Importance of Indigenous Breeds of Chicken for Rural Economy and Their Improvements for Higher Production Performance by Mahendra Kumar Padhi

“…Through crossbreeding improvement may be faster but research has to aim for the production of native-type birds with higher production potential. In the present review efforts have been made to present the importance of native fowl to rural economy and their improvement for higher production performance.…”
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Growth Performance, Serum Biochemical Profile, Oxidative Status, and Fertility Traits in Male Japanese Quail Fed on Ginger (Zingiber officinale, Roscoe) Essential Oil by Tchoffo Herve, Kana Jean Raphaël, Ngoula Ferdinand, Folack Tiwa Laurine Vitrice, Adoum Gaye, Moussa Mahamat Outman, Ngouozeu Moyo Willy Marvel

“…At 12 weeks old, twelve birds per treatment were randomly selected and fasted for 24 hours, weighed, and slaughtered to assess organ and biochemical parameters. …”
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Effects of Providing Enrichment to Broilers in an Animal Welfare Environment on Productivity, Litter Moisture, Gas Concentration (CO₂ and NH₃), Animal Welfare... by Chan-Ho Kim, Woo-Do Lee, Ji-Seon Son, Jung-Hwan Jeon, Se-Jin Lim, Su-Mi Kim

“…This study used two facilities that could accommodate 32,000 one-day-old broilers (Arbor acres) per building, and two groups (control and treatment groups) were designed after creating two identical areas within each building (total two treatments, two replicates, 16,000 birds per replicate). Two identical zones within the house were created by installing a partition in the center; one side was provided with grain blocks (one grain block per 1000 birds), and the other side was not. …”
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Rectal temperature and heat transfer dynamics in the eye, face, and breast of broiler chickens exposed to moderate heat stress by Moustafa Yehia, Amani Askri, Ahlem Achour, Jean-Michel Allard Prus, Véronique Ouellet, Nabeel Alnahhas

“…In conclusion, rectal temperatures in finishing broilers are more variable under HS than under TN. Under HS, some birds continue to exhibit Tr in the physiological range. …”
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Effects of cage size on the natural behavior, serum parameters, production performance and hypothalamic mRNA expression profiles of laying hens by Yi Wan, Ruiyu Ma, Renrong Qi, Dawei Jiang, Helong Guan, Wei Liu, Junying Li, Yan Li, Kai Zhan

“…In total, 437 and 81 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in the hypothalamus of birds between the LC and SC groups and the MC and SC groups, respectively. …”
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Tryptophan and/or canthaxanthin in quail diets: effects on performance, carcass traits, hematology, blood chemistry and hepatic antioxidant capacity by Khaled H. El-Kholy, Mohamed E. Sokariaa, Mohammed F. El Basuini, Sara F. Fouda, Tarek A. Ebeid, Ibrahim T. El-Ratel, Mahmoud M. Azzam, Alessandro Di Cerbo, Ahmed A. Elolimy, Mahmoud Madkour, Mahmoud Alagawany

“…Each group consisted of five replicates, with 10 birds per replicate. Chicks in group 1 (T1) served as the control and were fed a basal diet without any supplementation from week 1 to week 5. …”
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Seaside Goldenrod, Solidago sempervirens by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…It attracts many pollinators, including birds, native bees, honey bees, butterflies (especially Monarch butterflies), and beneficial insects. …”
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“HA FOLYÓVĺZ VOLNÉK ... (HAD I BEEN RUNNING WATER ...)”, EQUAL VOICES CHOIR, OP. 1, BY EDE TERÉNYI (1954) by Gabriela COCA

“…I had the following motto at the beginning of the study: “Had I been running water, / I would not know the trouble; / Among mountains and valleys, / Beautifully, I would flow slowly; / I would wash shores, / I would renew herbs, / To the thirsty birds, / I would offer water.” This is the text of a folk song, which was taken and processed by the composer Ede Terényi, in 1954, as a little choral musical work on three equal voices, a woman (or children) choir, that was inspired by the “Choral Works for Children’s and Female Voices” of Bartók. …”
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An Algorithm for Global Optimization Inspired by Collective Animal Behavior by Erik Cuevas, Mauricio González, Daniel Zaldivar, Marco Pérez-Cisneros, Guillermo García

“…Animal groups, such as schools of fish, flocks of birds, swarms of locusts, and herds of wildebeest, exhibit a variety of behaviors including swarming about a food source, milling around a central locations, or migrating over large distances in aligned groups. …”
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A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) by Gabor Botfalvai, László Makádi, Gáspár Albert, Attila Ősi

“…Fieldwork resulted in a very rich and diverse assemblage of terrestrial and freshwater animals, including fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, a freshwater mosasaur, pterosaurs, crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds. This abundance and diversity of fossil taxa contribute to understanding of European Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate faunas. …”
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CRF combined with ShapeBM shape priors for image labeling by Hao WANG, Lijun GUO, Yadong WANG, Rong ZHANG

“…Conditional random field (CRF) is a powerful model for image labeling,it is particularly well-suited to model local interactions among adjacent regions (e.g.superpixels).However,CRF doesn't consider the global constraint of objects.The overall shape of the object is used as a global constraint,the ShapeBM can be taken advantage of modeling the global shape of object,and then a new labeling model that combined the above two types of models was presented.The combination of CRF and ShapeBM was based on the superpixels,through the pooling technology was wed to establish the corresponding relationship between the CRF superpixel layer and the ShapeBM input layer.It enhanced the effectiveness of the combination of CRF and ShapeBM and improved the accuracy of the labeling.The experiments on the Penn-Fudan Pedestrians dataset and Caltech-UCSD Birds 200 dataset demonstrate that the model is more effective and efficient than others.…”
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Fiddlewood Leafroller, Seagrape Moth (suggested common names) Epicorsia oedipodalis (Guenée, 1854) (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia: Pyraloidea: Pyralidae: Pyraustinae) by William H. Kern

“…The larvae themselves are valuable food source for baby birds during the spring dry season in Florida. This 4-page fact sheet was written by William H. …”
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Yaupon, Ilex vomitoria by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…The fruits and flowers of yaupon attract wildlife, especially birds and pollinators, and it is a larval host plant for Henry’s elfin butterfly (Callophrys henrici) (Lotts and Naberhaus 2017). …”
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Seaside Goldenrod, Solidago sempervirens by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…It attracts many pollinators, including birds, native bees, honey bees, butterflies (especially Monarch butterflies), and beneficial insects. …”
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Yaupon, Ilex vomitoria by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…The fruits and flowers of yaupon attract wildlife, especially birds and pollinators, and it is a larval host plant for Henry’s elfin butterfly (Callophrys henrici) (Lotts and Naberhaus 2017). …”
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La volaille en région Centre-Val de Loire du Néolithique à nos jours. Approche archéozoologique by Colin Duval, Grégory Bayle, Séverine Braguier, Olivier Cotté, Alexandre Fontaine, Chloé Genies, Frédéric Poupon, Julie Rivière, Marilyne Salin, Marie-Pierre Horard-Herbin

“…Within the framework of this project, it has made it possible to establish a detailed map of the distribution of the various farmyard birds over time, but above all to define the precise dynamics of the introduction and spread of domestic fowl, goose, duck, pigeon, turkey and peacock within the region and over the long term. …”
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Fiddlewood Leafroller, Seagrape Moth (suggested common names) Epicorsia oedipodalis (Guenée, 1854) (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia: Pyraloidea: Pyralidae: Pyraustinae) by William H. Kern

“…The larvae themselves are valuable food source for baby birds during the spring dry season in Florida. This 4-page fact sheet was written by William H. …”
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Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae) by Yuexun Tian, Phillip E Kaufman

“…The Asian longhorned tick feeds on a wide range of hosts including birds and mammals, including humans. This tick is considered a medical and veterinary vector due to its ability to transmit pathogens that cause disease in humans and other animals. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1263 …”
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Goal-directed vocal planning in a songbird by Anja T Zai, Anna E Stepien, Nicolas Giret, Richard HR Hahnloser

“…In this deprived state, birds do not recover their baseline song. However, they revert their songs toward the target by about 1 standard deviation of their recent practice, provided the sensory feedback during the latter signaled a pitch mismatch with the target. …”
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Control of Lantana in Pastures by Jason Ferrell, Brent Sellers, Edward Jennings

“…Although lantana's leaves are poisonous, its berries are not. Birds readily consume the fruit and disperse the seed. …”
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