SUMMARY: Perches are an important resource for laying hens and differ in characteristics like shape, material and diameter.In this study, different perches were tested in regard to animal welfare, focusing specifically on the behavior and health of laying hens during rearing and lay.Five perches, i.e., square-fiber, mushroom-metal, mushroom-plastic
Detection of surface socialstudiesscholar.com material based on hyperspectral imaging (HSI) analysis is an important and challenging task in remote sensing.It is widely known that spectral-spatial data exploitation performs better than traditional spectral pixel-wise procedures.Nowadays, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown to be a power
The inflammatory response in the injured spinal cord, an immune privileged site, has been mainly associated with the poor prognosis.However, recent data demonstrated that, in fact, some leukocytes, namely monocytes, are pivotal for repair due to their alternative anti-inflammatory phenotype.Given the pro-inflammatory milieu within the traumatized s
Abstract Background Culicoides biting midges are vectors of bluetongue and Schmallenberg viruses that inflict large-scale disease epidemics in ruminant livestock in Europe.Methods based on morphological characteristics and sequencing of genetic markers are most commonly employed to differentiate Culicoides to species level.Proteomic methods, howeve