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'Feed efficiency in swine' has been prepared as a comprehensive treatise on the current state of our understanding of this topic which is so important to the pork industry. Each chapter is written by international authorities who understand both the science and application of their topic area. The book provides detailed insight into the many factors affecting feed efficiency, ranging from diet processing to herd health, from nutrition to physiology and from day-to-day barn management to the adoption of advanced technologies. The authors explain such practical aspects as the challenge of interpreting feed efficiency information obtained on farm or the role of liquid feeding. The authors also delve into more scientific topics such as amino acid or energy metabolism or animal physiology. This book is written for people who have a technical interest in pork production, including nutritionists, geneticists, farm management specialists, veterinarians, other academics and, of course, pork producers.
Swine -- Feeding and feeds. --- Swine -- Nutrition. --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biology - General --- Swine --- Feeding and feeds --- Evaluation. --- Life sciences. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Domestic pig --- Hogs --- Pig --- Pig farming --- Pigs --- Sus domestica --- Sus domesticus --- Sus scrofa domestica --- Sus scrofa domesticus --- Livestock --- Sus --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science
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"When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper's national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the biggest story of his young career--just as the paper's finances may lead to its closure. Josh's big story is that a corporation that plans to establish an enormous hog farm has bought a lot of land along the Tamarack River in bucolic Ames County. Some of the local residents and officials are excited about the jobs and tax revenues that the big farm will bring, while others worry about truck traffic, porcine aromas, and manure runoff polluting the river. And how would the arrival of a large agribusiness affect life and traditions in this tightly knit rural community of family farmers? Josh strives to provide impartial agricultural reporting, even as his newspaper is replaced by a new Internet-only version owned by a former New York investment banker. And it seems that there may be another force in play: the vengeful ghost of a drowned logger who locals say haunts the valley of the Tamarack River."--Publisher's description.
Reporters and reporting --- Farm life --- Factory farms --- Swine --- Newspaper reporting --- Journalism --- Newspapers --- Rural life --- Country life --- Animal factories --- CAFOs (Farms) --- Concentrated animal feeding operations --- Confined animal feeding operations --- Factory farming --- Factory-sized livestock farms --- Farm factories --- Industrial livestock farms --- Livestock factories --- Mega-livestock farms --- Animal industry --- Livestock farms --- Meat industry and trade --- Domestic pig --- Hogs --- Pig --- Pig farming --- Pigs --- Sus domestica --- Sus domesticus --- Sus scrofa domestica --- Sus scrofa domesticus --- Livestock --- Sus
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In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the American response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. That response was informed by hours of discussions between John F. Kennedy and his top advisers. What those advisers did not know was that President Kennedy was secretly taping their talks, providing future scholars with a rare inside look at high-level political deliberation in a moment of crisis. Talk at the Brink is the first book to examine these historic audio recordings from a sociological perspective. It reveals how conversational practices and dynamics shaped Kennedy's perception of the options available to him, thereby influencing his decisions and ultimately the outcome of the crisis. David Gibson looks not just at the positions taken by Kennedy and his advisers but how those positions were articulated, challenged, revised, and sometimes ignored. He argues that Kennedy's decisions arose from the intersection of distant events unfolding in Cuba, Moscow, and the high seas with the immediate conversational minutia of turn-taking, storytelling, argument, and justification. In particular, Gibson shows how Kennedy's group told and retold particular stories again and again, sometimes settling upon a course of action only after the most frightening consequences were omitted or actively suppressed. Talk at the Brink presents an image of Kennedy's response to the Cuban missile crisis that is sharply at odds with previous scholarship, and has important implications for our understanding of decision making, deliberation, social interaction, and historical contingency.
Decision making --- Social interaction --- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 1962 --- Bay of Pigs. --- Cuba. --- Cuban missile crisis. --- ExComm. --- Executive Committee of the National Security Council. --- John F. Kennedy. --- Khrushchev. --- Soviet missiles. --- White House meetings. --- blockade. --- choice. --- collaborative narration. --- crisis talks. --- decision making. --- decision-making process. --- deliberation. --- future. --- linguistic expression. --- narrative relevance. --- nuclear missiles. --- secret recordings. --- social interaction. --- suppression. --- telephone conversation.
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The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents is a single volume, comprehensive book sanctioned by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM), covering the rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil and other rodents often used in research. This well-illustrated reference won a 2012 PROSE Award for Best Single Volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers. The book includes basic biology, anatomy, physiology, behavior, infectious and noninfectious diseases, husbandry and breeding, common experimental methods, and use of the species as a
Biopharmaco-efficiency. Pharmacokinetics --- Laboratory animals --- Rabbits as laboratory animals --- Guinea pigs as laboratory animals --- Hamsters as laboratory animals --- Animals, Experimental --- Animals, Laboratory --- Animals in research --- Experimental animals --- Lab animals --- Animal culture --- Laboratory organisms --- Working animals --- Animal experimentation --- Disease Models, Animal --- Rabbits --- Rodentia --- Animals, Laboratory. --- Disease Models, Animal. --- Rabbits. --- Rodentia. --- Proefdierkunde --- 619.001.5/8 --- Rodents --- Beavers --- Capybaras --- Castor Beaver --- Dipodidae --- Hydrochaeris --- Jerboas --- Beaver --- Capybara --- Hydrochaeri --- Jerboa --- Rodent --- Rodentias --- Chinchilla Rabbits --- NZW Rabbits --- New Zealand White Rabbits --- Oryctolagus cuniculus --- Belgian Hare --- New Zealand Rabbit --- New Zealand Rabbits --- New Zealand White Rabbit --- Rabbit --- Rabbit, Domestic --- Chinchilla Rabbit --- Domestic Rabbit --- Domestic Rabbits --- Hare, Belgian --- NZW Rabbit --- Rabbit, Chinchilla --- Rabbit, NZW --- Rabbit, New Zealand --- Rabbits, Chinchilla --- Rabbits, Domestic --- Rabbits, NZW --- Rabbits, New Zealand --- Zealand Rabbit, New --- Zealand Rabbits, New --- cuniculus, Oryctolagus --- Animal Disease Model --- Animal Disease Models --- Disease Model, Animal --- Models, Biological --- Laboratory Animals --- Animal, Laboratory --- Laboratory Animal --- Biomedical Research
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