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Evaluation of a marketed polyerbal dewormer against intestinal strongyles in naturally infected donkeys
Full text linkThe study evaluated the effectiveness of a commercially available polyherbal dewormer to control intestinal strongyles in naturally infected donkeys. The animals were allotted to two groups: treated with the herbal dewormer (n=8) according to manufacturer recommendations and untreated control group (n=6). Fecal samples were taken from each animal on days 0 (day of treatment), 14, 21 (day of second additional treatment), 35, and 42. Faecal egg count reduction tests showed very negligible or no reduction in number of strongyle eggs for donkeys in the phytotherapeutic treatment group compared to those in the control group. Thus, the herbal dewormer was mostly ineffective in reducing fecal egg counts in donkeys infected with intestinal strongyles. These findings can make equine practitioners aware of possible disadvantages of herbal dewormers
Novel Board Game versus Active Case-Based Discussion to Teach Final-Year Veterinary Students the Diagnostic Approach to Clinical Cases
No full textTraditional lectures, where students listen passively, often do not reflect the complexity of real-life decision-making situations. Furthermore, modern students are using online devices for daily activities, and this has a challenging side effect for educators, as many people these days can only maintain their focus if topics are discussed in concise and engaging ways. For these reasons, there is growing interest in the use of games for educational purposes. The aim of this study was to introduce a board game based on the Clue game for final-year veterinary students during their practical activity in large animal medicine. This type of learning process was compared with a classical case-based discussion and evaluated via a survey delivered to the students to both test their acquired knowledge and obtain their evaluation of the activity. A total of 49 students were enrolled in this study. While the board game was evaluated significatively better than the traditional class, no statistically significant differences were observed for the answers given to questions assessing their veterinary skills. The proposed game requires few resources other than a case-based visual materials and analyses from clinical patients, a board, two dice, and some imagination to create cases at the appropriate level for students' knowledge. We conclude that this board game-based activity represents innovative techniques to teach clinical approaches in an interactive way with the same utility as a traditional class but is more enjoyable for the students
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Procjena kritičnih točaka lezija papaka u mliječnih krava: preliminarno istraživanje novog sustava bodovanja
Full text linkLameness is a serious animal welfare and production issue in the modern dairy herds. The development of a
scoring system that is able to categorize the farm on the basis of its hazard risk level may help clinicians and farmers to
identify potential issues and to reduce costs caused by lameness. The aim of this study was to develop an easy and fast
score for evaluation of the structural and managerial factors potentially involved in the pathogenesis of foot lesions,
and categorization of dairy farms. A total of six free-stall dairy farms were evaluated during a 3 month-period. The
score developed in this study was composed of evaluation of the housing system, flooring, the farm design, the use
of footbaths, the frequency of hoof trimming, and the continuing education of the employers. For each parameter, a
score of 0 to 2 was assigned where the score 0 meant the least appropriate condition, the score 2 represented the best.
The Farm Score showed a significant correlation with foot lesion prevalence (P = 0.0011, R2 0.94) and with the
theoretical assessment of additional cost per animal (P = 0.001, R2 0.95). The significant correlation between the
Farm Score, the foot lesion prevalence and the theoretical assessment of additional costs per animal may underline the
potential usefulness of the score designed in this study. The Farm Score may be considered as a cheap and fast way to
evaluate the hazard risk level for claw health on a dairy farm.U mliječnim je stadima hromost danas važno pitanje dobrobiti i proizvodnje životinja. Razvoj sustava bodovanja
za kategorizaciju farmi na temelju razine rizika od hromosti može pomoći kliničarima, odnosno stočarima, pri
utvrđivanju potencijalnih problema i smanjenju troškova uzrokovanih tom bolešću. Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je
razviti jednostavan i brz sustav za procjenu strukturnih i upravljačkih čimbenika u proizvodnji koji bi mogli biti
uključeni u patogenezu lezija papaka i poslužiti za kategorizaciju mliječnih farmi. Tijekom tri mjeseca istraživano je
ukupno šest mliječnih farmi sa slobodnim načinom držanja. Sustav bodovanja farmi uspostavljen u ovom istraživanju
uključivao je nastambe za životinje, podove, organizaciju farme, upotrebu kupki za papke, učestalost obrade papaka i
kontinuiranom edukaciju zaposlenika. Svakom je pokazatelju dodijeljen bod od 0 do 2, pri čemu 0 označuje najmanje
prikladno stanje, a 2 najbolje stanje. Sustav bodovanja na farmi pokazao je znakovit odnos sa prevalencijom lezija
papaka (P = 0,0011, R2 0,94) kao i sa teoretskom procjenom dodatnih troškova po životinji (P = 0,001, R2 0,95).
Navedeno naglašava potencijalnu korist sustava bodovanja uspostavljenog u ovom istraživanju kao jeftinog i brzog
načina procjene razine rizika za zdravlje papaka na mliječnim farmama
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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