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Effect of season on nutritive value of an alpine pasture
No full textPasture is the cheapest source of nutrients for dairy cows, but supplementation with energetic concentrate can balance a diet with low energy/nitrogen ratio at the beginning of the grazing season or a low energy content at the end of the grazing season. Aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of seasonal variation and botanical composition on nutritive value of an alpine pasture over 3 grazing seasons. In 22 ha alpine pasture (Prà Maslino, SO, 1650 m sl) most important botanical species (20) were sampled every 15 days through the 3 seasons (194 samples) and were analysed for chemical composition and Gas Production.
Two types of botanical association included the most important part of pasture sward: Festuca rubra (47%) and Trifolium repens (44%), with 91 different species. Gramineae species had more DM content (38.6 12.1 % as fed), NDF (67.9 8.6 % on DM) and ADF (36.0 6.4 % on DM) but less CP (10.4 3.0 % on DM) than every other species (DM 27.7 10.5 % as fed; NDF 52.5 11.2 % on DM; ADF 33.8 7.2 % on DM; CP 15.0 5.4 % on DM). From June to September plant growth determined a decrease of quality, although there was a great variability for species and year of trial (average daily decrease of 0.5 g/kg DM for CP, average daily increase of 1.2 g/kg DM for NDF, while for gramineae species OM digestibility decreased 0.25 %/d and 0.18 %/d for other species). Multiple regressions of dOM on several analytical parameters were performed and the best significant equation for all samples was:
dOM = 98.13 - 0.5305 DM (%) - 0.6071 ADF (% DM) (n=144; R2=0.63; RSD=7.69)
According to the Cornell system, sward samples showed a high content of slow-degradation carbohydrate fraction “b2” (46.0 6.8 % CHO) and a high content of medium-degradation protein fraction “b2” (75.1 2.3 % CP), while the immediately-available carbohydrate fraction “a” was 22.3 1.2 % CHO, and the immediately-available protein fraction “a” was 19.1 2.3 % CP.
These data suggest that grazing dairy cows need concentrates which takes into account the high protein content and fermentability of pasture at the beginning of the grazing season, and the low energy and protein content of pasture at the end of the grazing season
Nutritive value of linseed oil in poultry diets
No full textAl fine di determinare il valore nutritivo dell’olio di lino, è stata condotta una prova di digeribilità su 32 galli adulti. Agli animali, divisi in quattro gruppi, sono state somministrate una dieta di controllo e tre diete con tre diverse concentrazioni di olio di lino (3, 6, 9%), razionando gli animali in modo da assicurare analoga assunzione di energia metabolizzabile. I risultati ottenuti indicano un peggioramento di circa il 15% del valore nutritivo dell’olio (espresso in MJ/kg SS di Energia Metabolizzabile Apparente) passando dal livello di inclusione del 3% a quello del 9% (47,8 vs 40,7, P<0,05)
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
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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