Wageningen Academic Publishers: 38 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Livestock production systems are the result of an interaction between domestic animals and the environment, modulated by man, that dates back to Neolithic times. As a consequence of this interaction among the wide diversity of animal resources, natural habitats and population needs, very different...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
These proceedings present the latest achievements and developments within the scientific community of fur animal research organised by the International Fur Animal Scientific Association (IFASA). The book contains papers on the following topics: nutrition, feeding and management, health and disease,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Emerging literature and research have currently shown that sleep, sleep disturbances, diet and nutrition are interlinked in numerous ways. For example, sleep deprivation alters food intake and snacking behaviour. On the other hand, dietary restriction and obesity alter sleep. Specific nutrients such...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
For more than 30 years, modelling has been an important method for integrating, in a flexible, comprehensive and widely applicable way, basic knowledge and biological concepts on digestion and metabolism in farm animals. The purpose of this book is to present the 'state of art' in this area. The chapters...
Renewing innovation systems in agriculture and food
How to go towards more sustainability?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Present-day society asks more from agriculture than just the production of food. Agriculture is now required to be concerned with the quality of food, ecosystem services, inclusion of marginalized populations, revitalization of rural territories, energy production, etc. This opening up of the future...
Farm animal proteomics 2013
Proceedings of the 4th Management Committee Meeting and 3rd Meeting of Working Groups 1, 2 & 3 of COST Action FA1002 Košice, Slovakia - 25-26 April 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Proteomics may be defined as the large-scale study of the proteome, i.e. a set of proteins being expressed in a certain fluid, tissue, organ or organism. Although still of limited and restricted use in most areas of farm animal and veterinary research, proteomics potential is unequivocal holding a...
Farm animal proteomics
Proceedings of the 3rd Managing Committee Meeting and 2nd Meeting of Working Groups 1, 2 & 3 of COST Action FA1002
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Proteomics is a field with growing interest in almost every area of life sciences. Proteomic techniques, along with potential and obtained results have long been key components of biomedical and pharmaceutical research. In agriculture, animal and veterinary research however, use of proteomics is still...
Improving farm animal welfare
Science and society working together: the Welfare Quality approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
How do you define the quality of life of a farmed animal? This timely book addresses the complex and often controversial issues surrounding the assessment and improvement of farm animal welfare. Based on a large, multi-disciplinary EU funded research project called Welfare Quality, it discusses the...
by Stanley J. Kays
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Vegetables make up a major portion of the diet of humans and are critical for good health. With the world population predicted to reach 9 billion people by 2050, they will play an increasingly important role in food availability. The purpose of this book is to facilitate accuracy in communication...
NorFor -
The Nordic feed evaluation system
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
NorFor is a semi-mechanistic feed evaluation system for cattle, which is used by advisors in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This book describes in detail the system and it covers five main sections. The first is concerned with information on feed characteristics, feed analysis and feed digestion...