SIGNIFICANCE: Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide, necessitating rapid and accurate diagnosis to limit irreversible brain damage. However, many advanced imaging modalities (computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging) remain ina...
Animal welfare monitoring is a key part of veterinary surveillance in every poultry slaughterhouse. Among the animal welfare indicators routinely inspected, the prevalence of wing fractures and soft tissues injuries (e.g. bruises) is particularly rel...
Acoustic monitoring presents a promising, non-invasive modality for assessing animal welfare in precision livestock farming. In poultry, vocalizations encode biologically relevant cues linked to health status, behavioral states, and environmental str...
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
Apr 17, 2025
BACKGROUND: Eggshell strength is crucial for ensuring high-quality eggs, reducing breakage during handling, and meeting consumer expectations for freshness and integrity. Conventional methods of eggshell strength measurement are often destructive, ti...
Newcastle disease virus (NDV) continues to present a significant challenge for vaccination due to its rapid evolution and the emergence of new variants. Although molecular and sequence data are now quickly and inexpensively produced, genetic distance...
Mating behaviors are crucial for bird welfare, reproduction, and productivity in breeding flocks. During mating, a rooster mounts a hen, which may result in the hen overlapping or disappearing from top-view of a vision system. The objective of this r...
Tropical animal health and production
Mar 29, 2025
In poultry farming, robotics is represented by robotic models which perform different functions. Among these functions, ambience is one of the most critical, as the aviary is an artificial environment which needs to present all the necessary conditio...
Food irradiation on an industrial scale calls for the development of rapid and inexpensive methods for the dose estimation after irradiation. An emerging solution to this problem is a reaction-based optical sensing strategy that is based on monitorin...
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Mar 21, 2025
The control and monitoring process for broiler facilities needs to be improved to mitigate or eliminate birds' thermal stress. Thus, the objective was to develop of a fuzzy controller embedded in a microcontroller and a multiplatform web application ...
Chick gender classification is crucial for optimizing poultry production, yet traditional methods such as vent sexing and ultrasound remain limited by human expertise, labor intensity, and insufficient resolution. This study introduces a novel approa...
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