IMPACTS OF COMMINGLING PRECONDITIONED AND AUCTION-DERIVED BEEF CALVES ON BOVINE RESPIRATORY DISEASE RELATED MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, AND WEIGHT GAIN

Impacts of commingling preconditioned and auction-derived beef calves on bovine respiratory disease related morbidity, mortality, and weight gain

IntroductionStressors predisposing to bovine respiratory disease (BRD) upon arrival in the feedlot, include the ranch to feedlot transition and mixing cattle from multiple sources.Preconditioning (PC) reduces multiple stressors, but commingling PC and auction-derived (AD) calves in a feedlot may increase BRD risk.Our objective was to evaluate PC ca

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xRatSLAM: An Extensible RatSLAM Computational Framework

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) refers to techniques for autonomously constructing a map of an unknown environment while, at the same time, locating the robot Transmission in this map.RatSLAM, a prevalent method, is based on the navigation system found in rodent brains.It has served as a base algorithm for other bioinspired approaches,

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