produced. Therefore, we propose that an acid rinse should be applied, after cleaning the milking machine with the alkaline detergent.

Current Trend of Management of the Rotator Cuff Injury (회전근개 손상의 최신 치료)

  • Ha Kwon-Ick
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 1998
  • Rotator cuff disease is the most common cause of shoulder pain. Recent understanding of structure and mechanics enables scientific approach to the treatment of the cuff teat. It is an integral component in the normal movement and function of the shoulder. This article addresses current knowledge of the structure and biomechanics of the rotator cuff, and reviews various kind of operative treatment.

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Basic Study for the Development of Teat Cup Handling System Operated by a Robot (로봇에 의한 착유컵 착탈 시스템 개발을 위한 기초연구)

  • 이영진;장동일
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.159-164
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    • 1999
  • 현재 우리나라 낙농업은 사양관리, 축사관리, 기록관리 등에서 많은 변화가 일어나고 있다. 이들 변화의 대부분은 낙농에 마이크로 컴퓨터 기술을 응용함과 최근에 사양관리를 위한 전자장비의 개발에 의하여 이루어지고 있다. 특히 우리는 가축당의 노동력과 축산에서의 중노동의 절감, 가축의 생산성의 향상, 그리고 보다 나은 작업환경과 의사결정을 위한 시스템의 개발이 절실히 필요하다. 또한 가축의 사료급여, 급수, 건강관리 번식, 축사의 환기 및 열 관리 등을 자동으로 관리 할 수 있는 계측 시스템과 관리 컴퓨터와 온라인(on-line)화 할 수 있는 시스템의 개발도 필요하다. (중략)

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System Identification on SFRC Beam (SFRC 보에 대한 System Identification)

  • 이차돈
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1991.04a
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    • pp.3-7
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    • 1991
  • Considering the relatively large amount of stable flexural teat results available for steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) and their dependency on the constitutive behavior of the material, a technique called “System Identification” is used for interpretating the flexural test data in order to obtain basic information on the tensile constitutive behavior of steel fiber reinforced concrete. “System Identification” was successful in obtaining optimum sets of parameters which provide satisfactory matches between the measured and predicted flexural load-deflection relationships.

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Increases of Antibiotic Resistance in Excessive Use of Antibiotics in Smallholder Dairy Farms in Northern Thailand

  • Suriyasathaporn, W.;Chupia, V.;Sing-Lah, T.;Wongsawan, K.;Mektrirat, R.;Chaisri, W.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.25 no.9
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    • pp.1322-1328
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    • 2012
  • Antibiotic resistance patterns of bacterial isolates from both quarter teat-tip swabs and their quarter milk samples were evaluated in smallholder dairy farms in northern Thailand with excessive use of antibiotics (HIGH) compared with normal use (NORM). Results from teat-tip swab samples showed that the percentage of Bacillus spp. resistance to overall antibiotics was significantly lower in the NORM group than that of the HIGH group, whereas, the resistance percentage of coagulase-negative staphylococci in the NORM group was higher than that of the HIGH one. The overall mastitis-causing bacteria isolated from milk samples were environmental streptococci (13.8%), coagulase-negative staphylococci (9.9%), Staphylococcus aureus (5.4%), and Corynebacterium bovis (4.5%). Both staphylococci and streptococci had significantly higher percentages of resistance to cloxacillin and oxacillin in the HIGH group when compared to the NORM one. An occurrence of vancomycin-resistant bacteria was also observed in the HIGH group. In conclusion, the smallholder dairy farms with excessive use of antibiotics had a higher probability of antibiotic-resistant pattern than the farms with normal use.

Studies on Infection Rate and Causative Agents of Bovine Mastitis in Kangweon Area (강원지역의 젖소 유방염 감염율 및 원인균에 관한 연구)

  • Goh Gwang-Du;Kim Doo
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 1991
  • A total of 2,024 quarters of 515 dairy cattle in Kangweon area were examined for incidence of subclinical mastitis. Milk samples from cattle infected with subclinical mastitis were studied bacteriologically and the bacterial strains isolated were further examined for sensitivity to 12 antibacterial agents. And the status of carrying out the mastitis control program in 28 dairy farms was examined. The results obtained were summerized as follows ; 1. A total of 308(59.8%) of 515 cattle and 656(32.4%) of 2,024 quarters were found to be infected with subclinical mastitis. 2. The 277 strains of etiological agents were isolated from 358 subclinical quarters. These were identified as Staphylococcus aureus(14.4%), other staphylococci(36.5%), Streptoccus agalatiae(8.7%), other streptococci(30.7%), Bacillus spp.(1.8%), Corynebacterium spp.(1.4%) and coliform(0.7%). 3. The 109 strains of streptococci and 141 strains of staphylococci were examined for sensitivity to 12 antibacterial agents. All the strains of streptococci were sensitive to penicillin, ampicillin and cephalothin, and they were also sensitive to erythromycin(88.1%), clindamycin(83.5%), enrofloxacin(75.2%), trimethoprim+sulfamethoxazole(67.9%), The strains of staphylococci were sensitive to cephalothin(97.2%), gentamicin(83.0%). enroflozacin(80.9%), trimethoprim+sulfamethoxazole(78.0%), erythromycin(71.6%) and clindamycin(71.6%). But all the strains resisted to colistin. 4. In the 28 dairy farms examined, condition of udder before washing was dirty in most of the farms (89.7%). Hygiene of milking equipment was only good in the 5 farms(17.9%). Teat preparation before milking was good in the 6 farms(21.4%). The farms in which teat dipping after milking was conducted were 46.4%. Dry cow treatment for the complete herd was carried out in most of the farms(89.3%) but mastitis checking was only carried out in the 8 farms(28.6%) irregularly.

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