23 articles in this issue
Amparo Baviera-Puig,Luis Montero-Vicente,Carmen Escribá-Pérez,Juan Buitrago-Vera
Aim of study: Commercially, chicken meat has a similar positioning to turkey meat, as both are healthy and low-fat meats. For this reason, we proposed analysing consumer behaviour with respect to each of these meats based on market segmentation.Area of st... see more
Veronika Hedija,Martina Kuncová
Aim of study: To examine the link between economic efficiency and profitability of firms belonging to the swine sector.Area of study: This study is devoted to the Czech swine sector that forms the traditional and essential part of agriculture in the Czech... see more
Pilar Uldemolins,María T. Maza,Sara Aldama
Aim of study: The first purpose of the present study was to investigate the level of recall of the adverting campaign promoting the new lamb meat cuts. The second objective was to investigate which promotion tools are more important to consumers and retai... see more
Agustín Domínguez-Álvarez,María-Teresa de-Tena-Rey,Lorenzo García-Moruno
Aim of study: To present a complete global radiation model that includes direct, diffuse sky and ground-reflected radiation, and compare the values with those obtained by the pyranometers.Area of study: The data were analyzed at the meteorological station... see more
Letícia E. D. Canton,Luciana P. C. Guedes,Miguel A. Uribe-Opazo,Rosangela A. B. Assumpção,Tamara C. Maltauro
Aim of study: To reduce the sample size in an agricultural area of 167.35 hectares, cultivated with soybean, to analyze the spatial dependence of soil penetration resistance (SPR) with outliers.Area of study: Cascavel, BrazilMaterial and methods: Th... see more
Hiwa Golpira,Francisco Rovira-Más,Hêmin Golpîra,Verónica Saiz-Rubio
Aim of study: This paper presents a mathematical modeling approach to redesign the reels of chickpea harvesters for harvest efficiency.Area of study: A prototype chickpea harvester was designed and evaluated on the Dooshan farm of the University of Kurdis... see more
Selcuk Ugurluay,Ibrahim Deniz Akcali
Aim of study: Size classification is essential in many industrial processes. Most classical sorting systems use vibrations as a means of classification function. In this study, a vibration-free sorting system called helical cylindrical screen has been dev... see more
Xuezhen Wang,Wuquan Wei,Jinpu He,Yuxiang Huang
Aim of study: This work investigated the significance and mechanism for the effect of particle-size distribution (PSD) under different nominal radii using the discrete element method (DEM) and validated using the laboratory soil-bin results to accurately ... see more
Marcos P. G. Rezende,Julio C. Souza,Carlos H. M. Malhado,Paulo L. S. Carneiro,Johnny I. M. Araujo,Leonardo Sitorski,Riccardo Moretti,Riccardo Bozzi
Aim of study: Sports involving horses have notable financial importance. Breeds are evaluated to find the best-suited ones for a specific sport category. Phenotypic diversity using biometric markers was evaluated for Quarter Horse (QH), Arabic (AR), Engli... see more
Renata Relic,Nada Lakic,Ljiljana Jankovic,Vesna Davidovic,Joze Staric,Jozica Jezek
Aim of the study: Calf rearing practices vary in different countries and may be affected by many factors. Poor management is related to diseases outbreak and death in calves. This study aimed to analyze practices in calf rearing and the occurrence of comm... see more
Adetola M. Oyeleke,Olajide A. Adeyemi,Lawrence T. Egbeyale,Richard A. Sobayo
Aim of study: To evaluate antimicrobial, immunomodulatory and hepatomodulatory effects of aqueous extracts of Petiveria alliacea L. (Guinea hen weed) root and leaf on growing pullets.Area of study: Abeokuta, Nigeria.Material and methods: Two hundred and e... see more
Márcio Vargas-Ramella,José M. Lorenzo,Diego Rois,Anisia Arias,José R. Justo,Mirian Pateiro,María López-Pedrouso,Daniel Franco
Aim of study: To evaluate the effect of different diets on carcass characteristics and meat quality from Mos free-ranged cockerel.Area of study: Galicia (NW Spain).Material and methods: Cockerels (n=75) were allocated to 3 groups (n=25) according to finis... see more
Claudson O. Brito,Octavio G. Cunha-Filho,Camilla M. Silva,Jodnes S. Vieira,Ana P. Del-Vesco,Victor E. M. Feitosa,Leandro T. Barbosa,Valdir Ribeiro-Júnior,Fernando C. Tavernari
Aim of the study: To adjust nonlinear Gompertz model to describe the body growth and feed intake (FI) of free-range chickens of the CPK (Color Plumé) strain, receiving different levels of digestible lysine (dig-Lys), from 21 to 77 days of age.Area of stud... see more
Gilmar S. Cardoso-Júnior,Graziele F. Rocha,Douglas M. Souza,Claudia C. Lopes,Hanna B. J. Pereira,Arie F. Blank,Flavio H. F. Barbosa,Camilla M. Silva,Paula G. Rodrigues,Gregorio M. Oliveira-Júnior
Aim of the study: To examine the in vitro sensitivity of Salmonella sp. and Escherichia coli strains to the microbial activity of Lippia gracilis Schauer essential oil (LGSEO) and to determine the optimal level of LGSEO as a growth promoter in diets for J... see more
Jose S. Diaz,Maria C. Flores-Miranda,Norma Almaraz-Abarca,Arturo Fierro-Coronado,Antonio Luna-Gonzalez,Manuel Garcia-Ulloa,Hector A. Gonzalez-Ocampo
Aim of study: The effect of microencapsulated phenolic compound extracts of Maclura tinctoria (MTBE) on growth performance and humoral immunity markers of the white leg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei juveniles (0.5 ± 0.2 g initial weight) was studied.Area of... see more
Douglas Vonz,Luis F. G. Menezes,Wagner Paris,Fernando Kuss,Magali F. Silveira,Tiago Venturini,Fernanda Stanqueviski,Bruna Boito
Aim of study: To evaluate the performance of beef calves fed black oat and Italian ryegrass pasture seeded with several different seeding rates (SR) of common vetch in a crop-livestock integrated system.Area of study: The experiment was carried out in Doi... see more
Luis A. Barrera-Guzmán,Jorge Cadena-Iñiguez,Juan P. Legaria-Solano,Jaime Sahagún-Castellanos
The Sechium P. Br. genus composed of 11 species, which originated from the mountainous regions of Mesoamerica, have been domesticated and diversified. These species are clustered in two large groups: the Mexican clade and the Central American clade. Morph... see more
Bismark L. Bahia,Jose O. Souza-Júnior,Loane V. Fernandes,Julio C. L. Neves
Aim of study: The interpretation of results of leaf analysis can be performed by nutritional balance methods, such as Kenworthy method (KW) and diagnostic levels of contents, whose achievements for cacao constitute the main objective of this work.Area of ... see more
Mahsa Aghhavani-Shajari,Hamid-Reza Fallahi,Hossein Sahabi,Hamed Kaveh,Ferdinando Branca
Aim of study: Comparison of saffron flowering between open field and controlled environment. Possibility of saffron transplanting.Area of study: University of Birjand (Iran)Material and methods: In a first experiment, saffron yield and quality produced by... see more
Estanis Torres,Inmaculada Recasens,Simó Alegre
Aim of study: A portable VIS/NIR spectrometer and chemometric techniques were combined to identify bitter pit (BP) in Golden apples.Area of study: WorldwideMaterial and methods: Three different classification algorithms – linear discriminant analysis (LDA... see more
Daniel M. Alano,Emily S. Araujo,José M. Mirás-Avalos,Ida C. Pimentel,Maria A. C. Zawadneak
Aim of study: Assessment of toxicity and sublethal effects of registered insecticides currently used in strawberry cultivation in Brazil on Trichogramma pretiosum Riley adults.Area of study: The study was conducted under laboratory conditions in Paraná (B... see more
Afsaneh Alinejadian-Bidabadi,Abbas Maleki,Mahtab Roshaniyan
Aim of study: This research investigated the effects of management practices, including plant residues and tillage practices, on soil stability indices, microbial biomass carbon, and the number of bacteria.Area of study: Northern Khorasan Province, Iran.M... see more
Maroua Dachraoui,Aurora Sombrero
Aim of study: To evaluate the effects of conventional tillage (CT) and no tillage (NT) systems on the soil organic carbon (SOC) changes, CO2 emissions and their relation with soil temperature and grain yield in a monoculture of irrigated maize during six ... see more